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Leadbitter chief Bob Rendell retires
Leadbitter chief executive Bob Rendell is retiring after 28 years at the firm.
ISG construction MD quits
ISG’s construction managing director has resigned from the company “to pursue other career opportunities”.
High Speed 2 procurement to benefit UK SMEs
High Speed 2 work looks set to be broken down into smaller packages that will enable UK SMEs to compete, its chairman has told Construction News.
Crossrail safety incidents rise in 2012
Exclusive: A total of 43 major and ‘lost time’ injuries have so far been sustained on Crossrail construction sites since work began in 2009, with almost half of those occurring in 2012.
Thames Water reassures contractors over £3bn alliance
Thames Water has moved to reassure tier one contractors who have failed to secure a place on its new £3bn alliance that they will still be able to win new construction contracts after 2015.
Sustainability chief to lead Lend Lease £1.5bn London scheme
Lend Lease has announced that Pascal Mittermaier will become project director of the £1.5 billion regeneration of Elephant & Castle.
Bids invited for £20m Middlesbrough police HQ
Cleveland PCC is looking for a contractor to build a new police headquarters in Middlesborough, worth up to £20m.
Boy dies in crane accident
An eight-year-old boy has died after his bicycle collided with a mobile crane in Aberdeen.
Two arrests in CSCS fraud investigation
Two men have been accused of fraud relating to the CITB’s health safety and environment test and CSCS cards after a multi-agency investigation.
Interserve acquires London interiors and refurb business
Support services and construction giant Interserve has acquired a specialist interiors and property refurbishment business based in the City of London.
Chinese plant giant enters UK market
One of China’s biggest plant manufacturers is entering the UK market for the first time.
CITB appoints interim chief executive
The Construction Industry Training Board has announced the appointment of William Burton as its interim chief executive.
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UK firms hold 'definite advantage' for £7bn Gulf bonanza
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Carillion confirmed for £400m Battersea Power Station job
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Buyers circle Rowecord Engineering structures business
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DfT approves £15m road plans
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B&K directors take £6m pay rise as operating profit halved
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Lower Thames crossing consultation plans published
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Royal Imtech expects net loss of £191m for 2012
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Renew boosts revenue and pre-tax profit
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Competition watchdog looks to 'break open' Great Britain's cement market
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Mitie M&E staff redeployed ‘wherever possible’
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Network Rail revamps contractor league tables
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Office of Fair Trading extends Kier May Gurney review
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Mitie exits M&E market as group profits rise
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Balfour Beatty supply chain 'must embrace BIM'
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McLaren director: ‘We’re winning half our London tenders’
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A fifth of 2012's JVs lead to legal disputes
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Murphy buys assets and contracts of Daniel subsidiary Land & Marine
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Laing O'Rourke nuclear adviser and major projects don Norman Haste retires
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Central London construction hits four-year high
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Styles & Wood issues profit warning
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Severfield-Rowen to cut 93 jobs
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New HCA chief executive 'impressed' with housing industry influence
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Police launch probe after car collides with blacklist protester
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124 jobs go at Daniel Contractors and subsidiary
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Bechtel wins £36m TfL upgrade work
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Grainger targets growth through ‘strategic alliances’
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Mott MacDonald Grontmij to design £160m A63 upgrade
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HS2 funding shortfall of £3.3bn, estimates NAO
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CN100 firm Daniel Contractors enters administration
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Boris: 'Endless' Treasury talks hand contractors the advantage
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London needs apprenticeships 'one-stop shop'
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Land Secs vigilant of 'rapid upswing' in construction costs
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£3bn Thames Water alliance winners confirmed
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Balfour Beatty regional number two steps down
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Murphy hires Skanska director
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HS2 recommends tunnelling under M6
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British Land benefits from London, South-east and retail focus
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Babcock posts 30% profit hike for 2012
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Mears expects Morrison to break even within six months
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Balfour Beatty UK construction revenue drops 23%
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Manchester £80m office development plans submitted
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UK struck by £78bn annual infrastructure 'black hole'
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VolkerFitzpatrick beats two to £50m Crossrail deal
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Forrest tops £100m turnover in 'landmark' 2012
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Emcor UK quits UK construction services
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Interserve takes £700m in Q1 contracts
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'Deteriorating markets' spark £1.3bn private finance schools opt-out
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ONS to seasonally adjust monthly construction output data
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United Utilities starts £3bn AMP6 race
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Sweett board looks to win back defiant shareholders
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62,500 Scottish construction jobs lost over five years
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Lend Lease construction MD leaves as 90 jobs under threat
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IOC drops 2012 marketing ban for British Precast firms
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Francis Ives Sweett Group boardroom coup fails
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Five engineering firms to advise on £25bn Severn Barrage
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Green Investment Bank commits £635m in five months
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Barratt hails 'most positive' housing market for five years
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Morgan Sindall 'underperforms' as margin pressures continue
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Industry reacts to Queen's Speech
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Turner & Townsend project manager for first phase of Battersea Power Station
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Galliford Try announces record £836m housebuilding sales
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Costain confirms £4m hit from May Gurney bid
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Costain chief: We won't slow down on acquisitions
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Skanska steers clear of 'big shocks' to hold 3% margin
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Mace appoints three from Davis Langdon
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Gateshead £350m housing scheme goes to planners
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Crossrail hails impact of cycling safety initiative
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Cabinet office minister calls for BIM study
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News analysis
Staffordshire Alliance a 'natural way forward for contracting'
Two years on from Sir Roy McNulty’s Rail Value for Money study, a new and “radically different” alliance approach is set to challenge the way the rail industry thinks about procurement and contracting.
Contracts
Mansell to turn closed office into free school
Mansell will turn its London office into a free school, after it was announced the office would close as part of parent company Balfour Beatty’s restructure last year.
Crossrail Woolwich station nears funding cliff
A TfL finance managing director has warned that an instruction to proceed with the fit-out of Crossrail’s Woolwich station is required “by July 2013” if work is to be cost efficiently completed in time for 2018 opening date.
Morgan Sindall to begin £40m regeneration project
Morgan Sindall has been appointed to deliver £27m of work as part of a £40m regeneration scheme in Bournemouth.
EDUCATION
Contractors call for construction pipeline clarity
Main contractors have called for clarity from government after it failed to update its construction pipeline.
Business
ISG construction MD quits
ISG’s construction managing director has resigned from the company “to pursue other career opportunities”.
Safety News
Crossrail safety incidents rise in 2012
Exclusive: A total of 43 major and ‘lost time’ injuries have so far been sustained on Crossrail construction sites since work began in 2009, with almost half of those occurring in 2012.
