Articles by Date : January 09 2006 - January 15 2006

CCS name new chairman
Peter Kingdon has been appointed as the new chairman of the Considerate Constructors Scheme (CCS). more
(13 January 2006 00:00)

Warings wins £6.3m business development contract
Warings has today (Friday) been awarded a £6.3m contract to design and construct a new 86,400m2 commercial facility on behalf of Chichester Business.... more
(13 January 2006 00:00)

Willmott Dixon wins £12m prison deal
Willmott Dixon Construction’s work with HM Prison Service under its national strategic alliance agreement has grown further after it was awarded a.... more
(13 January 2006 00:00)

Amey confirmed as Bradford BSF winner
An Amey-led consortium has been named preferred bidder for £400m Bradford Building Schools for the Future (BSF) scheme. more
(13 January 2006 00:00)

T Clarke expects lower profit
T Clarke expects its pre-tax profit for 2005 to be at the lower end of City expectations. more
(13 January 2006 00:00)

New orders continued to grow in November
New construction orders increased 15% to nearly £3.8bn in November compared with the same month in 2004, according to the latest data from the.... more
(12 January 2006 00:00)

Interserve: 2005 better than expected
Interserve expects to report strong growth when it unveils its full year results on 13 March as the majority of its businesses performed better than.... more
(12 January 2006 00:00)

Amec Spie sale expected in Q2
Amec expects to sell its Amec Spie business during the first half. more
(12 January 2006 00:00)

HCM unveils new excavator models
Hitachi Construction Machinery (HCM) has unveiled the first three models of its new Zaxis-3 series of excavators. more
(12 January 2006 00:00)

Hanson Building Products adds to portfolio
Hanson Building Products today said it has expanded its range, and has added a clay and concrete manufacturer to its portfolio. more
(12 January 2006 00:00)

SIG targets health and education
Demand for housing will be “uncertain” over the coming year, according to materials supplier SIG. The company said it is looking to markets such as.... more
(12 January 2006 00:00)

Amey faces inquiry after closure of M9
Amey’s trunk road contract for southern Scotland is at the centre of an investigation by the Performance Audit Group (PAG) after a section of the M9.... more
(11 January 2006 15:55)

Land Securities and Mill Group form joint venture
Land Securities Trillium and Mill Group are to create a joint venture (jv) company through which Land Securities will become 50/50 jv partner in the.... more
(11 January 2006 00:00)

May Gurney snatches Sussex roads victory
May Gurney has cleaned up on highways maintenance deals throughout Sussex. more
(11 January 2006 00:00)

Ringway strikes deal with Jacobs
Ringway has teamed up with Jacobs in a drive to secure more work from the Highways Agency (HA). more
(11 January 2006 00:00)

Arup begins probe into Kajima houses
Arup is due to start a three-month investigation at the site of Kajima’s 46-unit CASPAR housing scheme in Leeds next Monday (16 January), following.... more
(11 January 2006 00:00)

Balfour wins £15.4m prison deal
Balfour Beatty Construction has been awarded a £15.4m contract to design, build and maintain additional facilities at HMS Nelson, Portsmouth, by.... more
(11 January 2006 00:00)

Welsh announce ProCure 21 list
Five ProCure 21 contractors are on the shortlist for the Welsh Health Estates (WHE) capital works partnering framework contract. The five are: HBG;.... more
(11 January 2006 00:00)

Accord ahead in Area 1 race
Accord has emerged as the frontrunner for the Highways Agency’s (HA) £175m Area 1 Managing Agent Contractor agreement for the Devon and Cornwall.... more
(11 January 2006 00:00)

Record levels for building services registration schemes
A second site audit by members of the Joint Major Contractors' Group (JMCG) of the Heating and Ventilating Contractors' Association (HVCA) and the.... more
(11 January 2006 00:00)

Miller warns house sales will be down slightly
The Miller Group has today (Wednesday) warned that underlying house sales may well be "slightly down" in 2005. more
(11 January 2006 00:00)

Balfour grows order book to £7.7bn
Balfour Beatty's order book grew 13% last year to £7.7bn. more
(11 January 2006 00:00)

Bovis Homes profits for 2005 below forecasts
Bovis Homes Group has warned the market that full year 2005 profits will be "marginally" below the average of brokers' current forecasts. more
(11 January 2006 00:00)

Costain finance director set to quit
Costain finance director Charles McCole will leave the group later this year. more
(11 January 2006 00:00)

Taywood finds housing market tough
Taylor Woodrow continued to find the housing market tough in the second half, resulting in a fall in completions of 4.4%. more
(11 January 2006 00:00)

Slough Estates to restructure its UK business
Developer Slough Estates will invite contractors to bid for industrial and commercial work after it announced its intention to restructure its UK.... more
(11 January 2006 00:00)

Review delays all PFI hospital bids
A moratorium on all PFI hospital projects seeking Department of Health (DH) approval has been instigated to allow a radical overhaul of the criteria.... more
(11 January 2006 00:00)

Contract Journal seeks best employer of 2006
Contract Journal today launches the second year of its prestigious and highly successful Best Places to Work in Construction Awards. more
(11 January 2006 00:00)

Gleeson's mystery bidder revealed - and vows to fight on
Castle Acquisitions, a shell company quoted on the Alternative Investment Market (the junior section of the Stock Exchange) has revealed itself as.... more
(11 January 2006 00:00)

Duo bag £70m Anglian work
Two contractors have tapped into £70m-plus of water infrastructure work for Anglian Water Services. more
(11 January 2006 00:00)

Skills shortages: Crisis - what crisis?
The first of two articles from Edward Goodwyn and Tom Potbury of law firm Pinsent Masons. Government ministers have estimated that 90,000 new.... more
(10 January 2006 10:55)

Lifting the veil on changes to Part L
The revisions to Part L, announced by ODPM and DEFRA in what they have described as an ‘interim’, or ‘draft’ Approved Document L are complex. There.... more
(10 January 2006 10:15)

Gleeson says 'no' to mystery bidder
The mystery bidder behind the £200m approach for MJ Gleeson has been identified this morning as a "shell" company already quoted on the Alternative.... more
(09 January 2006 10:10)

Acquisitions drive Marshalls turnover higher
Marshalls turnover increased 9% last year to £359m. more
(09 January 2006 10:03)

Hochtief powers to £126m contract win
Hochtief has been awarded a £126m contract to build a new hydro electric facility at Glendoe, near Loch Ness, by Scottish and Southern Energy. more
(09 January 2006 09:50)