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Regeneration specialist Muse gets new MD

28-09-2023 20:51 via constructionenquirer.com

Phil Mayall has been promoted to the role of managing director at the Morgan Sindall’s regeneration arm Muse.
He replaces Kate Bowyer, who left in April after taking over from Matt Crompton 18 months ago.
Mayall joined Muse in 2006 progressing through the business to run the North West territory in 2019.He was responsible for delivering major growth across this region, with a wide range of long-term, area-wide programmes of place-changing regeneration.
He is also a director of

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Building engineering services workers accept 7% pay rise

28-09-2023 16:23 via constructionenquirer.com

Plumbers and heating and ventilating engineers will receive a 7% uplift in their pay in October thanks to an agreement between Unite union and contractors.
The rise forms part of a two-year agreement that will see pay rise a further 3% in October 2024 and includes some additional enhancements to pension provisions.
The Building Engineering Services Association negotiated the new rates for hourly paid operatives on behalf of the industry’s employers with Unite.
An earlier offer was rejected

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Fit-out firm BW Workplace returns to profit

28-09-2023 09:28 via constructionenquirer.com

Specialist London and south east fit-out contractor BW Workplace Experts returned to profit last year after sliding into the red in 2021.
Revenue jumped 50% to £216m generating pre-tax profit of £1.8m last year, rebounded from £176,000 loss in the prior year.
Despite the upturn, the firm still has scope to improve operating margins which at 1% remain below the commercial fit-out sector average.The recovery in workload saw staff headcount advance to 211, up from around 179 previ

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Tarmac fined £1.275m after quarry death

28-09-2023 08:33 via constructionenquirer.com

Tarmac Aggregates Limited has been fined £1,275,000 after a 26-year-old man was crushed to death during maintenance work at Mountsorrel Quarry in Leicestershire.
Luke Branston, from Leicester, died in the early hours of 21 June 2017 after becoming trapped between a conveyor and a feed hopper.
The contractor, working on behalf of Branston Site Services Limited, was part of a nightshift maintenance team repairing a feed hopper at the Loughborough quarry, operated by Tarmac Aggregates Limited

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Galliford Try targets multi-rise affordable housing

28-09-2023 08:09 via constructionenquirer.com

Galliford Try has hired a former housing association development chief to spearhead its push into the multi-rise affordable housing sector.
Former head of new business and growth at the Thirteen Housing Group, Dr Angela Brockbank, has been appointed to the new role of Director for the Affordable Homes,
She aims to develop Galliford Try’s offering for the sector, building relationships with affordable housing providers, local authorities and wider stakeholders.Brockbank, who brings ov

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