The Construction Leadership Council has put out the message: “Go out to site if you must, but are you sure that you really need to?” It wants us all to get more creative in working from home. Andy Mitchell, the man in charge to the construction of a huge new sewer under London, is the…
Pharos Generator Services’ premises in Runcorn RSK has bought three new small businesses: an environmental consultant in Spain and two UK business in the power generator business. This news comes just weeks after the group announced that it was in the final stages of buying the UK and Asia water businesses of Black & Veatch….
Jason Gibbons Jason Gibbons spent 22 years with Sir Robter McAlpine before moving to Multiplex in autumn 2019. He began his career as a quantity surveyor with John Mowlem, attaining chartered status. Mr Gibbons also has a masters degree in construction law and dispute resolution, and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators…
In a trading update today ahead of publication of its annual results, Persimmon revealed that total group revenues for 2020 were £3.33bn, which is 8.7% down on 2019’s £3.65bn. The number of housing units completed during the year was down 14% to 13,575 (2019: 15,855) but the average selling price improved to around £230,500 (2019:…
Marshalls said that the construction sector had remained strong over the last six months and its manufacturing network continued to be fully operational and busy, despite the escalating health crisis. Revenue growth progressively improved in the second half of 2020 and autumn sales were ahead of 2019. This has given the landscaping products company the…
Junction 10 of the M25 at Wisley Transport secretary Grant Shapps was supposed to have made a decision on whether to give development consent or scrap the £250m scheme by yesterday, three months after the Planning Inspectorate submitted its report. However, the deadline for the decision has now been extended by four months until 12th…
John Finnie The party wants to build a modern, zero-carbon network that is affordable and accessible to all. The Rail for All programme should be a central part of Scotland’s green recovery from the Covid-19 crisis, said the party’s transport spokesperson John Finnie. “The Scottish Greens are proposing the biggest rail investment programme Scotland has…
Mace chief executive Mark Reynolds Mace reduced its corporate carbon emissions by 50% in 2020, and offset the remaining emissions by giving money to carbon-reduction projects. Mace’s unspecified financial contribution to Carbon Footprint Ltd was put towards initiatives including tree planting in Brazil and wind farms in India. Mace’s reduction in actual carbon was achieved…
Matthew Evans The new company, which delivered its first houses in 2019, has recruited a chief technology officer from Airbus. He is promising to ‘spin a digital thread’. Matthew Evans, vice president of digital transformation at Airbus for the past five years, will take charge of TopHat’s digital strategy, integrating new technology into the company’s…
A team of four has joined Kier from Balfour Beatty Kier Highways has been handed responsibility for maintaining technology assets across the Highways England Area 13 network, where it has had the maintenance and response contract for the last three years. This follows the end of Balfour Beatty’s northwest regional technology maintenance contract and is…
