Recession Busting UK Government Projects Critical to Contractors and Consultants Fail to Move Forward to Start On Site Despite Treasury Cash

June 6th, 2009 by waster

Government promises, vital to the depressed construction industry and made some months ago are not being kept. Many Local Government Waste Management contracts are also late. Just when will the government wake up to the need to get the construction industry working again?

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Institution of Civil Engineers UK Responds to the Budget by Asking for More Infrastructure Funding Arrangements

May 2nd, 2009 by waster

ICE responded to the announcements in Alistair Darling’s budget on Wednesday welcoming many of the measures but with a number of caveats and additional calls. The ICE statement commented:
“There is much to be welcomed in this budget. The commitment to maintaining capital investment to 2012 will hopefully reduce the danger of a double dip [...]

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List of Top Waste Contractors (UK)

October 28th, 2008 by waster

The New Civil engineer Magazine, which is the weekly news magazine of the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineers, provides through eMapInform an annual contractor listing and ranking report across all civil engineering construction disciplines.
This years edition provides the following list of the top twenty waste contractors, which in this context means a ranking of the [...]

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