McKean Group generates razor-thin 0.14% profit margin for 2008
Posted: 06 August 2009Scottish civil engineering firm McKean Group has reported a razor-thin profit of just £52,000 in 2008.
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Robertson clinches £12m Scots hospital deal
Posted: 06 August 2009Robertson Highland has won a £12m contract to deveop the new Migdale Hospital at Bonar Bridge under the NHS Frameworks Scotland agreement.
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Haymills' Gibraltar arm in liquidation
Posted: 05 August 2009The Gibraltar arm of Haymills is set to enter voluntary liquidation.
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Amey announced preferred bidder for £2.7bn Birmingham PFI
Posted: 04 August 2009Firm fights off challenge from Laing O’Rourke and Vinci joint venture to secure the UK's largest local government highways sector PFI
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Leadbitter pre-tax profit climbs to £10m
Posted: 03 August 2009Leadbitter has pushed its pre-tax profit up 9% to £10m in the year to 31 December 2008, as it predicted earlier this year.
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Racist 'banter' still tolerated on some sites, says inquiry
Posted: 31 July 2009Ethnic minorities are underrepresented in the construction industry, compared to the wider workforce, and may still have to deal with racist 'banter'
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Workers slam self employment tax system
Posted: 31 July 2009Questions asked in Parliament as workers wait up six weeks for a tax number
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Kier to build Scotland's biggest Sainsbury's
Posted: 30 July 2009Sainsbury’s has chosen Kier to build its largest new supermarket in Scotland at Braehead, near Glasgow.
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British construction companies at risk of corruption investigation
Posted: 30 July 2009New Serious Fraud Office stance on self-reporting corruption poses challenges for UK construction sector, says Tom Stocker
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Workers threaten to blow up machines in lay off dispute
Posted: 29 July 2009French workers threaten to explode gas canisters surrounding access equipment
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Construction output could fall by 20%
Posted: 28 July 2009Construction output is predicted to fall 20% by 2011 before returning to growth by 2012
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College schemes could be clustered with BSF
Posted: 28 July 2009Public Accounts Committee attacks Learning and Skills Council (LSC) for its handling of the colleges programme and called for delayed projects to be bundled with Building Schools for the Future projects.
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Lovell in line for £14m funding boost
Posted: 28 July 2009Firm has announced that six of its schemes have been shortlisted for £14m of Homes and Communities Agency's (HCA) kickstart funding.
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Project manager for £215m student scheme
Posted: 27 July 2009Aston Student Villages has appointed consultant Emprima Limited as project manager for the second phase of its £215m scheme to build a new student village on the Aston University campus in Birmingham.
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One in five companies trading without credit insurance
Posted: 27 July 2009Suppliers to the construction industry are finding credit insurance so difficult to obtain that some are forced to trade without cover or stop supplying customers completely.
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Tape measure kills road engineer
Posted: 24 July 2009An engineer measuring up on a road bridge was electrocuted when his metal tape measure came into contact with a 25,000-volt power cable on a railway below.
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Refurb questions over deadly tower fire
Posted: 24 July 2009A deadline for a fire risk assessment for the south London tower block where six people died in a blaze earlier this month is about to expire
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£25,000 fine for roof death
Posted: 23 July 2009A small contractor has been fined £25,000 after a worker died falling through a roof at a DIY superstore in Wigan.
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BAM cleared over blacklist
Posted: 21 July 2009BAM Construct UK has been officially told today it is not part of the ongoing inquiry into construction industry blacklisting by the Information Commissioner.
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Fresh tax crackdown launched on self-employment
Posted: 21 July 2009Labour agencies are confident a new government tax crackdown on employment status in construction will not spell the end of labour-only subcontractors.
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