All Contractors articles – Page 260
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NewsBalfour Beatty probes corruption claims on £500m gas job
Contractor suspends three employees as it investigates allegations of ‘improper conduct’ on National Grid job
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NewsMorgan Sindall's order book rises 9%
Morgan SIndall has enjoyed a steady start to the year, with its order book rising 9% to £2.6bn.
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NewsBalfour Beatty may become acquisition target
Analysts say move to sell off Parsons Brinckerhoff marks end of firm’s global ambitions and could leave Balfour Beatty open to takeovers
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NewsAnother 18 months to fix Balfour Beatty’s UK business
Firm’s UK construction chief executive Nick Pollard says review has identified ‘operational and commercial issues’
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NewsCostain order book hits record level
Firm’s order book increased to over £3bn in the first four months of the year
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NewsISG picks up £70m of office fit-out work
Contractor ISG has won £70m worth of fit-out contracts in the last two months, including job to fit out five floors of Walkie Talkie
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NewsBalfour Beatty 'chucks out global strategy'
Analysts say move to sell consultant Parsons Brinckerhoff shows firm has abandoned its long-term strategy
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NewsBalfour Beatty M&E boss exits after profit warning
Engineering services managing director Phil McGuire follows group chief executive Andrew McNaughton out the door after £30m profit warning
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NewsHospital job pushes Sir Robert McAlpine to £38m loss
Firm’s contracting arm has to bail out Caribbean subsidiary over problems on £176m job
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NewsCrossrail concrete workers’ conditions ‘unsafe’
Whistleblower claims concrete workers were exposed to unsafe conditions before last month’s fatality
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NewsBalfour Beatty boss resigns amid fresh £30m profit hit
Group chief executive to leave “with immediate effect” after further UK construction losses discovered
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NewsSix firms bag £1.3bn Anglian Water framework
Winning bidders for massive infrastructure framework include Balfour Beatty and Skanska
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NewsRate of construction recovery slows
Latest construction PMI survey finds recovery continued in April, albeit at a slower rate than over the past six months
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NewsScape launches £1.5bn infrastructure framework
Sole contractor sought for new framework to focus on local civil engineering projects, including flood defence work
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NewsBig six contractors facing increasing cash flow pressure
Analysis shows UK’s biggest contractors now have an aggregate net debt of £328m
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NewsGoogle’s review of £650m King’s Cross HQ ‘could take two years’
Exclusive: Project caught up in global design review of tech giant’s planned large-scale developments and is expected to be re-tendered
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FeaturesThe pressure of payment reform
The launch last week of a new payment charter adds to the legitmate pressure on contractors to pay their subbies promptly. But this pressure could also starve contractors of the cash they need to invest, push up prices, and even push some firms over the edge