Firm carrying out work on Birmingham City's ground goes into administration with 446 jobs lost
The building group that has been carrying out work on Birmingham City's ground has collapsed into administration.
446 jobs have been lost from divisions of Buckingham Group that administrators have not been able to sell.
Grant Thornton was appointed administrator of the group, which was set up in 1987, on Tuesday and immediately axed 446 jobs from the building, civils, major projects, sport and leisure and demolition businesses.
Kier had saved 180 jobs with a deal to buy the firm’s £150m-plus turnover rail business, which includes its work for Network Rail and HS2, for £9.6m.
Grant Thornton said 45 people from Buckingham’s head office near Silverstone would remain on the books for “a short period” to help complete the sale of the rail business to Kier.
Buckingham is based at Stowe in Buckinghamshire.
