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Leadbitter chief Bob Rendell retires

24-May-2013 | By

Leadbitter chief executive Bob Rendell is retiring after 28 years at the firm.

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ISG construction MD quits

24-May-2013 | By

ISG’s construction managing director has resigned from the company “to pursue other career opportunities”.

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High Speed 2 procurement to benefit UK SMEs

24-May-2013 | By

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.

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Crossrail safety incidents rise in 2012

23-May-2013 | By

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.

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Thames Water reassures contractors over £3bn alliance

23-May-2013 | By

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.

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Sustainability chief to lead Lend Lease £1.5bn London scheme

24-May-2013 | By

Lend Lease has announced that Pascal Mittermaier will become project director of the £1.5 billion regeneration of Elephant & Castle.

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Bids invited for £20m Middlesbrough police HQ

24-May-2013 | By

Cleveland PCC is looking for a contractor to build a new police headquarters in Middlesborough, worth up to £20m.

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Boy dies in crane accident

23-May-2013 | By

An eight-year-old boy has died after his bicycle collided with a mobile crane in Aberdeen.

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Two arrests in CSCS fraud investigation

23-May-2013 | By

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.

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Interserve acquires London interiors and refurb business

23-May-2013 | By

Support services and construction giant Interserve has acquired a specialist interiors and property refurbishment business based in the City of London.

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Chinese plant giant enters UK market

23-May-2013 | By David Taylor,

One of China’s biggest plant manufacturers is entering the UK market for the first time.

CITB appoints interim chief executive

22-May-2013 | By

The Construction Industry Training Board has announced the appointment of William Burton as its interim chief executive.

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Staffordshire Alliance a 'natural way forward for contracting'

23-May-2013

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.

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Mansell to turn closed office into free school

24-May-2013

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.

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Crossrail Woolwich station nears funding cliff

24-May-2013

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.

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Morgan Sindall to begin £40m regeneration project

24-May-2013

Morgan Sindall has been appointed to deliver £27m of work as part of a £40m regeneration scheme in Bournemouth.

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Crossrail safety incidents rise in 2012

23-May-2013

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.

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