Higgins Group has reported a 51% turnover increase to £315.1m for the year to 31 July 2025, with profit before tax rising to £1.05m and cash in the bank more than doubling to £24.9m while net debt fell by £20m to £14.7m. Higgins Partnerships delivered 189 homes across three new build projects in a predominantly “build year”, spent £7.3m on rectification works and holds remaining provisions of £3.9m. The group now carries a secured order book above £1.1bn and a development pipeline capable of generating over £600m.

Seymour Civil Engineering has begun infrastructure works for Rula Developments’ 54-acre Teeslink industrial and logistics hub at Stockton-on-Tees, delivering site access roads and development plateaux to service up to 775,000 sq ft of floorspace. The rail-adjacent site, next to Eaglescliffe station and around one mile from the A66, was acquired by Stockton-on-Tees Council in 2021 using Tees Valley Combined Authority Indigenous Growth Fund support. Rula plans build-to-suit units from 3,000 sq ft to 500,000 sq ft on freehold or leasehold terms, with first occupancies targeted by end-2026.

Britain’s civil engineering sector has recorded its first fall in workloads since the Covid-19 pandemic, with contractors warning that delayed decisions on major infrastructure schemes are feeding directly into order books. The dip, captured in the latest industry workload surveys, is emerging despite ongoing programmes in rail, strategic roads and water, signalling that smaller regional schemes and early‑stage design commissions are being paused or slowed. Firms report growing concern over pipeline visibility for 2026–27, affecting resource planning for geotechnical investigations, temporary works design and specialist ground engineering subcontractors.