ON Monday January 15, 2018, the construction and outsourcing conglomerate Carillion went bust. So the third anniversary has just arrived.
Steve Paul remembers clearly how he found out about the Carillion collapse. At the time he was running his plastering and flooring business in the West Midlands. His company, SDP Floorscreeds Ltd, had big contracts with Carillion for building floors on the £300m Midland Metropolitan Hospital project in Birmingham.
Paul got a call from one of his supervisors on the Metropolitan project at eight in the morning. “He told me the gates were locked and the men couldn’t get on site. Everything was padlocked. There were security guards. All our materials and plant for the floors were locked inside the gates.”