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27 jobs axed as Cardiff concrete firm ceases trading
Amodeo Group trading as Mike Amodeo (Contractors) and Amodeo Haulage to be wound up next week
Galliford Try profits soar on house building push south
Housing completions jump 60% to record 1,352 units as Galliford Try aims to be top five house builder
Kier builds phone app for faster home repairs
Smartphone app to be rolled out across all Kier home improvement contracts for instant repairs reporting
Birmingham office tower to flats plan unveiled
Office-to-flat scheme unveiled for iconic Hagley Road 19-storey office block
Big builders to double new apprentices this year
Kier leads apprenticeship push in anticipation of work upturn towards end of 2013
Morgan Sindall margins slide as profits fall 12%
Pre-tax profits fall 12% to £45m despite turnover climbing 6% to £2.2bn
Lend Lease Europe lifts construction margin to 2.4%
Construction turnover plunges 29% to £360m in first six months at European construction business
Boots property chief to oversee school construction
Retail property expert Michael Green will run the Government’s £4.5bn schools capital programme
MoD invites bids for £4.4bn regional FM jobs
Three regional FM contracts come out for bid, each worth £500m-£1.8bn
O’Rourke backs first privately funded council homes
Contractor to build 477 affordable homes in East London through novel private funding model
Advance Construction boosts Volvo digger fleet
Scottish civils contractor ramps up excavator fleet with 11 new machines
DevSecs gains planning for Watford resi project
Developer plans to refurbish Edwardian warehouse and build 100 homes
Carillion extends Speedy deal for three years
Preferred supplier deal is expected to be worth around £50m over 2012-2016
£1bn Westfield White City expansion approved
Shopping centre developer plans to start first of 1,500 west London homes in 2014
Trowbridge hotel and cinema scheme go-ahead
Work on the £18m building project in Wiltshire town expected to start shortly
The Big Basement Company goes under
Toll of specialist basement contractors going into administration rises
Local firm wins £43m East Anglia housing repairs
Foster Property Maintenance signs big housing improvement deal
Birse bags £14m brace of road upgrade jobs
Work includes Birmingham streetworks and Essex wind farm access route
Balfour Beatty U-turn on BESNA working contracts
Union Unite declares victory as Balfour Beatty Engineering Services pulls out of BESNA
Carillion checks in with £75m Gatwick job
Work due to start shortly on the reconfiguration of Pier 5 at Gatwick airport
Green light for 800-home Earls Court project in London
Capital & Counties Properties gains planning for first phase of £8bn West London revamp
Skanska starts building London Bevis Marks office
Skanksa keeps half of original building structure to shorten new office construction programme
Councils warn against £560m Northern Hub cutback
Five largest cities in the North fear Government will reduce the scope of huge railway upgrade
Hopes of house building bounce back dashed
Housing starts fall below 100,000 again as private completion levels offer little hope of fresh building push in 2012
Graham nets £19m Grimsby port Ro-Ro job
Northern Ireland contractor starts work later this month on Ro-Ro facility to import cars
Arup lands £7m environmental study for HS2
Arup will produce the environmental statement needed for the HS2 hybrid bill
Styles & Wood secures £40m Lloyds deal
Lloyds expects to spend £40m upgrading its branches through the framework over the next two years
DevSecs gains planning for £250m Hayes scheme
Plans for first phase redevelopment of EMI’s old record pressing factory site approved
Land Secs finds partner for £1bn Victoria scheme
Demolition of London Victoria island site is expected to start towards the end of the year
175 jobs lost as Glasgow civils firm goes under
Govan groundworks specialist Donaghy latest casualty of Scottish downturn
Balfour Beatty to restart Liverpool Baltic Triangle site
Neptune Developments plans to redevelop abandoned Baltic Triangle site where Laing O’Rourke was hit after the developer went bust
Crossrail puts back Bond Street Station award
Central London station tender programme rescheduled to remove bidding bottlenecks
Pompey council calls up specialists for £52m spend
Hampshire specialist contractor framework come up for grabs
Morgan Sindall lands Liverpool underground upgrade
£8m Liverpool underground station upgrade gets underway in April
Cornwall Council names framework firms
Four-year project framework could be worth £1bn if councils across south west adopt it as expected
100 jobs axed as Tewkesbury contractor collapses
J P Construction Group fails despite recent petrol station contract wins with Shell
Industry crys out for second stimulus in Budget
Construction switches from driver of growth to drag on economic recovery as orders and confidence sink
Treasury set to approve £150m London housing PFI
Higgins Construction ready to start work on Myatt’s Field North housing project in Lambeth
Caddick wins Warrington Sainsbury’s job
Supermarket is being built on the site of the former RAF Burtonwood
Work up for grabs for Kent trade contractors
Kier and Vinci hunt for trade contractors at meet the buyers day in Canterbury this week
Willmott Dixon tipped for £16m Genome Campus office
Builder set to sign a contract with Wellcome Trust for next phase of Cambridgeshire biotech park
Bam Nuttall starts £13m Newport highway
Dual carriageway upgrade is vital to huge new housing scheme at former steelworks
Firms wanted for £400m housing repairs deal
Two firms needed for 10-year housing repairs deals in London and south
Advance Construction buys first Cat diggers
Scottish groundwork firm buys seven Cat 312DL tracked excavators and three Cat 308D SBRT hydraulic excavators
Vital Welsh gas pipeline to be replaced
Energy Minister gives go-ahead to replace 13-mile gas pipeline from Llanwrin to Dolgellau
Council pension fund backs £25m housing project
Manchester City Council strikes funding deal for £25m new homes project
Hunt for firm to build 44-storey resi block
Homes and Communities Agency seeks partner to develop high-rise at south London site
Marshall wins £15m Elland Morrisons supermarket
Work will get underway shortly on a new factory and Morrisons supermarket
Scottish Hydro seeks substation builders
Three contractors needed for 14 transmission station building programme
60 flood alleviation jobs to start this year – list
£250m of flood prevention projects due to start in 2012
Government cuts construction costs by 7%
Cabinet Office names seven projects that will trial new cost-saving measures
Graham wins £12m Sheffield engineering school job
Work is expected to start within a few weeks on new Sheffield University Engineering School
Jewson offers to sell 22 Build Centers
OFT expected to clear Jewson take over of Build Center after pledge to sell 22 branches
Vinci wins £100m Paribas job at King’s Cross
Contractor edges out Balfour and Kier to take 500,000 sq ft BNP Paribas building job
Public vote opens to name Crossrail TBMs
Proposed TBM names inspired by a line up of Great Britons from engineering, athletics and literature
McAlpine closes in on £550m Bloomberg HQ
Construction management race reaches closing stages with McAlpine nosing ahead of Lend Lease
Six scaffold firms vie for £300m Magnox framework
Six-year Magnox scaffolding and insulation services framework to start in May
£150m Shepherd’s Bush Market approved
Developers Orion Land & Leisure and Development Securities hope to rejuvenate market and build over 200 homes
Pub and hotel fit-out specialist goes under
Sussex-based Giles Contracts Management placed in administration
Key trades targeted in fresh tax clampdown
Revenue to hunt down tax-dodging roofers, carpenters and bricklayers in new campaign for 2012
Falling 1.4t steel beam kills site cleaner
Two Northern Ireland construction firms fined £65,000 after steel beam crushes site worker in West London
Liverpool wins £130m City Deal to build 12 schools
Government paves way for Liverpool mayor and investment fund for new housing and school building
CSI-style probe into collapsed building steelwork
Demolition contractor Squibb transports twisted steel to special site for detailed investigation
Bids invited for £100m Birmingham highways work
Centro invite firms to bid for 4-year highways and civils minor work framework
Sweett deal for top of Shard
Consultant wins contract administration and support services job for the fitting out of the Shangri-La Hotel
JCB revamps JS excavator range – video
New Dieselmax engines, cab design and livery takes JS excavator fleet into new era
Dozen builders win £500m north west housing deal
Kier, Mansell, Wates and Seddon win places on new build housing framework
Housing project pipeline boosts St Modwen
Developer’s profits rise a third to £50m as confidence grows about prospects for housing schemes
London Mayor handed £3bn for affordable housing
London Mayor takes control of housing funding from April and pledges to build 55,000 affordable homes
B&K given go-ahead for £30m Glasgow office job
Work of 12-storey block in city centre financial district to start in next few weeks
Shepherd Construction boss walks out
Richard Vining quits after 17 months as chief executive of construction
Gap signs first major deal for Cat machines
Finning sells 90 machines to Scottish plant and tool hire giant
Morgan Sindall extends National Grid substation deal
Electricity Alliance Central signs five-year contract extension for substation work
Sport England selects £45m contracting squad
Styles and Wood, Herbert Baggaley and ISG celebrate multiple wins for regional sports facility framework
£150m Shrewsbury shopping plan unveiled
Developer UKCPT lodges plans for New Riverside retail centre
£140m London council housing repairs up for grabs
Camden Council seeks contractor to carry out repairs and maintenance on 33,000 homes
Balfour seeks planning for £15m Essex academy
Balfour Beatty hopes to start work on Ormiston Park Academy in April
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