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British Museum starts search for contractors for £27m storage facility

2018-05-30T06:00:00Z

New building will help replace Blythe House

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Willmott Dixon opens two offices in Birmingham city centre

2018-05-21T06:00:00Z

Contractor is working on a number of projects in the UK’s second largest city

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Stockholm bids to attract UK construction expertise

2018-05-08T06:00:00Z

UK companies wanted to work on multi-billion pound projects in Swedish capital

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Firms fined after roof fall

2018-05-02T06:00:00Z

Three contractors fined a combined total of more than £526,000

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Network Rail calls for input on how to keep projects on track

2018-04-13T06:00:00Z

Rail authority asks suppliers and contractors for input on its ‘standards’

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Coventry council looking for contractors for £11m railway job

2018-02-26T06:30:00Z

Firms have until the end of March to bid

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ONS correction to new orders data adds more black eyeliner to a Gothic horror show

2012-09-28T20:01:17.127Z

A statistical error shows that in fact contractors are winning work at the slowest rate since the 1980s

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The Financial Times, Barbour ABI and construction prospects

2011-05-25T14:51:55.797Z

The data shows value of contracts awarded to 50 contractors - they don’t include a large slice of housebuilding work

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Why construction's making the headlines

2011-05-25T09:56:00Z

The reasons behind the reported big drop in orders for Top 50 contractors

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What do the ONS figures really mean?

2011-05-04T16:54:00Z

There’s a lag in the data produced by ONS – and it’s a big headache for researchers and policy makers

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Is China really that important?

2011-03-04T09:16:19.680Z

In a word, yes. Growth in China can't be ignored and it has implications for industries and economies all round the world.

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Seeing beyond Bovis

2011-01-07T12:21:00Z

¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ that Lend Lease is poised to drop the 125-year-old Bovis brand will come as a shock, but perhaps it should have happened sooner

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Why are architects posh, but contractors aren’t?

2010-04-16T15:38:00Z

Last night I met the industry’s cycling clique at a reunion for those who rode to MIPIM for charity (which doesn't include me). I learnt three things:1) Cycling is hard. After a 500m sprint on the stationary bike I had to lie down for half ...

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Contractors are bagging a third less new work than at peak

2009-10-01T11:47:00Z

The latest new orders figures provide a sobering injection of reality after the barrage of "it's okay the recession is over" talk that seems rife.Yes the rate of collapse has slowed. But it's the level that really matters at the moment.Forgetting seasonal adjusted constant price measures, if we compare the ...

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Contractors face a £24 billion drop in new work

2009-07-30T23:33:00Z

UK contractors should prepare themselves for a £24 billion drop in the annual cash value of new work coming through as the recession reaches its expected bottom in 2011.Shrinking volumes and plunging prices threaten to drag the cash spent on buying new construction work down from £70 billion in 2007 ...