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

VolkerStevin has agreed terms to deliver Sunderland’s £31m ‘smart pedestrian and cycle bridge’ project crossing the Wear. Work will now start 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

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

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 will receive a share of the  £456m Condition Improvement Fund to refurbish and repair dilapidated school buildings. The funding will ensure

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

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:

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

Henry Construction Projects Limited  has been fined £234,000 after a demolition worker suffered serious injuries after falling from a platform in Kensington in London. Ovidiu Dobra was working for Henry Construction Projects Limited at a building site on Kensington High Street when the incident happened on 2 March 2021. Dobra, 51 at the time, was

Network Rail has set out its planned spend and prioritise for the next five years under the CP7 spending programme. Among its top priorities are finding £3.8bn in efficiency gains on work programmes, equating to around 10% savings. It is also ramping up work programmes to improve network resilience in the face of climate change

Water companies have pledged to invest £10bn to reduce waste outflows after apologising for dumping billions of litres of sewage in rivers and seas To put things right, the industry is planning to make the largest ever investment in storm overflows as part of a major programme to reduce spills. If approved by regulators, water