Arup review puts brakes on work restarting at Carillion hospital as costs grow

By Jordan Marshall2018-09-25T06:00:00

Laing O’Rourke understood to be taking over from bust firm on Liverpool project

Official confirmation that Laing O’Rourke is being lined up to restart work on the Liverpool hospital project felled by Carillion’s collapse is being held up after it emerged the bust firm fitted the wrong cladding on the job.

Building understands Laing O’Rourke is waiting in the wings for the Royal Liverpool Hospital job which has been mothballed since Carillion went under in January.

Details of the timetable to complete the job were expected to be announced over the summer but these have now been put on hold after Arup completed a review of what Carillion had already built.

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