http://www.cnplus.co.uk/rss/wales_rss.xml All the latest stories on Wales. en-uk Welsh construction firms reliant upon structural steel pay more for the material than anyone else across the UK, according to the EC Harris/Construction News Contractor’s Input Cost Index for September. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/10/welsh_clients_fail_to_match_sharp_rise_in_materials_costs.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/10/welsh_clients_fail_to_match_sharp_rise_in_materials_costs.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 Simon Ellery 09 October 2008 14:48 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/graph_calc_accounts_resized_70_tcm18-1134125.jpg Interserve has won a £6.9 million contract from the University of Glamorgan to providing new health, sports and science facilities at the university's Glyntaff Campus, Pontypridd. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/interserve_in_69m_uni_contract_win.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/interserve_in_69m_uni_contract_win.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 Andrea Klettner 30 September 2008 12:48 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/walescropped_mb_resized_70_tcm18-310787.JPG The Welsh Assembly Government is to give £1.5 million to improve how construction waste in the country is handled. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/welsh_waste_scheme_gets_15m_funding.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/welsh_waste_scheme_gets_15m_funding.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 Lucy Craymer 29 September 2008 17:14 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/877749_87336155_resized_70_tcm18-300580.jpg Around 200 contractors will be employed to build a £140 million biomass power plant at Newport in Wales if CEC Generation receives permission to build it. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/welsh_power_plant_needs_200_contractors.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/welsh_power_plant_needs_200_contractors.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 Lucy Craymer 30 September 2008 10:28 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/power_grid_resized_70_tcm18-361311.jpg Welsh Water is to invest more than £100 million to upgrade water treatment works in North Wales. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/north_wales_water_gets_100m_investment.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/north_wales_water_gets_100m_investment.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 Lucy Craymer 29 September 2008 15:06 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/walescropped_mb_resized_70_tcm18-310787.JPG Civil engineering is holding up against the economic downturn in Wales and smaller house builders are doing well in social housing, according to industrial bodies. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/outlook_healthy_in_wales_despite_downturn.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/outlook_healthy_in_wales_despite_downturn.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 Simon Ellery 23 September 2008 15:55 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/s25_reg_St_David%27s_2_resized_70_tcm18-1868220.JPG Housing associations in Wales are to be given new freedoms designed to boost supply as the Welsh Assembly Government gears up to re-introduce the Homebuy scheme. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/welsh_assembly_plans_to_relaunch_homebuy_scheme.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/welsh_assembly_plans_to_relaunch_homebuy_scheme.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 Simon Ellery 23 September 2008 11:53 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/plans_resized_70_tcm18-209260.jpg Swansea Council is preparing to finalise spending plans for a new Welsh Assembly school building grant worth more than £3 million. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/swansea_school_building_spend_to_be_finalised.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/swansea_school_building_spend_to_be_finalised.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 Rhiannon Hoyle 17 September 2008 10:40 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/pound_sign_resized_70_tcm18-1561406.jpg About 14,500 news homes and 380 ha of commercial developments would be built in Swansea over the next eight years under new plans by the local council. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/swansea_council_wants_14500_new_homes_by_2016.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/swansea_council_wants_14500_new_homes_by_2016.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 Rhiannon Hoyle 16 September 2008 10:38 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/plans_resized_70_tcm18-209260.jpg Denbighshire County Council is looking for contractors to bid for a £4 million job to build a new cycleway and pedestrian bridge over a tidal estuary. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/denbighshire_council_looks_for_bridge_builder.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/denbighshire_council_looks_for_bridge_builder.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 Lisa Glancy 16 September 2008 10:31 The Welsh Assembly has confirmed £2.6 million worth of funding to complete the Ebbw Vale to Newport rail link by 2010. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/funding_confirmed_for_rail_link.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/funding_confirmed_for_rail_link.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 Andrea Klettner 16 September 2008 09:32 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/901246_35080736_resized_70_tcm18-296152.jpg Mobile phone giant Orange has kick-started its latest phase of store roll-outs in the UK with the opening of its second outlet in Southampton last week. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/orange_kickstarts_refit_programme.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/orange_kickstarts_refit_programme.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 Rhiannon Hoyle 09 September 2008 15:25 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/orange_store_resized_70_tcm18-1841501.jpg House builder Redrow has made a yearly loss of £193.9 million after being forced to write off £259 million from the value of its land bank. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/redrow_profits_slump_after_landbank_writeoff.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/redrow_profits_slump_after_landbank_writeoff.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 Nick Whitten 09 September 2008 09:02 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/j05_ik_resized_70_tcm18-1518484.JPG Demolition contractor Cuddy Group is making £80,000 available to a range of sports and culture initiatives after recording a 31 per cent rise in profits. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/cuddys_community_boost_after_profits_rise.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/cuddys_community_boost_after_profits_rise.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 08 September 2008 16:26 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/316824_4962cropped_resized_70_tcm18-267154.jpg Rhondda Cynon Taf CBC is inviting bids for £10 million worth of neighbourhood renewal schemes at Treherbert, Tynewydd, Miskin and Penrhiwceiber. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/08/council_invites_bids_for_10m_refurb_jobs.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/08/council_invites_bids_for_10m_refurb_jobs.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 Andrea Klettner 26 August 2008 15:03 Interserve has won two contracts worth £62 million to build and refurbish facilities for the North West Wales NHS Trust. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/08/interserve_wins_two_hospital_contracts.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/08/interserve_wins_two_hospital_contracts.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 Lucy Craymer 21 August 2008 12:04 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/hospital_cross_resized_70_tcm18-636102.jpg Osborne’s newly formed rail division has announced its successful appointment on the Network Rail Operational Property Framework for the south of England. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/08/osborn_chosen_for_network_rail_property_framework.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/08/osborn_chosen_for_network_rail_property_framework.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 Andrea Klettner 11 August 2008 14:17 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/901246_35080736_resized_70_tcm18-296152.jpg A shortlist of potential sites for a new prison in Wales has been announced by Prisons Minister, David Hanson MP. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/08/sites_in_the_running_for_welsh_prison_revealed.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/08/sites_in_the_running_for_welsh_prison_revealed.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 Myles Burke 08 August 2008 16:17 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/434116_70608726_resized_70_tcm18-312721.jpg Neath Port Talbot Council has submitted plans for a £10 million conference centre and office block on the Baglan Energy Park near Swansea Bay. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/08/plans_submitted_for_10m_baglan_energy_park_expansion.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/08/plans_submitted_for_10m_baglan_energy_park_expansion.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 Andrea Klettner 05 August 2008 15:53 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/plans_resized_70_tcm18-209260.jpg Taylor Woodrow has pleaded guilty to breaching health and safety laws after a worker died during construction of the £67 million Welsh Assembly. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/07/taywood_pleads_guilty_over_welsh_assembly_death.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/07/taywood_pleads_guilty_over_welsh_assembly_death.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 29 July 2008 17:13 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/taywood_resized_70_tcm18-1561996.jpg A three-year-old girl has died after a wall collapsed on her in north Wales at the weekend. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/07/girl_dies_in_collapse.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/07/girl_dies_in_collapse.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 Rhiannon Hoyle 28 July 2008 12:26 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/hse_resized_70_tcm18-1570827.jpg Consultant Ramboll Whitbybird has expanded into Wales with the opening a new office in Cardiff. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/07/consultant_sets_up_in_cardiff.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/07/consultant_sets_up_in_cardiff.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 David Rogers 23 July 2008 14:51 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/handshake_resized_70_tcm18-293580.jpg Dean & Dyball has won a £12.3 million deal to build a canoe slalom and white rafting centre in Cardiff.   http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/07/dd_bags_canoe_deal.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/07/dd_bags_canoe_deal.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 David Rogers 17 July 2008 17:02 The credit crunch has pushed the number of house sales in Wales to a record low. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/07/welsh_house_sales_plummet_to_record_low.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/07/welsh_house_sales_plummet_to_record_low.html;jsessionid=1EF0AD9C94C6AA034D940C5644FC63B4 Rhiannon Hoyle 16 July 2008 12:20