The contract – Lot 4b – covers the design and construction of the Nuova Enna-Dittaino. Webuild will lead the consortium with a 70% stake, with partner Pizzarotti having the remaining 30%.
The project, commissioned by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI), the infrastructure division of Italian state railway operator Gruppo Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane
According to court documents, Lafarge and its Damascus-based subsidiary Lafarge Cement Syria (LCS), made payments to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham – better known as ISIS – and its ally, the al-Nusrah Front (ANF), in exchange for permission to operate a cement plant in Syria from 2013 to 2014.
The bribes
Co-funded by the EU Horizon Europe programme and Innovate UK (the UK’s innovation agency) Wedusea brings together industrial and academic specialists from the UK, Ireland, Germany and Spain.
The Wedusea project plans to install a one-megawatt grid-connected OE35 floating wave energy converter, developed by OceanEnergy, at the European
Prime minister Liz Truss sacked Kwasi Kwarteng on Friday and appointed Jeremy Hunt as chancellor instead. The switch came after Kwarteng’s 23rd September mini-budget statement – implementing measures for which Truss had stood in her leadership campaign – caused the exact economic turmoil that her rival Rishi Sunak had
The Scottish Construction Accord will, they say, “transform and modernise the sector”.
It sets down a commitment to work towards net zero, to enhance workforce diversity, to reform procurement, to use digital technology more and to promote ‘modern’ methods of construction.
The potential for this
In the year to 30 June 2022, Barhale Group posted a pre-tax profit of £3.2m (2021: 1.3m) on turnover broadly steady at £109m (2021: £110m).
With operating profit rising from £1.3m to £3.6m, the operating margin improved from 1.2% to 3.3%.
There was also a significant net improvement in the Walsall-headquartered company’s cash position of £7.3m, driven by the completion
