Contractor news
Contractors hold crisis talks over BESNA dispute
Meeting follows Balfour Beatty’s U-turn in industrial relations dispute
Call for Bank of England help for housebuilding
CPA says quantitative easing cash could be put into new homes
Profit falls 12% at Morgan Sindall
Increasing competition sees contractor income down despite rising revenue
Balfour Beatty appointed to resurrected £45m Liverpool scheme
Fresh plans from new developer set to restart mothballed Baltic/Cornhill development
Almost 90% of workers signed up to BESNA
HVCA says 88% of workers have signed controversial agreeement despite threat of strike action
Vinci bags £100m Kings Cross office job
Contractor to do pre-construction design work on four-storey office block
CH2M Hill wins £5bn Qatar World Cup
UK firms Mace, Arup and T&T thought to be among those to lose out
Dozen firms appointed to £500m housing framework
Contractors have been appointed to a £500m housing framework in the north of England
Green light for £60m Glasgow business development
Bowmer & Kirkland to build 170,000ft2 office block
Lawyers warn of illegal retention clauses
Subcontractors are still receiving contracts with illegal payment retention provisions
Laing O'Rourke's head of UK south moved to HR
The change means two top jobs in Laing O’Rourke UK combined into one
Miller scoops £129m police PFI project
Contractor named preferred bidder for Avon and Somerset police accommodation scheme
Bam Nuttall bags £76m Olympic park rebuild job
Appointment comes as legacy company prepares to procure £95m stadium rebuild
Balfour Beatty strike ballot result expected
Result of Unite ballot due tomorrow as protest mounted in Leeds
Balfour and Thales bag £335m Danish rail contract
Balfour Beatty and Thales have won a £335m contract to transform Denmark’s rail signalling system
Morgan Sindall bags £28m waste-to-energy deal
Contract for Yorkshire Water in joint venture with consultant Grontmij
Laing O’Rourke overhauls senior management
Contractor appoints former Carillion Middle East boss as part of string of senior staff changes
Willmott Dixon, Bullock and Enterprise competing for £1.45bn retrofit job
Shortlist of five teams sees contractors partner with energy companies in West Midlands
More than 70% of workers sign up to BESNA
More protests planned this week over controversial wage proposals
Firm fined for worker's horrific head injuries
Van Elle Ltd to pay £43,000 after accident on M1 widening job
Developer confirms Pinnacle tower on hold
Arab Investments puts construction of skyscraper in City of London on hold due to lack of development finance
Edinburgh cans £170m Mitie outsourcing deal
Mitie shares fall 4% following loss of £170m Edinburgh council contract
AHMM's Blackfriars scheme to go ahead
Construction to commence this month after Building publisher UBM signs lease
MoD’s search for private sector partner delays work
Department puts £5bn of construction contracts on hold because it wants partner to manage estate
Keepmoat and Apollo merger to go ahead 'within a few weeks'
Incoming chief executive says basic plan for integration will be ready soon
Barker responds to Green Deal fears
Climate change minister defends predicted reduction in loft and cavity wall installations
T Clarke secures 50% of this year's workload
Building services group issues trading update ahead of full year results
Scots firm WJ Harte on brink of administration
Around 600 jobs at risk as administrators PKF and KPMG vye to step in
MPs hit out at government PFI policy
Latest reforms run same risk of poor value for money as PFI, says select committee
Support services and the US strengthen Balfour Beatty
Balfour Beatty maintains £15bn order book but contactor warns some of its core markets remain weak
McAlpine, Balfour and Miller make £40m student digs shortlist
Aberystwyth University cuts down shortlist to three
Balfour Beatty wins £750m National Grid job
Contractor secures extension of existing agreement for the next five years
Construction still worst for deaths at work, HSE confirms
Health & Safety Executive planning new safety campaign after grim stats show rise in fatalities
High winds damage Epsom racecourse grandstand
Stand built by Willmott Dixon has fallen prey to the UK’s severe weather
Balfour Beatty consortium wins £535m Australian rail contract
Scheme will see contractor work on track for first metropolitan rail line in Melbourne for 80 years
Willmott Dixon to launch energy services division
New firm will aim to take advantage of Green Deal next year despite others retreating from sector
Judicial review of government FITs cut to go ahead
The government will have to defend its cuts to the feed-in tariff regime in court next week
EDF hails £200m in new nuclear work
French utility firm claims progress being made on Hinkley power station
Vinci picked for £16m Ludlow Health Facility
Firm will draw up plans alongside Amber Infrastructure and Aedas Architects
Shepherd Construction wins £17m university job
University College Birmingham’s new campus will include lecture theatres, a 24-hour ‘study hub’ and a 200-seater café
Construction output falls 1.1% in October
October output also down 2.7% on the same period last year
WYG wins three-year contract on £1.4bn MoD programme
Consultant will inspect and certify housing across four garrisons on Salisbury Plain and at Aldershot
Carillion JV bags £395m contract in Qatar
Contractor will lead construction of 31 hectare mixed-use scheme
Morgan Sindall opens Cumbria office to bid for nuclear work
The office will be staffed by between 10 and 20 people
Ardmore starts work on £26m Tower Hamlets regeneration project
Scheme will see the creation of 139 homes
MoD launches £4.4bn estates management procurement
Defence Infrastructure Organisation asks for expressions of interest from contractors
SMEs squeezed out by main contractors
Smaller construction firms have said they are struggling to compete with main contractors
ECA dinner picketed by angry sparks
Protests come despite controversial BESNA agreement being led by ECA’s rival trade body the HVCA
Innocent contractor dragged into Museum of Liverpool court battle
High Court defence wrongly points finger at Dorchester-based firm which has never worked “north of Southampton”
Whitehall cuts construction costs by up to 7%
Data shows government making progress towards efficiency targets for the first time
Shepherd Construction chief executive walks out
Richard Vining third boss of £250m turnover business to depart since 2008
Green light for Sheppard Robson's £750m Fitzrovia scheme
Developer offers council extra £2m for affordable housing
Balfour Beatty workers vote for strike action
Results of Unite ballot of sparks immediately challenged by contractor with High Court hearing next week
McLaren on course for 75% increase in turnover
Contractor reveals secured projects of over £380m and attributes growth to new business strategy
OPLC to procure £95m Olympic stadium rebuild
Legacy company will ask interested contractors to pre-qualify ‘before Easter’
Olympic media centre re-fit to cost £100m
Legacy company real estate boss flags huge redevelopment job post-Games
Green light for construction on £340m Broadgate job
Contractor Mace set to begin main construction work after British Land rubber stamps tenancy deal with UBS
Henry Boot says profit will beat expectations
Contractor issues upbeat trading statement ahead of preliminary results in March
Mace announces new global HQ
All five of the firm’s offices in the capital will merge at Moorgate Hall
Bam wins £20m school job
Havant school is first contract to be awarded under the £4.5bn IESE framework
Galliford Try lands £40m infrastructure jobs
Works include water contracts in Scotland and Yorkshire
Mace wins £70m Blackfriars job
Firm set to get full tender for new offices of Building publisher UBM
Construction firms 'undervalued'
Study finds investors don’t believe contractors’ claims of forward order books
Three-quarters of SMEs financially hit by utility delays
Connection delays causing SMEs to lose thousands of pounds, says NFB
Retail gloom leaves ISG facing £100m shortfall
Firm blames disappointing Christmas retail market for shortfall in projected revenue
Aggregates industry referred to competition watchdog
Materials industry faces Competition Commission probe into business practices in the UK
Lydon is latest high-profile name to leave Lend Lease
Former director will join Balfour Beatty as major projects director of commercial work in the construction division
One in five small builders cut staff due to VAT rise
Half of small firms say they have seen a decrease in work over the last year because of higher tax rate
Over 500 Balfour Beatty sparks miss contract deadline
But contractor says deadline to sign up to new wage proposals ‘not hard and fast’
Balfour Beatty snaps up £50m Olympic legacy deal
Legacy deals confirmed for three more Olympic venues
Ardmore wins £49m subcontract on scheme built by rival
Contractor to work on re-started scheme alongside rival United House
Carillion set for £100m Canadian highway job
Contractor poised to maintain highway in the London Ontario area
Vinci wins £22m student accommodation and fire station contract
Scheme in Cardiff is for developer Cambrian Holst
Balfour Beatty appointed preferred bidder on £800m waste job
Contractor set to invest £7m in the new waste processing plant, built through PPP contract
Government FITs cut 'unlawful'
Government to appeal after High Court judge brands DECC decision illegal
Mitie plans 52ha renewable energy site
Energy resourcing plan near Brighton could generate power for the whole local area
Contractors to drive reform of CSCS by the new year
Four employer federations aim to simplify and trim costs from skills card scheme after deposing boss
British Land appoints Mace to build Broadgate
Make-designed office scheme in the City thought to be worth £225m in total - the largest in London
Morgan Sindall sees £200m fall in construction orders
Firm says pipeline of regeneration jobs has risen sharply
Commercial development falls sharply in November
Savills data says confidence now at lowest ebb for more than two years
Minister: FIT rate 'may be higher than 21p'
Greg Barker is to announce than 21p feed-in tariff is a minimum
Industry clients address Building's CEO summit
Speakers include Urban Splash’s Tom Bloxham and EDF’s Alan Cumming - view the video
Carillion to pull out of fitting solar PV panels
Contractor will exit solar PV installation market and outsource future work to SMEs
Carillion takes £20m hit on FITs lay-offs
Contractor says cost of restructuring energy business will double
Gardiner & Theobald will stay independent, says boss
Firm posts marginal drops in turnover and profit and reports mixed picture across global markets
Bam Nuttall wins job on £120m energy scheme
New energy plant for E.ON will covert recycled wood waste into energy
May Gurney turnover boosted by highways spending
May Gurney’s acquisition of contrator Turriff also helps to drive total revenue increase to 21%
Telford saves £1m on construction costs
East London housebuilder has taken advantage of weak construction market
