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Brand Energy & Infrastructure Services (Lyndon SGB)
Last Updated 4th March 2021 Brand Energy & Infrastructure Services Brand Energy & Infastructure Services is the parent of one of the UK’s largest scaffolding contractors, Lyndon SGB. It started life in November 2013 when Harsco Infrastructure UK moved into new ownership in a deal combining its business with Brand Energy & Infrastructure Services. A private […]
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GB Building Solutions (GB Group Holdings Ltd)
GB Group Holdings Ltd and GB Building Solutions were placed into administration on 9th March 2015. BDO LLP has been appointed as administrators and is seeking to find potential purchasers for the group’s subsidiary businesses, including GB Development Solutions Limited and Oxford GB2 Limited, which have currently not been placed in administration. The company had grown […]
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Amey UK plc
Last updated February 17th 2021 Amey UK Plc Amey is a major provider of services to the public and regulated sectors with significant businesses in transport and infrastructure. The company is currently a subsidiary of Ferrovial, a major Spanish construction and airports group, which employs over 67,000 worldwide and owns Heathrow Airport. Based in Oxford, […]
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EMCOR Group (UK) Plc
Last Updated 24th May 2019 EMCOR Group (UK) Plc EMCOR UK is a leader in facilities management and in the past, one of the country’s largest M&E contractors. After reporting significant losses, it pulled out of the M & E construction market in 2013 and now focuses on integrated facilities management, critical asset maintenance projects and energy […]
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United Living
Last updated 29 March 2021 United Living Group United Living was created in the summer of 2014 through the merger of two existing major social housing contractors, Bullock and United House. In June 2019, the group was acquired by utilities and maintenance business Fastflow to creating a business employing more than1,100 people and turning […]
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Orbit Group
Last updated 24 September 2021 Orbit Group Orbit Group is a registered social landlord (RSL) that owns or manages around 46,000 homes in the Midlands and the South East. The group is based in Coventry and subsidiaries include Orbit South, Orbit East and Orbit Heart of England. The group has a development operation, Orbit Homes, […]
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Bouygues UK
Last updated February 2nd 2021 Bouygues UK Bouygues UK is a major subsidiary of the giant French construction, media and telecoms conglomerate Bouygues with a turnover of around £400 million Bouygues UK’s core business involves construction, development and regneration projects across the UK. The company is part of Bouygues Construction – which employs around over […]
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Balfour Beatty plc
Last Updated March 16th 2021 Balfour Beatty plc Balfour Beatty is one of the UK’s largest contractors with a global business spread which generates a turnover of around £8.6 billion. Styling itself an “international infrastructure group”, the company has recovered from heavy losses in 2014 and a ‘build to last’ transformation programme over recent years […]
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Glenigan/JLL Commercial Index Q3-2014
By Jon Neale, Head of UK Research, JLL JLL and Glenigan’s latest UK Commercial Construction Activity Index reveals that non-residential new build activity is increasing rapidly, with the value of new starts over the year to Q3 amounting to £12.5bn – up 5.4% on the year to Q2. Commenting on the research, Helen Gough, director […]
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HBF/Glenigan Housing Pipeline Q3 2014
New home planning permissions close to 200,000 dwellings per annum But planning system needs to evolve to meet rising demand for new homes Figures released today in HBF/Glenigan’s latest Housing Pipeline report show the moving annual total number of permissions being granted is now at 194,820 – well above the 120/130,000 levels of 2009. But […]
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