Skanska

Skanska UK has confirmed that its executive vice-president and chief financial officer, Kelly Gangotra, is to step down. In a statement, the tier one contractor said Gangotra “has decided the time is right in her career to take up a new and significant opportunity”. It added: “She will leave Skanska…

Morgan Sindall has been propelled to the summit of the contractors’ league table for March by a £75m deal to develop a manufacturing hub in southern England. The 60,000 square foot facility, which is being developed at Kent Science Hub in Sittingbourne, will support cannabis-based medicines developed by Irish pharmaceutical…

All tier one contractors still working on Crossrail will be demobilised during the next six weeks. Crossrail chief executive Mark Wild (pictured) confirmed that the Costain Skanska JV (CSJV) will wrap up at Paddington station within four weeks. Meanwhile, a JV between Balfour Beatty, Morgan Sindall Infrastructure and Vinci Construction…

Skanska has landed a £235m contract to build an “ultra-sustainable” office-led scheme in central London. The company has signed a contract with Welput, a specialist central London office fund managed by investor BentallGreenOak, for the job, which is called 105 Victoria Street. The 470,000 square foot building will contain 16…

HS2 could use alliancing style contracts for future work to get the “best value”, Construction News can reveal. HS2 chief executive Mark Thurston said the megaproject with its web of contractors created an opportunity for closer collaboration. Thurston told CN: “There’s a lot of good learning about how we as…

Tier-one bosses have called for both subcontractors and Whitehall to help increase diversity in the industry. Galliford Try CEO Bill Hocking told the Construction News Summit that senior leaders have been on “a crusade” for years to get more diversity into their businesses. While he claimed younger-aged employees at his…

Leaders of tier one firms have called for the spirit of cooperation that emerged among contractors in the early days of the pandemic to continue, as the industry tackles major challenges such as the climate crisis and a skills shortage. Speaking at the Construction News Summit in central London on…

Crossrail ended its contract with the Costain/Skanska team working on Bond Street station as having the JV restart work during the pandemic was impractical and too expensive, the project’s boss has claimed. Speaking before a London Assembly transport committee, chief executive Mark Wild said the mutual agreement with the JV…

McAleer & Rushe has topped the October league table thanks to two huge project wins, as the rest of the top 10 also reported large resi-scheme wins. The contractor won almost £600m of new work during the month, over £330m more than the second-highest-placed firm. Its bumper haul was thanks…

Multiplex is offering staff the option of four-day working weeks in a new flexible-working initiative that it hopes will improve the gender balance in the company. Its ‘Multiplex Flex’ initiative will provide staff with different options for flexible working. It includes early finishes on Fridays, four-day weeks, remote working and…