Consortium also including John Laing takes multimillion-pound claim over scrapped Leicester scheme to the High Court A consortium including Laing O'Rourke and John Laing has launched a legal battle to reclaim millions of pounds in costs over the scrapped £711m Leicester Hospitals PFI scheme. The Triskelion consortium, which also includes Serco and Portfolio Solutions (Northern Ireland), has lodged a claim in the High Court against the Department of Health and University Hospitals of Leicester National Healthcare. Join discussion...

A consortium of John Laing and Skanska has finally seen offf Balfour Beatty Power Networks to clinch Surrey County Council's £65.5m street-lighting private finance initiative (PFI) deal, in one of the longest run PFI procurements. Join discussion...

At least two contractors are looking to join the PFI prisons sector to bid for a share of the five new 1,500-capacity prisons mooted by the government last week. By Mark Lewis The Government last week confirmed the five jails – which justice secretary Jack Straw said would replace the three proposed 2,500-place Titan prisons – would be procured using private finance. Join discussion...

Balfour Beatty has been left to battle it out with a Laing O’Rouke and John Laing joint venture for a £500 million multi-council schools deal in the North-west.The big hitters are the only two left in the race for the Blackburn with Darwen and Bolton Building Schools for the Future deal - after Catalyst Lend Lease was eliminated from the shortlist last week. Join discussion...

John Laing, in a consortium with construction and infrastructure development company HCC and Sadbhav Engineering, has been named as preferred bidder by the ... Join discussion...

The U.K. Department for Transport today named Agility Trains, a group which includes John Laing Plc, Hitachi Ltd. and Barclays Plc, as the preferred bidder for a 7.5 billion-pound ($10.7 billion) contract to build and maintain a fleet of Super Express trains. Join discussion...

HCC, India’s leading construction and infrastructure development company, in joint venture with John Laing Investment Ltd and Sadbhav Engineering Ltd has bagged the prestigious order from National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) to construct the 96.5 km highway from Maharashtra-Madhya Pradesh Border to Dhule on NH - 3 on BOT basis. The HCC-Laing-Sadbhav consortium will have exposure in the ratio of 37:36:27. Join discussion...

Birmingham City Council has delayed its decision on a preferred bidder for its £2.2bn highways maintenance project for approximately 6 months. It is believed that the council has sought reassurances over the funding that the two shortlisted bidders, Amey and Laing O’Rourke/Vinci had in place for the scheme. Join discussion...

The month of December has been very intense concerning the National Highways Development Programme in India.The most important news were the following: Join discussion...

Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) has received only two bids for the Worli-Haji Ali sea link project — one from a consortium of Reliance Infrastructure and Hyundai Constructions and the other from a joint venture of Hindustan Construction Company (HCC), UK-based company John Laing and South Korea-based Samsung Engineering and Construction. Join discussion...