Rudi Klein Professor Rudi Klein has been a leading campaigner and advocate for the interests of construction subcontractors, combatting payment abuse in particular, for as long as most of us can remember. He led the industry’s efforts to secure legislation in 1996 – the Housing Grants, Construction & Regeneration Act (better known as the Construction…
The Construction Playbook sets down what the government considers to be commercial best practice and describes reforms in how contracting authorities and the construction industry should work with each other. The 83-page document*, full title The Construction Playbook: Government guidance on sourcing and contracting public works projects and programmes, sets out 14 key policies, including…
Covid? What Covid? That seems to be the message from Renew as it filed its annual financial results showing profit and turnover reaching a new high. Revenue was up more than 3% to £620.4m (2019: £600.6m) and pre-tax profit was up 19% to £32.1m (2019: £27.0m). Growth was achieved thanks to the £38m acquisition of…
The components of the TBMs on site in west Lodnon, waiting for reassembly The TBMs have been made by Herrenknecht in southwest Germany. At 2,000 tonnes and 170 metres long, they were transported to the UK in more than 300 separate shipments over the course of two months. The parts are now at the Chiltern…
Farringdon station on the Elizabeth line The BAM, Ferrovial and Kier joint venture (BFK JV) has completed the Farringdon Elizabeth line station – the first of the central London stations to reach the T-12 landmark. This means the station is substantially complete and it is now considered to be 12 weeks away from being ready…
Th EQ building, previously called Aspire, has been in the works for years Commercial Estates Group (CEG) appointed BAM Construction as its preferred contractor back in 2016 for a 285,000 sq ft speculative office building at 111 Victoria Street, close to Bristol Temple Meads Station. At that time it was described as a £100m project…
Many companies already opt for an e-card or ‘charity cards’ but this one comes with the opportunity to win a share of a £25,000 prize pot! With many people working from home there seems little point in sending conventional cards or gifts by post this year and the Christmas cracker e-card is also environmentally friendly. What…
Mark Bullock, chief executive of Balfour Beatty UK Construction Services Mark Bullock, previously chief executive for Rail & Utilities, is now chief executive of UK Construction Services. He replaces Dean Banks, who leaves to take on a new role in Australia after a short handover period. Mark Bullock joined Balfour Beatty in 2012 as managing…
Vp’s Groundforce business is one of three groundworks suppliers under investigation by the CMA Vp made a pre-tax loss of £6.2m for the six months to 30th September 2020 on revenue down 24% to £142.1m (2020 H1: £186.6m). In the same period last year it had made a pre-tax profit of £18.4m. Without the £13.0m…
Gordon Thomson Bodinglee in South Lanarkshire would have 60 ultra-efficient turbines. Its 300MW generating capacity would make the wind farm the UK’s third-largest by electricity generated. Banks Renewables has submitted the scoping report to South Lanarkshire Council. The proposed wind farm would be situated either side of the M74 between Douglas and Abington – not…
