Several small loss-making jobs and lower interest payments on cash reserves saw pre-tax profits at Exeter-based Midas Group slide from £5.9m last year to £631,000 in the year to April 2009.
A quartet of contractors is chasing a £12m warehouse for fashion retailer River Island in Milton Keynes.
Linford Group has notched up recent contract wins totalling £46m, with new projects for both its building and restoration divisions.
Four heavyweight contestants are working up bids for a £100m office scheme in Brighton.
Costain is set to close its final salary pension scheme after the deficit climbed from £39.6m as at 31 December 2008 to £75.7m as at 30 June 2009.
Birmingham City Council has signed a deal with Catalyst Lend Lease and its construction partner Bovis Lend Lease for the £180m first phase of its Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme.
More than 100 people applied for a labourer’s job in Scotland within four days of the ad appearing.
Four of the biggest names in tunneling have joined forces to bid for the Crossrail tunnel contracts announced earlier today.
Divers and engineers are probing why a 20m section of viaduct suddenly collapsed on Friday night on the outskirts of Dublin.
Laing O’Rourke has held on to its crown as the UK’s largest private construction firm as it pushed its turnover up to £4.1bn (£3.6bn) for the year to 31…