Nuclear Madness
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Re: Nuclear Madness
Carillion are getting less than 10% of the overall contract, and are part of a JV it seems on the HS2, you seem to be prejudging them to fail?
In all my time in construction I have never experienced an instruction to under-price fixed price contracts, perhaps in re-measurable works with the scope for variations there are guys going in on zero margin for turnover but certainly not under any fixed circumstances.
In all my time in construction I have never experienced an instruction to under-price fixed price contracts, perhaps in re-measurable works with the scope for variations there are guys going in on zero margin for turnover but certainly not under any fixed circumstances.
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Where as my reading of that JV is that the other 2 JV contractors will buy out the SPV and transfer the Carillion staff into their organisation to fulfill the contract if required. Potentially Carrillion will get some funds from the sale.
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HS2 is going to be a mess, with the CH2M procurement issue recently, it just looks like classic UK politically unpopular sort of project delayed by very expensive, red-tape-bound bureaucracy at all levels of the government.
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Sounds like a lot of risk, potentially. But also huge reward.
HS2 is going to be a mess, with the CH2M procurement issue recently, it just looks like classic UK politically unpopular sort of project delayed by very expensive, red-tape-bound bureaucracy at all levels of the government.
HS2 is going to be a mess, with the CH2M procurement issue recently, it just looks like classic UK politically unpopular sort of project delayed by very expensive, red-tape-bound bureaucracy at all levels of the government.
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You know I didn't even hear about this. After a bit of reading is sounds like a bit of a storm in a tea cup. They pull out after the losing bidders complain as an ex-employee has started in HS2. They are so whiter than white is unbelievable (trust me) so at the first whiff of rumours they dropped out. They're still taking the lions share of the project though.
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Their head of rail goes to head up a big bit of HS2 and they swiftly secure a massive contract.
I mean, I'm not saying anyone's stupid for believing in coincidences but when it walks like a Pope, talks like a Pope and ****s kids, then it's probably a Pope.
I mean, I'm not saying anyone's stupid for believing in coincidences but when it walks like a Pope, talks like a Pope and ****s kids, then it's probably a Pope.
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As I say, CH2M are whiter than white.
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Industry watchers had expected the guaranteed price for power from windfarms around Britain’s coast to come in somewhere between £70 and £80 per megawatt hour, below the £92.50 for a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point.
But the “exceptionally low” results of a government auction on Monday for subsidy contracts show two offshore windfarms will be built for £57.50 per MWh, way below even the most extreme predictions. The price is half of what new offshore windfarms were being awarded just two years ago.
Those are't pie-in-the-sky, wishful-thinking figures: they're the ones which the major players (Innogy, Dong, etc) are agreeing to to generate power.
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...all-record-low
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Carillion having another bad day...
I know it's no laughing matter (people's livelihoods and investors' money at stake), but I couldn't repress an inward guffaw -- at some point in the future Carillion will be wishing dearly for only a year's delay.
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Carillion having another bad day...
"Mr Bland of JP Morgan said contracts that have hurt Carillion include a hospital in Liverpool, a bypass in Aberdeen and a tramway in Sheffield. All three projects experienced delays of at least a year."
I know it's no laughing matter (people's livelihoods and investors' money at stake), but I couldn't repress an inward guffaw -- at some point in the future Carillion will be wishing dearly for only a year's delay.
I know it's no laughing matter (people's livelihoods and investors' money at stake), but I couldn't repress an inward guffaw -- at some point in the future Carillion will be wishing dearly for only a year's delay.