Men behaving badly
Posted: 07 March 2007What steps can you take to prevent your employees carrying out stunts similar to those posted on YouTube recently, or that bring your company into disrepute? Neil Gerrard looks at the options.
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Editor's Comment: The price of 15 seconds of fame
Posted: 28 February 2007Another week, and another set of YouTube videos are exposed in a Contract Journal exclusive news story. Funny though they may look at first glance, their appearance means asking some hard questions.
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PFI hospitals get approval at last
Posted: 28 February 2007 Department of Health approves seven PFI schemes worth £1.5bn following review.
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Kill or ProCure?
Posted: 28 February 2007Workloads remain the biggest issue for the enlightened ProCure21 initiative. Carol Millett looks into what the future holds for the scheme.
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HBA hits back at government emissions targets
Posted: 23 February 2007The House Builders Association has hit back at the government’s carbon reduction plans with a series of recommendations to get other sectors to take responsibility for the issue of climate change.
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Inspace scoops £13m housing contracts
Posted: 23 February 2007Inspace has been awarded two social housing projects worth £13m to build 105 new homes in London.
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CPA and HSE work together on crane safety
Posted: 23 February 2007The Construction Plant-hire Association (CPA) and the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) have agreed to produce a best practice guide on maintenance and examination of tower cranes, following two fatal accidents in London and Liverpool over the past few months.
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Capita Group records record £201m profit
Posted: 23 February 2007Capita Group has announced a record set of annual results, with pre-tax profit up 18% to over £201m. Turnover was up 21% to over £1.7bn from £1.4bn.
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News roundup: 23 February
Posted: 23 February 2007What the papers are saying about construction today.
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NCC aims to retain presence in Bircham Newton
Posted: 22 February 2007The Board of CITB-ConstructionSkills has decided to try and continue to offer heavy plant and tower crane training at the National Construction College (NCC) East site in Bircham Newton, Norfolk, despite difficulties finding funding to keep the site going.
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Holyrood scheme now £16m cheaper than anticipated
Posted: 22 February 2007The final cost of the new Scottish Parliament building at Holyrood has been put at more than £414m - £16m cheaper than first anticipated.
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Newspaper round-up: 22 February 2007
Posted: 22 February 2007The big story in the nationals this morning was the slump in Wimpey's profits, which the Financial Times, Independent and Daily Mail all blamed on the sluggish US housing market.
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Multiplex back into profit
Posted: 22 February 2007Multiplex has claimed it has turned a corner as it reported a pre-tax profit of over £150m for the first half of the year, compared to a pre-tax loss of over £66m in the same period last year, which the contractor blamed on Wembley.
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Hanson reports record results
Posted: 22 February 2007Building materials firm Hanson has posted record operating profit for the year ending 31 December 2006 of £562.7m, 15% up on the previous year’s figure of £488.8m.
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Falcon Crane Hire increases frequency of inspections
Posted: 21 February 2007Falcon Crane Hire has announced that it has increased the frequency of its tower crane inspection regime for all cranes from the industry norm of once every 12 months, to once every six months.
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Newspaper round-up: 21 February 2007
Posted: 21 February 2007What the papers are saying about construction on 21 February 2007.
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Editor's comment: Escape route for ECI roads
Posted: 21 February 2007Roads contractors ought to be breathing a sigh of relief if the advance word on the Nichols Report into the Highways Agency (HA) is to be believed.
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Network Rail lifts ban on Carillion
Posted: 21 February 2007Network Rail has now lifted its ban on Carillion which prevented the firm for bidding for any new rail work.
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Amec: a buyer's guide
Posted: 21 February 2007As Amec gets ready to put up the 'For sale' sign for its Built Environment in the shop window, John Leitch looks into the pitfalls suitors could face when going through the books of their desired purchase.
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Newspaper round-up: 20 February 2007
Posted: 20 February 2007What are the papers saying about construction on 20 February 2007.
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