All Contractors articles – Page 5
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NewsRivals battle for ISG staff including firm’s Google team as stricken contractor’s fit-out business files for administration
Number of UK subsidiaries to have made application for administration rises to eight
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NewsOngoing projects involving ISG could be worth nearly £5bn
Barbour ABI estimate based on total project values relating to schemes with completion dates from 2024 onwards
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NewsTimeline: How ISG went from ‘wholly inaccurate’ claims about its financial health to ‘ISG has filed for administration’
In space of 10 months, firm went from dismissing sepculation to the brink of administration
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CommentISG’s collapse: a huge blow to construction that raises urgent and difficult questions
This is the biggest collapse to hit the sector since Carillion – as we absorb the grim news, people will want some answers and fast
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NewsOffices closed and sites shut as ISG set to file for administration, chief executive confirms
Contractor to go under two months after firm’s chairman said rescue deal was ‘days away’
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NewsClients told to move quickly to find replacements for ISG, or risk sites being stalled for months
Rivals say jobs novating jobs across as soon as possible will see mimimum delays
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News‘I am so sorry to have to share this news’ : ISG boss Zoe Price’s email to staff in full as firm prepares for administration
Contractor ISG is set to collapse, in the biggest corporate construction failure for several years. Here is what the firm’s chief executive said to staff last night.
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NewsISG firms set to go into administration
Day of febrile speculation sees six subsidiaries apply for administration late this afternoon
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FeaturesKey takeaways from the Building the Future Conference and Housing Today Live
Church House in Westminster yesterday played host to two back-to-back conferences on construction and housing attended by hundreds of professionals from the built environment. Here is a round-up of the key talking points from the event, run by Building and Housing Today.
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News‘Certainty of pipeline’ one of the keys to productivity improvements, conference told
Overhaul of planning system would improve historically low levels
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NewsIndustry needs to be more vocal in supporting Grenfell findings, Wates boss says, and warns contracting’s ‘bizarre’ margins not sustainable
Eoghan O’Lionaird bemoans industry’s ‘relative silence over report and admits firm’s 2% margin is not good enough
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NewsHS2 tweaks Curzon Street station design
Proposals set to be sent in to Birmingham planners by end of year
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NewsLegacy jobs continue to blight Vinci’s UK numbers
Provisions at building and FM arms keep firm in red
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Features‘Bid for everything, always haggle’: The life and times of John F Hunt’s John Hall
The founder of the specialist contractor turned 75 over the summer. He tells Dave Rogers about nearly going under, having the gift of the gab and why he did well out of the Cardiff Millennium Stadium
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NewsMeaningful recovery not expected until middle of next year, Arcadis warns
Consultant adds that contractors getting tougher on dealing with risk
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NewsKier begins to draw line under recovery effort as contractor announces fresh set of growth targets
Chief executive Andrew Davies says firm will soon be cash positive at end of every month having once posted monthly debts of close to £450m
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News‘Adversarial’ PFI contracts still costing taxpayers money on legal bills, group warns
Initiative used to bankroll New Labour’s public sector spending boom in 1990s
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NewsBrookfield submits plans for 54-storey City office tower
Developer’s proposals for RSHP-designed 99 Bishopsgate set to be among the largest office towers in the Square Mile
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NewsAmazon to pump £8bn into data centres in UK
Multinational to “create 14,000 jobs a year” including construction work