All Contractors articles – Page 275
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ISG lands £20m high-end London resi scheme
Contractor will restore three grade II-listed buildings into luxury homes
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Eighteen contractors in race for £2.25bn supersewer
UK’s biggest contractors outnumbered by foreign firms in running for Thames Tideway work
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Nuclear family
If UK firms are going to compete on Hinkley C and subsequent nuclear projects, we urgently need to work together to tackle the training gap
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Siemens picked for £1bn power projects
Energy firm InterGen picks Siemens to build and maintain for two gas-fired power stations together worth £1bn
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Construction risks a serious skills deficit
With one third of senior construction managers to reach retirement age in near future the industry needs to face up to the challenge of upskilling new generation
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Race starts for £55m Paddington Crossrail tunnel job
London Underground seeking contractors to propose ways of cutting costs or risks on major upgrade project
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Balfour Beatty wins £73m coastal defence work
Balfour Beatty has won two contracts worth £73m in total to construct marine defences in Blackpool
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Government trials, not tribulations
Early findings from the government’s trials of new procurement models show that progress towards smarter procurment is being made
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Kier bags £38m Chester cultural centre
Kier has been picked to built Chester’s Bennetts Associates-designed cultural centre
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Our supply chain is our lifeblood
Our supply chain is vital and we are working very hard to find increasingly innovative ways to support those who work for and with us
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Local is going global
Local supply chain management poses a series of problems that need to be tackled to improve the sustainability of our cities
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Construction fraud costs $1 trillion globally
Report by Grant Thornton says endemic corruption in global industry will inhibit growth
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Miller wins £200m Scottish schools work
Construction firm appointed preferred bidder by hub North Scotland
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Fit-out firm Margolis rebrands as Oktra after boost to turnover
Company to trade under new name after reporting turnover growth of 84%
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Firms call for Qatar to do more on labour abuse
Call comes as union requests meeting with 13 firms in Qatar including Carillion and Balfour Beatty
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Boss of Morgan Sindall’s £400m fit-out business exits
Exclusive: Steve Elliott latest management departure after 15 years as driving force at Overbury and Morgan Lovell
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293 jobs lost as electrical specialist Murphy Ltd folds
Administrators say “prolonged period of difficult trading” led to firm’s demise
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Kier and Interserve win £171m of schools work
Exclusive: Kier wins two batches of priority schools, worth £123m, while Interserve also wins a batch, worth £48m
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Miller wins £30m Scottish education campus job
Firm to deliver community campus in Aberdeenshire through hub North Scotland
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Four firms face off for £500m Royal Mail site development
Exclusive: Big name contractors in running for £150m contract to build Great Portland Estates’ Rathbone Place development in central London