Consultant Scott Wilson has announced it is to cut 10% of its global workforce and freeze the pay of remaining staff in response to the global downturn. Scott Wilson shares plunged in early trading.
In a trading statement, the company said:“The period under review has seen a rapidly deteriorating global economic…
Conservative shadow transport minister Theresa Villiers has launched an attack on the government’s high speed rail plans, branding them: “vague aspirations” that promise no more than a service between London and Rugby.
Villiers picked-up comments made by transport secretary Geoff Hoon to the Lancashire Evening Post, where he appears to advocate…
Thames Water has shelved plans to build a mega £400M, 150Mm3 reservoir in the heart of Oxfordshire after revising its demand forecasts in the light of the economic recession.
The water company says it will now not need the reservoir to supplement supplies to London until 2026 at the earliest because…
The Construction Products Association (CPA) has today written to business secretary Peter Mandelson after the Government’ official statistics revealed construction activity has fallen by its sharpest fall in 30 years.
The Office of National Statistics (ONS) on Friday published its findings on construction output in the final quarter of 2008. It…
The RMT union says it has uncovered close to 200 examples of Network Rail deferring essential track, they say in order to save costs.
The figures are so far incomplete, and the RMT say the final figure could top 1,000 examples.RMT general secretary Bob Crow said: “Network Rail cannot seriously expect us to…
Engineering disaster and emergency relief organisation RedR has suspended its training activities in the Darfur region of Sudan following the expulsion of 10 relief organisations from the area.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for president of Sudan Omar Al Bashir on Wednesday for war crimes and crimes…
The Treasury has announced a £2bn package to rescue stalled PFI deals by setting up a special unit to administer funds to bring those deals to financial close.
Opposition MPs say the move signals the death of PFI.The Treasury will provide debt via a unit, not a stand-alone bank, which will lend…
London could have been better prepared for freak snow that brought the capital to a virtual standstill in February, according to a new report by the Assembly’s Transport Committee.
In particular, better coordination between London’s boroughs, Transport for London (TfL) and the emergency services could have resulted in faster recovery…
Capita Group, parent company of consultant Capita Symonds has posted strong half-year results on the back of strong public sector growth.
To 31 December 2008, turnover increased by 18% to £2,441M with underlying operating profit rising by 18% to £320.9M.Consultancy arm Capita Symonds mirrored the group’s results, with turnover increasing by…
Scott Wilson has won a contract to develop a ‘perspective plan’ to look at infrastructure links along a 1500km rail freight link between India’s capital Delhi, and its largest city and major part, Mumbai, including the location of a new city.
Scott Wilson’s director of sustainable development, Andy McNab, says the freight…
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