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The average value of Balfour Beatty’s UK construction new contract awards in 2012 was just £10m. By contracts, Laing O’Rourke’s average value was £150m and for Sir Robert McAlpine it was £114m. However, Balfour Beatty won greater than 100 contracts in 2012, when compared with only a couple of dozen for Laing O’Rourke and McAlpine. …
It is very common for all of us to feel upset over the smoke damage either in our home or working place. The smoke damage not only gives ugly look to the place but deteriorates the worth of the place to a greater extent. There are lots of ways for smoke damages in our place. …
22 March, 2013 | A £3 billion framework to design and build free schools, academies and other education facilities will exit to tender after easter. Not yet a subscriber Sign up today for fast and complete access to cnplus.co.uk and the weekly Construction News magazine for as low as £12 a month! Need …
What is assumed to be Britain’s oldest construction project was discovered in a Berkshire quarry. Four early Neolithic houses dating back to 3700 BC was unearthed by archaeologists at Cemex’s Kingsmead Quarry in Berkshire. They are regarded as even older than Stonehenge, that’s dated to around 3000 BC. The discovery is unprecedented on a …
20 March, 2013 | The Budget has revealed the govt will invest an additional £3bn per year in infrastructure from 2015-16, but has given little indication on the way it will start projects within the short term. Not yet a subscriber Sign up today for instant and complete access to cnplus.co.uk and the …
21 March, 2013 | Deputy mayor Richard Blakeway has told CN the Greater London Authority “needs to do more” on housing, and plans to exit each of the 525 hectares of web sites transferred to it under devolution by the top of Boris’ term in 2016. Not yet a subscriber Sign up today …
Mr Carter joined Portakabin last year as managing director and now takes excessive job from Stephen Price, who retires after 17 years on the helm. Mr Price remains a non-executive director of the Shepherd Group. The new CEO was previously chief executive of Fairline, the boatbuilder, and before that headed up Lewmar, a supplier of …
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That is in response to the Federation of Master Builders (FMB), which has found that one in four of its members has missed out on contracts because they can’t secure funding. The latest figures for the ‘funding for lending’ scheme show that lending fell significantly within the last three months of 2012. More than 40% …
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