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Former ISG chief Matt Blowers joins Structure Tone
US firm’s London staff told this afternoon that Blowers is joing with immediate effect
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Industry’s ‘broken economic model’ under scrutiny in wake of ISG collapse
Consensus grows that margins levels ‘not sustainable’ and more firms will go to wall unless current system changes
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HSBC offices shortlist down to two after ISG failure
Fit-out job with £200m price tag currently biggest being let in London market
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Rivals battle for ISG staff including firm’s Google team as stricken contractor’s fit-out business files for administration
Number of UK subsidiaries to have made application for administration rises to eight
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Ongoing projects involving ISG could be worth nearly £5bn
Barbour ABI estimate based on total project values relating to schemes with completion dates from 2024 onwards
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Timeline: How ISG went from ‘wholly inaccurate’ claims about its financial health to ‘ISG has filed for administration’
In space of 10 months, firm went from dismissing speculation to the brink of administration
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Comment
ISG’s collapse: a huge blow to construction that raises urgent and difficult questions
This is the biggest collapse to hit the sector since Carillion – as we absorb the grim news, people will want some answers and fast
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Offices closed and sites shut as ISG set to file for administration, chief executive confirms
Contractor to go under two months after firm’s chairman said rescue deal was ‘days away’
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Clients told to move quickly to find replacements for ISG, or risk sites being stalled for months
Rivals say jobs novating jobs across as soon as possible will see mimimum delays
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‘I am so sorry to have to share this news’ : ISG boss Zoe Price’s email to staff in full as firm prepares for administration
Contractor ISG is set to collapse, in the biggest corporate construction failure for several years. Here is what the firm’s chief executive said to staff last night.Â
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ISG firms set to go into administration
Day of febrile speculation sees six subsidiaries apply for administration late this afternoon
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Features
Key takeaways from the ¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ the Future Conference and Housing Today Live
Church House in Westminster yesterday played host to two back-to-back conferences on construction and housing attended by hundreds of professionals from the built environment. Here is a round-up of the key talking points from the event, run by ¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ and Housing Today.
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‘Certainty of pipeline’ one of the keys to productivity improvements, conference told
Overhaul of planning system would improve historically low levels
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Industry needs to be more vocal in supporting Grenfell findings, Wates boss says, and warns contracting’s ‘bizarre’ margins not sustainable
Eoghan O’Lionaird bemoans industry’s ‘relative silence over report and admits firm’s 2% margin is not good enough
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HS2 tweaks Curzon Street station design
Proposals set to be sent in to Birmingham planners by end of year
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Legacy jobs continue to blight Vinci’s UK numbers
Provisions at building and FM arms keep firm in red
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Features
‘Bid for everything, always haggle’: The life and times of John F Hunt’s John Hall
The founder of the specialist contractor turned 75 over the summer. He tells Dave Rogers about nearly going under, having the gift of the gab and why he did well out of the Cardiff Millennium Stadium
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Meaningful recovery not expected until middle of next year, Arcadis warns
Consultant adds that contractors getting tougher on dealing with risk