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Network Rail in U-turn on contractor league tables
Individual contractor rankings dropped from PRISM league tables
Severfield-Rowen to axe 93 jobs
Steelwork contractor chairman John Dodds delivers further round of cost-cutting measures
Murphy Group in talks to buy collapsed Land & Marine
Enterprise picks up Welsh Water work in fallout from Daniel Contractors collapse
First wave of job cuts at Daniel Contractors
Water companies agree to keep Daniel jobs going while replacement contractors found
Bam bags rebid National Indoor Arena revamp for £24m
Contractor nabs job with price 25% above original preferred bidder Galliford Try’s offer
Bechtel takes £36m Vauxhall tube station upgrade
Construction work will start in early 2014 while station remains open
Four local railway station projects win funding
Network Rail’s new station fund supports four local station projects worth £18m
Administrators called in at Daniel Contractors
Nearly 1,000 jobs could be saved as Deloitte seeks to novate three major contracts
Mace set to start £770m Victoria Circle build
LandSecs gives go-ahead to start building huge London scheme next to Victoria Station
University of Roehampton advances £48m expansion plan
South London University to build library and 400-room student halls
Thames Water confirms ‘super alliance’ AMP6 partners
Costain, Skanska and Balfour Beatty sign two-year ECI deals for £2.5bn AMP6 prize
Barratt refinancing slashes borrowing costs
Barratt £850m refinancing deal cuts borrowing costs from 7% to 4.5%
Teesport £55m quay rebuild out for bid
Two-year programme of works will see demolition and removal of the existing concrete quay
£600m Carrington Power station M&E bidders day
North west bidders day next week for M&E suppliers and plant hire deals
Balfour Beatty tipped for £80m Sheffield Uni job
Work on the new engineering faculty building could be delayed by legal challenge over site
Crossrail 2 and national road repairs push urgently needed
CECA sets out case for Government to lift infrastructure spending to 1% of GDP
Government agrees HS2 tunnel extension in Midlands
Government rethink to extend Midlands Airport tunnel under planned major rail freight park
Vulture firms circle Daniel Contractors
Rivals wait in wings as concerns grow about financial problems at civils specialist
Student halls builder ramps up regional projects
Unite Group plans student accommodation starts in Huddersfield and Bristol
Concrete silo demolition fails to go to plan: video
Explosive demolition of huge concrete silo in Australia creates a new kind of listed building
First £700m wave of PF2 schools unveiled
Government also commits to £300m more publicly funded school projects
Construction output dives to 15-year low
£500m wiped off construction output in first three months of 2013
BAM wins £75m London schools package
BAM lands biggest priority schools package to date in second big win
Derwent to start three London office projects
London developer plans to start work on 700,000 sq ft within next eight months
T Clarke order book ahead of last year
Pipeline of high-end residential and data centre work keeps M&E contractor on firm footing
17 councils exempted from offices-to-flats revolution
Communities secretary paves the way for a wave of office to flat conversion projects
Block lifted on concrete firms promoting Olympic effort
International Olympic Committee lifts publicity ban on precast concrete firms
Cambridge Uni calls up house builders for £1bn new town
University to hold developer briefing in Cambridge on 4 June
Engineering giants sign up to £25bn Severn Barrage plan
Arup, Bechtel, DHL, Mott MacDonald and URS to set out detailed delivery plan for barrage project
Essex electrical contractor banned for four years
Boss of failed Flack Building Contractors failed to pay £222,000 owed to taxman
Barratt to recruit 600 apprentices and graduates
Barratt plans three-year training push to help rebuild housing industry skills base
Civils firms more optimistic about work outlook
Civils outlook for Wales worsens while rest of country more upbeat
Vinci tops contracts league in April
Morgan Sindall jostles with Laing O’Rourke for second place in 12-month rankings
Turner and Townsend bags Battersea PM role
Phase 1 of Battersea Power Station development will start this summer
Northampton Uni to submit £330m campus plan
University hopes to start construction in 2015 on Northampton riverside project
Costain runs up £4m bill in failed bid for May Gurney
Costain boss says firm has made a good start to 2013 despite merger set-back
UCL scraps £1bn estate campus plan
University College London says it remains committed to finding an East London campus site
Welsh Government finds extra £75m for construction
Funding package will sustain further 1,400 construction jobs
Doosan powers up new 22t tracked excavator
DX225LC-3 crawler excavator delivers 18% reduction in fuel consumption
Muse lands £100m new Aberdeen quarter
Former council HQ site will be transformed with offices, hotel and shops
Skanska UK operating margin slides below 3%
Skanska sees construction margins dip in first three months of 2013
Bids invited for £20m Guildford vets school
University of Surrey calls up firms for School of Veterinary Medicine design and build job
Bid race starts for £27m Bedfordshire Uni library
Work on library at Luton campus is expected to start in August subject to planning
Barratt 600-home plan wins London dog track race
£117m Catford Greyhound Stadium traps-to-flats scheme to start early next year
£400m London housing repairs job out for bid
Lambeth Council seeks three firms for external repairs to housing estates
Ainscough invests £11.4m in crane fleet
Ainscough expands heavy-lift fleet with two 750t and 500t mobile Liebherr cranes
Bouygues UK sells civils contractor Fitzgerald
£24m turnover West Midlands firm wins independence again after management buy-out
BAM bags £9m Cambridge technical college job
Building work will start in September on university technical college
Miller strikes deal for £100m Travis Perkins shed
Miller Developments to ramp up construction at £1bn north west logistics park
It’s official: House building activity in strong recovery
New home registrations climb to highest level since credit crunch
Graham bags Immingham wood pellet facility
Port of Immingham to get major import facility for biomass fuel for Drax
Spie UK buys Alard to lead expansion in north
Alard founder and managing director Graham Cooper is retiring
Carillion wins £335m Royal Liverpool Hospital build
Crown House is lined up to manage major M&E packages during four-year build
Contracts signed for £40m Bournemouth regeneration
Morgan Sindall Investments signs first three deals to start £500m revamp of seaside town
Two consortia set for £3bn Thames Water alliance
Costain, Skanska and Balfour Beatty set for major Thames Water AMP6 work pipeline
Galliford Try bags trio of Manchester building jobs
North west building arm wins £36.5m haul of building jobs
JCB celebrates millionth machine
More than 2,500 JCB dealers and customers will join in celebrations in the next five weeks
Carillion takes £1.6bn orders so far this year
Chairman reassures agm there are no nasty surprises ahead as market remains challenging
Atlas Copco signs Hodge Plant as UK crushers dealer
Hodge Plant will be responsible for UK sales, service and rental of the crushing and screening equipment
J F Hunt buys six Volvo road rollers for hire fleet
The rollers join self-drive hire fleet around Greater London and Essex
Ocon creditors offered 14p in the £1
Student accommodation builder’s subcontractors and suppliers owed £4.7m
£350m Centre Point resi plan resubmitted
Developer Almacantar submits revised plans for iconic London tower
Crest Nicholson to start next Centenary Quays phase
Third phase of £500m Southampton riverside development to start next month
Bidders day for £238m Sheffield council homes repairs race
A contractors’ day will be held on 10 May for £34m a year home repairs framework
Vinci scoops £141m Cornish incinerator build
Construction work expected to start in St Austell this summer
Willmott Dixon lands £22m Hampshire retirement build
Deal brings housing work secured this year to nearly £200m.
Consultants wanted for £50m London hospital build
Second phase of new research centre to get underway in 2015
Last hurdle cleared for £100m Buckinghamshire waste incinerator
FCC to start construction after campaigners fail in legal bid to stop scheme
Crest Nicholson wins £600m Arborfield Garrison job
Crest named preferred developer for Berkshire MoD base 2,000 homes plan
Balfour Beatty issues £50m construction profit warning
Balfour Beatty boss to personally oversee UK construction after admitting problems worse than expected
Worker dies entangled in drum of tarmac top cutter
Plant hirer South and West Highways Trenching fined £100,000
Plans lodged for UK’s largest Passivhaus scheme
Passivhaus design specialist decides to develop 150-home scheme in Herefordshire
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