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Laing O’Rourke technical director to leave
Laing O’Rourke Group Technical Director Paul Westbury is leaving the business. The Enquirer understands Westbury will quit at the end of this month. He joined O’Rourke in 2014 from Buro Happold where he was Chief Executive Officer. Westbury was part of Laing...
Stewart Milne signs timber frame deal with L&Q
Offsite specialist Stewart Milne Timber Systems has formed a partnership to deliver timber frame for more than 1,500 homes for housing association L&Q. Stewart Milne,will also support L&Q on bids for standalone contracts in the open market. The deal forms a...
Balfour Beatty fined £600k for Third Don Crossing fatality
Balfour Beatty has been fined £600,000 after an employee was killed when struck by a wheeled excavator on Aberdeen’s the Third Don Crossing project.Balfour Beatty has been fined £600,000 after an employee was killed when struck by a wheeled excavator on...
Administrators find buyer for McGill & Co
Administrators for for Scottish building services giant McGill & Co have found a buyer for the business. A company led by Dundee-based businessman Graeme Carling is now in exclusive talks about a deal. Blair Nimmo, global head of restructuring and Joint...
WYG financial director makes sudden exit
Consultant WYG this morning announced that chief financial officer Iain Clarkson had left with immediate effect. His departure follows a profit warning two weeks ago which saw the consultant’s shares slump 40%. WYG blamed economic uncertainty leading to delays...
Morgan Sindall to remove pylons from Thomas Hardy country
National Grid has awarded Morgan Sindall Infrastructure an £80m contract to bury electricity cables in Dorset and get rid of pylons.National Grid has awarded Morgan Sindall Infrastructure an £80m contract to bury electricity cables in Dorset and get rid of...
Laing O’Rouke wins £283m Soho Place development
Laing O’Rourke has signed the main construction contract for Derwent London's development over Tottenham Court Road's Crossrail station.Laing O’Rourke has signed the main construction contract for Derwent London's development over Tottenham Court Road's...
Travis Perkins sinks into the red
Builders’ merchant group Travis Perkins has posted a pre-tax loss of £49.4m for 2018 on revenues of £6.74bn.Builders’ merchant group Travis Perkins has posted a pre-tax loss of £49.4m for 2018 on revenues of £6.74bn.Read Full Article: The...
Persimmon profits top £1 billion
House-builder Persimmon, under fire in recent times for its generous executive pay packages, made a pre-tax profit of more than £1bn last year.House-builder Persimmon, under fire in recent times for its generous executive pay packages, made a pre-tax profit of more...
Persimmon names new CEO
After an extensive search for a new chief executive, house-builder Persimmon has decided not to make a clean break with the past but instead given the job to long-serving insider David Jenkinson.After an extensive search for a new chief executive, house-builder...
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