10 companies to watch in 2026
Which companies are likely to have the biggest impact on the industry in the year ahead?
12 Jan 2026 Comments Off on 10 companies to watch in 2026
Which companies are likely to have the biggest impact on the industry in the year ahead?
03 Jan 2024 Comments Off on 10 companies to watch in 2024
Which companies are likely to have the biggest impact on the industry in the year ahead? ISG In November, ISG felt moved to issue a statement denying “unsubstantiated, wholly inaccurate and false claims” about its financial health”. However, it did not elaborate on the nature of these claims. Last year…
20 Jan 2023 Comments Off on Passiv promise: will new energy rules inspire innovation?
Proposed requirements for energy-efficient homes in Scotland could provide a sharp learning curve for contractors, their supply chain and end users. By Tiya Thomas-Alexander Just before Christmas, the Scottish Government made a significant announcement. Following a public consultation, it threw its weight behind a member’s bill proposing that all new…
04 Jan 2023 Comments Off on 10 projects to watch in 2023
The outlook for the year ahead changed dramatically towards the end of 2022 – from optimism and expected growth to worries about material costs and inflation. The last couple of months of the year saw a raft of gloomy forecasts about the state of the construction industry in 2023, with…
09 Dec 2022 Comments Off on Contractor cost-of-living payments: do they help?
Employee-benefits specialists have warned contractors to give careful consideration to cost-of-living payments, and to communicate them well. A number of big construction firms including Galliford Try, Skanska and Royal Bam have joined companies in other sectors in offering discretionary one-off sums to workers faced with soaring bills this winter. Experts…
10 May 2022 Comments Off on Galliford Try chief executive on the business benefits of doing the right thing
Bill Hocking explains the firm's strategy, post-pandemic, to Lem Bingley, and gives an insight into the type of business the company is striving to be
12 May 2021 Comments Off on The cost of re-cladding – a financial blow that could prove worse than COVID
Leaseholders facing big bills for remediation include many who themselves work in construction, but even those in the know have become powerless victims. Ian Weinfass investigates
16 Sep 2020 Comments Off on Galliford Try results: COVID redundancies and 4 other things we learned
Galliford Try posted a £60m loss this morning, which it blamed on the coronavirus crisis. After the disposal of its housebuilding arms, net cash had ballooned to £197.2m. Ian Weinfass spoke to chief executive Bill Hocking and finance director Andrew Duxbury and has picked out some of the headlines from its…
12 Mar 2020 Comments Off on How a Rock is set to shake up the defence sector
Years of conservative procurement has conditioned defence estate contractors to think traditionally, but one woman is leading the charge for change with an outsider’s approach to transform the sector
22 Jan 2020 Comments Off on How Galliford Try is giving Wolverhampton a black and gold revival
In the West Midlands, contractors are helping spruce up the gateway to one of its major cities