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Lovell starts on Liverpool scheme
Tuesday, 30 April 2013

Lovell is to start work on an £8m, 70-home development for social housing provider Riverside, at a site in south-east Liverpool.

New £25m fund to tackle deprived Scottish communities
Tuesday, 30 April 2013

An annual £25m fund to transform disadvantage areas in Scotland has been launched jointly today by the Scottish government and the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA).

Mouchel poaches CSC public sector expert
Tuesday, 30 April 2013

Mouchel has appointed Janet Horton as local public services market director, a role she has held for the past three years at CSC.

Willmott Dixon to build retirement village in Hampshire
Tuesday, 30 April 2013

Willmott Dixon has won a £22m contract to create a retirement village in Hampshire.

ISG wins free school contract
Monday, 29 April 2013

ISG has been awarded a £6m contract to refurbish and fit out the building that will become the permanent home for Greater Manchester’s very first free School.

Ocon collapse 'down to loan'
Monday, 29 April 2013

The collapse of Manchester-based Ocon Construction was mainly down to an £8m loan it had made to its owner Opal Group, the company’s administrators have revealed.

Miller wins Newcastle contract
Monday, 29 April 2013

Miller Construction has won a £44m contract to deliver the first phase of the Stephenson Quarter project, a major regeneration scheme in Newcastle upon Tyne.

New NEC3 contracts look to include project bank accounts
Monday, 29 April 2013

The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) has relaunched and updated its NEC3 suite of contracts to include provisions for project bank accounts, among other changes.

Plant hire company 'disabled safety switches'
Monday, 29 April 2013

A Portishead plant hire company has been forced to pay nearly £157,000 after one of its workers was killed operating a tarmac cutter whose safety device had been deliberately disabled.

Balfour Beatty warns on UK profits
Monday, 29 April 2013

Balfour Beatty says a combination of a poor economic climate and an internal restructuring means profits at its UK construction business this year are likely to be around £50m lower than it had forecast in its full year results in March, when it was already expecting a 20% decline in UK revenue.

Work completes on Shrewsbury waste project
Friday, 26 April 2013

UK-based piling contractor, P J Edwards UK, has completed the piling works for the development of Veolia Environmental Service’s energy from waste facility, located in Shrewsbury, working with main contractor Clugston Construction.

Balfour Beatty wins research centre extension
Friday, 26 April 2013

Balfour Beatty has won a £5m contract to build a major extension to the Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC) in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire.

CPA calls for real investment as output falls
Friday, 26 April 2013

The government needs to do more to ensure that the nearly £10bn of funding it has promised to the industry is actually invested if a continuing decline in construction output that has now reached 1999 levels is to be averted, the Construction Products Association (CPA) is claiming.

BAM selected for Midlands schools
Friday, 26 April 2013

BAM Construction has bean appointed by the Education Funding Agency as the selected panel member for a £27m new build contract for four schools in Birmingham, Derby and Nottinghamshire.

Mouchel gets extension on Crossrail work
Friday, 26 April 2013

Mouchel’s environment land services team has won a two-year contract extension from Crossrail which means it will continue to support the rail project in land acquisition matters well into the construction period.

Scottish health centres move forward
Friday, 26 April 2013

Partnership organisation Hub North Scotland has reached financial close on three primary care projects for NHS Grampian and NHS Highland, all of which are to be delivered by Miller Construction.

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