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Balfour bags £214m Hinkley connection contract

Balfour bags £214m Hinkley connection contract

Balfour Beatty has landed a £214m deal to deliver overhead line connections for National Grid at Hinkley Point. The North and South 400kV overhead lines will link the new nuclear reactor to the national grid. The work has been awarded through National Grid’s Overhead...
Crest Nicholson squeezed by build cost rise and weak sales

Crest Nicholson squeezed by build cost rise and weak sales

South East house builder Crest Nicholson saw profits fall for the first time in years after being squeezed by higher build cost inflation and softening market conditions in the south east. The firm has now closed its London division with all sites in the capital now...
Balfour bags £214m Hinkley connection contract

Local Preston firm bags £19m Lancaster Uni business school

Preston-based John Turner Construction has secured the contract to deliver new business school facilities for Lancaster University Management School. The local firm beat off competition from BAM – who were initially expected to deliver the project – Eric...
Diamond cutting machine can speed-up cable laying

Diamond cutting machine can speed-up cable laying

A new diamond trenching method claims to boost the speed of cable laying by up to five times. Specialist Nextec has developed the system in its domestic Swedish market and is now looking to launch in the UK. Its machine replaces a traditional microtrenching carbide...