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• Kier construction boss Liam Cummins to leave next month

  21-11-2022 16:33 via constructionenquirer.com
  Kier has confirmed  that Liam Cummins, Group Managing Director, Construction is to leave the contractor at the end of the year to take up another chief executive role outside the company.
  Cummins will continue in post until the end of December leading the construction business to ensure an orderly transition and handover.
  Cummins joined Kier in 2019 from Laing O’Rourke where he was UK Buildings director and worked for 16 years.Stuart Togwell, the Group’s Commercial Director, wil
  
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• CHAS accreditation scheme gets new owner

  21-11-2022 12:33 via constructionenquirer.com
  American supply chain management giant Veriforce has acquired the CHAS accreditation scheme.
  CHAS 2013 Limited – previously a wholly-owned subsidiary of the London Borough of Merton – is the UK’s leading provider of risk prevention, compliance and supply chain management services helping simplify health and safety prequalification and raising standards of risk management.
  Colby Lane, CEO of Veriforce said: “For 30 years, Veriforce has been working with the world’s l
  
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• Kier shareholders rebel over chief executive’s pay rise

  21-11-2022 09:28 via constructionenquirer.com
  Kier has suffered a major shareholder backlash after chief executive Andrew Davies’ pay package jumped by around 70%.
  Around 44% of Kier’s shareholders voted against the directors’ pay report at the firm’s AGM late last week.
  Davies saw his total pay including bonus and long-term incentive plan rise to £2,245,000 this year from £1,323,000 in 2021.
  His basic salary rose 26% to £750,000 from £595,000 the year before.The AGM vote was only advisory and
  
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• Galliford Try buys green water specialist

  21-11-2022 08:52 via constructionenquirer.com
  Galliford Try has acquired the asset inspection, maintenance and screens and distributor operations of water specialist Ham Baker
  The acquired business produces a variety of engineered products for the water industry, which Galliford Try will use as a basis to develop a low carbon engineering offering, enabling products and raw materials to be as reused to reduce waste.
  The deal will see a team of 40 from Ham Baker join Galliford Try while remaining at their current base in Stoke.The acquisition
  
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• Five win £40m Network Rail decarbonisation deal

  21-11-2022 08:17 via constructionenquirer.com
  Network Rail has appointed five partner firms to deliver a decarbonisation/ energy efficiency programme across a range of built assets.
  The partner contractors will undertake ‘common interventions’ worth over £40m in total that will help Network Rail meet its energy efficiency targets.
  Energy efficiency retrofit specialist Johnson Control picked up the lion’s share of work securing lots totalling £29m, with Vital Energy and B&M McHugh secured work worth more tha
  
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• 2023 to be ‘Year of Catch-up’ for London office projects

  21-11-2022 08:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  Following post-pandemic delays, 2023 could be the ‘Year of the Catch-up’ delivering the highest volume of new office space for twenty years.
  Deloitte’s London Office Crane Survey is predicting that next year will see the beginning of a resurgence in office project planning and construction activity in the capital.
  Latest data collected on schemes with planning permission and those in demolition suggests an extra 15.6m sq ft of new office stock is expected to be delivered betwee
  
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• Sheffield steel forge £70m expansion approved

  21-11-2022 08:10 via constructionenquirer.com
  Sheffield Forgemasters has secured planning permission for the construction of a building to house the UK’s largest open-die forging press.
  The major building forms part of an expansion programme that will see up to £400m invested in the site over ten years.
  Vinci Building has bagged the early works contract and pre-construction services agreement for the 12,700 sq m structure that will sit adjacent to the existing forge building on Brightside Lane.This will house a new 13,000 tonne
  
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