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Joinery giant goes into administration
170 jobs at risk at UK’s largest independent door and window manufacturer
Willmott Dixon to open training centre in Birmingham
Centre will train 2,000 students a year including recruits to contractor’s new Green Deal division
Scottish cladding contractor goes bust
CDW is latest victim of downturn as liquidators move in at £7.5m turnover specialist
OFT to probe Travis Perkins takeover of Toolstation
Decision by competition watchdogs leaves builders merchant baffled
More delays for £2bn schools programme
Contractors resigned to timetable slipping as bids for funding swamp system
McLaren in major restructuring
Contractor now owned by international holding company as UK construction team revamped
Balfour union members vote to strike
Less than 450 Unite members vote on action among Balfour Beatty Engineering Service’s 1650 staff
Betting Spy: Man U to beat Chelsea as City wobble
United are a good bet at 15/8 while Ireland are decent value in a wide-open Six Nations
Denne wins £50m Bedford riverside revamp
Planning to go in this summer for cinema, hotel, resi and 30,000 sq ft of retail space
Construction buyers see brighter 2012 prospects
Confidence levels about future prospects hit eight month high among purchasers
Atkins team escape to Alcatraz
Consultant wins job to oversee repair work on infamous American prison
Safety team visited disaster site day before steel collapse
Pastor says it was a “miracle” that workers building collapsed church were not hurt
VAT cheats blagged £700k via fake contractor
Kent swindlers set up bogus dry lining firm to con HMRC out of VAT repayments
Five-storey steel frame building collapses
Ashe Construction workers escape unharmed after leaving site minutes before steel frame collapses
Get Britain Building fast tracks sites: Full list
Homes and Communities Agency deluged with applications for £420m fund
Falling crane counter balance breaks fitter’s foot
Konecranes UK fined over accident at power station
Spurs commit to building new £400m stadium
Public money to fund local improvements including £8.5m new stadium approach
Leader of Britain’s small builders leaves post
Director general Richard Diment parts company with Federation of Master Builders
April start for Vinci on £54m Bristol Life Sciences site
Contract and start date confirmed for new university building
Green light for £129m Blue Light PFI bid
Construction of first of four Avon and Somerset Police buildings will start in September
Milton Keynes to outsource £30m highways contract
Industry open day planned next month for interested contractors
Client and contractor fall out at £12m arts centre
War of words erupts as further delays hit Mareel cinema and arts complex in Shetland
Student accommodation giant shrugs off numbers fall
Developer Unite says demand for student digs still outstrips supply despite UCAS applications drop
Pochin sees signs of recovery in construction
Sale of loss making concrete pumping operation due to be completed shortly
McLaren starts main works at £26m shopping centre
Work at Whiteley Shopping Centre due for completion in spring 2013
Lack of site toilets lands contractor in court
Company ignored previous improvement notice leaving 16 builders without a working loo
Concrete show is 60% bigger this year
Industry defies downturn with sold-out event in Coventry next month
Builder dies in 40ft fall on Blackburn site
Police quiz colleagues after tragedy at factory conversion site
Trio on tenterhooks for £1.2bn Hinkley contract
O’Rourke hopes its directly employed workforce will swing nuclear decision due within weeks
April start for Mace on £340m Broadgate job
Completion scheduled for late 2014 as 60% of packages already out to tender
Construction worker crushed to death in jaws of grabber
Contractor JN Bentley fined £106,000 after lifting operation goes horribly wrong
Demolition workers boots turn radioactive at Dounreay
Investigation underway after workers contaminated at nuclear site
2012 success can win UK firms work around globe
Consultant McBains Cooper flies the flag for “gold medal” Olympic construction
New MD for Davis Langdon
Infrastructure boss Steve Waltho appointed managing director of European operations
Fit out begins as Olympic Village handed over
Village contractors complete eleven apartment blocks on time as work starts on shopping plaza
Opinion:£124 an hour HSE charge is an outrage
Dump this daft initiative now before it mutates into a mass revenue generating exercise
New head for O’Rourke building division
Product of “Young Guns” training programme to lead UK construction unit
Scaffolder breaks back in roof fall
Fall through fragile roof leaves scaffolder unable to work on site again
Contractors fury at HSE charges of £124 an hour
Site visits by inspectors will spark invoices from April for safety improvement advice
Betting Spy: Arsenal to win back crowd with early strike
Wenger needs to silence boo boys so Gunners to be winning at half time and full time is the call
Tata cuts 110 jobs as structural steel demand falls
Job losses at Corby plant follow recent cuts in Scunthorpe
Highways firm offers reward to catch arsonists
Road marking contractor Wilson & Scott bounces back from attack
45,000 construction jobs to go this year
Manual trades hit hardest but 30,000 new construction managers needed by 2016
Trio fined £336k after gymnast breaks back in roof fall
Labourer has career as a gymnast ruined by 20ft fall onto concrete floor
Framework in hunt for £33m project manager
Smarte East Alliance advertises project and cost management contract
Peabody cancels £85m Osborne repairs contract
Ten-year deal cut short after 20 months as housing association searches for three new contractors
CH2M Hill wins £70m high speed rail contract
80-strong team of project managers and engineers will oversee design work
Council boosts highways maintenance cash by £20m
Staffordshire chiefs use cash saved on closed buildings to fund road repairs
FM specialist Fountains goes down with loss of 450 jobs
Outsourcing giant bought out of administration by OCS saving 1,570 staff
Driver thrown through window into digger bucket
Untrained operator left in coma after hitting a bridge during M1 construction work
Administrators appointed at hardware specialist
Door and window specialist Avocet looking for buyer to save 150 jobs
Work up for grabs for Manchester subcontractors
Trade contractors can meet the buyers at Manchester City’s Etihad stadium
Anti-capitalist demo ends after plea from contractors
Protesters quit Berkeley Homes site after appeal by builders
Carillion lands academies contracts worth £100m
Contractor set to start within weeks on school sites across the country
Frameworks boost profit as sales surge at Forrest
Tenth year of growth at North and North Wales social housing specialist
Digger hits builder in face and knocks him down hole
Air ambulance team treat construction worker for “life threatening” facial injuries
Carillion wins verdict in blacklisting tribunal
Hearing rules against blacklisted worker because he was employed through an agency
Construction work stops again on Pinnacle tower
Contractor Brookfield suspends work on City of London site
Ex Ucatt chief collapses at disciplinary hearing
Alan Ritchie rushed to hospital during grilling from union executive
Mace to start construction of £70m tower
Work to start this month on new home for Building magazine in Blackfriars
Baggaley appoints new managing director
Former Wates and John Laing man Phil Askin to head up Mansfield contractor
Big names dive in for £10m Butlins pool
Willmott Dixon, SDC, Vinci and Bowmer & Kirkland among bidders for water flumes
Mabey moves staff from bridge building to wind tubines
50 workers transferred to wind turbine tower plant after Mabey secures massive order
Wolves postpone stadium redevelopment
Club decides to concentrate funds on £6m academy and training ground project
Betting Spy: West Ham to win, Millwall to lose
West Ham and Barnsley pay 5/2 for the double while Wigan can beat QPR at 11/4
BAM wins £34m Somerset hospital contract
Work to start in March replacing old wards at Musgrove Park Hospital
Mace to build temporary terminal for 2012 athletes
Construction starts next month at Heathrow as BAA launches £20m Olympic strategy
Full winners list for £384m YORcivils framework
Procurement body confirms all winners for highways and civil engineering work
Vinci wins £27m Tesco distribution centre
Retail and interiors division to design and build 84,000 sq metre centre near Reading
Mulalley signs £100m Enfield housing deal
Planning application to go in next month for 500 homes and 4,000 sq metres of commercial space
5,000 firms go bust in last two years
Construction companies folded at the rate of 50 a week during the last two years
Willmott Dixon wins £15m wildlife headquarters
Contractor hopes to start this Easter on new home for WWF charity
Trump halts construction in Scottish wind farm row
Tycoon furious over plans to build wind farm near his luxury golf resort
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