Nick Harris Highways England chief executive Jim O’Sullivan handed in his notice last August, having had the job since June 2015. Nick Harris, a civil engineer who joined Highways England from the water industry 2016, takes over on 1st February but only on an ‘acting’ basis. He has not been given the job permanently. It…
Computer says no HS2 Ltd says that the mass harvest of personal data is for ‘health & safety reasons’. It has commissioned Biosite Systems, a Swedish-owned company that supplies site security and fingerprint technology, to create a project-wide digital health and safety passport system, which hit calls HSPS. HSPS is founded on a central database…
Alan Beard Alan Beard was the third-generation to run the construction firm that was started by his grandfather and continues to bear the family name. Alan Beard first joined the family firm at the age of 17 in January 1950, when he started working with his father Geoffrey, at Newcombe Beard Ltd, in Cirencester. Today,…
Each week, Re:Construction features David Taylor, editor of The Construction Index magazine, and online editor Phil Bishop discuss some of the industry news stories that have caught their attention over the previous seven days. This week, the first episode of 2021, they discuss the Brexit deal, the threat facing hundreds of old railway bridges, and…
An Ilke house being delivered to site Ilke Homes has bought a four-acre brownfield site in Southam, Warwickshire, from a private landowner and will, subject to planning, develop the site for 43 factory-made affordable homes. The deal is a further step in Ilke Homes’ evolution from manufacturing homes to becoming a fully integrated developer. The…
Stronger order books helped to drive the recovery across the construction sector, with survey respondents citing work on projects that had been delayed earlier in 2020. Higher levels of demand led to a slight rise in employment numbers and greater demand for construction inputs in December. However, stretched supply chains and delays at UK ports…
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David Buckley David Buckley joins Van Elle from Balfour Beatty where he was most recently director and general manager of its track monitoring business Omnicom, having previously been engineering director of Balfour Beatty Rail. “I’m excited for a new challenge with Van Elle, which is in a period of real growth,” he said. “I’m looking…
In build (4) 1. Midland Metropolitan Hospital Midlands Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust The new Midland Metropolitan hospital will bring together urgent care services from 3 hospitals across the region into one state-of-the-art site, promoting better patient safety and care while ensuring value for money. 2. Cumberland Cancer Hospital North East & Yorkshire…
AlnwickBridge (©The HRE Group), one of two bridges earmarked for infilling on the proposed route of the Alnwick Greenway According to campaigners, hundreds of railway structures are being got rid of when they could be used for cycle paths or country walks. Highways England has responsibility for managing the Department for Transport’s Historical Railways Estate…
