Allister Hayman Freelance
Building
Stories by this contributor.
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Labbad takes new role at Lend Lease
15 May 12
Europe chief executive Dan Labbad appointed Group chief operating officer and will relocate to Australia
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Balfour Beatty promotes McNaughton
10 May 12
Balfour Beatty’s operations boss has been appointed deputy chief executive in place of Anthony Rabin, who is retiring
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Green schools policy in limbo as launch date draws near
9 May 12
Draft design guidance reveals BREEAM for schools still ‘under review’ just weeks from launch of school building programme
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Byles poaches another schools director
9 May 12
Third former Partnership for Schools director joins Tim Byles new firm Cornerstone
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Balfour Beatty provides few clues on restructure
9 May 12
Contractor says market remains challenging in update to the City
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Ministers 'must do more' to tackle housing crisis, MPs warn
7 May 12
Communities select committee says government must accelerate efforts to attract institutional investment into housing
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Bristol opts for mayor, but others say no
4 May 12
Birmingham, Manchester and six other cities reject mayoral system in blow to government policy
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Chelsea submits bid for Battersea Power Station
4 May 12
Clubs hopes to develop a 60,000 seat stadium on iconic site as well as homes, shops and offices
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Labour sweeps to power in Birmingham
4 May 12
Local elections see Labour win in Birmingham and Southampton and a string of other regional towns and cities
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Balfour Beatty could shed 600 jobs in restructure
2 May 12
Around 600 jobs could go in Balfour Beatty’s restructure of its UK construction services division
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Bam picks up Bristol free school
2 May 12
Contractor wins £8m job for free school in Brentry
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Government wants HS2 legal bids to be bundled together
2 May 12
The Department for Transport wants five separate requests for judicial review to be heard together in the High Court in October
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BCSE unveils awards shortlist
1 May 12
Skanska, Wates and Willmott Dixon up for British Council of School Environments contractor of the year
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Building plays host at … The Building Awards
27 April 2012
Kriss Akabusi’s achievements and yacht size got this table talking at the Building Awards
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Exclusive: Contractors' PFI school payments tied to green targets
26 Apr 12
Conditions to be imposed on PFI contracts as post-occupancy research shows schools failing on sustainability
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Search begins for new chief construction adviser
25 Apr 12
Sources say current building tsar Paul Morrell ‘has ruled out’ serving a third two-year term
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Exclusive: Third of previous government's new schools 'very good'
25 Apr 12
Post-occupancy evaluation of schools built under previous government leaked to Building
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Bidders for £4.35bn defence contracts revealed
23 Apr 12
List of firms interested in bidding for three new regional prime contracts worth up to £4.35bn published
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Two firms vie for National Grid estate role
23 Apr 12
Capita Symonds and DTZ last two standing in race for contract to manage around £400m of National Grid estate
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Government drops plans for standardised school designs
20 April 2012
Industry fears confusion as Gove shifts policy from standardisation to basic design guidance
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Government will not publish 'vital' school building research
19 Apr 12
Industry slams refusal to publish post-occupancy evaluation research on schools built under Labour government
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Report calls for decent schools standard
17 Apr 12
British Council for School Environments report stresses link between school buildings and educational outcomes
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M&S slashes £100m from store upgrade programme
17 Apr 12
Retail giant says savings from £600m programme will not lead to reduction in scope
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PM scraps 'conservatory tax'
17 Apr 12
Critics slam government for having ‘no backbone on green issues’ as consequential improvements plan dropped
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Sir Robert McAlpine sees 38% fall in profit
13 Apr 12
But contracting revenues for the firm’s private holding company climb 10%
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Brands may go in Balfour shake-up
13 April 2012
Major restructure focused on “three main pillars” of business - as many as 1,500 jobs could go
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Hope for NewBuy scheme as Lloyds set to sign up
13 April 2012
Part-nationalised bank plans small-firm friendly multi-user cell
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Leeds eyes £1bn transport fund in next 'city deal'
12 Apr 12
Council expects progress on city region plans in May
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Armitt chosen as vice-president of ICE
5 Apr 12
Move means Olympic Delivery Authority boss set to lead Institution of Civil Engineers from 2015
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Vinci sees profits halved in 'difficult climate'
5 Apr 12
Contractor’s pre-tax profit down 48% - turnover up 8% to £1.11bn
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Balfour’s UK shake-up about ‘positioning for growth’
4 Apr 12
Operations boss says UK restructure not about down-sizing, but job losses still likely
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Exclusive: Sir Robert McAlpine bags £650m US embassy job
2 Apr 12
Contractor’s joint venture with US firm B.L Harbert wins job
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Councils seek judicial review to derail HS2
30 Mar 12
Camden adds concerns about Euston station work in joint challenge to £32bn high-speed line
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More changes at Laing O'Rourke
30 March 2012
A handful of senior managers leave, including managing director of contractor’s investment group
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BAM bags Ealing academy
30 March 2012
Contractor adds Ealing school to its academy portfolio
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Paul Sheffield: ‘You can hear somebody saying, “Well, it was all right when I left …”’
30 March 2012
Paul Sheffield could barely have chosen a worse time to become chief executive of a UK construction firm, but two years after taking over at Kier, his growth strategy appears to be paying off. By Allister Hayman
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Ministry of Defence steps up search for private sector partner
29 Mar 12
Tender for defence estates’ strategic partner expected next month, as results of soft market test revealed
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BAM bags another academy
29 Mar 12
£10.9m Maltby Academy in Rotherham is fourth of five wins this month
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Vinci + St Modwen bag £2bn Covent Garden market job
27 Mar 12
Vinci and St Modwen joint venture selected for one of London’s largest developments
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Greater Manchester unveils £1.2bn infrastructure fund
27 Mar 12
Budget deal will see city region recoup up to £30m per year from national tax take
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Three consultants bag school survey job
26 Mar 12
Capita Symonds, Davis Langdon and EC Harris win contract to carry out national school building survey
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West Ham will re-bid for Olympic stadium
23 Mar 12
Club says it will re-bid to become the anchor tenant for the stadium after the Games
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BAM bags five academies jobs in two weeks
23 Mar 12
Contractor edges level with Balfour Beatty in race for academies work
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Chancellor delays airports review
22 Mar 12
Policy paper delayed until summer as business leaders call for review to look at third runway at Heathrow
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Balfour Beatty director retires
22 Mar 12
Contractor says deputy chief executive Anthony Rabin will retire this summer
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NPPF to come into effect next Tuesday
21 Mar 12
Budget fine print hints at transitional arrangements for planning reforms
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Greater Manchester to 'earn back' up to £30m a year of tax
20 Mar 12
City region agrees deal with Whitehall that includes recouping proportion of national tax take to invest in growth
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Galliford Try bags £56m in London work
20 Mar 12
Contract wins include health and social care centre and three affordable housing schemes
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Extra £150m for oversubscribed housebuilding fund
19 Mar 12
Shortlist of 224 schemes announced - but despite extra £150m government admits no extra homes to be built
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Exclusive: Capita Symonds snaps up Northcroft
19 Mar 12
Capita Symonds buys construction consultant out of administration
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Olympic organisers in race to blast-proof Games glass
19 Mar 12
Olympic organisers seeking to make ten football pitches worth of glass secure in the event of an explosion
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Balfour Beatty hints at fresh UK shake-up
16 March 2012
Operations boss deems significant market upturn ‘highly unlikely’ for 2012
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BESNA decision: Why Balfour Beatty backed down
16 March 2012
Chief operating officer Andrew McNaughton insists modernisation agreement with Unite was turning point
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Major energy firms lobby for delay to Green Deal
16 March 2012
Industry fears ‘soft launch’ will undermine the energy efficiency scheme from the outset
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Balfour Beatty chases double nuclear win
15 Mar 12
Contractor says securing Horizon jobs would not count it out of Hinkley Point race
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HSE delays introduction of charging scheme
15 Mar 12
Scheme which could see contractors hit with fees of up to £124,000 put back to at least October
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Gove under fire over plan to cut size of special schools
14 Mar 12
Fears grow that the Department for Education is failing to heed lessons from past school building programmes
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Exclusive: DfE to cut the size of special schools by 20%
09 March 2012
Gove urged to reconsider move that disregards two-year-old regulations based on expert research
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Pension funds set to deliver on infrastructure plan
09 March 2012
Institutional investors eye January 2013 launch date for new infrastructure investment vehicle
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Exclusive: Green Deal suffers fresh setback
8 Mar 12
Green Deal will not be fully operational until 2013 after energy firms delay implementation of payment mechanism
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Aberdeen backs £140m garden plan
2 Mar 12
City residents vote in favour of controversial plans to redevelop Union Terrace Gardens
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Bam Construction to deliver £33m regeneration scheme
02 March 2012
Project will comprise retail and residential with a mix of private and affordable housing
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Eco standards in schools are slipping
02 March 2012
Michael Gove’s free schools were meant to rip through red tape. But it’s not just the curriculum that has been relaxed - increasingly, sustainability and space requirements are being dropped too. Now fears are growing that this latest austerity measure could spread to all new schools, as Allister Hayman reports
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More delays hit flagship £2bn schools programme
02 March 2012
Ministers push back contracts on Priority Schools Building Programme, delaying construction till 2013
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Laing O'Rourke bags £300m Crossrail contract
1 Mar 12
Crossrail awards construction contract for Liverpool Street Station to Laing O’Rourke
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Planning permissions fall to five-year low
1 Mar 12
Planning permissions for new homes half the number required to meet housing demand
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Gove approves reduction in school sizes
29 Feb 12
Fears that reduction in space standards for new schools of up to 15% could ‘squeeze’ classroom sizes
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Ten firms shorlisted for £400m defence estates work
28 Feb 12
Shortlist for £400m Ministry of Defence national capital framework announced
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Councils set to launch HS2 legal challenge
24 February 2012
Deadline for councils’ objections to HS2 passes without resolution
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Osborne urged to stimulate infrastructure investment
24 February 2012
Industry bodies call for chancellor to make good on promises to boost infrastructure in Budget
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Selling unused NHS estate could reap £1bn
23 Feb 12
The NHS is sitting on underused estate equivalent to the entire footprint of Sainsbury’s UK stores, report finds
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Boots man lands schools capital role
21 Feb 12
Mike Green, from Alliance Boots Property, has been appointed director of capital at the Education Funding Agency
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Lend Lease's European profit halved
20 Feb 12
Global giant’s profit falls 55% but European construction business is on the up
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Westfield wins backing for White City expansion
20 Feb 12
£1bn expansion of Westfield’s White City shopping mall given the go-ahead
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Architect outed as source of West Ham Olympic bid complaint
20 Feb 12
Architect Steve Lawrence reveals he was source of anonymous state aid complaint about stadium legacy plans
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New consultant Rise bags Serpentine pavilion job
17 February 2012
First high-profile contract for firm set up by former Mace figures and architect Gareth Stapleton
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Firms cast doubt on Osborne’s pensions plan
16 Feb 12
Major contractors say it is ‘highly unlikely’ that institutional investors will invest in ‘large numbers’ in infrastructure
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Scheme to kick start housing three times oversubscribed
15 Feb 12
Housing minister welcomes ‘clamour’ for £420m Get Britain Building fund aimed at unlocking stalled sites
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Spurs freed from affordable housing obligation
14 Feb 12
Council agrees to scrap affordable housing obligations and £16m in regeneration payments as part of club’s new stadium deal
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Planning reform 'won't help economy'
13 Feb 12
Report finds there could be little or no economic boost for two years or more as a result of the government’s planning reforms
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Consultants will get less work on government major projects
10 February 2012
Consultants have been in a “very green paddock for a long while”, says government’s major projects supremo
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£150m Shepherds Bush market scheme gets nod
9 Feb 12
Orion Land & Leisure and Development Securities scheme granted outline planning permission
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Barker sets out long-term reform to FIT scheme
9 Feb 12
Government says new lower FIT rate will be pegged to the falling cost of solar PV
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Liverpool council opts for mayor
8 Feb 12
Move paves way for £130m ‘city deal’ that will create first Mayoral Development Corporation outside London
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Construction firms falling short on apprentices
7 Feb 12
Nearly three quarters of construction firms do not employ an apprentice and do not plan to do so in the next 18 months, survey finds
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Spurs let off the hook on affordable homes
6 Feb 12
Council report wipes planning obligations from Tottenham Hotspur for stadium development
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Work to secure Olympic park green legacy complete
6 Feb 12
Environment Agency hails completion of its work with the Olympic Delivery Authority to create new urban park
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Green light for Sheppard Robson's £750m Fitzrovia scheme
3 Feb 12
Developer offers council extra £2m for affordable housing
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New finance model to attract £250m into affordable homes
03 February 2012
Private company will raise money from investors for affordable homes
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Gove has 'ulterior motive' for scrapping BREEAM
2 Feb 12
Move to scrap green standards for schools driven by the free schools agenda, public procurement chief says
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McLaren on course for 75% increase in turnover
2 Feb 12
Contractor reveals secured projects of over £380m and attributes growth to new business strategy
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Liverpool trumpets £130m 'city deal'
2 Feb 12
Three to four ‘city deals’ handing new powers and financial levers to cities expected in March
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HCA fast-tracks 18 schemes for funding
1 Feb 12
Homes and Communities Agency brings forward 18 housing schemes through Get Britain Building programme
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Four shortlisted for MoD's £950m training estate contract
1 Feb 12
Babcock and Serco on shortlist for contract for the management of MoD training areas, camps and weapons ranges
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Sheppard Robson's £750m Fitzrovia development at risk
30 Jan 12
Dispute between developer and council over level of affordable housing on ‘Noho Square’ site puts plan at risk
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House prices remain flat with market 'dogged by uncertainty'
30 Jan 12
Hometrack survey shows no month-on-month increase in house prices for 18 months
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Green light for construction on £340m Broadgate job
30 Jan 12
Contractor Mace set to begin main construction work after British Land rubber stamps tenancy deal with UBS
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Green schools row heats up
26 Jan 12
Previous government’s green schools adviser voices concern over move to drop BREEAM standard
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Government to take FITs battle to Supreme Court
25 Jan 12
Move comes after Court of Appeal ruled against the government today
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Lansley announces plan for NHS property company
25 Jan 12
Health secretary says new government-owned company NHS Property Services Ltd will take over NHS estate
