CBH to launch skills card scheme
Posted: 16 July 2008 Constructing Better Health (CBH) is set to launch its own equivalent of the CSCS skills card early in August. The CBH card will give details of health...
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Council fined £37,000 for electrocuted worker
Posted: 15 July 2008A Hartfordshire council has been fined £37,000 after a worker was electrocuted while fixing a burst water main.
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Ex-Jewson PA bailed amid £17,000 expenses fraud claims
Posted: 15 July 2008A former PA at builders merchant Jewson has been bailed by Blackpool magistrates following claims that she falsely claimed up to £17,620 in expenses.
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Mass profit warnings as housebuilding nosedives
Posted: 15 July 2008Financial gloom forces housebuilders to take drastic measures.
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ISG wins £50m schools project in Ipswich
Posted: 15 July 2008ISG has been appointed as the preferred contractor for a £50m education project to build two schools in Ipswich.
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'Grey Murphy' moves out of the red with 0.1% profit margin
Posted: 15 July 2008 Murphy Ltd, known in the construction industry as “Grey Murphy” has got itself out of the red - but only just.
After running up a loss of £2.3m last year the group has moved back into profit.
Latest annual results (covering the 12 months to 31 August 2007) show a pre-tax profit of £77,000 on turnover of £75m, a performance that represents a profit margin of 0.1%.
The loss in the previous year was made on a turnover of £60m.
Grey Murphy’s main business is long-term maintenance contracts with utility companies.
It started trading in 1957 by specialising in underground and overhead line cable installation of all types, from instrumentation and services to 275KV, incorporating the provision of joining and testing up to 66KV, and all associated trenching and civil works.
Murphy then developed into other areas of work such as multi-utility installation and motorway infrastructure. The company states: “We believe that our policy
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Kingerlee bags £35m Oxford college deal
Posted: 15 July 2008Local firm Kingerlee has beaten three rivals to take a £35m deal to build the Kendrew Quadrangle project for St John's College, Oxford.
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Balfour Beatty among three up for NEC revamp scheme
Posted: 15 July 2008Three firms have been lined up to carry out £25m-worth of revamp work at the NEC Arena in Birmingham.
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Laing O'Rourke is 'super heavyweight ' as turnover hits £4.24bn
Posted: 15 July 2008Laing O’Rourke is on its way to being a construction ‘super heavyweight’ as it pushed turnover up to £4.24bn, according to its chief operating officer Tony Douglas.
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1,000 a week want to tap into a plumbing career
Posted: 15 July 2008More than 1,000 people a week are trying to tap into a new career in plumbing.
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Government contractors told to support unions
Posted: 15 July 2008Companies bidding for government contracts will be told they must promote trade union membership to win jobs.
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Jury raises cost concerns over Olympics aquatic centre
Posted: 15 July 2008Concerns over the rising cost of the £303m London Olympic aquatic centre were raised by a jury even before the Zaha Hadid design was chosen.
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Laing O'Rourke announces 21.5% rise in turnover
Posted: 15 July 2008Laing O’Rourke remained bullish about its future despite tougher trading conditions, as it announced a record £9.3bn orderbook yesterday.
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St Modwen Properties reports £32m revaluation write-down
Posted: 14 July 2008St Modwen, the regeneration specialist, has knocked £32m off the value of its properties and as a result it has unveiled a £20m pre-tax loss in the six months to 31 May.
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Track worker killed on West Coast Main Line
Posted: 14 July 2008A contractor has been killed while working on the upgrade of the West Coast Main Line in Warwickshire.
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Richardson Projects enjoys 9% profit margin
Posted: 14 July 2008Richardson Projects, the new-build social housing specialist, enjoyed a rise in profit margin to 9% last year.
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Building scam artist gets seven years jail after £120,000 con
Posted: 14 July 2008A scammer who worked with bogus builders to con a pensioner out of his life savings has been jailed for seven years.
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Wolseley thought to be at risk of breaching banking covenants
Posted: 14 July 2008Wolseley, the builders’ merchant, is at risk of breathing its banking covenants if it fails to unveil further restructuring charges on Wednesday, according to one city analyst.
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Eight arrested in crackdown on rouge site security firms
Posted: 14 July 2008Eight people connected with a security firm that manned construction sites in Glasgow have been arrested on suspicion of working illegally.
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Code for Sustainable Buildings to be developed by 2009
Posted: 14 July 2008The UK Green Building Council (UK GBC) has begun talks to develop a Code for Sustainable Buildings.
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