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Winner: O’Donovan Waste Disposal Family run business O’Donovan Waste Disposal offers vehicles for hire, including tippers, recycling plant and road sweepers. The London-based company, which has been operating for 60 years, employs 165 staff and runs 95 HGVs, impressed the judges with its wide-ranging and thorough staff-training programme. The innovative scheme…

Winner: Lucas UK Group Fit-out and finishing contractor Lucas said a culture of safe and innovative working is rooted in everything that it does, and the judging panel agreed, naming it as clear winner in the category. The firm makes use of two apps to remotely help embed health, safety and…

The government has permitted extended working hours at sites until April to help contractors catch up on lost time. Having previously examined whether these new rules could be left open to abuse, top construction lawyers have warned Megan Kelly that extended hours could lead to labour shortages, cost overruns and…

Construction News recently gathered a panel as part of our Inspiring Women in Construction initiative to discuss the role that men need to play if the industry is going to improve its diversity and really progress

As part of our inaugural Decarbonising Construction virtual event, an expert panel from across the industry shared the secrets to going green, and discussed how firms would be able to speed up the process

Cyber attacks can have a significant effect, both internally and on prospects of winning work. Ian Weinfass investigates what can be done to minimise this disruption and looks at why openness and transparency is being urged in this often-secretive element of business risk

*Names in this article have been changed to protect the identities of individuals Adam* was confused about why the manager suddenly wanted to ban him from the project. “Is it a site-wide policy?” he asked, thinking there must have been some change to the company’s COVID-19 regulations. “No,” the boss…

This page was published in 2020. For a more up-to-date analysis of the UK’s largest construction contractors, check out the CN100 list for 2021.  It wasn’t the £40m revenue growth, nor the profit that was most notable about M&E specialist Briggs & Forrester’s progress in 2019. It was that it…

From a railway project in Wales, through to a wool market in Doncaster, there’s a wide range of inspiring schemes in the Project of the Year category for jobs worth up to £20m

These projects have been shortlisted because they’ve excelled in embracing the most important aspect of any construction job: health, safety and wellbeing