All articles by Sophie Griffiths – Page 18
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NewsFive contractors picked for £400m roads framework
Interserve, Carillion, Birse Civils, a BAM Nuttall and Hanson JV, and a Costain JV with Lafarge Aggregates appointed by Highways Agency
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NewsCapita to buy Carillion's IT business for £36m
Carillion bought external facing business in 2008 as part of acquisition of Alfred McAlpine
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NewsScottish construction firm fined £5k over worker death
Company director fined additional £4k after health and safety breaches cause death of 53-year-old
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NewsSMEs owed £2.5bn of late payment
Figures released by Barclays show customer and supplier payment delays cost £1,200 per business
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NewsConstruction output suffers record fall
Unprecedented 16% annual drop occurred during the first quarter of 2009, reveals new government figures
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NewsHeathrow fined after worker suffers 'life changing injuries'
Airport fined £10,000 following contractor's fall into unprotected gully
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NewsProtesters invade BAM Nuttall office
Anti-coal power demonstrators glued locked themselves to furniture to campaign against firm's bid to build new powerstation
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NewsJames Purnell quits Cabinet
Works and pensions secretary, who pushed for tower crane register, resigns from Brown's government
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NewsFatality rate predicted to be lowest since records began
Preliminary Health and Safety Executive figures indicate 25% drop in construction death rate
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NewsCampaign group slams HSE safety drive
Families Against Corporate Killers says strategy, launched yesterday, offers 'mostly empty words'
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NewsBouygyes UK fined £18,000 after carpenter's 5m fall
HSE slates contractor's 'poorly supervised and inadequately trained system of harnessing'
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NewsSpending chiefs to speak at healthcare conference
Industry leaders will discuss delivery, best practice and tendering at Building event on 17 and 18 June
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NewsHSE pre-empts safety budgets cuts
Safety body launched strategy to cut number of deaths and injuries in the workplace today
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NewsSandcastles share secret of green construction
Research reveals that having just the right amount of water is the key to maximising the strength of rammed earth
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NewsDaredevil craze hits Glasgow's newest bridge
Police step up patrols to prevent dangerous antics on 'squiggly bridge'
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NewsSeverfield-Rowen steels itself for cost reductions
Steel firm forecasts profit ahead of expectations for this year but warns of declining demand
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NewsPierse Contracting goes into liquidation
Decision to liquidate £28m-turnover subsidiary of developer Pierse Group follows creditors' meeting yesterday
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NewsSpecialists vent anger at 'bullying' contractors
Specialist contractors have demanded a meeting with the UK Contractors’ Group over allegation
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NewsOlympic bosses name 2012 legacy body chief
Andrew Altman, who has overseen several regeneration project in US, will be responsible for creating jobs, homes and facilities in east London
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NewsWolseley reports continuing fall in markets
Materials firm says Nordic region, UK and Ireland showed particularly great levels of decline