Mott MacDonald has appointed Richard Risdon as managing director of its UK and Europe region.
Risdon will take up the position from 1 August 2022. He will succeed Cathy Travers who was recently promoted to managing director as part of a management reshuffle at the £2bn global engineering, management and development…
Interserve chair Alan Lovell is to replace Emma Howard Boyd as chair of the Environment Agency, after MPs signed off on his appointment.
The Environment Agency named Lovell as its preferred candidate for the role in June, with two parliamentary committees now agreeing to the appointment. However, while they were content…
Galliford Try has purchased Coventry-based company MCS Control Systems for £1.
MCS was founded in 1976 and specialises in systems integration for the industrial and utilities sector, mainly in water, having worked with the likes of Scottish Water, Southern Water and Welsh Water. Its accounts for 2020, the latest available, show…
Bam Nuttall has doubled its profits in the space of year, with revenue breaking the £1bn barrier.
In the year to 31 December 2021, Bam Nuttall’s pre-tax profit jumped from £11.6M to £26.2M, a year-on-year increase of 125%. The contractor also recorded revenue of £1.07bn, in comparison with £843.9M for the…
Mott MacDonald has announced a pair of senior appointments.
The engineering giant has appointed James Harris as executive chair and Cathy Travers as Group managing director. Harris will be succeeding Mike Haigh who retires from the role after 42 years with the global engineering, management and development consultancy. Meanwhile, Travers will…
The cost of construction materials rose by almost a third in May compared to the previous year, according to the latest data from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
The monthly Building Materials and Components Index reveals that the cost for all new work increased by 27.2% year-on-year,…
Sir Robert McAlpine has appointed Andrew Hunter as its new director of engineering.
Hunter joined the construction and civil engineering firm in 2018, as a technical director, having previously held senior leadership positions at Skanska. He succeeds Alison Cox, who left the position in August 2021, to take on the role…
HS2 Ltd and its contractors dominate this year’s British Construction Industry Awards (BCIA) shortlist, with 13 nominations related to the high-speed rail project making the official shortlist.
HS2 Ltd is up for the IPA’s Industry Innovation Champion award, while innovations rolled out by contractors working on the railway also feature heavily.…
J. Murphy & Sons has announced former ITV chief executive John Creswell as the company’s new chairman.
Creswell will succeed Alastair Kerr who is stepping down at the end of the year after a decade in the role. Creswell is currently a non-executive director at Capita and has previously held board…
To mark International Women in Engineering Day, NCE has trawled through its recent archive and picked out 10 leading stories written by or featuring women in the industry during the past year.
This list is in no way, shape or form a "top 10". The list is instead designed to demonstrate…
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