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08.02.13

Sisk starts on £200m Nestlé coffee factory

John Sisk has started work on Nestlé’s £200m extension to its factory in Tutbury, Derbyshire.

The scheme is the Nestlé group’s largest construction project worldwide and will bring together all of the firm’s UK coffee production, including freeze dried, spray dried and pod technology.

http://www.constructionenquirer.com/2013/02/08/sisk-starts-on-200m-nestle-coffee-factory/

Source : Construction Enquirer

01.12.12

Irish Company win award for work on Foster’s MoreLondon Development

Stone Developments, an Irish Stone company was part of the project team that received a top award from the UK Stone federation last month. The Co. Carlow-based company won the award their role in the MoreLondon project which is situated along the south bank of London's River Thames.

26.10.12

Monster lift sends east London tunnelling machines 40 metres underground

Crossrail has marked a major milestone in the construction of London’s new rail line with the lowering of a 550 tonne tunnelling machine into a 40 metre deep shaft in east London last ahead of the start of tunnelling for Crossrail’s eastern section of the new rail line.

The delicate operation required one of the largest cranes in Europe to lift the equivalent of 280 London taxis.

Perfect weather conditions were needed and the light winds and no rain allowed for Elizabeth to be moved underground.

Source : Crossrail

Business Update Irish Times, 14 September 2012

SISK runs out of road in Poland after two years.

Company to abandon two projects

Suzanne Lynch

Irish Construction group Sisk are pulling out of Poland at a cost of between €50 million and €60m.

The decision was taken after it encountered a series of delays and extra costs linked to what it says are intractable and ongoing difficulties with the Polish road authority.

Source : Irish Times

Business Update Irish Independent 14 September 2012

SISK Partners €50m action after row with Polish roads authority

John Mulligan

A JOINT venture between Ireland's biggest construction firm, Sisk, and Limerick-based Roadbridge is preparing to launch a €50m-plus legal action against the Polish national roads authority.

Source : Irish Independent

Business Update Irish Examiner 14 September 2012

Sisk to sue Poland over road project

The construction firm Sisk is taking legal action against the Polish state in an effort to recoup the €50m - €60m losses it will incur in its 2011 annual accounts on the back of a failed road-building project in the country.

Source : Irish Examiner

Muse Developments appoint John Sisk & Son to Swindon Town Centre scheme

Muse Developments has appointed construction company John Sisk & Son Ltd to start work on the first phase of its multi-million pound regeneration scheme in the heart of Swindon Town Centre.

The first phase which will be sited on vacant land between Princes Street and Islington Street include one residential building comprising 45 assisted living apartments owned and managed by Westlea Greensquare and a high quality 850 space multi storey car park owned and managed by Swindon Borough Council.

Source : Green Square Group

HOK Announces Fitzrovia Apartments Topped Out

The second and final phase of 50 Bolsover Street is being topped out this week. Fitzrovia Apartments has been designed by architects HOK, with John Sisk & Son as the building contractors. The project is a joint venture between Ridgeford Properties and Manhattan Loft Corporation

Phase two of the development includes 60 individually designed private and social housing apartments and offices within a retained, Grade II listed historic hall.

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