The four contracts that finished Carillion

The construction giant’s collapse is a disaster not just for employees and taxpayers, but for public-private partnership policyIt was trusted to build some of the country’s most important infrastructure – from NHS hospitals to much-needed new road projects – yet the foundations of construction giant Carillion were shaky enough for the group to be felled by just four contracts. Two were for much-needed new hospitals – and work on both was immediately halted as the co