A Berkshire contractor has been fined £30,000 after a father-of-four was electrocuted. Levi Alleyne – known as ‘Chunky’ – lost his life while delivering crushed concrete at a construction site in Reading, on 16 November 2020. Alleyne, 41, was killed after the crane arm of his lorry came into close contact with an overhead power

Balfour Beatty has hired Alstom Transportation’s UK managing director Nick Crossfield to become new chief executive of UK Construction operations. Crossfield, a mechanical engineer, will join later this year and be responsible for the strategic leadership of the UK construction business, reporting directly to group chief executive Leo Quinn. He fills the vacancy created when

London Legacy Development Corporation and Ballymore have secured detailed planning for 700 flats in a quartet of towers next to the new V&A East Museum building on Stratford Waterfront in East London. Designed by Howells alongside O’Donnell+Tuomey and LDA Design, the family of four blocks of flats will rise to 27 storeys. Set within Queen