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Carillion Carillion is considering plans to shed up to 150 jobs in its building division, and its office in Exeter will close. 10-Sep-2008 Babcock International and Carillion have won a £3bn contract to provide training and infrastructure services for the Royal School of Military Engineering over the next 30 years. 02-Sep-2008 Carillion is looking to sell Alfred McAlpine Plant Services for about £20m. 23-Jun-2008 Carillion is to create 400 jobs on South Tyneside to work on a £200m contract to refurbish schools and health centres. 02-Jun-2008 Carillion is planning to close its recently-acquired Alfred McAlpine business services unit in Tannochside, which currently employs about 700 staff. 02-Apr-2008 Carillion has secured a £500m contract to provide facilities management services to BT's 7,000 buildings through its Monteray joint venture. 06-Feb-2008 Carillion has agreed terms to acquire Alfred McAlpine, the construction and support services group, for about £600m. 05-Nov-2007 Carillion has sold Pall Mall and Sovereign Soft Services, its cleaning and security services operations, to Resource Services Group for £22m. 02-Oct-2007 Balfour Beatty and Carillion have won a £363m contract to extend the East London rail line between West Croydon and Dalston Junction in time for the 2012 Olympics. 24-Oct-2006 Carillion is to sell Environmental Sciences Group, the testing solutions consultancy with 800 staff and 16 offices, to Inspicio for £16m. 25-Apr-2006 Carillion has won a £12bn contract from the Ministry of Defence to redevelop barracks accommodation at Aldershot and Salisbury Plain, in partnership with Kellogg Brown & Root. 10-Apr-2006 Carillion is looking to sell Environmental Sciences Group, the recently-acquired Mowlem division that has 900 staff in 16 offices. 27-Feb-2006 Carillion has won a £230m contract from News International to build printing presses in Liverpool, Glasgow and London. 14-Dec-2005 Carillion is to acquire Mowlem for £291m, creating a combined construction and support services group with 40,000 staff and annual sales of £4.1bn. 07-Dec-2005 Carillion and Lodestone Patient Care have been selected as preferred bidders to build and operate two Independent Sector Treatment Centres at Hemel Hempstead and Lister hospitals in Hertfordshire, through their Clinicenta joint venture. 25-Nov-2005 Carillion has won a £500m contract to maintain 8,500 buildings in the Midlands, the north and Wales for the Ministry of Defence, in a joint venture with Enterprise. 07-Nov-2005 Carillion is to acquire Planned Maintenance Group, the provider of mechanical and engineering maintenance services with 1,200 staff at its offices and a further 1,100 mobile technicians operating from 15 service centres, for £40m. 10-Mar-2005 Carillion is to sell its French civil engineering contracting and building business to a local management team for £10m. 12-Oct-2004 Carillion is to sell its Crown House mechanical and electrical engineering business to Laing O'Rourke for £17m, in order to focus on its Business Services and Private Finance activities. 13-May-2004 Carillion has won a £18m contract from Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust to extend the Rampton high security hospital by 2006. 28-Jan-2004 Carillion is to build a £25m treatment centre at the Great Western Hospital site in Swindon by 2005. 12-Dec-2003 Carillion is looking to sell Private Finance Initiative equity stakes worth £100m, including investments in 16 projects. 11-Sep-2003 Bodycote International has acquired five laboratories in the United Arab Emirates and Oman from Carillion for £1.3m, in order to expand its materials testing division. 08-Aug-2003 Carillion has been selected as preferred bidder to develop a 1,200-bed hospital in Portsmouth. 28-Jul-2003 Carillion has been selected as preferred bidder for a £80m five-year contract to build and provide facilities management services for surgeries and other primary care units in Birmingham. 12-Jun-2003 Carillion has acquired Swedish Rail Systems Entreprenad, the Swedish rail maintenance company with 250 staff and net assets of £6.2m. 10-Jun-2003 Carillion has sold The Expanded Piling Company, the Grimsby-based piling contractor, to Laing O'Rourke for £6.3m. 30-May-2003 Carillion is in negotiations with the Swindon & Marlborough NHS Trust to build a £25m diagnostic and treatment centre at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon. 20-Mar-2003 Carillion is planning to set up a £4m training centre in Stafford for its 4,000 rail staff, and the site could become part of the proposed National Rail Academy. 23-Sep-2002 Carillion is linking up with BMI and Nestor to bid for the development of fast-track NHS surgery centres. 12-Sep-2002 Carillion has announced the £9m sale of the hoists, accommodation and general plant operations of Maxxiom, its plant hire joint venture with P&O, to Hewden Stuart. 10-Sep-2002 Carillion is to acquire the management services business of Citex Professional Services for £12m, which will involve the transfer of about 200 staff. 20-Aug-2002 Carillion is planning to reduce its preferred list of suppliers and subcontractors from 10,000 to 4,000 over the next three years. 11-Jul-2002 Carillion Services has won a £50m contract from Northern Lincolnshire & Goole Hospitals NHS Trust to supply a range of services to hospitals in Lincolnshire, including laundry, catering and portering. 06-Jun-2002 Carillion is to recruit 400 additional engineering and management staff for its Birmingham-based railways maintenance division. 21-Mar-2002 Carillion has bought the remaining 51% of GT Rail Maintenance from Alstom for £34m, as part of a strategy to expand its rail maintenance operation. 28-Sep-2001 Carillion is planning to shed 400 of the 10,000 jobs in its UK construction business, which will involve the closure of 20 regional offices and the centralisation of back-office activities. 13-Sep-2001 Morgan Sindall has completed the acquisition of Carillion Housing from Carillion for £6.2m, in order to expand its Lovell affordable housing business. 02-Aug-2001 Carillion has won a £60m contract to build a campus for the University of Hertfordshire, and outline planning permission has been granted by Welwyn Hatfield District Council. 12-Jul-2001 Carillion has announced that the Monteray consortium with Balfour Beatty and Reliance Integrated Services has won a £500m contract to provide property maintenance services to British Telecom. 23-Mar-2001 Carillion is forming a partnership with Richardson Developments and Chelverton to build edge-of-town shopping centres, including projects in Waterlooville, Blackwood in Wales and Crayford in Kent. 30-Nov-2000 Carillion is to shed 900 jobs in its Crown House mechanical and electrical engineering division, in order to focus the business on larger contracts. 16-Aug-2000 Amec and Carillion are competing for a £100m contract to build a 10-storey telecoms centre at East India Dock in London for Global Switch International. 06-Jul-2000 Carillion has sold Stanger Science & Environment, the Wolverhampton-based environmental consultancy, to Casella Group for £3m, and Cimage Enterprise Systems of Bracknell to a management team for £1.7m. 08-Jun-2000 British Telecom is planning to contract out the management of its 8,500 UK buildings, and the £800m 10-year contract is expected to be awarded to a consortium of Carillion, Reliance Security and Haden Management. 28-Apr-2000 Carillion, Group 4 and British Telecom have been confirmed as the winners of a contract to rebuild the GCHQ government communications headquarters in Cheltenham, at a cost of £330m. 07-Mar-2000 Carillion is to build and maintain a number of new psychiatric hospitals in North Staffordshire, in a £35m private finance initiative scheme that will include a £25m acute hospital next to the City General Hospital site at Hartshill. 13-Dec-1999 Carillion is set to win a £30m contract from Gapp Holdings to build a hotel complex in the centre of Manchester. 09-Dec-1999 Carillion's Crown House Engineering division has won £150m of contracts to install mechanical, electrical and public health services at PFI hospital projects in Middlesbrough, Norfolk, Kent, Swindon and Scotland. 30-Sep-1999 Carillion has won a contract from US-owned Malmaison Hotels to build a £20m hotel on the site of Birmingham's Mailbox development, which will create 200 jobs. 12-Aug-1999 More from the Construction sector Related pages: Davis Langdon Grafton Group Milton Keynes Borough Council Wolseley North Ayrshire Council Carillion website: www.carillionplc.com The information on this page comes from the UK Activity Report. 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