Sweett posts loss as SFO probe continues to bite
Sweett Group made a pre-tax loss of £1.1m for the 2014/15 financial year after incurring losses on its Asian and Middle East businesses as well as an ongoing Serious Fraud Office investigation.
View ArticleBuilding sites targeted in illegal worker crack down
Building sites will be targeted by immigration officers this autumn as government officials crack down on illegal migrant workers.
View ArticleMace in PC Harrington dispute
Mace is understood to have filed a claim against PC Harrington Contractors, in the wake of the concrete specialist entering administration in April.
View ArticleSisk and Shangri-La settle over Shard hotel claims
John Sisk & Son has reached an out of court settlement with Shangri-La on their dispute over delays to the chain’s five-star hotel in the Shard.
View ArticleCompany director pleads not guilty to 21 charges of fraud
The director of a Suffolk building company has pleaded not guilty to 21 fraud charges, relating to contracts worth nearly £1m.
View ArticleExclusive: Sir Robert McAlpine sued £20m over Emirates job
Sir Robert McAlpine is facing a £19.2m court battle over alleged construction defects on a key worker housing development built as part of the high-profile Emirates Stadium redevelopment in north London.
View ArticleBlacklisted workers added to undercover policing enquiry
Blacklisted construction workers have “celebrated a major breakthrough” after being given ‘core participant’ status in the Pitchford Inquiry into undercover policing.
View ArticleIllegal construction workers face deportation
The government has launched a campaign to clamp down on illegal working in the construction industry.
View ArticleOsborne faces £10m housing association claim over care home fire
Geoffrey Osborne is facing a £10m claim over a fire that destroyed part of a Sussex care home.
View ArticleExclusive: CITB suspends testing centre applications following BBC exposé
The CITB has suspended applications from firms seeking to become qualified CSCS testing centres in the wake of a BBC exposé.
View ArticleBalfour Beatty fined £280,000 after worker electrocuted
Balfour Beatty has been fined a total of £280,000 after a worker was electrocuted while working on the upgrade of a data centre in Middlesex.
View ArticleStonewall conference to tackle homophobia in construction
LGBT right charity Stonewall is organising a conference to raise awareness of homophobia and transphobia in the construction industry following an investigation involving Construction News into the...
View ArticleLambeth forced to rethink housing estate demolition after High Court ruling
Lambeth Borough Council has been forced to rerun a consultation on its decision to demolish one of its housing estates after the High Court ruled it had acted unlawfully.
View ArticleSweett Group admits to bribery offence
Sweett Group has said it expects to be prosecuted by the Serious Fraud Office after admitting to a bribery offence.
View ArticleContractors must prove no modern slavery
Contractors will be challenged to prove they are not using illegal or slave workers after the Considerate Constructors Scheme issued a new checklist.
View ArticleFirms fined after explosion on House of Lords site
Two construction firms have been fined £90,000 after two workers suffered serious burns when they cut into a live electrical cable on a House of Lords site.
View ArticleCemex fined £700,000 after scaffolder death
Cemex UK has been fined £700,000 following the death of a scaffolder who was struck by falling debris from a tower just two weeks before his wedding.
View ArticleBoris taken to court over Norton Folgate
Heritage campaigners have mounted a legal challenge to Boris Johnson’s decision to call in controversial plans to overhaul British Land’s Norton Folgate area in east London.
View ArticleHundreds of construction workers face deportation
More than 250 construction workers face deportation as part of a Home Office crackdown on illegal immigrants working in ‘risk’ industries.
View ArticleBalfour Beatty fined £1m for road worker death
Balfour Beatty has been fined £1m following the death of a road worker in 2012.
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