Pettifer update: contractor to be wound down
Posted: 28 November 2008Administrators for collapsed contractor Pettifer Construction are winding-down the firm after admitting no buyers are interested in taking-on the company as a going concern.
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Balfour Beatty boss escapes Mumbai horror
Posted: 27 November 2008Balfour Beatty boss Ian Tyler is on his way back to Britain after being caught up in the terrorist violence in Mumbai.
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Speedy Hire revenue up but 492 jobs cut
Posted: 26 November 2008Speedy Hire has made 429 of 492 planned job cuts, closed 33 depots and reduced its vehicle fleet by 260 units, despite reporting a 22% rise in revenue.
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Kier bags £127m Academies work
Posted: 26 November 2008Kier has clinched two new academy deals worth a combined £127m in Cumbria and north-east Lincolnshire under the National Academies framework.
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Ramesys hopes BSF will help it double in size
Posted: 25 November 2008Technology specialist Ramesys is ramping up the number of Building Schools for the Future (BSF) contracts it bids for as part of a plan to double the size of the firm.
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Interserve claims £25m ProCure21 deal in Dorset
Posted: 25 November 2008Interserve will start work next August on a £25m, 18-month deal to build a maternity unit in Poole, Dorset.
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Highways Agency announces plans for £147m A11 widening
Posted: 25 November 2008Plans for a £147m dualling of a 15km stretch of the A11 have been published by the Highways Agency.
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Kier tipped for £35m Hertfordshire college deal
Posted: 25 November 2008A preferred contractor is on the verge of being appointed for a £35m college redevelopment deal in Hertfordshire.
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Shepherd and SCD share £62m Peterborough college redevelopment
Posted: 25 November 2008Two firms are sharing in £62m- worth of redevelopment work at Peterborough Regional College’s Park Crescent campus.
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CC announces new executive chairman
Posted: 24 November 2008The Construction Confederation (CC) has appointed Manus Adamson as its new executive chairman, as CC chief executive Stephen Ratcliffe and chair James Wates step down from their roles at the organisation.
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Council projects backed by private finance face delays
Posted: 24 November 2008Financial instability is delaying local authority projects backed by private finance and hampering initiatives to increase their efficiency.
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Feed-in tarrif to boost renewable energy sector
Posted: 24 November 2008More than 195,000 wind turbines could spring up around Britain over the next 12 years after the government promised to pay people for generating their own power.
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IOC to tour Olympic site during four-day visit
Posted: 24 November 2008Olympic chiefs will reassure the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that the construction of the 2012 Games is on track.
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Work halted on Europe's tallest building
Posted: 21 November 2008The Russian developer behind Europe's tallest building - the Norman Foster-designed Russia Tower - has halted work on the project.
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Road/Rail/Bridge (Refurb/Repair), Leeds, £540K
Posted: 20 November 2008Traffic improvement scheme.
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Build more nuclear plants now, energy chief warns
Posted: 19 November 2008British Energy chief Bill Coley has warned that the UK needs to start building more nuclear plants immediately if it wants to meet its climate change obligations.
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Shopfitter fined £20,000 for Enfield Shopping Centre fall
Posted: 14 November 2008A shopfitting firm has been fined £20,000 after a man working on the construction of Enfield Shopping Centre fell 3m onto a concrete floor.
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Construction halted on £2.68m artificial surf reef
Posted: 14 November 2008Construction has been halted on Europe’s first artificial surf reef off the coast of Dorset because of cold weather.
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Family Mosaic to tender maintenance contracts worth £250m
Posted: 04 November 2008Housing association Family Mosaic has revealed that it will tender housing repair and maintenance partnering service contracts worth £50m a year for five years later this month.
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