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Costain on course
Costain grew its order book value by £400m during 2015 to end the year with £3.9bn of work in hand, another new high for the company. In a trading update, Costain said that the business had...
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£1m pollution fine designed to send signal
A record £1m fine for Thames Water for polluting a canal has been handed down as a signal that big companies must improve their environmental performance, the judge said. Thames Water Utilities was prosecuted by the...
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Streetworks contractor prosecuted after worker hit by bus
A utilities contractor has been fined £12,000 after a worker was injured when clipped by a bus passing through its roadworks. Rebeck Communications Ltd was employed to lay a pipe across Station Road in Long Bucky,...
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BAM sells Dutch precast plant
The plant was used for the production of elements including Xbloc armour units, which are used for breakwaters and sea defences. The facility in Zuidbroek will be Betonfabriek Vrijenban’s third in the Netherlands. The company already...
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Team picked for $348m section of Californian high-speed rail
Ferrovial is set to be awarded a US$348m (£237m) contract for a 35km stretch of high-speed railway in California, USA. The California High-Speed Rail Authority has identified California Rail Builders as the apparent best value proposer...
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Hawk gets new shareholder and eyes move into quarrying
Shropshire-based plant hire and earthworks company Hawk Group has received an £8m injection from Business Growth Fund (BGF) in return for a share of the business. The percentage of the business sold to BGF has not...
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Councils blame housing backlog on skills shortage not planners
There are nearly half a million homes with planning permission waiting to be built, according to new research. The Local Government Association (LGA) commissioned Glenigan to produce a number for the house-building industry’s backlog of unbuilt...
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