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Top 75 contractors by contracting turnover
In this table, we have ranked firms by the amount of contracting they do. Figures for non-contracting activities, including property, housebuilding and facilities management (which makes up much of the "other" column), are also shown. Just edging into the top spot is Bovis, which handled £2.3bn of contracting – 60% ...
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Top 75 contractors by contracting operating profit
This table is intended to show the profit companies are making from building. Balfour Beatty tops the stakes here with £96m, although its figures are boosted by the fact that all of its activities – including considerable facilities management work for its private finance initiative contracts – are included under ...
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Top 75 contractors by contracting operating margin
This table tells two main stories. First, that the large specialists still make the fattest margins. Steel constructor Severfield-Rowen reported 6.4% and groundwork specialist Keller got a handsome 6.2%. East Anglian contractor Carter also made an impressive 4.4% return, and concrete firm O'Rourke managed 3.6%. Second, it shows that most ...
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Top 25 contractors in FM by FM turnover
This table was drawn up in recognition of the large number of contractors carrying out infrastructure maintenance and management in the quest for longer-term income streams and better margins.The top of the table is dominated by companies better known as big builders. Amec comes top, with a turnover of £850m, ...
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Top 25 housebuilders by housing operating margins
Last year was a good time to be a housebuilder. And it was the country's two remaining volume housebuilders – Barratt and Wimpey – that dominated in terms of turnover and profit. However, when it comes to margins, they trailed the pack in 16th and 24th place respectively. Smaller rivals, ...
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Contractors and housebuilders by employees' average pay
Fit-out and construction management firm Interior Services Group was a lucrative place to work for most employees last year. Earlier this month, it announced pre-tax profit up 91% to £4.2m on a slightly reduced turnover of £370m. The company actually paid its staff less than it did in 1998, but ...
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Contractors and housebuilders by remuneration of highest paid director
Whereas staffers saw their pay rise 6.2% on average last year, the bosses enjoyed 15.7% increases. Top of the rich list and way ahead of the competition was Bowmer & Kirkland's highest-paid director, who took home £1.6m, including bonus. Housebuilding bosses got some of the biggest rises. Prowting's highest-earning director ...
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EU to investigate £60m competition
The European Commission launches inquiry into the jury for the European Parliament Quarter plan.
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Top bosses get 16% pay rise; staff get 6%
Industry bosses received an average pay rise of 15.7%, according to Building s top 100 contractors and housebuilders tables published this week. Employees did less well, with an average rise of just 6.2%. The highest-paid boss was John Kirkland, chairman and managing director of Bowmer & Kirkland. His salary in ...
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Export credit reforms cast doubt on Ilisu Dam cash
DTI review of Export Credits Guarantee Department s role threatens £142m funding for Balfour project.
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Bovis to bust Wembley price limit
The Preferred bidder for the new Wembley stadium, Bovis Lend Lease/Multiplex, is about to submit a final estimate that will break the client s £316m ceiling. A scheme insider said: The bid will not be in line with the client s estimate of £316m and where it goes from ...
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MPs lobbied on CTRL
Construction union UCATT has written to MPs asking them to call for a parliamentary investigation into bogus self-employment on the £4.2bn Channel Tunnel Rail Link project. UCATT regional organiser Brian Rye said the union had asked nine Kent MPs and MEPs, including Michael Howard and Ann Widdecombe, to support a ...
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Government gives CABE 130% more muscle
Culture department responds to Lipton s call for more money to beef up regional offices.
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John Doyle in Manchester stadium row
Specialist contractor John Doyle is suing Manchester council for £1m over a contract on the city s £90m stadium. The dispute has arisen over the insitu concrete-frame package on the stadium, advertised in the European Union s Official Journal in July 1999 for £7m. Doyle worked on the package in ...
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Prescott’s 10-year plan will create skills drought
Industry fears the Comprehensive Spending Review s doubling of workload will push it to breaking point.
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HSE orders site safety crackdown
Construction s poor safety record comes under scrutiny as air-conditioning engineer dies on City of London site.
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EDAW wins in Milton Keynes
Urban design consultant EDAW is believed to have won a competition to draw up a masterplan for Central Milton Keynes, the commercial centre of the city. It beat seven other firms, including Richard Rogers Partnership, Terry Farrell & Partners and Urban Strategies, to the £250 000 contract. The commission was ...
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Two shortlisted for £500m Bristol brownfield scheme
City council to choose between developers Hammerson and Land Securities in October.