All Contractors articles – Page 305
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NewsLaing O’Rourke appoints UK infrastructure head
Boss of Middle Eastern contractor joins UK’s largest private builder
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NewsLend Lease lands £100m MoD barracks job
Contractor will construct £100m Staffordshire barracks for soldiers redeployed from Germany
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NewsLondon construction boss to exit Morgan Sindall
Exclusive: Peter Jacobs latest senior departure from £2bn turnover construction firm
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NewsISG lands £20m high-end London resi scheme
Contractor will restore three grade II-listed buildings into luxury homes
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NewsEighteen contractors in race for £2.25bn supersewer
UK’s biggest contractors outnumbered by foreign firms in running for Thames Tideway work
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CommentNuclear family
If UK firms are going to compete on Hinkley C and subsequent nuclear projects, we urgently need to work together to tackle the training gap
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NewsSiemens picked for £1bn power projects
Energy firm InterGen picks Siemens to build and maintain for two gas-fired power stations together worth £1bn
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CommentConstruction risks a serious skills deficit
With one third of senior construction managers to reach retirement age in near future the industry needs to face up to the challenge of upskilling new generation
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NewsRace starts for £55m Paddington Crossrail tunnel job
London Underground seeking contractors to propose ways of cutting costs or risks on major upgrade project
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NewsBalfour Beatty wins £73m coastal defence work
Balfour Beatty has won two contracts worth £73m in total to construct marine defences in Blackpool
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CommentGovernment trials, not tribulations
Early findings from the government’s trials of new procurement models show that progress towards smarter procurment is being made
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NewsKier bags £38m Chester cultural centre
Kier has been picked to built Chester’s Bennetts Associates-designed cultural centre
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CommentOur supply chain is our lifeblood
Our supply chain is vital and we are working very hard to find increasingly innovative ways to support those who work for and with us
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CommentLocal is going global
Local supply chain management poses a series of problems that need to be tackled to improve the sustainability of our cities
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NewsConstruction fraud costs $1 trillion globally
Report by Grant Thornton says endemic corruption in global industry will inhibit growth
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NewsMiller wins £200m Scottish schools work
Construction firm appointed preferred bidder by hub North Scotland
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NewsBoss of Morgan Sindall’s £400m fit-out business exits
Exclusive: Steve Elliott latest management departure after 15 years as driving force at Overbury and Morgan Lovell
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NewsFirms call for Qatar to do more on labour abuse
Call comes as union requests meeting with 13 firms in Qatar including Carillion and Balfour Beatty
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NewsFit-out firm Margolis rebrands as Oktra after boost to turnover
Company to trade under new name after reporting turnover growth of 84%
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News293 jobs lost as electrical specialist Murphy Ltd folds
Administrators say “prolonged period of difficult trading” led to firm’s demise