Financial & Legal
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Self-employed tradespeople are heading into Making Tax Digital with many still handling their own accounts, as fuel, energy, equipment, and payment pressures continue to weigh on day-to-day cashflow.
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Smaller builders are still operating with very little slack today. Planning delays, viability pressure, labour shortages, and supply-chain fragility are keeping many SME developers in risk-management mode rather than expansion mode.
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A French court has convicted Lafarge and several former executives over payments made to armed groups in Syria, sharpening focus on governance in global materials businesses.
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The Mineral Products Association says rising tax costs and weak demand are constraining investment across the producers that underpin housing and infrastructure delivery.
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Eurotunnel has been fined £2.25m after a lighting carriage fell during a maintenance operation at the Channel Tunnel terminal in Folkestone, seriously injuring an engineering surveyor.
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Pressure is mounting on Miami’s Signature Bridge project after a worker fatality, renewed safety investigation, and continuing disputes over design and construction defects. With estimated completion now pushed to December 2029, the job has become a stark test of urban megaproject control.
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Mortenson has acquired Nor-Cal Controls, adding SCADA and energy management expertise for solar, storage, and microgrid projects. The deal tightens in-house capability around controls integration as energy contractors move further into software-heavy and performance-critical delivery.
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Metallico has secured funding from Allica Bank to refinance existing lending and support expansion, adding capacity for larger structural and architectural steelwork packages across London.
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Tadweld has warned that the UK’s new steel trade measure could raise raw-material costs for domestic fabricators while leaving a route for tariff-free pre-fabricated imports.
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HSE has opened a consultation on changes to RIDDOR that would widen reportable dangerous occurrences, update occupational disease rules, and simplify the reporting process.