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Hudson Contract said that average weekly pay rose month-on-month by 1.2% during November to £901, the highest level since February. The best-performing regions for earnings growth were the northeast (up 8.4%), London (up 6.8%) and the southwest (up 5.3%). Hudson managing director Ian Anfield said: “It was business as usual for most construction firms last…
Lendlease ops director moves to Munnelly
Darren Butson Darren Butson joins Munnelly Support Services from the £1.5b Elephant & Castle redevelopment in south London, where he spent the past six years with Lendlease. He joined Lendlease in 2008 and began his time there as head of logistics, then project manager, for the London 2012 Olympics’ Athletes’ Village. Previously he had worked…
JRL Group turnover tops £600m
JRL’s London Tower Cranes business made £9.9m pre-tax profit on £42.2m revenue in 2019 For the year to 31st December 2019, JRL Group saw its revenue grow 15% to £621.9m (2018: £539.2m), while pre-tax was up nearly 10% to £3.5m (2018: £30.6m). The group began life as J Reddington Ltd in 1996 as a groundworks…
Progress being made for Long Itchington Wood tunnel drive
The north portal of the Long Itchington Wood tunnel is under construction A launchpad is being constructed for a tunnel boring machine (TBM) that will dig a one-mile twin bore tunnel under Long Itchington Wood, before the route heads north and swings into Birmingham’s Curzon Street Station. Current work on the one-square-kilometre north portal site…
Balfour Beatty wins £47.5m substation contract
At peak construction, the project will employ a workforce of 100. The contract award forms part of a programme by SSEN Transmission to reinforce the network in the area and facilitate the connection of more renewable energy to the national grid. Balfour Beatty will build the 25,625m2 substation as well as all associated cabling and…
Network Rail shorlists five for future station design competition
Burgess Hill railway station Network Rail and RIBA Competitions invited architects and engineers to ‘reimagine’ the design of small to medium-sized railway stations, which make up 80% of all those on Britain’s railway. More than 200 submissions were received, from designers based in 34 different countries. The five selected to go through to the next…