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Which companies are likely to have the biggest impact on the industry in the year ahead? Lendlease Its UK business is a mainstay in the CN100, coming 39th in 2024’s table (its highest position was 24th in 2017). But in May, Lendlease announced a withdrawal from the UK and other…

Which projects are likely to have the biggest impact on the industry in the year ahead?  Tribeca Work on London’s largest purpose-built life sciences campus will ramp up in 2025. The first phase of the King’s Cross Tribeca project, which features state-of-the-art laboratories and workshops, saw VolkerFitzpatrick complete the 10,450…

Fifty years after the Health and Safety Executive was created, is it still fit for purpose today? When a pile of coal waste crashed down a hill onto a school and row of houses killing 116 children and 28 adults at Aberfan in October 1966, no one was prosecuted. Industrial…

10. Supply chain needs helping hand but future is bright, says Caddick MD Caddick Construction managing director Paul Dodsworth told CN senior reporter Joshua Stein that some good had come out of ISG’s collapse a few weeks earlier, in an interview published in October. “I put a post out on…

10. Balfour chasing ‘outstanding sums’ as luxury-flat developer collapses In January it emerged that Balfour Beatty was chasing “outstanding sums” relating to a £200m super prime residential scheme in Mayfair, after its former client entered administration. The contracting giant completed the project in May 2023, five years after its appointment,…

This year’s scaffolding index includes just one new entrant but the top and bottom of the rankings have changed. All 10 firms recorded a profit in their most recent accounts and the median pre-tax margin rose to 7.6 per cent compared with 5 per cent in 2023’s index. Turnover broke…

The top 10 UK steel contractors saw their total revenue rise by 2 per cent or £21.8m compared with the previous year’s figures, with eight firms reporting increased year-on-year revenues. The top steel companies brought in a respectable total revenue of £1.37bn in their most recent accounts, up from £1.35bn…

The UK’s top 10 mechanical and electrical (M&E) firms grew their collective revenue by a fifth in their latest accounts, according to this year’s index. The sector’s biggest firms posted combined revenue of £3.68bn in their most recent accounts. This was a 21 per cent increase on the previous year’s…

This year’s index sees a welcome expansion in turnover and profit for the 10 largest ground engineering firms – but postponed projects look set to send the sector’s next round of results in reverse. Across the board, turnover increased by 26 per cent to £1.09bn while average pre-tax profit margin…

In the first-ever CN fit-out index, Morgan Sindall subsidiary Overbury leads the pack with turnover of £1.01bn for the year to 30 March 2024, marking a 15 per cent year-on-year increase. Its revenue surge generated a pre-tax profit of £71.2m and a pre-tax margin of 7.1 per cent – healthy…