Contractors Focus – Page 3
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FeaturesWas moving into support services to blame for the recent troubles at Carillion, Interserve and Kier?
These major contractors blended their traditional work with support services and all recently got into big financial trouble. Coincidence?
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FeaturesShaylor Group: What went wrong?
Jonathan Owen reports on how the firm became one of an increasing number of companies to crash into insolvency
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FeaturesFinancial results: it's bad for Interserve, but how is construction faring in 2019?
The UK contractors’ financial results are in. We know it’s been a bad year for Interserve, but how have the rest of them done?
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FeaturesLondon contractors market update
What impact is the uncertainty around Brexit having on main contractor and MEP contractors’ London workloads?
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FeaturesAt a crunch shareholder meeting two hours before Interserve went under, most seats were empty
Only three people asked questions and two of them were the same
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FeaturesSME Profile: Heritage practice sets sights on ‘John Lewis’ model
Purcell looks to safeguard future of the business with move into employee ownership
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FeaturesCrossrail delay: what's gone wrong – and why
Already a year behind schedule and with no end in sight, Crossrail is burning £30m a week in cash as it struggles to reach completion – but as yet, no one can say when that might be. Why is the trans-London line causing such pain?
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FeaturesInterserve: will its latest rescue plan save the struggling contractor?
With its largest shareholder planning to revolt against its latest rescue plan, what hope is there that Interserve will survive?
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FeaturesKier debt: how can a new boss restore its fortunes?
In six years, most of it under chief executive Haydn Mursell who found himself pushed out last week, Kier moved from a company with a £95m cash surplus, to one that owed £410m. So what went wrong? And who can haul it back up?
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Features2018 in construction: Building's review of the year - part two
So, what did Santa’s last round of offerings bring the industry? It’s not been a stocking full of pleasant surprises
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Features2018 in construction: Building's review of the year - part one
So, what did Santa’s last round of offerings bring the industry? It’s not been a stocking full of pleasant surprises
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FeaturesTop 150 contractors and housebuilders: Split fortunes
Building’s exclusive full Top 150 league has been released
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FeaturesFollow the leader: who can step in to help transform the sector?
Carillion’s collapse has exposed a crisis at the top of the construction industry – a shortage of influential bosses
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FeaturesInterserve: Waste not, want not
Interserve’s energy-from-waste crisis has prompted fears of another Carillion-style collapse, as the company takes drastic action to rebalance the books
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FeaturesBill Hocking: Dealer's choice
Bill Hocking, boss of Galliford Try’s construction arm, might have felt he’d been dealt a bad hand when he took over the job two years ago, but now that he holds all the cards, he’s moved to reduce the risk the firm takes on
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FeaturesFit-out firm BW sets out growth plans
BW sizing up bigger jobs and overseas alliances as it aims to push income to a ‘comfortable’ £250m
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FeaturesDUP: Done deal?
With the Conservatives and DUP agreeing increased funding for the region, and a sizeable chunk of it going to infrastructure projects, Northern Ireland looked to be the big winner from June’s election. But does ongoing political turmoil put much of this construction work at risk?
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FeaturesTop 150 contractors: Whatever the weather
This year’s contractors and housebuilders Top 150 shows the sector enjoying reasonably benign market conditions but remaining fearful of the uncertainties of Brexit and volatile domestic politics
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FeaturesShow us the money, Mr Hammond
When Philip Hammond announced last month that UK Guarantees would include construction, many viewed it as a lifeline for infrastructure projects unlikely to have access to funding from the European Investment Bank after Brexit. But will this replacement work?
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FeaturesHow Brexit got personal
The focus of Brexit so far has been the possible impact on construction’s growing skills shortage. But how is the UK’s vote to leave affecting the EU nationals themselves and what can employers do to ensure that they stay?