Day: March 15, 2022

North Lanarkshire Council has agreed the project with Network Rail. A new dual carriageway will be built from a new signalised roundabout at the Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility and the bridge will be constructed to lift the railway line over the new road. Network Rail...

Carol HardinghamCarol Hardingham joins Galliford Try from Skanska, where she was sector sustainability manager. She has also previously worked for Costain. In Galliford Try her role is to manage the company’s environmental performance.  Targets include net zero carbon across its own operations by 2030 and...

Inside the Chiltern tunnelTwin TBMs Florence and Cecilia, each 170 metres long are excavating the longest tunnels of the HS2 high speed rail project. Since they launched from the southern portal site near Maple Cross  – Florence on 13th May 2021 and Cecilia in 2nd...

Dawn Karakatsanis (left), Lorraine Gregory (centre) and CECA Midlands chairman Nigel Drew (right)Lorraine Gregory takes over as CECA Midlands director from Dawn Karakatsanis, who held the post for four-and-a-half years. She has joined from the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB). “I appreciate I have very...

St Modwen homes near WantageSt Modwen, acquired by Blackstone in August 2021 for £1.3bn, is combining staff from its previously standalone strategic land business, Strategic Land & Regeneration, with St Modwen Homes to accelerate its growth plans. St Modwen Homes completed almost 1,200 new homes...

While working on the roof a building at Havers Hill in Eastfield, Scarborough, a 20-year old labourer fell three metres through a gap in the scaffolding. York Magistrates’ Court heard how the young man landed on an office roof below but sustained hand and wrist...