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<title>Bidders for £1.5bn Scottish Water job revealed</title>
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<description>Mace, Carillion, Morgan Sindall, Atkins and Balfour Beatty among the members of six consortia in the race</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 10:57 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Miliband policy adviser backs Heathrow expansion</title>
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<description>Lord Adonis tells BCO conference that Heathrow expansion is the ‘only credible option’ for solving airport capacity crunch</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 09:47 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UK business 'needs better infrastructure'</title>
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<description>Chair of Port of London Authority tells BCO conference that improving the UK’s transport infrastructure is vital</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 09:34 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Network Rail revamps contractor league table</title>
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<description>Rail body makes changes to contractor ranking system after pressure from firms</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 16:25 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Bechtel wins £36m Vauxhall job</title>
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<description>Transport for London awards contractor station upgrade</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 08:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Balfour wins £77m Aussie rail job</title>
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<description>Contract is first won under the infrastructure giant’s new country structure</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 08:25 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Thames Water confirms £3bn framework firms</title>
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<description>Thames Water confirms two consortia including firms Balfour Beatty, Skanska, Costain and Atkins have won places on its £3bn AMP6 framework</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 09:25 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Infrastructure spending could boost UK economy by £100bn</title>
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<description>Report recommends government spend 1% of GDP on infrastructure for the next five years</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>VolkerFitzpatrick wins £50m Crossrail job</title>
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<description>Firm to design and build new sidings at Ilford train yard</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 16:11 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>MPs reject Thames estuary airport plans</title>
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<description>Heathrow expansion backed at expense of schemes by Foster &amp;amp; Partners, Halcrow and Gensler</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 10:03 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Green Investment Bank sparks £2.3bn of investment</title>
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<description>Energy infrastructure and Green Deal benefit from bank’s investment in first six months.</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 9 May 2013 10:25 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Engineering firms back Severn Barrage plan</title>
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<description>Mott MacDonald, URS and Bechtel all join forces to work on Severn Barrage</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 9 May 2013 09:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Parsons Brinckerhoff wins £78m US rail job</title>
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<description>Balfour Beatty subsidiary awarded extension on existing high-speed rail contract</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 9 May 2013 08:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Industry hails Queen’s promise of HS2 legislation </title>
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<description>Commentators call for further transport infrastructure improvements ahead of HS2s completion in 2032</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 8 May 2013 16:46 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Hinkley C go-ahead ‘imminent’</title>
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<description>Deal between EDF and government for £10bn nuclear power station could come as early as next week</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 3 May 2013 06:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Five firms make cut for £1.5bn power framework</title>
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<description>Exclusive: Firms including Balfour Beatty and Laing O’Rourke win place on five-year National Grid substation framework</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 2 May 2013 17:15 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Sweett Group makes management appointments</title>
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<description>Firm welcomes long-standing employees to senior team</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 2 May 2013 08:51 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Carillion on National Grid framework</title>
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<description>Contractor says it is one of six on £1.5bn five-year substation job</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 2 May 2013 08:48 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Olympic delivery figures launch consultancy</title>
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<description>Exclusive: Four senior London 2012 figures including James Bulley will advise clients on major projects around the world</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 2 May 2013 06:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>WSP wins role on West Coast mainline upgrade</title>
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<description>Third phase of upgrade work due to complete in 2016</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 1 May 2013 17:15 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Firms appointed to £3bn water framework</title>
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<description>Two consortiums including Balfour Beatty, Skanska, Costain and Atkins have been appointed to do the design and build work on Thames Water’s £3bn framework</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 1 May 2013 13:45 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Hub airport unnecessary, says London Assembly</title>
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<description>Body contradicts London mayor by saying existing capacity should be better used</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 1 May 2013 00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Costain’s £123m M6 job faces legal challenge</title>
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<description>Campaigners argue government’s decision to grant planning permission to the £123m M6 link road was flawed</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:30 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Legal case against £275m incinerator defeated</title>
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<description>Spanish contractor FCC to build scheme in Buckinghamshire that will generate 22mw of electricity</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 08:35 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Infrastructure plan 'just a long list of expensive projects'</title>
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<description>Public Accounts Committee says government’s national infrastructure plan lacks clear priorities and a strategic vision</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:37 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Hinkley Point deal 'unlikely' </title>
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<description>EDF director says success of on-going negotiations with government is not ‘in any way assured’</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:57 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>EDF downsizes Hinkley Point C staff</title>
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<description>Firm scales back nuclear new build operation in Somerset to control costs</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:17 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Santander’s data centre unfinished after ISG exit</title>
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<description>Exclusive: £100m Project Fox missing sections of roofing and cladding and up to eight months behind schedule</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 06:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>MPs call for scrutiny of nuclear negotiations</title>
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<description>MPs and campaigners press for National Audit Office to review the government’s nuclear ‘strike price’ negotiations with EDF</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 8 Apr 2013 10:35 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Firms appointed to build £600m Scots power substations</title>
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<description>Balfour Beatty, Miller, and Bam Nuttall among firms appointed to £600m electricity substation programme in north of Scotland</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 8 Apr 2013 09:52 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Network Rail appoints Crossrail director</title>
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<description>Rob McIntosh to lead Network Rail’s £2.3bn programme of upgrades for the Crossrail development</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 4 Apr 2013 12:16 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>May Gurney to lose £780m roads job</title>
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<description>Support services contractor launches formal appeal as Norfolk council plans to end relationship with firm</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 2 Apr 2013 17:14 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Costain joint venture wins £300m Crossrail fit out job</title>
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<description>Contract is the last major construction contract to be awarded on the project</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 2 Apr 2013 11:36 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Race for Crossrail North East improvements starts</title>
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<description>Network Rail asks four firms, including Balfour Beatty and Costain, to bid for improvement job between Stratford and Shenfield</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:16 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>WSP wins Qatar airport city job</title>
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<description>Engineer wins role on 2022 World Cup project alongside Dutch architect OMA</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:59 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Costain-May Gurney merger to cost 150 jobs</title>
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<description>But directors say £178m deal is designed to drive growth</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:07 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Speedy lands National Grid tie-up</title>
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<description>Firm will provide plant across National Grid’s gas and electricity networks</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:09 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Contractors share in government nuclear funding</title>
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<description>Laing O’Rourke, Costain and Arup benefit from £31m funding boost for research projects</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 06:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Elizabeth House scheme avoids public inquiry</title>
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<description>Lambeth council approval of £600m Chipperfield-designed development will stand after Eric Pickles decides not to ‘call-in’ plans</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:12 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Disappointment at ‘jam tomorrow’ Budget</title>
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<description>Budget reaction: Industry experts criticise 2015-16 start for £3bn a year infrastructure boost</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:42 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Osborne announces £3bn of capital investment</title>
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<description>Budget: But the boost will not come into effect until 2015</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:41 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Race begins for £600m Northern Line extension</title>
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<description>London Underground starts pre-tendering for extension to Battersea</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Sweett lands Middle East aviation double</title>
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<description>Consultant wins brace of contracts for Etihad Airways</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:32 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Government approves Hinkley Point C</title>
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<description>Energy secretary Ed Davey approves 55,000 page EDF planning submission</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:26 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Osborne chases Hinkley deal for Budget</title>
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<description>Government locked in ‘full-tilt’ talks with EDF in bid to announce new-build nuclear funding agreement on Wednesday</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 07:30 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>HS2 defeated in legal challenge</title>
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<description>Breaking: Consultation on compensation over high speed rail link ruled illegal</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:57 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Hinkley nuclear plant gets environmental permits</title>
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<description>Environment Agency gives permission to EDF to dispose of radioactive waste</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:43 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Piling drills pierce London train tunnel</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 09:09 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>CBI backs VAT cut for refurb</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 06:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Drax biomass project in line for £75m guarantee</title>
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<description>£225m project to convert half of Drax coal-fired power station into biomass is set to be the next project to receive UK Guarantee</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 8 Mar 2013 11:36 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Heathrow T2 goes green</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 7 Mar 2013 17:20 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Vince Cable calls for 'crucial' housing investment</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 7 Mar 2013 09:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Balfour Beatty to sell European rail business</title>
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<description>Contractor exits mainland Europe as profit falls 70%</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 7 Mar 2013 08:36 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Whitehall to ask private sector experts to boost skills</title>
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<description>Ecobuild latest: Lord Deighton identifies leadership ‘vacuum’ in delivering low-carbon major infrastructure projects</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 7 Mar 2013 06:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Balfour Beatty lands £130m Crossrail contract</title>
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<description>Contractor will build overground section of network to Abbey Wood</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 6 Mar 2013 11:50 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Fosters to submit Thames Estuary proposal</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 5 Mar 2013 09:51 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Ministers must stop 'crossing fingers' on nuclear</title>
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<description>Energy and climate change committee warns government to put in place a contingency plan if private sector fails to deliver nuclear new build programme</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 4 Mar 2013 09:10 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Government guarantee for £1bn Crossrail trains scrapped</title>
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<description>Procurement of new fleet of Crossrail trains will now be 100% publically-funded</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 1 Mar 2013 12:50 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Crossrail under pressure as  fresh blacklist link emerges</title>
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<description>Exclusive: Link between HR manager and The Consulting Association prompts renewed calls for investigation</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 1 Mar 2013 06:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Minister torpedos Severn Barrage</title>
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<description>Energy minister Greg Barker says there is no chance project could get permission in this parliament</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:25 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Hewlett loses role on £600m New Street project</title>
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<description>Civil engineer, which was rescued from administration by a management buy-out last month, has lost its place on one of its most high-profile jobs</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 06:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Atkins, Laing and VolkerRail bag £250m rail job</title>
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<description>Stafford rail network improvements will be delivered by ‘unique’ alliance</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:50 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Government withdraws finance for three energy projects</title>
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<description>Contractors Skanska and Vinci dealt blow as energy from waste projects projects fall into limbo</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:13 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Councils strike financing deal on Northern Line extension</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>HS2 awards £7.4m of engineering contracts</title>
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<title>Race for £415m road job narrows to two</title>
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<description>Consortia containing Balfour Beatty, Carillion and Amey in finishing straight for M8 bundle of road works</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:42 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Bristol mayor warns against Severn Barrage</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 17:11 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Skanska and Costain confirmed for £110m Crossrail station works</title>
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<description>Skanska and Costain have been confirmed as winners of the £110m contract to build the main station works for Crossrail’s Bond Street station</description>
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<title>Delayed Heathrow Terminal 2 project could be worth £5bn </title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 06:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:08 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Costain and McAlpine on track for £200m Hinkley civils win</title>
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<title>Cumbria nuclear waste storage plan 'dead'</title>
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<description>Following a meeting with ministers local council leader that backed plan concedes current process to find a site has ended</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:14 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>BAA confirms delay to £2.5bn Heathrow project</title>
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<description>Airport operator delays £2.5bn second phase of Terminal 2 building at Heathrow as it publishes £3bn five-year plan</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:11 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Amec fails in bid to limit exposure on submarine job</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:42 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Labour slams slow progress on major projects</title>
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<description>Analysis of government’s national infrastructure plan shows just 18 of 576 projects are under construction</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 09:43 GMT</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 09:33 GMT</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 08:57 GMT</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 06:00 GMT</pubDate>
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