Business News

West Lothian Council is planning to form a material coring, testing and sampling framework to assist its roads and transportation department.

Ireland’s National Development Finance Agency (NDFA) has advertised a ground investigation contract for Project Boyne, a school building project bundle.

Newcastle City Council is seeking contractors to be part of a four year council-wide framework covering groundworks for various public and private buildings.

Italian infrastructure giant Webuild has completed the acquisition of tunnelling specialist Seli Overseas.

M&J Evans Construction, a specialist in civil engineering and foundations, has completed the acquisition of Flynn Group, a groundworks and civils business based in Swindon and Bristol.

Ground engineering contractor Van Elle’s revenue stayed flat at £84.4M in the year ended 30 April 2021; however, it expects to deliver “a profitable result in line with market expectations” for the current financial year.

Marine robotics company Ocean Infinity has acquired the UK-based marine geotechnics specialist Geowynd.

High Speed 2 (HS2) main civils contractor EKFB, a joint venture between Eiffage, Kier, Ferrovial Construction and Bam Nuttall, is looking for a supplier to undertake pile cap cropping on six test piles in the Aylesbury, Bicester and Banbury areas.

Golder’s Canadian organisation has signed a non-exclusive licence for the use of BioCement Technologies’ patented process that utilises indigenous bacteria for microbial induced calcite precipitation.

Global investment manager Ares Management has lent £1bn of available debt facilities to UK-based engineering and environmental business RSK Group, saying the transaction marks “the largest private credit-backed sustainability linked financing to date”.