Contractor news
Contractors picked for final batches of priority schools
Willmott Dixon, Carillion, Kier and Wates selected for last four batches of £400m first phase of programme
New boss for Lend Lease's Elephant & Castle scheme
Firm appoints head of sustainability who worked on the London Olympic Athletes’ Village
Carillion hails game-changing Battersea win
Carillion’s construction boss says focus on “lean technologies and off-site construction” helped firm to beat rivals to £400m Battersea job
FM Conway leapfrogs rivals with £272m in highways work
Two highways jobs shake up contractors league table in April as sector springs back into action
Carillion wins £400m Battersea job
Carillion selected as preferred bidder for £400m job to build the first phase of the Battersea Power Station development
Largest builder in Dubai hit by major strike
Thousands of migrant workers on Arabtec jobs down tools in protest over low pay
Three left in race for £350m Battersea job
Exclusive: Sir Robert McAlpine misses out on Battersea Power Station first phase as five-strong shortlist cut to three firms
Wates switches teams in £200m Green Deal race
Exclusive: Contractor joins with British Gas after original partner Npower drops out of the Newcastle contest, with race down to two teams
Revealed: Fly-through of Herzog's Oxford uni project
Herzog & de Meuron and Laing O’Rourke’s £30m Blavatnik School of Government wins planning permission
EDF delays Hinkley funding ‘until at least September’
Exclusive: £10bn nuclear plant project six months behind revised schedule with half of jobs on site now at risk
More senior figures to leave Lend Lease amid shake-up
Exclusive: Two further senior figures are set to leave contractor Lend Lease following news that managing director Michael Dyke left his post
Carillion misses half its sustainability targets
Contractor behind schedule on 11 of 22 targets, but has exceeded its target performance on a number of other key measures
Balfour wins £77m Aussie rail job
Contract is first won under the infrastructure giant’s new country structure
Another boss exits Balfour Beatty
Exclusive: Executive director Rob Walker leaves Balfour Beatty’s UK construction business in the wake of the firm’s £50m profit warning
Mears moves fast on Morrison integration
Firm expects to complete full integration by the end of the year
Emcor pulls out of UK construction
M&E giant pulls out of construction market to focus on facilities management
EFA to press go on £1.75bn of privately financed school work
Government’s delivery body set to launch search for contractors and to detail PF2 funding model
Parsons Brinckerhoff wins £78m US rail job
Balfour Beatty subsidiary awarded extension on existing high-speed rail contract
Costain takes £4m hit for failed May Gurney bid
Contractor says start to the year otherwise “strong” in trading update
Ocon creditors left £4.3m out of pocket
Manchester-based contractor’s collapse sees creditors only paid up to 22p of every pound owed
John Laing wins £120m Cambridge health scheme
Project finance to be arranged by contractor in first-of-its-kind development for NHS
Carillion on National Grid framework
Contractor says it is one of six on £1.5bn five-year substation job
Creditors chase £6.5m after Herbert Baggaley collapse
Administrator KPMG finds £2m to pay trade creditors, leaving £4.5m shortfall
Peasland to exit Balfour Beatty
Balfour Beatty’s demoted UK construction boss Mike Peasland is to leave the company by the end of the year
Major shake-up at Balfour Beatty
Mike Peasland steps down from role as UK construction chief executive to run regional business following £50m profit warning
Galliford Try fixing leaks on £22m roof
Newport railway station’s innovative £22m roof is being repaired by contractor Galliford Try because it has been leaking
RICS survey points to signs of optimism
Market survey suggests workloads beginning to rise with housing market credited
Galliford Try secures £26m retirement home
Firm also secures financial close on £16m London housing scheme
MPs told late payment is 'organised crime'
Parliamentary inquiry into late payment hears evidence from subcontractors
Miller poaches Morgan Sindall south boss
Stephen Scard joins Miller as regional managing director for South-east
Blacklisting protesters target Royal Bam
Delegation led by Unite union will travel to Amsterdam to protest outside Royal Bam’s annual general meeting
Lend Lease appoints new Scotland boss
Roy Allport has been promoted from within to run the company’s expanding Scottish business
Skanska culls standalone UK housing business
Exclusive: Swedish contractor absorbs Homes by Skanska into wider UK company, with some roles ‘under review’
Mace and Skanska battle for £500m Scalpel tower
Contractors Mace and Skanska are battling it out for the Kohn Pedersen Fox-designed ‘Scalpel’ tower in the City of London
MPs slam contractors' blacklisting evidence
Scottish Affairs committee says it will now examine penalties including possible ban on tendering for public sector work
GB Building bags south London student halls
Contractor will build accommodation for 740 King’s College students
May Gurney loses appeal on £780m highways job
May Gurney has lost its bid to be reinstated in the race for a £780m highway maintenance contract for Norfolk council
Seddon split into three firms
Seddon Group has restructured to create three independently owned trading companies
Bam bags £30m Salford university job
Contractor appointed preferred bidder for £30m arts and media centre at the University of Salford
Four arrests in construction fraud probe
Police have arrested four people in connection with alleged corruption over winning rail work in London
Wates family retakes reins at Wates Group
Exclusive: Exit of chief executive Paul Drechsler anticipated towards the end of the year as James Wates takes over as chair of contractor
Laing O’ Rourke undergoes management shake-up
Exclusive: Development and design director goes to work for Apple as new finance director appointed
Lend Lease's European finance boss departs
Exclusive: Stephen Grist, Lend Lease’s finance boss in its Europe, Middle East and Africa business has left the firm
Interserve invests in £200m Edinburgh scheme
Contractor forms joint venture with developer Tiger on mixed-use Haymarket project
Costain joint venture wins £300m Crossrail fit out job
Contract is the last major construction contract to be awarded on the project
Balfour Beatty to build £81m Sheffield uni building
Balfour Beatty wins the job to build a controversial RMJM-designed engineering building at Sheffield University
School building contractors to face ‘boot camp’
Firms bidding for work through Pf2 programme to face three week “boot camp” to finalise their bids with clients
Laing O'Rourke Aussie boss returns to UK
Exclusive: Steve Hollingshead returns to UK as director of contractor’s infrastructure division
Three overseas buyers interested in Rowecord
Administrator says two Asian and one European buyer “seriously” interested
Mace bags role on £1bn Russian development
Firm wins delivery partner role on £1bn plus residential scheme in St Petersburg
Schools contractors will require 'investment grade' credit rating
The schools capital agency says privately-financed projects will have to achieve triple-B minus credit rating to draw down funding
Cinema complex to be dismantled over 75 cm error
Developer confirms St Neots scheme ‘built in wrong place’
Styles & Wood expects to make half-year loss
Fit out specialist braced to go into the red for first six months of 2013
Carillion saves £10m through green push
Firm’s chief executive Richard Howson underlines business case for sustainability in construction
Mace set to begin on £768m Victoria Circle
Developer Land Securties reports £533m profit for full year and confirms Mace’s appointment as £768m first phase begins next month
Babcock reports 16% profit hike
Engineer targeting opportunities stemming from demand for increasing efficiency in defence, nuclear and rail
Balfour Beatty construction revenue plummets
Lack of public projects and fierce competition in regional markets blamed for 23% drop in UK construction revenue
Interserve wins £700m of work in first quarter
Clients include Jaguar Land Rover, Magnox and Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
Bam lands £75m priority schools package
This is the second win for the contractor under government’s £400m investment programme
Michael Dyke leaves role as Lend Lease boss
Exclusive: EMEA construction MD departs post with immediate effect as 90 jobs are put at risk
Morgan Sindall issues profit warning
Construction giant says margins impacted in construction, infrastructure and affordable housing
Bradford and Kirklees to be next priority schools batch
BFE latest: EFA director says fourth batch to be procured “soon”
Bouygues sells civil engineer Fitzgerald
Bouygues UK has sold civil engineering contractor Fitzgerald to its management a year after acquiring the firm
Bam Construct holds steady in difficult market
Chief executive Graham Cash says turnover has now levelled out and cites ‘well structured’ business as reason for firm’s resilience
Carillion bags £335m Liverpool hospital job
Carillion-led consortium beats rival team led by Interserve to Royal Liverpool hospital contract
Balfour Beatty banks £58.5m from PFI asset sales
Contractor says it will reinvest cash in target regions and markets
Costain’s £123m M6 job faces legal challenge
Campaigners argue government’s decision to grant planning permission to the £123m M6 link road was flawed
Bam frontrunner for £150m Saatchi job
Exclusive: Bam secures pre-construction role on Derwent’s redevelopment of the former Saatchi & Saatchi office building in London
Kier gains support for May Gurney takeover
Kier secures early backing from around a third of May Gurney shareholders for proposed £221m takeover
UK economy avoids triple dip
Growth of 0.3% dragged down by construction, which is worst performing sector
Bam holds strong in challenging market
Bam Construct has seen its revenues and profit hold steady amid difficult market conditions in the UK.
Kier boss hails May Gurney deal
Paul Sheffield says proposed acquistion will enable the business to offer an ‘end-to-end’ service to local authority clients
Kier agrees £221m deal to buy May Gurney
May Gurney board to recommend £221m Kier bid representing a 35% premium over Costain offer
Royal Imtech cuts 1,300 jobs as write-offs increase
Parent company of Imtech UK will implement ‘tigher controls’ across the group
Santander’s data centre unfinished after ISG exit
Exclusive: £100m Project Fox missing sections of roofing and cladding and up to eight months behind schedule
Vinci UK profit falls as focus turns to major projects
Contractor seeks more strategic frameworks and higher-value project work
Subbies pressure ministers to tighten prompt payment code
Business minister asked to tighten payment rules following Carillion’s extension of payment terms to 120 days
New NEC3 contracts include fair payment provisions
New suite of government-endorsed NEC3 contracts to be launched next week embrace project bank accounts
McAlpine appeals for missing racoons
Existence of McAlpine-owned zoo in Buckinghamshire emerges after appeal made for pair of escaped coatis
Watchdog extends push to contact blacklisting victims
Information Commissioner’s Office to cross check names of those on blacklist with Department for Work and Pensions
Construction output fell 7% in February
Construction output falls 7% year on year, driven by declines in housing, public sector and commcercial work
Willmott Dixon wins £250k in court case
Contractor has won a legal case for just £250k in withheld fees from developer Newlon Housing
Industry giants embroiled in construction fraud probe
Exclusive: Arrests at subcontractor Alandale as police probe focuses on Laing O’Rourke and Costain’s £250m Farringdon station upgrade
Firms appointed to build £600m Scots power substations
Balfour Beatty, Miller, and Bam Nuttall among firms appointed to £600m electricity substation programme in north of Scotland
Construction 'worst' sector for insolvencies
PwC says more than 600 insolvencies in first quarter of 2013
Kier given access to May Gurney's books
Contractor on course to table rival offer to Costain for £695m turnover May Gurney
May Gurney to lose £780m roads job
Support services contractor launches formal appeal as Norfolk council plans to end relationship with firm
