Earlier this year, I provided an overview of insolvency as it pertains to corporate entities.

Even as the market slowed, Australia’s largest home building companies have increased their activity and revenues over the past year as they edged out smaller rivals and took a larger market share, the latest report shows.

More than 25,000 jobs will be created including more than 16,500 in construction and engineering whilst three quarters of Australian homes and businesses will have access to speeds of the highest tier of 500 Mbps to close to 1Gbps by 2023 after the Commonwealth Government announced a $4.5 billion boost in investment in the National Broadband Network (NBN).

Sending a Notice To Owner can help get you paid – if done timely and correctly.  Here are the mistakes to avoid. In the state of Florida, if you are … Read More

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The accompanying table records the 10 largest construction project starts in Canada in August 2020. Also included is the latest trend graph on starts. This looks at 12-month moving totals of the civil and nonresidential building categories in Canada.

So, you’re a building product manufacturer and you’ve watched your sales continually rise in this latest, impressive expansion, up to the COVID -19 reset. The assumption would be that things are going well for your company, right? The evidence is in your sales growth chart, a nice steady line upward trend, correct? But is this enough evidence to prove you are growing as much as you could during this expansion? What more do you need to see or understand? With the correct data you can quickly answer these very important questions and chart your growth against the industry.

The National Grid and Dutch transmission system operator Tennet have announced they are exploring the feasibility of connecting wind farms in Britain and the Netherlands through subsea electricity cables. A statement released this morning said linking the offshore wind farms in the North Sea could…

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Billington has reported a 31 per cent drop in turnover in its latest financial results. Turnover stood at £32.8m in the six months to 30 June 2020, falling from £47.2m the year before. The structural steel specialist’s pre-tax profit decreased by 77 per cent in the…

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Construction industry companies claiming through the government’s job retention scheme hit £3.2bn at the end of July, new data released by HMRC has revealed. This puts construction firms behind only the retail, accommodation and manufacturing businesses in the sectors claiming the most furlough cash. The…

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Housing secretary Robert Jenrick has appointed think-tank boss Nicholas Boys Smith to lead a new body tasked with “driving up design standards” in the built environment, part of the government’s planning reforms. Boys Smith will chair a steering group to advise on how best to…

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