List of 40 construction firms accused of buying private data revealed

More than 40 construction companies are reported to have been buying confidential data on workers from a body called The Consulting Association (TCA) in secret for the past 15 years.

The companies are believed to have used the information for blacklisting of workers.

The full list of companies that subscribed to the Consulting Association is below. The use of brackets indicates where companies have undergone a change of name or where subsidiaries have been absorbed by parent companies. Ex members may no longer exist or no longer avail themselves of Kerr’s service.

• Amec Building
• Amec Construction
• Amec Facilities
• Amec Ind Div
• Amec Process & Energy
• Amey Construction – Ex Member
• B Sunley & Sons – Ex Member
• Balfour Beatty
• Balfour Kilpatrick
• Ballast (Wiltshire)  – Ex Member
• Bam Construction (HBG Construction)
• Bam Nuttall (Edmund Nuttall)
• C B & I
• Cleveland Bridge UK
• Costain UK
• Crown House Technologies (Carillion / Tarmac Construction)
• Diamond M & E Services
• Dudley Bower & Co – Ex Member
• Emcor (Drake & Scull) – ‘Ex Ref’
• Emcor Rail
• G Wimpey – Ex Member
• Haden Young
• Kier
• John Mowlem – Ex Member
• Laing O’Rourke (Laing)
• Lovell Construction (UK)  – Ex Member
• Miller Construction – Ex Member
• Morgan Ashurst
• Morgan Est
• Morrison Construction Group – Ex Member
• N G Bailey
• Shepherd Engineering Services
• Sias Building Services
• Sir Robert McAlpine
• Skanska (Kvaerner / Trafalgar House)
• SPIE (Matthew Hall) – Ex Member
• Taylor Woodrow Construction – Ex Member
• Turriff Construction – Ex Member
• Tysons Contractors – Ex Member
• Walter Llewellyn & Sons – Ex Member
• Whessoe Oil & Gas
• Willmott Dixon – Ex Member
• Vinci PLC (Norwest Holst Group)