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• Pre-pack saves 60 jobs at fit-out firm WFC Contractors

  09-10-2024 17:02 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Sixty jobs have been saved at Devon-based hospitality fit-out spercialist WFC Contractors in a prepack deal.
  Despite being based in Newton Abbot, the £45m turnover firm carved out a reputation in high-end London restaurant and bar jobs market.
  But after being hit by higher costs it was placed into administration yesterday to be pre-packed to RW Group.
  This group business includes airplane cabin interiors specialist RW Aviation, property maintenance firm Hankinson Whittle andCurtis Painting
  
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• Mace construction head steps down

  09-10-2024 10:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Mace CEO for Construction Andrew Jackson has left the company for personal reasons.
  His shock departure comes just three months after he was promoted to head the construction division replacing Mace veteran Gareth Lewis.
  Before becoming construction CEO in July, Jackson was chief operating officer having joined Mace in 2015 after 26 years with Laing O’Rourke.
  His departure leaves Group Deputy CEO Jason Millett in temporary charge of the construction division while the company looks for a s
  
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• Multiplex in talks for ISG’s £70m London offices to labs job

  09-10-2024 08:33 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Multiplex is understood to be holding talks to replace ISG on a major scheme to redevelop London’s Regent Quarter near King’s Cross into a life sciences-led campus.
  Before its collapse, ISG was working on the first phase of the refurbishment and redevelopment plans, estimated to be worth around £70m.
  Now work has halted on this first phase which was scheduled to complete towards of the end 2025.The project forms part of a wider 10-year redevelopment plan running over the seven-
  
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• HS2 London tunnels chief joins Transpennine Route Upgrade

  09-10-2024 08:06 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Network Rail has poached Skanska’s James Richardson to become managing director of the vast Transpennine Route Upgrade.
  Richardson is currently working as managing director of the Skanska Costain Strabag joint venture delivering the HS2 London tunnels.
  He will take up his post on TRU in the new year.
  Richardson, whose home contractor is Skanska, has held posts as Infrastructure MD and Rail Sector Director, and brings many years of experience working in the rail, road and energy industries
  
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