Government and partners take steps to secure contracts, employee pay as lenders bail on deal to fix firm's $2.1 billion debt; some fears of industry-wide impacts.
Hundreds of components of Victorian-era gasholders have found new life close to their original London home as enclosures for three new, high-end apartment blocks.
Shedding its chief executive in May and reporting big profit shortfalls in Britain, Balfour Beatty plc, London, now is considering a merger proposal from Carillion PLC, a smaller, U.K.-based competitor.
