SPV SPECIAL PROJECTS, part of the Phoenix Consortia group of companies, is celebrating a top award by The 5% Club of its Platinum membership status. The organisation’s highest award means SPV is committed to employing more than 5% of its workforce through the earn-and-learn scheme. At SPV Special Projects, more than 10% of the workforce
Civils contractor Strabag UK has broken the current record for the world’s longest single tunnel boring machine drive at the potash mine project under the Yorkshire moors. Tunnellers on the Woodsmith project near Whitby recently reached 25.8km on what will be the conveyor tunnel for a permanent mineral transport system. This will be used to
A roofing contractor has been fined a total of £881,000 after two workers were seriously injured during two separate incidents. Billy Hewitt, a worker at Mitie Tilley Roofing Limited, fractured his pelvis after falling through a factory roof in Newcastle. A 24-year-old labourer employed by RM Scaffolding also broke his femur after falling through the
A joint venture between Bouygues Travaux Publics and Murphy has been confirmed to deliver the main tunnel section for the massive Lower Thames Crossing project. As exclusively tipped in the Enquirer, the BM JV team beat rivals Dragados-Hochtief (DH JV) and BAM Nuttall, Ferrovial Construction (UK) and Vinci Construction Grands Projets (BFV JV) for the £2.3bn
McLaren Property and Arlington Real Estate have been selected as the strategic developer for the York Central scheme. The brownfield site is one of the UK’s largest city centre regeneration schemes. John Sisk & Son is already onsite carrying out £135m of infrastructure works including 3km of new roads, footpaths, cycleways and two new bridges
Developer/contractor Watkin Jones has submitted plans to build a high rise student flat block on the site of a former tax office in Glasgow. At 114m high, it would be the second tallest building in the city behind The Glasgow Tower at the science centre. Designed by Hawkins Brown, the Ard scheme will consist of
Hampshire-based contractor Brymor Group Southern is seeking to enter a Company Voluntary Arrangement with its creditors. Last month, the directors laid off around 30 staff as the company restructured amid a fall off in new work. Workers affected were at all levels from directors down, with some having worked for the business for more than
Balfour Beatty told the City it is on course to meet expectations for its full year results in a positive trading update this morning. Turnover for the full year is expected to be about 5% ahead of the prior year’s £8.9bn while “underlying profit from operations from earnings-based businesses “should be broadly in line with
Check out some of the images we captured during the 2023 Best of Success conference, held Dec. 4-6 in Frisco, Texas.
Aecom has hired former Costain managing director of transportation Sue Kershaw as senior vice president for its Program Management global business line. Based in Los Angeles, Kershaw will be responsible for overseeing Aecom’s transformational and complex programs around the world, providing technical leadership and strategic direction. Drew Jeter, chief executive of Aecom’s Program Management global
