Consultants

Plans have gone in for a major riverside regeneration project in York. Local developer Helmsley Group submitted the application for the scheme to City of York Council. The construction value of the Coney Street Riverside project was estimated to be £500m, according to construction intelligence provider Glenigan. The 250,000 square…

Four big-name contractors have been appointed to a £1.3bn project to upgrade a key section of road in northern England. Balfour Beatty, Costain, Kier and Keltbray have signed an agreement to deliver the A66 Northern Trans-Pennine project. The deal will see the firms work together to dual remaining single-carriageway sections…

Profit at Atkins has grown by 17 per cent, its latest accounts show. The consultant posted pre-tax profit of £58.3m, up by £8.6m on the previous year’s figure of £49.7m. Its annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2021 also show that revenue reached £1.01bn, a…

Mott MacDonald has announced a shakeup of its senior leadership team amid the departure of its long-serving executive chair, Mike Haigh. Haigh, who has worked for the global engineering, management and development consultancy for 42 years, will be replaced by James Harris. Meanwhile, Cathy Travers becomes group managing director, stepping…

Three major construction consultancies have been named on a £200m deal to build innovation centres for Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland. Arcadis, Turner & Townsend and Faithful+Gould will provide project management, design and construction services as part of the contract win. Arcadis has been appointed to work on the…

Mace has appointed new regional directors for south-west England and the north. The construction firm has named Sarah Morton as director for the north and Lucy Namihas as director for the south-west region. Morton joined Mace’s consultancy business last year and led the managed frameworks team, working closely with national…

Faithful & Gould is actively providing advice on remediating unsafe cladding on 187 buildings, despite being sued for approving the use of combustible materials on a London estate. The Department for Levelling Up Housing and Communities (DLUHC) has allocated £600m for the removal of dangerous aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding…

Construction activity in major regional cities grew in 2021 thanks to a boom in residential work. The Deloitte regional crane survey found that 72 construction projects were started in 2021 – up from 53 the year before – in Belfast, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester. The survey counts residential schemes larger…

The rise of automation in the construction industry could lead to a widening skills gap, a leading consultant has warned. Arcadis UK director of workforce for the future Lara Potter said the built environment needs a new culture of upskilling to deal with the anticipated changes that automation could bring…

The cost of building prime minister Boris Johnson’s mooted transport link between Northern Ireland and Scotland is “impossible to justify” an official review has found. An investigation by professors Douglas Oakervee and Gordon Masterton, with support from consultants Jacobs and COWI, commissioned by the government, has concluded that building either…