Profitability and Productivity

Profitability is an essential component of any business model. Without healthy margins businesses are unable to innovate, reinvest and grow. Sadly, far too many civil engineering contracting businesses are not achieving sustainable levels of profitability. And the link to productivity is clear. We need to maximise both if our industry is to flourish.

Our work programme for 2022 will incorporate both profitability and improved productivity as key performance indicators.

UK General Election results and implications for the infrastructure sector across Wales
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Last Thursday some of us voted in a UK General Election. It’s fair to say that there weren’t many surprises in the outcome. But what does this mean for infrastructure, and especially infrastructure in Wales? It’s probably a bit too early to work this one out but I thought I’d dig out some pre-election “promises”…

“Wales must invest in civil engineering to lay the foundations for future prosperity”.
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The following article was published in the Western Mail 18th May 2024 : https://www.ceca.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/File-24-05-2024-23-06-48.pdf If you have difficulty accessing the article you can view the contents here : We’re all guilty of taking our infrastructure for granted. Our transport systems, our water systems, flood defences, power and energy, communications and social infrastructure such as schools…

CECA Wales – The Value of Membership – 2024
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The Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA – pronounced ‘seeka’) is the foremost representative body for civil engineering contractors in the UK. CECA was established in 1996, but its provenance stretches much further back as it was born out of the Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors, which was first established in 1919. The Civil Engineering Contractors…