The Construction Index News

• 7,000 dodgy ladders given up through HSE amnesty scheme
• Manchester City stadium area set for £1bn regeneration scheme
• £250m Telford regeneration gets planning green light
• IMAGES: £32m Old Trafford cricket ground redevelopment approved
• Taylor Woodrow / BAM Nuttall JV wins £700m Victoria tube upgrade
• Connaught quashes takeover talk
• 'Unprepared' construction companies face £250,000 fines for environmental offences
• Plans unveiled for £30bn high-speed rail network
• House builder fined for unsafe scaffolding
• Demolition firm to remove asbestos from Palace of Westminster
• Development partner sought for Covent Garden market development
• Interserve to restore London's Albert Bridge
• VHE Construction wins Glasgow Commonwealth Games deal
• Mayor Boris threatens legal action over Tube Lines ruling
• Interserve profit boosted by exceptional gains
• Costain breaks through £1bn-turnover mark, but profit falls
• Contractor fined £5,000 after worker is trapped in trench collapse
• PHOTO: Merseyside contractor fined after dangerous work on roof
• Killer bugs launched in UK to control Japanese knotweed
• Mears enjoys growth in profit and revenue
• Rok profit jumps 188% but turnover falls
• ISG interim profit plunges 61%
• 6 more BSF schemes worth £418m announced
• Balfour Beatty wins blacklisting case
• 87 housing schemes receive £83m of HCA funding
• Bam wins £60m Bluewater leisure scheme
• PHOTOS: Olympic Stadium lighting towers lifted into position
• Construction accounted for 14% of insolvencies during 2009
• Bovis Homes returns to profit
• Contractor fined after worker is buried alive
• Construction output falls in final quarter of 2009
• Building contractor fined for inadequate toilets
• Another four Welsh road jobs worth £124m announced
• £300m Walkie-Talkie tower attracts bidders
• Isle of Wight advertises £1.2bn highways maintenance PFI
• Morgan Ashurst wins two contracts worth £71m on Hull BSF
• Kier awarded £8.8m Defence Estates deal in Cambridgeshire
• Civil engineering contractors make 6 budget demands of government
• Liverpool advertises £560m BSF
• Balfour Beatty turnover surges past the £10bn mark
• Morgan Ashurst wins £7.8m eco-school in Scotland
• Wales to build four new road schemes worth up to £113m
• Balfour Beatty wins £9m South Kensington highways work
• Stradform awarded £17m Glamorgan student accommodation job
• Crossrail advertises £95m central London station works packages
• Worker killed after scaffold fall in Skegness
• Laing O'Rourke JV awarded £140m Beckton sewage treatment works upgrade
• Carillion's profit rises 28% to £148m
• Taylor Wimpey posts £700m loss but says trading is 'encouraging'
• UK construction industry still contracting, say CIPS figures
• Infrastructure funds secured for £650m Salford regeneration scheme
• Miller awarded £8m Leeds University archiving facility
• Bam Construct wins £7.6m Preston leisure centre job
• Rotherham Council and demolition firm fined £105,000 after worker death
• Harry Neal goes into liquidation
• Galliford Try takes £6.1m Rotherham station contract
• HSE announces blitz on refurbishment and roofing sites
• Keller profit falls 34%
• Persimmon back in the black with £77.8m profit
• Fines for late road works increase 1,000%
• Construction company fined £80,000 after boy's head crushed by electric gates
• Northumbrian Water pays out £34,000 after worker crushed
• First corporate manslaughter case adjourned due to director's ill health
• PHOTOS: Cladding complete on London Olympics Media Centre
• 20 contractors named on £73m Sanctuary Housing framework
• London Olympics cost may rise again, says NAO report
• Manchester contractor fined £24,000 after scaffolding collapse
• Carillion reaches financial close on £430m Bristol Hospital
• BBC rapped for £117m construction overspend
• Balfour Beatty wins £250m Coventry street-lighting PPP
• Lovell wins £30m Gloucester housing repairs deal
• Redrow revenue up, but still makes interim loss of £8.7m
• Queen's University Belfast awards 3 contracts worth £12.5m
• IMAGES: US to build new £650m embassy in Wandsworth
• Mansell wins £8m Reading film theatre
• Sheffield contractors pay out £25,000 after power cable accident 'fries' tipper
• Galliford Try profit slashed to £6.4m by OFT fine
• Gleeson returns to profit - just
• Barratt turnover down a third after building 27% less homes
• Two contractors share £30m Blackpool highways framework
• May Gurney wins £120m of AMP5 work from Anglian Water
• Kier interim profit chopped in half by £18m OFT bid-rigging fine
• 50,000 jobs could be created by repair and maintenance VAT cut
• Bam wins £600m Somerset BSF
• Morgan Sindall profit falls 28%, turnover drops 13%
• Sovereign Housing Group advertises £90m construction framework
• Mansell wins contract to upgrade 44 London rail stations
• Travelodge to invest £60m in new hotels
• Developer and contractor fined £25,000 after worker death fall
• BAA to spend £1bn on airport upgrades this year
• Shepherd wins £15m Black Country leisure centre
• Asbestos dangers 'mismanaged' by many schools
• PHOTOS: Merseyside roofing contractors warned over unsafe working at height
• Lovell / Leadbitter win £10m-worth of Oxford housing work
• £15m Salford Reds rugby league stadium out to tender
• House building at lowest levels since World War II
• Portsmouth to hold bidders' open day for £112m housing PFI
• Castle Cement fined £250,000 for dust and noise pollution
• Olympic temporary venues given planning permission
• Bam Construct and Bam Nuttall appoints new chief executives
• 164,000 jobs lost in construction during 2009
• Frank Galliers goes into liquidation
• University of Sussex seeks contractor for £20m faculty building
• Developer Gazeley gets planning green light for 500,000 sq ft of warehouses
• Wrekin Construction's '£11m ruby' sold for just £8,000
• 80% of civil engineering contractors report falling workloads
• McLaughlin & Harvey wins £50m Loch Ryan port contract
• Jarvis predicts £5m operating loss
• Wates to build £12m West Yorkshire Police laboratories
• Crossrail invites bids for Plumstead / Woolwich tunnels
• Lovell chosen for £445m east London housing framework
• Four named on £2bn Managed Motorways framework
• Willmott Dixon wins £5m veterinary teaching centre
• Kier / Murphy / Interserve JV wins £70m United Utilities deal
• Arsenal FC to build 354 homes after signing RSL agreement
• Asda gets planning green light for giant Telford superstore
• Vinci buys Tarmac's European businesses for £250m
• £1.5bn East London regeneration scheme scrapped
• United House signs £20m Hounslow development deal
• Morgan Ashurst wins £12m NHS LIFT centre in Doncaster
• Construction starts down 8% in January due to snow
• Scottish Coal signs £23m Finning deal for Cat trucks
• Two demolition contractors fined £115,000 after worker death
• Carillion fined £185,000 after worker crushed by truck
• Three picked for £10m Greenwich social housing framework
• Morrison wins £7.3m of work from Environment Agency
• Bramall wins £7.6m Basildon care home
• Three make shortlist for £180m Stockton BSF
• Portsmouth Water advertises £32m AMP5 framework
• Mansell bags £7.5m care home deal
• £120m Manchester retail development gets planning green light
• Miller awarded £6.9m Scottish Power contract
• Mansell wins £11m Basildon healthcare project through ProCure 21
• Environment Agency announces £745m of flood defence funding
• Seven councils receive £620m of funding for street-lighting PFIs
• New construction orders rise 21%
• London contractor Buildstone in administration
• Costain / Colas / Halcrow JV wins £115m Area 14 MAC
• Enterprise Mouchel reappointed by Highways Agency to £150m Area 1 MAC
• Galliford Try buys out Bank of Scotland stake in housing JVs for £4
• Morgan Ashurst wins £6.3m office job
• Enterprise Mouchel wins £149m north-west roads maintenance deal
• Countryside wins £560m South Acton regeneration
• £100m construction framework up for grabs in Leicestershire
• Lewisham belatedly advertises £310m Decent Homes framework
• Carillion wins £44m Essex reservoir deal
• Three directors disqualified over conduct at Glasgow contractor
• Construction worker killed at Hampshire's Rose Bowl cricket ground
• Kier wins £5.9m Essex school deal
• Scottish Water advertises £300m plant hire framework
• May Gurney wins £65m-worth of Wessex Water frameworks
• Construction industry facing another year of decline
• £60m handed out to four eco housing schemes
• St Modwen losses double to £101.7m
• Harry Neal in receivership
• ISG wins £14m student accommodation deal
• Contruction insolvencies fall again
• York contractor fined £30,000 after exposing workers to stone dust
• £600m Birmingham New Street revamp gets planning go-ahead
• 10 chosen for Isle of Anglesey regeneration framework
• Skanska back in the black as turnover passed £1.5bn
• Crossrail awards six enabling works packages
• Bellway sales up 12%, but tougher times loom
• 12 arrests in construction VAT fraud probe
• G F Tomlinson awarded £8m Wellington Civic Quarter contract
• Shepherd fined £20,000 after Nottingham cherry picker accident
• Leadbitter wins £6.5m University of Brighton deal
• Wates wins £13m deal from Royal College of Art
• Bam Construct wins £16m Selby hospital scheme
• Morgan Ashurst wins £7m Central Lancashire university deal
• GB wins £50m of defence work on Project Allenby / Connaught
• £50m housing deal up for grabs in Chester
• Carillion makes board changes
• Construction's decline has now lasted for two years
• Lovell starts £22m development for River Clyde Homes
• Six chosen for £20m Sandwell roads framework
• Considerate Constructors Scheme adds smoking, drugs and literacy to 2010 checklist
• London housing association seeks contractors for £140m framework
• Wildgoose wins over £10m-worth of new work
• Lovell, Balfour Beatty and Mulalley win £10.5m Islington Decent Homes deal
• Skanska wins £1bn Essex BSF
• Balfour Beatty acquires Multibuild for £1.9m
• £40m Glasgow housing refurbishment deal goes to local firm
• Morgan Ashurst wins £8m Scottish school contract
• House builder pays out £15,000 after worker's death fall
• Shropshire contractor enters administration
• Yorkshire contractor collapses with 30 job losses
• Babcock Rail to axe 300 jobs
• Balfour Beatty announces £270m-worth of new contract wins
• Jeakins Wear takes £71m Norfolk social housing deal
• Connaught chief executive quits
• Coventry contractor goes into liquidation
• Shepherd awarded £58m Holland Park school contract
• Mitie confident about 2010
• Carillion wins £370m Wolverhampton BSF
• Property firm fined £18,000 for exposing construction workers to asbestos
• Two workers die after falls from rail bridges
• Apollo, Connaught, Mitie, and Keepmoat win £75m Plymouth housing framework
• Edinburgh contractor fined £3,600 after management failings on Galashiels site
• Tesco wins public inquiry into Milton Keynes superstore
• House builder McInerney still in breach of banking covenants
• Construction to grow by just 1.7% a year from 2010 to 2014
• Renew is debt free with over £13m of cash
• £16m Leicester Square landscaping job up for grabs
• Balfour Beatty / Jones Bros team wins £34m North Wales road job
• Morgan Ashurst wins education contracts worth £14.6m
• Costain / Lagan / Ferrovial team wins £113m Northern Ireland road job
• Construction SMEs still deep in recession
• Planning green light for £800m Rotherham scheme
• Pochin's suffers £4.4m interim loss
• Southdale Homes wins £7.5m social housing deal
• VIDEO: Bridge lifted into position at Olympic rowing venue
• Tube Lines loses claim for extra £327m from London Underground
• Laing O'Rourke wins £23m Cardiff college contract
• Spending cuts could hit over 500,000 affordable homes
• Morgan Ashurst wins £9m Derbyshire leisure centre deal
• Construction disputes set to soar during 2010
• Ocon wins three student accommodation jobs worth £35m
• Shepherd makes £1.5m loss after £26m of exceptionals
• Network Rail gets green light for £120m Milton Keynes development
• Construction company insolvencies increase by a third
• Willmott Dixon wins £13m Ealing leisure centre deal
• Morgan Sindall-led JV signs contract for £417m Lee Tunnel
• London Underground advertises £132m of Metronet tube work
• SEC confirmed for £280m South Coast street-lighting PFI
• Birse wins £7m Windsor and Eton road deal
• Bovis Lend Lease and Willmott Dixon make final shortlist for £300m Wandsworth BSF
• Vinci / Sir Robert McAlpine JV wins £32m Wirral health centre deal
• Sir Robert McAlpine wins £10 student accommodation deal
• Finning pledges to save plant industry £10m in 2010
• Land Securities awards three London office jobs worth £345m
• Severn Trent announces £2.5bn investment programme
• Thomas Vale wins £8m Telford sheltered housing deal
• Taylor Wimpey upbeat after cutting debt by half to £750m
• £175m Liverpool PFI hospital out to tender
• Tolent set to de-list from Stock Exchange
• Construction firm fined £80,000 after digger driver's head crushed
• Balfour Beatty order book reaches £13.7bn
• Bam Nuttall team wins £250m Chiltern rail scheme
• Willmott Dixon wins £26m Milton Keynes retirement village deal
• Bovis Homes expects 2010 trading conditions to be subdued
• Bellway reports 54% increase in reservations
• RBI Postpones SED to 2011
• Health and safety the priority as London 2012 construction reaches peak
• SGB Changes its name to Harsco Infrastructure
• Quadrigas Kieran Gardiner Scoops Silver at 2009 Construction Manager of the Year Awards
• Imperial College Spruced up by Quadriga
• VAT Rate Change What Goes Down Must Come Up
• Quadriga working with Stockport Council, wins Coveted 2009 Conservation Design Award
• DORMA revamped Showbus more popular than ever in 2009!
• SKYShades (UK) Ltd seeks distributors and installers to bring SOLAR FARMS to the UK
• The Youngman Boss Powered Access Family Is Growing!
• DORMA Supplies Hardware To Two Sterling Prize Finalists
• FREE Construction Training Do You Qualify?
• After 130 Years Contract Journal & ContractJournal.com Is Set To Close.
• Long Rake Spar Expand Green Roof Products
• Economic Development & Construction Act 2009 Now Published
• Multifab Manufacture Eco-Friendly Fuel Storage Tank
• BLISS Books Launches New Construction Law Information Bulletin & Research Service.
• Construction Index Clients, Enjoy Aston Villas 2-1 Victory Over Chelsea.
• Multifab Awarded Their Largest Export Order
• SGB TOPEC Finishes On Top At Manchester Development
• Networking for Construction Index Clients
• DORMA Opens The Way For Visitors To The New Darwin Centre
• The Construction Index shortlisted for BEST WEBSITE 2009, Built Environment Marketing Awards
• Long Rake Spar Heritage Success For Goldpath
• EcoRoc, Long Rake Spar Extends Its Range Of Recycled Products
• The Construction Index Moves To The Premiership
• Luxury temporary headquarters for Stobart Ports
• Carr Sports Completes Hackney City Academy On Time & In Budget
• Building Law Encyclopaedia
• Long Rake Spar Publishes New Grantex Brochure
• Long Rake Spar Expands Product Range
• The Construction Index Tope Fishing
• SGB Rovacabin Supporting Vital Air Ambulance Services In Cornwall
• SGB Gives Power Project A Lift
• The Tope eluded us!
• Bell & Webster achieves BSI registration for its Occupational Health and Safety Management System
• Evans Precast Concrete Now Making Dream A Reality
• Free UK Construction Tenders
• SGBs logikal solution to radiation shield
• Bell & Webster gets ISO 14001:2004 registration
• inspHire customer Ranger Equipment/Spiderlift expand to new heights.
• Vertikal Days Review InspHire
• The Construction Index 2009 Tope Fishing Trip
• Multifab Makes Waves in Energy Production
• Height for Hire / Easi UpLifts select inspHire to provide its International Rental Management System.
• SGB SAFESCREEN Is Top Of The Class
• The Construction Index 2009 Race Day, 5th of June.
• Balmoral HydroClear earns award from RHASS
• SGB Rovacabin deliver seamless welfare facility upgrades at Sir John Moore Barracks, Winchester
• SGB on top form for new Raynesway Derby Link Bridge
• SED success for inspHire
• SGB bridges the gap on Longbridge bypass
• The Construction Index 2009 Golf Day, Belton Park Golf Club
• BLISS Books links with University of Manchester
• DORMA brings change in Scotland
• New Look Construction Industry Awards
• SGB Has London Gatwick Refurb Covered
• SGB Rovacabin Builds On Strong Relationship With Falkirk Council
• No Mystery In DORMA Specification At Agatha Christies House
• Ancon Launches the First 250mm Type 4/Type A Wall Tie
• SGB Mastclimbers Provide Fast & Efficient Access Solution For Large-Scale Steelworks Refurbishment
• Abbey Pynford Is On Track With Station Upgrade Foundation Solutions
• InspHire Demonstrates Its Hire Management Software At Vertikal Days - 24 & 25 June 2009
• SGB Distills The Essence Of Acces Expertise
• SGB Takes No Chances Over Mayfair Casino
• RSP Safety Services Expansion leads to Peterborough...
• SGB Established New SGB Rail Services Team
• Shaun Brown appointed Director and General Manager of Bell & Webster
• SGB Rovacabin VIP Treatment For Ocean Sky Jet Centre At Prestwick Airport
• SGB Rovacabin Supplies Modular Building For Operations Team At RAF Northolt Base
• Specialists Awards 2009.
• Free UK Tenders with The Construction Index.
• JCT 1998 Contracts to be Withdrawn
• Low Cost - Second Hand Galvanised Pedestrian Panels & Galvanised Scaffold Tube.
• Adjudication Judgements From Bliss Books
• Foundations With The Best Environmental Performance For Social Housing
• Bell & Webster Introduce 8 Metre Widespan Floor & Insulated Glazed Panel.
• The Health & Safety Event "Perform & Protect" 2009 - FREE ENTRY.
• Specialists Awards 2009 Sponsorship
• Bliss Books Links up with Laxtonslive
• OGC Review Identifies Three Best Practice Contracts
• Survey Reveals Green Energy Fears
• Introducing The Castle Flood Box: Flood Emergency Kit.
• Reduce the amount of water you use by over 30% and achieve the same workability
• Bliss Books Discounts on Standard Forms of Contract
• The LightHouse Club Christmas Lunch
• SB53 – IG Pipe Joint Improves Performance
• Expansion for leading Lincolnshire based toilet hire company
• Pre-Publication offer on the new edition of Eggleston's "Liquidated Damages and Extensions of Time"
• SGB Training Wins NFB Seal Of Approval
• Bid For UK Tenders – Real Business Opportunities For Tough times
• SGB Access Solution Is The Height Of Distinction For Luxurious Ancoats Redevelopment
• Eleco Timber Frame Provides Time-Efficient Framing Solution for Bowdon Construction.
• Staircon® Steps Up Its Design Software.
• New Roads and Streetworks Act (NRASWA) From Just £375.00
• Pre-budget report: Construction
• Where the Construction money is going.
• Bell & Webster - Client Focused Approach to New Business:
• Introducing Bell & Webster’s latest innovation – Prestressed Wide Span Floor
• Crossrail Gets £230m BAA Funding
• Construction Firms Hit Brick Wall
• Receive 25 FREE QSL Tender Leads Today.....
• Bell & Webster Expands With New Premises In Hoveringham Near Nottingham
• Multifab Take First Steps To Olympic Success
• ARCA Gold Award for EMS Group
• Cheaper Ways To Build 2012 Village
• £500k For Evans Precast Concrete
• Poundfield Alfablocs In Lithuania
• UK Construction Plant Market To Fall 35%
• 19 Jobs Lost At Roger Bullivant (Ireland)
• JCB Academy To Build Up Diplomas
• Think Hard Before You Make Cuts!
• Twintec Delivers Largest Flat Floors For Constellation
• Nuclear Engineers Avoid Contact
• West Yorkshire Construction Worker Dies On Site
• North West Specialist Wins Network Rail Supply Contract
• Taylor Wimpey Suffers Black Monday Two
• The Construction Index At St Ledger Festival
• Surveyors' Failure To Spot Asbestos
• Keen Edge On M1 Barrier
• The NEW www.nottinghamlighthouseclub.org
• Bullring 'UK's Ugliest Building
• New £24m Hospital Given Go Ahead
• Crane Drops Air-Conditioning Unit On Pedestrian
• Wembley Ruling: CBUK To Pay Multiplex £8m
• Logic SHE Continue To Grow
• Wind Farm Construction Complete
• Torqing Sense For Process Plant Control
• Green Building Methods
• EMS Group New Training School Opens
• Trump's £1bn golf resort approved
• Jobs Threat As Cement Works Shuts.
• Groundbreaking Dudley Company Knows The Drill
• The Construction Index Golf Day.... Just 3 Spaces Left
• The Heating & Ventilation Exhibition 2009
• Free colour matching tool for Beads and Render from Renderplas