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19.09201625th October 2018

Community thinking should be at the heart of construction

“We shape our buildings, and thereafter they shape us” – Winston Churchill As we have mentioned in a previous blog, a key part of our...

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Plans for £2bn Midlands rail transformation drawn up 26th June 2019
Midlands Connect has released plans for a hoped-for £2bn Midlands Rail Hub that would see the implementation of 15 pieces of new and improved infrastructure. The group has submitted a Strategic Outline Business Case to the Department for Transport and is asking for £25m of government funding to progress its plans to the next stage […]
Kier restructure: Government speaking to firm’s management 26th June 2019
The government is “in close communication” with Kier’s management over the firm’s restructure, it has been revealed. Last week, the contractor announced that it had decided to exit the housing, property investment and facilities management sectors under new CEO Andrew Davies’s restructuring plan. The company said this will result in 1,200 job losses by the […]
Royal Liverpool Hospital gets remedial surgery 26th June 2019
Project: Royal Liverpool Hospital Client: Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust Contract value (original): £335m Main contractor (now): Laing O’Rourke Main contractor (original): Carillion Contract type (original): PPP Contract type (now): Public Project start: 2014 Project end: Unknown Few buildings need hundreds of cubic metres of additional concrete and tonnes of steel brought […]