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The West Midlands Metro line in Birmingham City Centre is to receive essential upgrades and maintenance alongside ongoing activity to extend the tramway to both Digbeth and Edgbaston with track replacement along Corporation Street to begin late July. Earlier this month, construction for the game-changing Birmingham Eastside Metro extension, which will make the most out …

Existing Metro line in Birmingham City Centre to be future-proofed this summer Read More »

Barhale is celebrating after landing an internationally-recognised award for demonstrating high health and safety standards. Barhale has received a RoSPA President’s (11 consecutive Golds) Health and Safety Award for working hard to ensure its staff get home safely to their families at the end of every working day.  Organisations receiving a RoSPA Award are recognised …

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Work which will revive Birmingham’s ‘creative quarter’ with a refreshed look and feel and sustainable transport links gets underway next week as Midland Metro Alliance begins preliminary construction on the Birmingham Eastside Metro extension on Digbeth High Street. Activity, which will begin from 6 July, is set to transform Digbeth High Street through the creation …

Work set to begin on Metro and public realm construction on Digbeth High Street Read More »

Our southern team has successfully delivered its second high profile flume installation on Tideway’s Central section on behalf of the Ferrovial Construction and Laing O’Rourke joint venture, this time at the Blackfriars Foreshore. The project entailed the installation of a 21 metre long temporary flume inside the existing Victorian low-level sewer within the Thames river …

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Barhale has landed a duo of new contracts from South Holland Internal Drainage Board (IDB) to install, reinforce and renovate key drainage works in Lincolnshire. The infrastructure and civil engineering specialist will undertake works at two locations across the southern part of the county: First, at Fleet Haven Pumping Station, Barhale will renovate the inlet, …

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Our Southern team have commenced construction works at Great Moor Sailing club in Buckinghamshire on behalf of Fusion JV (Morgan Sindall, BAM Nuttall and Ferrovial Agroman). The works are part of Undertakings and Assurances (U&As) in relation to HS2 project development. As part of the project, Barhale will construct a temporary road, a vehicle and …

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Construction products and services specialist BCS Group has appointed Ian Jackson as its new head of hire. He joins from Sunbelt Rentals UK where he most recently held the post of head of tools & lifting. He was previously group hire commercial manager at Travis Perkins where he was responsible for six key group hire …

New divisional leads at BCS Group herald business development strategy Read More »

The winner of the Barhale May Photography Competition is Ben Green (TBM Operator, Yorkshire Region) with his photo of the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) in Barnsley, Yorkshire. The TBM was named in memory of Frank Norton, a previous member of the Barhale tunnelling team, who sadly passed away recently. Well done Ben!

Construction will get underway for the Birmingham Eastside Metro extension when spades hit the ground on Lower Bull Street to make way for a new tramway junction in the city centre next month. The Midland Metro Alliance, working on behalf of Transport for West Midlands (TfWM), will begin preparatory work to lay new track along …

Spades set to hit the ground for new Metro extension to Digbeth Read More »

We are pleased to publish our half-year figures showing that the business has continued to strengthen its financial position. In the six months to 31 December 2020, we posted an operating profit of £2.1m. Although revenues (£57.6m) declined slightly on the previous six months’ period (£65.5m), alongside the growth in profitability, we recorded an increase …

Barhale Group reports £2M+ half-year profit Read More »