Articles by Date : January 16 2006 - January 22 2006

Skills minister praises role of building services contractors
Skills minister Phil Hope has called on all building services contractors to play a part in shaping the future of their sector. more
(20 January 2006 14:10)

Three bidders unveiled for £185m Tyne Crossing
Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Authority has announced its three shortlisted bidders for the £185m New Tyne Crossing contract in Newcastle. .... more
(20 January 2006 13:57)

Rok trades on target
Rok Property Solutions has issued a trading statement confirming that financial performance in 2005 has been in line with market expectations. more
(20 January 2006 09:30)

Construction company owner jailed for 18 months
A construction company proprietor from Wales has been jailed for 18 months after a worker fell from height while installing a roof in 2004. more
(20 January 2006 00:00)

Volvo Construction Equipment to debut excavator at SED 2006
Volvo Construction Equipment will once again establish itself as a leader in excavator development with the UK debut of its new and powerful 70t.... more
(20 January 2006 00:00)

Willmott Dixon wins £11.8m housing contract
Willmott Dixon Housing has secured a £11.8m project from long-term framework partner Circle Anglia to build a combined housing and commercial.... more
(20 January 2006 00:00)

Galliford Try awarded £18m accommodation contract
Galliford Try has been appointed as the main contractor on the Broomfield Hospital Key Worker PPP scheme in Essex for Swan Housing Group. more
(19 January 2006 16:02)

First decline in construction output since 1994
Construction output has fallen for the first time in more than a decade, according to research published earlier this month. So what are the reasons?.... more
(19 January 2006 15:37)

Editorial: Act now or pay later - 19.01.06
contractjournal.com Newsletter - 19.1.06 more
(19 January 2006 12:45)

Jackson wins £3.7m deal to build extra-care facility
Jackson Construction has secured a £3.7m project in Suffolk to construct a new extra-care facility for charitable housing association, Hereward.... more
(19 January 2006 11:40)

Prescott and Coe to transform Thames Gateway?
Senior civil servants and private sector developers have chosen John Prescott and Lord Coe as the dynamic duo capable of delivering the most.... more
(19 January 2006 11:10)

Unions deny T5 strike action has been called off
The Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) and GMB have said that proposed strike action at Heathrow Terminal 5 (T5) has not been cancelled, as.... more
(19 January 2006 11:00)

Asbestos consultation deadline looms nearer
The Health and Safety Commission (HSC) is today (Thursday) reminding construction businesses that there are only two weeks left of the public.... more
(19 January 2006 10:35)

Tarmac buys NRP from Rand
Tarmac has bought National Road Planing (NRP) from Rand group for an undisclosed sum. more
(19 January 2006 10:30)

Galliford buys Chartdale for £67m
Galliford Try is set to buy Lincolnshire-based housebuilder Chartdale for £67m in cash. more
(19 January 2006 09:30)

Romtech invests £2m in new Irish HQ
Romtech, the UK’s largest manufacturer of steel piling rig cages is set to make a £2m investment in Northern Ireland with a new factory at Craigavon. more
(19 January 2006 00:00)

Balfour set to buy two Mowlem businesses from Carillion
Balfour Beatty has confirmed that it will not bid for Mowlem - but will buy two of its subsidiaries from Carillion once its has acquired Mowlem. more
(18 January 2006 16:00)

Accord wins housing contracts worth £6m
Accord has scooped two housing contracts worth around £6m in total. more
(18 January 2006 12:00)

Raynsford to chair newly formed NHBC Foundation
Former housing and planning minister, Nick Raynsford, has agreed to become the first chairman of the National House-Building Council Foundation. more
(18 January 2006 11:13)

Anti-retention clients revealed
The Specialist Engineering Contractors’ (SEC) Group has published a list of construction clients and contractors not using retentions. more
(18 January 2006 10:37)

Shelter calls for 8,500 more homes across east England
Housing charity Shelter has called for 8,500 new social rented homes to built every year up until 2015 across the east of England. more
(18 January 2006 00:00)

Asbestos-to-glass sites planned
Asbestos waste will be sent to glassmaking furnaces if a £250m scheme gets underway later this month. Recycler Vitrium Holdings plans to open up six.... more
(18 January 2006 00:00)

Webster wins £90m streetlighting deal
A preferred bidder and a quartet of shortlisted contenders have plugged in to a brace of PFI streetlighting deals valued at £90m-plus. more
(18 January 2006 00:00)

Employment status trend to shift
More than one-in-ten site operatives are likely to switch back from labour-only subcontracting to direct employment in the three-year period 2007 to.... more
(18 January 2006 00:00)

Buy4London strikes housing materials deal
Buy4London, a housing association consortium, is to buy all its materials through Procurement for Housing (PfH), a national purchasing.... more
(18 January 2006 00:00)

Councils told to speed up delivery of BSF work
Partnerships for Schools (P4S) is leaning on local authorities to tow the line when planning their Building Schools for the Future (BSF) schemes..... more
(18 January 2006 00:00)

CITB pleads for help to save training levy
Sir Michael Latham, chairman of the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB), has told the government to take “urgent” action to preserve the.... more
(18 January 2006 00:00)

Vanguard hospital PFI falls prey to DH review
PFI hospital schemes are continuing to suffer from the fall-out of the Department of Health’s (DH) review (CJ 11 January). more
(18 January 2006 00:00)

TER helps recover four mini excavators
Four JCB mini excavators, worth more than £8,000 and stolen from a dealer in Essex, have been recovered by the Port of Dover Police with the aid of.... more
(17 January 2006 00:00)

Laing O'Rourke move to end strike threat on T5
Laing O'Rourke has offered workers on T5 an extra 67 pence per hour - as long as they cancel Friday’s proposed strike. more
(17 January 2006 00:00)

Wallis wins V&A refurb
Kier subsidiary Wallis Special Projects has secured a £2.9m build and refurbishment contract at the V&A Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green, London. more
(17 January 2006 00:00)

Persimmon's takeover of Westbury goes unconditional
Persimmon’s £640m bid for Westbury, its housebuilding rival, has become unconditional. more
(17 January 2006 00:00)

Enterprise to announce trading in line with expectations
Enterprise expects trading for 2005 to be in line with expectations when it announces its preliminary results on 20 March. more
(17 January 2006 00:00)

Laing expects hospitals to escape DH review
John Laing is confident that the PFI hospital projects it has at preferred bidder stage will progress to financial close unaffected by the Department.... more
(17 January 2006 00:00)

T5 workers to walk out again
Workers on London’s Heathrow Terminal Five project are due to strike later this month in a dispute over bonus pay. more
(16 January 2006 00:00)

Proposals to improve late payment unveiled by government
New government proposals that aim to improve payments to firms in the construction industry have been unveiled today (Monday). more
(16 January 2006 00:00)

Offsite to build office in five months
Offsite construction firm Yorkon plans to produce an office building in five months in one of two contracts worth approximately £2m in the office.... more
(16 January 2006 00:00)

Revamped Strategic Forum unveils future plans
Health and safety, insurance, the Olympic Games and sustainability are just four of the subjects to be tackled by the restructured Strategic Forum. more
(16 January 2006 00:00)

Dunham Crane Hire to debut at SED 2006
Dunham Crane Hire is to exhibit for the first time at SED 2006. more
(16 January 2006 00:00)

Amec create alliance in £52bn UK nuclear clean-up market
Amec plc has formed the first alliance to compete in the UK's £56bn nuclear clean-up market. more
(16 January 2006 00:00)

St Barts staff call for u-turn
More than 1,000 doctors at St Bart's and the Royal London hospitals have writtent to The Times today protesting at the government's decision to pull.... more
(16 January 2006 00:00)

Dome is 'the Olympic priority'
The Dome is the landmark most people want to see refurbished prior to the 2012 Olympic Games, according to a survey commissioned by ISG.... more
(16 January 2006 00:00)