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Carillion construction profits nudge 3% margin
Carillion’s construction margins are close to 3% thanks to its strategy of withdrawing from overly competitive bidding in the past few years. In an upbeat trading statement, Carillion said that its 2015 results, when announced in...
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A-Plant capex reined in
A-Plant generated revenue of £178.3m in the six months to 31st October 2015 and an operating profit of £35.0m. By comparison, for the same period in 2014 it made £29.7m profit on £165.6m revenue. Rental only...
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Hill to manage costs on 234ha Moroccan resort project
Hill International is to carry out cost management for a major resort covering an area of 234 hectares in Morocco. The contract for Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment involves quantity surveying and cost management consultancy services...
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Quinn remains confident he can turn Balfour Beatty around
Balfour Beatty lost more than £300m last year and Leo Quinn was brought in to turn the business around. He set about implementing his Build to Last transformation programme. Immediate results were never expected. In the first half of 2015...
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Kosovo gets funding for 148km rail upgrade
Jacobs targets US rail sector with acquisitionSamsung C&T wins Singapore station and tunnel contractAlstom signs €3.7bn of Indian light rail dealsHong Kong accepts delays and cost rises for Express RailAlstom buys into South African rail business ...
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Jacobs wins Irish road safety contract
Jacobs Engineering Group has won a new four-year contract from Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) to provide technical consultancy services in road safety across the country’s national network. Jacobs will be carrying out health and safety inspections...
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Swedish tunnels completed on third attempt
Vinci and Skanska have celebrated finishing a tunnel that two other contracting teams had failed to complete. It took 10 years and an investment of €850m to complete the two Hallandsås railway tunnels in southwestern Sweden,...
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