Construction news

• Tilbury Douglas poaches Ferrovial commercial chief

  03-01-2023 11:25
  Tilbury Douglas has hired Ferrovial Construction director Martyn Smith as new group commercial director.
  With more than 25 years of experience, most recently as commercial director at Ferrovial, Smith has extensive knowledge of the sector and industry.
  Prior to Ferrovial Construction, Smith also held senior positions at other leading construction companies including Kier, Costain and Vinci.Paul Gandy, CEO at Tilbury Douglas, said: “Martyn will be responsible for the development and impleme
  
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• Civils specialist Alun Griffiths names new MD

  03-01-2023 11:07
  CRH-owned contractor Alun Griffiths has appointed Farrans director David Parr as new managing director.
  He replaces Stephen Tomkins, who has left after nearly two years at the helm of the £225m turnover Abergavenny civil engineering and rail specialist.
  Parr joins Griffiths after 23 years at Farrans Construction, first as a project manager, before taking the role of contracts manager. He joined the Farrans board in 2015 and became civil engineering director.
  During his time at Farrans, Par
  
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• Plan for London 36-storey Old Street tower

  03-01-2023 10:59
  Developer Endurance Land has unveiled plans for a 36-storey office tower at Old Street roundabout on the City Fringe in London.
  The developer will submit plans to Islington Council for the Kohn Pedersen Fox designed building at 99 City Road within the next few weeks.The site is presently the headquarters of satellite communications group Inmarsat, which is planning to vacate the existing 1980s office building at the site.
  Existing 10-storey Inmarsat HQ office building
  This building will be parti
  
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• World’s longest box bridge slide on HS2

  03-01-2023 08:43
  HS2 contractor Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) has completed a record box slide across a motorway in Warwickshire.
  A site team of 450 slid a 12,600 tonne bridge a record 165 metres to position it across the M42 during the Christmas period.
  The team worked around the clock to move HS2’s Marston Box bridge into place in an operation which took 40 hours, at a speed of 4 metres per hour.HS2 Ltd’s Civils Delivery Director, Mike Lyons said: “This is the first box slide of its kind over a
  
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• Construction faces “perfect storm” for insolvencies

  03-01-2023 08:07
  Construction is facing a challenging year ahead with over 6,000 company insolvencies expected in 2023.
  Financial experts at Red Flag Alert fear more than 100 building firms will go bust every week as the total number of insolvencies across all sectors hits 32,000 this year.
  Red Flag Alert estimate there is roughly £300m in bad debt within the UK construction industry as we enter 2023, and this could increase to £1bn by the start of 2024.The financial experts warn that companies who w
  
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