All articles by Dave Rogers – Page 38
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Covid sends Midlands contractor into red
GF Tomlinson says jobs stalled after staff at public sector clients forced to self-isolate following Omicron outbreak
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Fourfold increase in number of firms being wound up by builders merchants
Audit specialist says rise is 320% on previous number
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O’Rourke switches to low carbon concrete on all UK jobs
Change came into effect last week
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McAlpine staff to find out jobs fate by early next month
Firm cutting around 60 positions under restructuring
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Directors go and jobs axed as McAlpine carries out major overhaul of business
Contractor to ditch regional focus and concentrate on sectors with push into more infrastructure work
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John F Hunt brings in business development director
Simon Wilkinson to spearhead London commercial push
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Marginal gains: Why contractors need help to make a bigger profit
For years, margins have barely shifted much beyond 3% and, to some, talk of 5% and above seems fanciful. But others believe that mandating a figure like that would turn the industry on its head
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Turnover at Beard jumps but firm counts cost of investment in failed offsite business
Contractor paid £1m for 45% stake in specialist which collapsed last year
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Now Gove tears into Grenfell firm Arconic and tells US company’s boss: ‘You will pay up’
Housing secretary fires off letter to another products firm involved in 2017 tragedy
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Second demolition contractor to appeal level of fine handed out following bid-rigging decision
Squibb joins Keltbray in instructing lawyers to contest level of penalty imposed by cartel-buster
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Tenders set to go out for £40m York University student centre
Documents to be issued to firms on procurement specialist’s major works framework
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Gove writes to Kingspan boss to talk about cladding compensation in wake of ‘your record trading profit’
Housing secretary wants to hear from material firm’s chief executive before Easter
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Tender prices to stay unchanged this year, latest Mace report says
Cost of labour still heading north as materials price rises ease
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Leaving HS2 Euston site empty for too long will ‘scar London’, Mace boss says
Mark Reynolds adds that ‘railway has to go into central London for it to work’
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New arrivals at CLC as group rejigs to focus on four priorities
Travis Perkins and HS2 bosses among new team as organisation tackles challenges such as productivity, safety and net zero
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Demolition firm to pay bid-rigging fine at ‘earliest opportunity’
Ten firms fined close to £60 last week by cartel-buster
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MPs to tour HS2 Euston site as mothballing gathers pace
Number of staff working on scheme being quickly whittled down following decision to stop work on job
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Cost of HS2 station at Euston hits £4.8bn as scathing report blasts failure to tie down stalled job’s budget
Spending watchdog says HS2 admitted costs had gone up by £2bn in just two months
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Demolition contractor mulls appeal in wake of cartel-buster’s bid-rigging decision
‘Disappointed’ Squibb talking to lawyers about what to do next