Learn more about the construction companies that have fallen into administration after tough times in 2025
2025 poses its own challenges for the construction industry- the UK economy forecasts modest growth, whilst rising international tensions put strain on supply chains.
16% of companies that filed for administration in 2022 were in the construction industry, dropping to 12% in 2023. 2024 saw high-profile names such as ISG, the UK’s 6th biggest construction firm at the time, folding, with thousands of jobs lost.
Read more about which companies have fallen into administration below.
December
E.J. Taylor & Sons
Essex-based contractor E.J. Taylor & Sons Limited have filed a notice of intention to appoint administrators as part of a restructuring process.
Supported by FRP Advisory, the business will continue to trade and make payments to subcontractors and suppliers whilst the business is marketed and a pre-packaged sale progresses. This would have “no immediate impact to clients, ongoing projects or employees”, according to the company. Glyn Mummery, partner at FRP and proposed administrator, added: “We are supporting the directors of E.J. Taylor & Sons through a restructuring process that is intended to safeguard the long-term future of the business.
“Filing the [Notice of Intention] NOI provides the necessary breathing space to progress a sale and protect the company’s operations. Our immediate focus is on helping the directors achieve a going concern outcome that preserves jobs and ensures continuity for clients and the wider supply chain.”
Latest figures to March 2024 suggested the company was facing a pre-tax loss of £2.5m, with a turnover of £41.4m.
Samantha Peck, of E.J. Taylor & Sons Limited, said: “We can confirm that the company has filed a Notice of Intention to Appoint Administrators as part of a restructuring process.
“We are working with professional advisers to achieve the best outcome for everyone associated with the business via a sale to a new company backed by existing stakeholders.
“The intention is to complete this transaction in the new year with no break in trading, protecting current projects and jobs. The business continues to trade normally in the meantime and will continue to make supplier and subcontractor payments. We will make a further announcement as soon as the transaction completes.”
Versarien
Self-styled “future of construction” graphene firm Versarien has filed a notice of intention to appoint administrators.
The AIM-listed business confirmed on 1 December that shares were being suspended whilst a new buyer was sought out by 11 December 2025.
The company said: “During this time Leonard Curtis will seek to conclude a transaction with interested parties which may not necessarily result in administration. If a transaction is not concluded within this timeframe, the administration will proceed.” Insolvency specialists Leonard Curtis are currently advising Versarien on next steps.
Notable products from Versarien include concrete admixture Cementene, which was hailed as the “future of construction” for the way it boosted building strength and cut carbon. Versarien’s graphene products were trialled on 3D-printed elements in HS2 projects and last year, the company signed a deal with Balfour Beatty to explore new innovations. Versarien was also a member of the National Highways Roads Research Alliance and the Digital Roads of the Future project.
November
Thurston Group
Specialising in modular building, Thurston Group has been in operation since 1970. Accounts for 2024 show a pre-tax profit of just £3.3m, and the Group employed 308 staff.
They filed a notice of intention to enter administration in November 2025.
Carbon8 Systems Limited
Originally founded from the University of Greenwich in 2006, Carbon8 was a construction firm specialising in carbon capture, utilisation, and storage, related to producing aggregates in a more environmentally friendly manner.
Their aggregates, branded CircaBuild, provided companies with a sustainable option for their builds, and Carbon8 also provided modular carbon solutions for capture and treatment of industrial residues.
Earlier this year, the company sought investment, but has been unsuccessful in securing it, and so has filed for administration under Quantuma.
Easy-Trim
A Lancashire-based roofing product manufacturer and supplier, Easy-Trim has filed notice for administration, with a pre-tax profit of just £233,000 in 2023.
The company employed 64 people, and had distribution centre located in Altham spanning 100,000 sq ft.
Merit
Offsite and modular construction specialist enter has entered into administration with administrators appointed on 17 and 18, and most of the 340 jobs lost.
The administration is a result of several contractual disputes a delays to some larger jobs, impacting cashflow. A wind up petition also stalled new contracts and projects.
National Timber Group England
Sheffield-based timber supplier National Timber Group England filed a notice of intention to appoint administrators earlier this month. Parent company National Timber Group Midco also filed a notice, whilst next steps are considered.
Michael Magnay, Gemma Quinn and Jonathan Marston of Alvarez & Marsal were appointed as joint administrators on 26 November and are now seeking a buyer for the business and its assets.
Founded in 1920 by Arnold Laver, the England branch of the business included brands such as Arnold Laver, National Timber Systems, SV Timber and NORclad.
Citing “a difficult trading period and resultant liquidity challenges” leading to the company’s downfall, teh administrators confirmed redundancies.
“Unfortunately, there have been 561 immediate redundancies across sites and central functions, and the administrators are supporting these employees through the redundancy process,” they said.
“Thirteen of the group’s branches have been closed with immediate effect, with the remaining sites continuing to operate. Additionally, some of the company’s production facilities have been mothballed.”
Branches in Alfreton, Nottingham and Leicester are among those affected.
SDM Fabrications
Family-owned Cambridgeshire steelwork contractors SDM Fabrications have filed a notice of intention to appoint administrators.
Operating across East Anglia and London, around 100 staff working on design, detail drawing, fabrication and on site installation are expected to be affected.
Assent Building Compliance
Wakefield-based building compliance specialists Assent, who through two Registered Building Control Approver subidiaries Oculus Building Consultancy Ltd and LB Building Control Ltd supported the Building Safety Regulator in clearing the approvals backlog has ceased trading, after entering an ‘acute cashflow crisis’.
Per legal requirements, Assent has issued cancellation notices on all projects and the fate of it’s 71 employees remains unknown.
October
Merit
Offsite specialists Merit will appoint administrators after being hit with a winding-up petition by HM Revenue and Customs. Both Merit Holdings Ltd and Merit Health Ltd have filed with Newcastle-based insolvency firm Muckle.
The pipework firm transitioned to focusing on offsite construction in 2015 and saw success on biomedical projects in particular. Earlier this year, Merit secured a spot on a new four-year modular building framework agreement with the NHS.
Northumbria Healthcare confirmed on Friday 14 November that work on a £33m hospital in Berwick was suspended after Merit’s filing. Merit was due to deliver both Berwick Community Hospital and a £30m NHS Medicines Manufacturing Centre in Seaton Delaval, for which Northumbria Healthcare is now seeking alternate solutions.
A spokesperson for Merit said: “The recent filing of a winding up petition against Merit Group Services resulted in certain customer projects experiencing delays, which in turn has placed significant additional pressure on the Group’s cashflow.
“We have therefore taken the decision to file a Notice of Intention to Appoint Administrators in order to protect the position of the business while we explore options. We remain confident that a solution to this difficult situation can be found.”
September
Tucker Mechanical & Electrical Building Services
Hull-based specialist Tucker M&E has filed for administration, according to LinkedIn updates from employees.
The £25m turnover firm was established in 1973, employed around 66 people and has a regional office near Birmingham.
A manager posted on LinkedIn: “I would like to wish all the staff members at Tucker Mechanical and Electrical the best of luck in their future endeavours.
“”Remarkably sad day going out of business and good people being made redundant.
“I’ve worked with some fantastic people and been involved in some amazing projects with Tuckers over the years and it will always hold a special place.
“I hope everyone gets sorted with jobs as soon as possible. All will be assets to whichever company they end up working for.”
Boutique Modern
Modular manufacturer Boutique Modern, which specialises in building for local authorities and housing associations, stopped work on two council house projects in Lancing in anticipation of administration, which was declared a few days later.
Client Adur District Council said that it was “urgently seeking information after house-building firm Boutique Modern filed an application to go into administration”. The project was due to deliver 16 council homes within the next four months.
“We are now considering what action needs to be taken to secure the completion of the developments at Daniel Close and Gravelly Crescent,” the council said. “Work has stopped at both sites and we’re seeking to liaise with the new administrators to get more information about the projects.”
Other projects due to be carried out by the firm include ongoing works in St Leonards and Eastbourne, as well as commencing a 100-home project at Eastbourne’s historic Grade II-listed Victorian Pump House site.
Boutique Modern’s site claims it is the first certified B Corporation in the UK modular construction industry, has 68 staff and has delivered 241 homes overall, operating from a factory in Newhaven.
Kingston Modular Systems
Hull-based Kingston Modular has fallen into administration. There was a bid to save the company, but unfortunately the deal fell through at the last minute.
Kingston specialised in the design and manufacture of modular buildings, and luxury park and leisure homes, and was operation for 10 years. Previous work includes in the healthcare, education, and leisure sectors.
A report from administrators Westgate Restructuring reported that the modular firm had already halved its workforce after a slow 2024, but was hit with further financial troubles in July 2025, when a customer sent a legal letter accusing Kingston Modular of breach of contract.
The customer argued that in offsetting it’s costs against another project, it would not be due to pay £585,000 to Kingston Modular. Company directors disputed this, but were never given an option to resolve the issues raised before the finances collapsed.
“As a result of this non-payment, the company’s invoice financing facility provider froze the facility.
“This caused significant cashflow issues resulting in them no longer being able to pay debts as and when they fell due,” Westgates Restructuring’s Frazer Ulrick.
HE Simm & Son
This firm specialised in mechanincal and electrical (M&E) and has been running since 1948. Today, they have filed a notice of intending to appoint an administrator.
Their latest financial results showed that since December 31 2023, a turnover of £118m led to a pre-tax loss of £8.9m.
The firm had offices in Liverpool, London, and Manchester.
August
Ardmore Construction Ltd
Parent company, the Ardmore Group, announced the administration of their construction branch(ACL) to draw a line under the cost of their fire remediation works.
While the company has not hired new workers for four years, the changes to cladding under the Building Safety Act has led to a litany of issues with several major housebuilders that the contracting company has worked with.
This includes Barratt’s main trading arms BDW Trading, who claim that the company owes around £100m, and Bellway who are seeking £4.7m awarded by adjudication, after fire safety defects were discovered in cladding on a Tower Hamlets development delivered by Ardmore on behalf of Bellway in 2013.
In a statement given to Building magazine, Ardmore Group development director Martyn Horne said that the decision “was not about avoiding our responsibilities”.
He attributed ACL’s collapse primarily to the Building Safety Act, saying that the new legislation had said: “.. fundamentally changed the rules by extending limitation periods from 12 to up to 30 years, which significantly increased ACL’s exposure.”
ACL acted as design and build contractor for BDW on five schemes across the South of England; Crown Heights in Basingstoke; Explorer Court in Plymouth; Pierhead Lock in the Isle of Dogs; Galleria in Peckham; and Citiscape in Croydon.
BDW requested access to financial information relating to three Ardmore Group companies to determine whether to begin legal action against the Group, seeking around £100m, but the High Court denied the information access request.
In court evidence, ACL stated that it “had spent or was spending over £80m of its own funding to remediate buildings with fire safety defects”.
Leedale
East Midlands plant hire firm Leedale has appointed administrators from Begbies Traynor, after 36 years in business. Founded in 1989 by Lee Walkup, the family business employed 25 staff and had around £7m in 2022’s financial figures.
Most recently, the company was ordered by tribunal to pay former director Abigail Bullock £8,724 for a breach of contract for failure to pay notice pay.
ANTS Group
Bedfordshire-based civil engineering contractors ANTS Group appointed David Kemp and Richard Hunt of Exigen Group as administrators on 14 August.
The firm employed over thirty staff and operated mostly in the East of England, with offices in Northamptonshire and Newcastle. Previous projects include Papworth and Alder Hey Children’s Hospitals, as well as a Lloyds Bank regional office in Halifax.
In the last reported financial period, ANTS Group owed over £6.3m to creditors, as well as recording a £100,000 pre-tax loss.
Cannock Building Services (CBS)
Staffordshire-based mechanical and electrical (M&E) contractor Cannock Building Services (CBS) has gone into voluntary liquidation, leaving behind debts of around £4 million.
A statement of affairs filed at Companies House shows that more than £640,000 of the shortfall relates to unpaid invoices across a supply chain of over 90 firms, many of them small local businesses.
Founded in 2012, CBS offered fully integrated mechanical and electrical engineering services, working across commercial, industrial and public sector projects. The company built a reputation for delivering turnkey solutions, from design and installation through to ongoing maintenance.
After more than a decade in business, CBS succumbed to mounting financial pressures.
The company’s liquidation adds to a growing list of regional contractors hit by cashflow challenges in recent years.
June
English Architectural Glazing
Formerly part of the Clarison Group(which was liquidated in July 2024), cladding firm English Architectural GLazing collapsed in June, owing over £24m to various creditors.
The Clarison Group was established in 2021, when private equity investor Elaghmore combined Irish firms Alucraft and Williaam Cox and UK-based Alucraft Systems and English Architectural Glazing, recording £85m turnover at its peak.
Begbies Traynor administrators reported to Companies House that the Suffolk-based business owed over £3.3m to unsecured creditors, such as supply chain partners. The majority of the money owed is amounts due to fixed-charge creditors, with £15.6m of a total £21m owed to Elaghmore. Irish firm Jhaw Holdings is also owed £3.5m.
Former employers are also owed substantial amounts, with three directors(Simon Gladwin, Jeremy Cocks and Edward Whipp) owed £593,490 each and a total of £812,350 owed to 46 former employees.
Via released retentions and plant sales as well as cash at bank, administrators reckon they can provide £568,390 towards English Architectural Glazing’s debts.
The last published accounts for the business from 2023 showed a £21.7m turnover and pre-tax loss of £289,670, citing inflation for a challenging year. The previous year saw a pre-tax loss of £578,220.
Subsidiary Multi Fab Ltd also appointed administrators on 6 June and Alucraft Systems collapsed earlier this year.
Building for Humanity
A not-for-profit social housing developer that was working on what it claimed to be the UK’s first 3D-printed housing development is filing for liquidation.
Building for Humanity planned to use 3D-printed concrete on a zero-carbon housing project in Accrington, Lancashire. Planning was granted on the 46-home scheme by Hyndburn Council last summer, with work due to start this year.
Receivers were first appointed in May; with Companies House documents indicating that the company owed over £1.4m to creditors. HMRC alone were owed over £730,000, of which creditors expect less than £80,000 will be paid. Hyndburn Council is owed over £1000 by the company. Opus Restructuring have been appointed to the case.
The company was first incorporated in 2017 and had offices in Accrington and Cornwall. Two of the directors, Iain Hulse and Scott Moon, have already incorporated a new business called Building for Humanity (Group) Community Interest Company, located at the same premises as the previous business.
Dalkia
Mechanical and Electrical contractor Dalkia is showing signs of trouble as they begin discussions of redundancies in its southern region.
This puts 34 jobs under threat, with Colin Brunton, MD Dalkia Engineering South, saying: “We have initiated a collective consultation process in our southern region, which we anticipate will affect approximately 34 roles in total. This will optimise the organisation and increase operational efficiency during a short transition period.
“Our outlook remains very positive, with more than £200m of M&E projects to be delivered over the next few years in our strategic sectors, notably in Healthcare, Heritage, and Decarbonisation. Our focus remains to build an organisation that effectively supports our clients to deliver complex projects.”
Despite optimistic talk, only time will tell if the firm can dig itself out of any hole it may be in.
LF Solutions Ltd
A civil engineering contractor based in Bedfordshire, LF Solutions Ltd are now in administration.
The firm specialised in groundwork, formwork, and civil engineering and employed 15 workers and its own fleet of plant and machinery.
After a turnover of £20.3m for the year to February 2024, the firm is now under charge of Begbies Traynor.
Elements Europe
Based in Telford, Shropshire, Elements Europe was a company focused on offsite manufacturing.
Launched in 2005, most recently with a turnover of £42m, the company was primarily a subcontractor that produced modules and bathroom pods for use in student accommodation, hotels, and residential developments.
Sam Birchall, managing director at Interpath, and joint administrator, said: “Sadly Elements Europe has not been immune to the headwinds facing the construction sector. Our intention is to pause work on the ongoing contracts at East Road and Camp Hill whilst we explore options to rescue all or parts of the Elements business.”
May
Jans Offsite Solutions
A Northern Irish firm, based in Antrim, specialising in offsite solutions, appointed administrators on 19 May.
The firm was formed in 2019, when it was moved to a facility in Caulside Drive spanning 10,000 metres. In recent times the firm had offices in both Antrim and Staffordshire, with a total of 79 employees.
However, they most recently reported a pre-tax loss of £4.9m for 2023, and a loss of £3.3m the previous year.
Corbyn
Corbyn appointed an administrator on 22 May after falling into financial troubles last year.
The firm was established in 1989 with primarily London-focused projects going up to £30m in value at times. In 2023, the company made a profit of £436,000 (pre-tax) and a turnover of £32.8m.
After several County Court Judgements, FRP Advisory Trading Limited have now been appointed as administrators for the company.
An FRP spokesperson said: “Phil Armstrong and David Hudson, partners at FRP Advisory, were appointed as joint administrators of Corbyn Construction Ltd on 22 May 2025.
“The appointment follows more than six months of work alongside the Company to explore a solvent solution. Unfortunately, sustained market challenges and the impact of increasingly complex regulatory requirements have ultimately meant that a route forward was not possible,
“The Company has now ceased trading, and all staff have been made redundant. Creditors are being contacted directly and will receive the administrators’ proposals within the next eight weeks.”
April
Breyer Group
Breyer filed a notice of appointment of an administrator after weeks of pressure from subcontractors regarding unpaid work with Lloyds Bank selecting RSM to carry out the insolvency work.
A number of winding up petitions have been registered against the South East housing contractor, who employ around 250 staff.
Originally founded in 1956 as by Fred Breyer, the company has stayed under family control under chairman Timothy Breyer. The group comprises of three businesses: Breyer Roofing, Breyer Renew and Breyer Repair.
Welsh maintenance group Cardo have now entered an asset purchase agreement to acquire Breyer’s roofing division, as well as taking on Breyer’s contract with the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames for responsive repairs and maintenance, which covers around 6,000 homes.
Although financial terms of the deal were not revealed, Cardo says the move has saved nearly 100 jobs.
March
Colwin Construction
Essex-based contractor Colwin Construction specialised in groundworks and appointed admninistrators Lewis Business Recovery and Insolvency on 19 March. The comapny owed nearly £3.7m to 162 creditors upon collapse.
However, three of the directors(Ben Meagher, John Howell and Trevor Schofield) launched a new company on the same day that has now acquired Colwin Construction and assets. The majority of staff joined the new company as well, with sixteen of nineteen employees transferring through TUPE. Colwin Group’s website lists its specialities as underpinning, superstructure repairs and home improvements.
Colwin Construction was acquired by the newly established Colwin Group for £70,000, according to Lewis Business Recovery, on the same day that the administrators were appointed. “The purchaser is considered a connected party by way of mutual directors,” the report said. According to the report, only one offer was received.
Lewis Business Recovery were “initially engaged” by Colwin Construction in early February and Colwin Group was established on 14 March at the same trading address as Colwin Construction, according to Companies House.
Rodells
Founded in 1898, Hertfordshire based scaffolding contractor Rodells filed to appoint administrators in March. The firm offered scaffolding services for large commercial and industrial projects, as well as operating a specialist access works division in St Albans. All 37 employees were made redundant, ceasing work on 15 live sites.
FRP Advisory administrators commented that “the pipeline had dramatically reduced on the scaffolding side of the business while the cost of materials had increased leading to severe cash flow pressures.”
Directors had taken out loans and paused wages in an attempt to keep the business afloat, but a Companies House update showed that creditors were owed nearly £500,000. Former employees were owed an additional £478,000.
Marbank Construction
Industrial shed specialist Marbank Construction has filed in March to appoint administrators, leaving the future of its 24 employees in doubt.
The Surrey-based contractor was established in 1994 and operated across the South East, having built over 300 sheds to a combined value in excess of £1bn.
Administrator FRP Advisory have since revealed that Marbank owed nearly £10m to its supply chain at the time of collapse, with the unsecured creditors now likely to recieve none of the £9.8m they were cumulatively owed.
The businesses’ 2024 financial year recorded a net profit of £3.8, but Marbank had since accumulated “significant losses” in the following financial year, according to FRP. Between August 2024 and March 2025, Marbank had a turnover of £21m, generating a net loss of £12.6m in the same period. In February of this year, Marbank lost the first of over twenty cases in favour of their subcontractor, which FRP described as “costly and difficult to defend.” A “significant claim” had also been made of alleged building defects on a Marbank project.
February
South East Groundworks
Family-run groundworks firm South East Groundworks has appointed Rikki Burton of Anderson Brookes Insolvency Practitioners Limited as liquidator and filed a resolution for winding up.
Established by Ricky Woods in 2016, the company operated across South East England, offering demolition, drainage and emergency callout services.
TNA Electrical
An administration has been filed by the Cannock-based company, which was founded by brothers Andrew and Neil Jones in 2009. According to the company website, they offered “mechanical, electrical and public health (MEP) solutions to all sectors of the construction industry”.
The brothers were also directors of TNA Mechanical until they resigned and handed the reins over to Gemma Jones and Ann Jones.
The company had worked on 512 projects since it was established, valued from £70k to £12m and employed 25 staff. Unfortunately, latest accounts filed to January 31 2024 showed a turnover of £30m- and a pre-tax loss of £2.1m.
Leonard Curtis was appointed as administrator, reporting that fixed-price contracts and debts had led to the firm’s collapse, with unsecured creditors unlikely to regain any money.
Subcontractors and suppliers were owed roughly £6.9m.
Acheson Construction
Acheson Construction operated across multiple sectors in the South and South West of England, including defence, public sector, education, health, leisure, commercial, industrial and residential.
Established in 1974, the company employed around 88 people and specialised in projects valued between £500,000 to £25m. Recent pre-tax profits were reported to be £46,000 in 2023.
The business appointed Richard Lewis and Alistair Wardell of Grant Thornton UK LLP as joint administrators on 18 February 2025. All 48 were made redundant either immediately or shortly after the aministration.
A spokesperson for the administrators said: “The company has ceased to trade and will not be conducting further works in relation to any sites where work is in progress. The sites will revert back to the respective employers.”
Documents later filed at Companies House showed that 564 unsecured creditors were owed a total of £8.5m at the time of collapse. Grant Thornton planned to sell the company fleet of seven telehandlers to recoup some costs, but an aggrieved supplier withheld one of the machines. Grant Thornton said that that this has “since been successfully recovered and all plant, machinery and vehicles are now in the process of being auctioned.”
J S Wright
Mechanical and electrical specialist J S Wright, first established in 1890, and sister company Wright Maintenance, have been placed into administration.
First founded in Birmingham, the business worked on several high-rise residential projects in London, as well as across the Midlands. The company has encountered many periods of financial turmoil over the last few years. Five directors first bought out previous managers in 2017, before the company transitioned to employee ownership in 2021. Project and payment delays led to the business’ profits falling from previous multimillions to less than a million in cash liquidity and pre-tax profits in 2023. Loan repayments for the employee ownership were pushed back to May of this year.
J S Wright was notably appointed by Rydon to carry out M&E works during the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower, years prior to the fire. However, the installation of the smoke extraction systems were subcontracted by J S Wright to another firm, PSB UK Ltd.
The Grenfell Tower fire inquiry did not reach a conclusion on the role of the smoke extraction systems on the tragedy and did not lay blame at J S Wright in the final report.
Administrators FRP admitted in late March that J S Wright owed around £19m at the time of collapse and that creditors and suppliers were unlikely to see any of the money.
January
Kaybridge Construction
Redmans Insolvency Services has been appointed as liquidators for the Middlesex-based groundworks, pending approval by creditors.
Kaybridge has been in business since 1972 and works on groundworks, substructures and superstructures across the UK. Their most recent results for the year to August 31 2023 reported a turnover of £30.6m, with a pre-tax loss of £1.5m.
Sheen Lane
The Richmond-based residential developer is expected to file for administration on 11 January.
They had previously delivered over 2,600 residential units and 120,000 sq ft of commercial floorspace across London and the south east, but reported a pre-tax loss of £27m in 2023, which it attributed to write-downs of over £23m on estimated profits on developments completed with or for sister companies.
Connect Modular
60 staff were made redundant at Scottish volumetric house builder Connect Modular, barely six months after the East Ayrshire firm completed its largest ever contract.
Connect Modular, who were first established in 2013 as the Wee House Company, completed the largest modular low-rise affordable housing development in Scotland in the summer of 2024 at the £17m 101 home project in Kilmarnock.
The December internal newsletter called on staff to rally for a final push in 2025 to complete affordable housing projects in the Garnock Valley, Livingston, Penicuik and Clydebank, as well as preparing to start work on Glasgow’s first operational net zero modular housing development.
Liquidators will also oversee the dissolution of related company Hope South West Limited. Both companies ceased trading as of the second week of January and all employees (38 from Connect Modular, 10 from Hope South West) have been made redundant.
FRP Advisory partners Michelle Elliot and Callum Carmichael took control of the Cumnock-based modular housebuilder on 6 January. Michelle Elliot commented: “Connect Modular Limited and Hope South West Limited had built a strong reputation and track record in delivering high quality, affordable modular homes across Scotland.
“Unfortunately, following losses made on a number of historic contracts and rising operational costs, the businesses were facing significant cash flow pressure. Despite the best efforts of the director in exploring alternatives in recent weeks, the cash position deteriorated significantly placing unsustainable pressure on the business.
“We will now focus on marketing the assets for sale and on providing every possible support to the staff for claims to the Redundancy Payments Office and accessing support agencies such as PACE.”
Ashville Aggregates and Concrete
The London-based materials supply and muck away specialists have filed a notice of intention to appoint administrators, leaving the future of around 50 staff in doubt for the New Year.
Clarkebond
2025 started with a shock for Clarkebond’s 140 staff, who were hit with the news that the engineering consultancy was being liquidated.
The 77-year-old firm collapsed a mere three months after it was acquired by the Independent Design House Group (IDHG), who wanted to become a multidisciplinary engineering consultancy for services spread from concept to construction.
But a combination of tripling the workforce overnight and a cultural clash between Clarkebond’s original employees and IDHG’s management led to resignations and redundancies, which threw the company into further turmoil.
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