All Contractors articles – Page 255
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Galliford Try announces £82m contract haul
Firm announces four major contract wins across the UK
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Heavyweights vie for £300m submarine factory revamp
Ten contractors shortlisted for BAE Systems job
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Cladding company Astec failed after expansion drive
Astec collapse leaves creditors £12m out of pocket
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BAM wins £21m college contract
BAM Construction has been appointed by Barnsley College to deliver a £21m contract.
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Lend Lease cashes in £700m on sale of Bluewater stake
Contractor will use proceeds to pay down debt and fund development pipeline
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Construction output to jump 30% by 2018
Latest forecast from AMA Research predicts output will rise to £158bn by 2018, with 6% growth this year
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Skanska completes Moorgate office scheme
Contractor Skanska has completed the highly sustainable Moorgate Exchange office building in the City of London
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Willmott Dixon bags £120m Flemingate scheme
Willmott Dixon has been confirmed as main contractor on a £120m retail-led development in Beverly, Yorkshire
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Features
What clients want
A resurgent commercial market means contractors now more able to pick and choose their projects. But this is making clients keener than ever to develop relationships, build a team and engage earlier with specialists
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Kier wins £140m housing repairs job
Kier has won a contract to provide planned maintenance across 33,000 homes for Genesis Housing Association
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Comment
The regional picture
The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show that construction is growing, by 4.6% since April 2013 in the most current estimate
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Slight dip, but generally still on the up
The CPA/Barbour ABI Construction Index was 123 in May, 2% lower than April but still 5% higher than a year ago, indicating that activity is still on a general upward trend
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Costain shoots to the top with £415m Network Rail deals
But Bam tops contractors’ league, excluding civils, with £217m haul spread across 16 contracts
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Handling the worker shortage
With both the Bank of England and the government pushing for greater housing production to deal with an overheating market and rising prices, it begs the question: who’s going to build them?
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Morgan Sindall's infrastructure boss exits
Exclusive: Morgan Sindall’s managing director of infrastructure has stepped down
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Scape fires gun on £1.5bn infrastructure race
Public sector procurement body Scape invites contractors to bid for its new £1.5bn civil engineering framework
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Carillion wins £70m Saudi hospital job
Firm’s Saudi Arabian business picks up major hospital contract in Riyadh
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Construction grew faster than expected in first quarter
Construction output growth revised up to 1.5%, in move that could mean UK economy grew 0.1% faster than previously thought
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Staying on top in challenging times
As we compare the market share between the 20 biggest contractors pre and post recession, the next question is what must firms do to ensure they’re on top in another six years?
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National BIM skills push launched
The National Federation of Builders (NFB) has unveiled a countrywide series of programmes to train a network of BIM champions