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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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National Grid fined £2m for boy’s death
National Grid has been fined £2million after a boy fell to his death from one if its pipelines over a canal. On 24thApril 2014, 11-year-old Robbie Williamson and two friends were crossing the Leeds-Liverpool Canal using...
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Brookfield Multiplex cleared to start Bishopsgate tower
Jacobs wins Irish road safety contractHill to manage costs on 234ha Moroccan resort projectLaing O’Rourke officially signs Brighton hospital contractArcadis wins project manager role for £1bn Manchester Airport expansionPort expansion project awarded for Panama Canal Construction of...
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Highways England makes case to build world’s longest road tunnel
A tunnel under the Pennines to provide a new road link between Sheffield and Manchester is technically feasible and worth exploring further, according to Highways England engineers. At between 20km and 30km, potentially, it could be...
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