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5 April, 2013 | Exclusive: Five major contractors have lined up for a £50m project to construct 290 homes in Camden, north London. Not yet a subscriber Sign up today for instant and complete access to cnplus.co.uk and the weekly Construction News magazine for as low as £12 a month! Need help Call …
Developers Helical Bar and Aviva Investors have gotten planning permission for his or her Brickfields development, a 1.55 million sq ft residential-led scheme at the former Dairy Crest site at White City in west London. The 11-acre site can have 1,150 new homes, 210,000 sq ft of offices and approximately 60,000 sq ft of retail, …
5 April, 2013 | James Wates will replace Paul Drechsler as chairman of Wates Group this month, with Mr Drechsler could also be set to step down as chief executive of the firm on the end of 2013. Not yet a subscriber Sign up today for fast and complete access to cnplus.co.uk and …
Housing sales are up and the development order book is at a record high of £1.5bn. Profit before tax was £6.6m for the year to 31 December 2012. This came at the back of a £30.4m loss in 2011 before exceptional items. Group revenue was up 5% to £619.9m. The main drivers behind the increased …
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2 April, 2013 | May Gurney lost out at the re-bidding for the Norfolk roads maintenance contract worth as much as £780 million after being outscored by three bidders, the council said today. Not yet a subscriber Sign up today for instant and complete access to cnplus.co.uk and the weekly Construction News magazine …
Balfour Beatty ran reference checks with the now-defunct Consulting Association on approximately 15,000 construction workers between 2004 and 2008. Mr Peasland told the Scottish Affairs select committee, that’s investigating the level of blacklisting inside the construction industry, that Balfour Beatty checked the credentials of employees because they feared “harassment and bullying” by some workers, coercing …
3 April, 2013 | The Homes and Community Agency has appointed Keepmoat for a £22.6m housing scheme at Carr Lodge in Doncaster, which was approved as portion of an accelerated land delivery programme. Not yet a subscriber Sign up today for instant and complete access to cnplus.co.uk and the weekly Construction News magazine …
Local authorities in England and Wales spent £113m on filling 2.2 million potholes, but with the complete heavy rain the entire state of the network still got worse and the spending shortfall continued to rise. The 18th Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance (ALARM) survey was completed by 75% of councils across England and Wales. The …
3 April, 2013 | Exclusive: Mace was chosen to develop a second phase of the £1bn regeneration of London’s famous Regent Street, under a freelance understood to be worth around £45m. Not yet a subscriber Sign up today for fast and complete access to cnplus.co.uk and the weekly Construction News magazine for as …