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• Balfour Beatty US arm to pay £49m over military housing fraud

  23-12-2021 10:36 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Balfour Beatty’s US operation has been ordered to pay out £49m after pleading guilty to major fraud on its military housing maintenance contract.
  The Balfour Beatty Communities pay-out is made up of £25m in fines and £24m in damages relating to its military housing contract at 21 Air Force, 18 Navy, and 16 Army bases across the United States, in which tens of thousands of service members and their families lived.
  As part of the settlement with the US Department
  
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• 52 jobs axed as industrial coating specialist goes under

  23-12-2021 09:36 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Staffordshire-based specialist Industrial Coating Services has fallen into administration with the loss of 52 jobs.
  ICS, which specialised in the surface preparation and application of protective coatings, suffered from critical cash flow issues arising from a sustained period of working on loss-making contracted work.
  Since last year ICS was working on the major Wandsworth Bridge refurbishment in London which is now due to be completed next summer after further additional critical works we
  
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• Building collapses after foundation blunders

  23-12-2021 09:15 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A building contractor has been prosecuted after carrying out unsafe excavation works which resulted in the partial collapse of a residential building.
  Manchester Crown Court heard how on 14 August 2019, Iproject Cheshire Limited had been carrying out refurbishment works on a building in Didsbury.
  Employees of the company undermined the foundations while digging out the ground around the building causing a partial collapse. There were no injuries or fatalities, but the collapse presented a risk t
  
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