Building and maintenance group Rok, which has a major base in Bristol, has suspended its finance director and issued its second profits warning in less than four months.
The group has also revealed failings in the financial controls of its plumbing, heating and electrical (PHE) business and is now expected to make redundancies in its maintenance [...]
Plans to build up to 6,000 new homes in the Bristol area have been scrapped in the wake of the Government’s decision to axe regional housebuilding targets
Work has started in Bristol on the new East-West link road connecting the A38 through Filton & Patchway to the M5 and Cribbs Causeway.
House building needs to increase in the South West if the region is to fully recover from the recession, according to the head of the CBI in the South West.
The boss of one of the South West’s biggest building groups today claimed the worst of the recession is over. But Garvis Snook, chief executive of Rok, tempered his upbeat message by warning a full recovery could still be years away.
A South Bristol construction company has been shortlisted for a national award recognising the quality of a number of multi-million-pound building projects. Three staff members at Winterstoke Road based Midas Group have had their work recognised in the prestigious annual Chartered Institute of Builders (CIOB) Construction Manager of the Year Awards.
