The UK's biggest privately owned building firm is close to clinching the prized £300 million contract to build British Land's Cheesegrater skyscraper... more
Building giant Laing O'Rourke is awarded the £400 million deal to build a new "cathedral of science" at St Pancras, as tipped by the Evening Standard last week... more
The UK's biggest privately-owned builder is expected to land a £400 million deal to build a laboratory dubbed a "cathedral for science" in central London... more
It’s been a lean time for Britain’s building industry. But trophy City towers are at least one growth market as developers dust off plans shelved in the recession... more
"It is absolute garbage to say the debt is down to Labour spending," says Ed Balls, shadow home secretary and formerly Gordon Brown’s chief economic adviser... more
Bond Street Tube station is to have a £300 million redevelopment to make it bigger and offer disabled access, with £130 million of the contract going to engineers Costain and Laing O’Rourke... more
BT was the biggest loser on the FTSE 100 today as investors fretted over its huge pensions deficit, while ratings agency Standard & Poor has cut its corporate debts credit rating... more
The company building the London Olympic stadium has been accused of unfairly 'blacklisting' potential troublemakers seeking jobs on the 2012 project... more
The tale of four cunning old geezers fooling two sharp young whippersnappers into paying £6.5 million for 47 acres of land owned by someone else altogether must surely form the basis of a script for the next series of Hustle. ... more
Construction: The restoration of the Gothic masterpiece fronting St Pancras rail station should be arriving by the end of next year — three years late... more
Irish racing tycoon John Magnier is reported to be looking at forcing the winding-up of construction giant Laing O'Rourke after it failed to pay him £3.1m awarded to him in a court ruling... more
Balfour Beatty, Capita Group and Laing O'Rourke have made it on to the shortlist for Europe's biggest construction job, the £15.9billion Crossrail project... more
Laing O'Rourke says it is seeing off the current slump in the British and European construction industries through contracts to work on some of the most opulent residential developments in the Gulf... more
The Mayor of Tower Hamlets defeated Labour to be elected. Livingstone not only backed him but some of Ken's key players are now at the heart of running the council. Stephen Robinson reports
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