Day: November 30, 2023

Chief executive Ray O'Rourke In the year to 31st March 2023, Laing O’Rourke achieved top line revenue growth of 13%  to £3.4bn but it made an operating loss of £276.6m and a pre-tax loss of £288.1m. The results include £195m of exceptional items, mostly relating...

Heathrow Terminal Five departure loungeFrench private equity firm Ardian is buying a 15% stake in Heathrow from Ferrovial and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (which also owns Newcastle United Football Club) is taking the other 10%. Heathrow’s other major shareholders are the Qatar Investment Authority...

Hercules chief executive Brusk Korkmaz Future Build Recruitment, a specialist UK-based white-collar recruitment company operating in the UK construction industry, is the first acquisition that Hercules has made since its foundation by Brusk Korkmaz in 2008. Brighton-based Future Build will be integrated into Hercules' Labour...

North Wessex DownsWiltshire Council has given National Grid planning approval to remove overhead high voltage electricity line in the North Wessex Downs area of outstanding natural beauty, (AONB) to the north of Devizes, and replace it with underground cables. Archaeological work which will start in...

Builders and medical managers got together to have their photo takenSouth Tyneside & Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust is relocating its eye hospital from a 75-year-old building on Queen Alexandra Road in the southeast of the city to a new 10,000 sqm building within the city...

Christian Huckstep (left) and Dave Meldrum Duxford now becomes Meldrum’s third office, alongside Gatesgead and Stockton-on-Tees. The new office is headed by Christian Huckstep, regional project director for Meldrum Construction. "Meldrum's proven ability to deliver successful projects in the South East made establishing an office...

Working at height needn't be dangerousHealth & Safety Executive (HSE) official statistics collate only limited data and can only teach us so much. If it gathered more information, we could learn more and improve workplace safety, it is  argued. The Access Industry Forum is an...