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David Hughes, national projects director, the Learning and Skills Council

Colleges pressured to cut subcontractors costs

2-Jul-2009 | By Greg Pitcher

The Learning and Skills Council is putting pressure on the 13 colleges it has shortlisted for funding to renegotiate their construction contracts.

The construction sector shrunk for the sixteenth consecutive month in June, according to the CIPS/Markit Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index.

Construction still shrinking

2-Jul-2009

The construction sector shrunk for the sixteenth consecutive month in June, according to the CIPS/Markit Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index.

A Skanska/Serco consortium has won contracts with a combined value of £600 million to build and operate two new prisons at Belmarsh West in London and Maghull in Liverpool.

Skanska/Serco consortium wins £600m prison job

2-Jul-2009 | By Michael Lane

A Skanska/Serco consortium has won contracts with a combined value of £600 million to build and operate two new prisons at Belmarsh West in London and Maghull in Liverpool.

A Gloucestershire college for people with disabilities that is fighting to reverse a decision to withdraw “essential” funding for a construction project said it has secured a meeting with the Further Education minister

Minister to discuss building project funding with college for disabled students

2-Jul-2009 | By Nick Huber

A Gloucestershire college for people with disabilities that is fighting to reverse a decision to withdraw “essential” funding for a construction project said it has secured a meeting with the Further Education minister

Wates looks to HCA partnership

2-Jul-2009 | By Mark Lewis

Wates boss Paul Drechsler has said the firm would “definitely” pursue a partnership with the Homes and Communities Agency to develop public land for housing.

The £16 billion Crossrail project could be delayed and the Highways Agency’s £6 billion road building programme cut as details of a potential £30 billion spending gap have emerged.

Major transport projects under threat from £30bn spending gap

2-Jul-2009 | By Michael Lane

The £16 billion Crossrail project could be delayed and the Highways Agency’s £6 billion road building programme cut, according to memo leaked to The Guardian detailing a potential £30bn spending gap.

Edward Leigh, chairman, House of Commons Public Accounts Committee

Planning incentives 'cause delays'

2-Jul-2009

Cash incentives for councils to speed up construction of major housing developments may actually be adding to delays, says the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee.

PICTURES: Construction worker saves drowning woman

1-Jul-2009 | By Rhiannon Hoyle

A heroic construction worker has rescued a drowning woman from in a dam in Iowa, in the USA.

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