Barbour ABI Content Team 
At Barbour ABI, we are always looking for talented people who can share in our goals and help contribute to our successes. With more than 10 colleagues having hit the 25 years’ service milestone and with the average service length being almost 9 years amongst 140+ colleagues, we must be doing something right! But why should … Read more
You may have seen the recent announcements from UK Government relating to “sweeping reforms” of the planning system. To summarise the changes – they propose the introduction of new planning rules from September 2020 to allow land to be designated into three categories depending on how the land and buildings are to be used: for … Read more
At the start of the year, nobody could have predicted how widespread impact of Covid-19 would be, especially within the construction industry. With no sort of contingency plans in place for this kind of event, the industry was hit hard by site closures, furloughs and redundancies and even some companies calling in the administrators. We … Read more
The residential sector contract awards in 2019 were valued at £23.0 billion an increase of 0.9% on 2018. This follows on from 7.4% decrease in 2018. Following good growth in contract awards values between 2015 and 2017, there appears to have been some levelling off in 2018 and 2019. Key to this has been the … Read more
The total value of construction contract awards in January 2020, was £5.5 billion based on a three-month rolling average. This is an increase of 18.5% on December 2019 and is also 2.1% ahead of January 2019. In the three-month period ending January 2020, total construction contract awards were valued at £15.6 billion which is 7.1% … Read more
The latest data release from the ONS indicates that in the three months to November 2019 construction output increased by 1.1% on the previous three-month period. Key to this growth was a 1.6% increase in new work with repair and maintenance reporting a smaller 0.2% increase. Comparison with the three-month period ending November 2018 shows … Read more
The results are in for December’s top 50 Contractors in the UK. Balfour Beatty topped the table with three contract awards at a total value of £297 million. The award of the Midland Metropolitan Hospital in Smethwick, a project that was originally contracted to Carillion, contributed £267 million to their total. In second and third … Read more
The value of all construction contract awards in November 2019 was £5.4 billion based on a three-month rolling average. This is an increase of 9.1% on October, and an increase of 20.2% when compared with November 2018. Despite the increase in value of contract awards, the quantity has decreased by 1.0% in November to 855. … Read more
Sir Robert McAlpine took the top contractors spot this month with five contract awards totalling £561 million. A mixed development at Gateshead Quays contributed £250 million to the total. BAM Construction and Vinci Construction were in second and third place for November 2019 top contractors, with a total contract award value of £122 million and … Read more
Talks of Brexit swallowed October up right until the final week when an extension was granted by the European Union, buying the UK another three months times to reach a decision. Since, a general election has been called. This will undoubtedly create another interesting couple of months for the UK economy and therefore the construction … Read more
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