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• T&T strengthens UK team with new MDs

  22-05-2023 17:52
  
  Turner & Townsend has strengthened its senior team across the UK, with a trio of promotions to support future growth and ambitions.
  The UK senior leadership shake-up will see James Corrigan promoted to UK managing director of Infrastructure. Before he headed up the Programme Advisory division in the UK, which under his leadership grew from a team of 40 to 130, focussing on the effective set up of major projects and programmes.
  Simon Arnold becomes UK managing director of Real Estate Project
  
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• VolkerStevin seals deal to start Sunderland footbridge

  22-05-2023 16:03
  
  VolkerStevin has agreed terms to deliver Sunderland’s £31m ‘smart pedestrian and cycle bridge’ project crossing the Wear.
  Work will now start work within weeks on the high-level crossing, which will connect both sides of the Wear at Riverside Sunderland.
  It will be fitted with creative lighting and augmented reality, allowing people to use their smartphones to see virtual displays that council bosses say will create ‘an experience that will really bring to life the
  
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• Skanska gets start date for delayed £507m A428 dualling job

  22-05-2023 15:32
  
  National Highways has given contractor Skanska a start date for the delayed A428 Black Cat dualling job after legal proceedings against the scheme came to an end.
  Last week the Court of Appeal refused climate campaign group Transport Action Network’s final available legal challenge to planning consent for the 19km dualling job from the A1 Black Cat roundabout in Bedfordshire to the A428 Caxton Gibbet in Cambridgeshire.
  With the legal process now over, National Highways will begin putting p
  
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• Balfour wins £42m Little Horsted substation contract

  22-05-2023 09:11
  
  Balfour Beatty has secured a £42m contract from National Grid to construct the Little Horsted Substation Grid Supply Point in East Sussex.
  The two-year contract will see Balfour Beatty design and build a new 400 kilovolt substation as well as two new terminal towers which will support electrical conductors transmitting high-voltage electricity to the Little Horsted Substation Grid Supply Point.
  Once complete, the new substation will form a key part of National Grid’s ‘Little Ho
  
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• Over 800 schools granted £450m for refurbs

  22-05-2023 08:48
  
  Over 1,000 school building improvement projects will receive the green light today as part of plans to boost the condition of the school estate.
  In total 859 academies, sixth-form colleges and voluntary aided schools every region of the country will receive a share of a £456m pot created to help refurbish and repair school buildings.
  The funding will ensure that pupils can learn in safe, warm and energy-efficient classrooms.Overall, the government has committed £1.8bn of capital fund
  
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• Project pros in construction see salaries rise 10%

  22-05-2023 08:37
  
  The average base salary for project professionals in construction has risen by 10% in the last two years to become one of the highest paid sectors in the UK.
  The 2023 Association for Project Management (APM) Salary and Market Trends Survey reveals project professionals in construction currently receive an average salary of £57,500 – a rise of 10% from £52,500 in 2021.
  The construction sector is joint second in the latest annual rankings alongside consultancy, hospitality and te
  
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• HMRC strike hits construction subbies

  22-05-2023 08:22
  
  Construction subcontractors are reporting long delays and even being cut off from HMRC’s CIS helpline as 400 tax workers continue strikes organised by the PSC union.
  The 400 HMRC customer service advisers are planning more action this week with industrial action set to last until June 2.
  Ian Anfield, managing director of Hudson Contract, said: “Thankfully online verification of subcontractors under CIS has not been affected yet, but those wishing to newly register and those needing t
  
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• Record number of firms win £600m MMC framework

  22-05-2023 07:54
  
  Thirty-two firms have bagged a spot on a £600m modern methods of construction framework for new home building.
  Procurement body LHC has awarded the four-year framework, which is the successor to its offsite construction of new homes framework – NH2.
  This involved a dozen firms but the nationwide 3rd generation framework has been expanded and includes a mix of offsite modular specialists as well as larger builders like Beard, R G Carter and Vistry Partnerships.NH3 MMC new homes framew
  
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