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2386d-gb-costain-limited
COSTAIN LIMITED
Location
Founded
Website
https://www.costain.com
Articles
909 Articles
Category
General Contractors—Nonresidential Buildings, Other than Industrial Buildings and Warehouses
Heavy Construction, Not Elsewhere Classified
Engineering Services
Description
Costain helps to improve people’s lives by creating connected, sustainable infrastructure that enables people and the planet thrive. We shape, create and deliver pioneering solutions that transform the performance of the infrastructure ecosystem across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets.
We are organised around our customers anticipating and solving their challenges and helping to improve performance. By bringing together our unique mix of construction, consulting and digital experts we engineer and deliver sustainable, efficient and practical solutions.
Our ambition is to become a net zero business by 2035, while enhancing biodiversity and natural capital, and we have plans in place to deliver this. We are committed to procure responsibly and to be an inclusive and accessible business for all, enabling us to be our best while focusing on the outcomes that we deliver for people and planet.
At Costain, we have a vibrant, challenging and growing business – an environment that provides tremendous opportunities for everybody. We're looking for curious, collaborative and courageous people who'll help transform the performance of the infrastructure ecosystem across the UK. For more information about our careers go to www.costain.com/careers
Today, we employ around 3,500 people and are one of the nation’s Top 100 Most Admired companies and have been named in the Times Top Employers for Women 2021.
It took 14,000 people approximately 14M construction hours – the equivalent of almost 1,600 years – to the build the 33km stretch of the A14 Cambridge to
Covid recovery
Two problem contracts have seen Costain post a ÂŁ92.3m loss for the first half of 2020, but the company remains confident of delivering growth in profits and margins next year. Announcing its financial results for the half year ending
UK travel restrictions remain tight due to the Covid-19 lockdown, but not everything has ground to a halt. The City was on Wednesday digesting news that the Government is pressing further ahead with
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