Skanska

Skanska UK has appointed Network Rail’s finance director, Meliha Duymaz, as its new chief financial officer (CFO). As well as taking on the CFO role, Duymaz has also been appointed as executive vice-president. Meliha joins Skanska UK from Network Rail, where she is currently finance director for the eastern region,…

Skanska is taking part in a “world-first” project that aims to reduce the amount of diesel used by on-site construction equipment. The initiative, which involves hydrogen-fuel pioneers ULEMCo and world-leading building science centre Building Research Establishment (BRE), will produce and evaluate a “dual-fuel hydrogen and diesel piling machine”. Named ZECHER,…

Skanska and Graham have signed up to an industrywide campaign to share carbon-cutting strategies and best practices. The CO2nstructZero campaign was launched by the Construction Leadership Council (CLC) trade body in March 2021, in response to the UK government’s goal to be net zero by 2050. The firms that sign…

A project helping Skanska to develop hydrogen-fuelled construction equipment has been awarded more than £400,000 through a government scheme to help the sector adapt to the red-diesel ban. Technology firm ULEMCo Ltd, which is working alongside Skanska and the Buildings Research Establishment (BRE), was given £418,613 to develop and deploy…

Skanska has won a £259m contract with the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) to redevelop a British Army vehicle storage and maintenance facility in Gloucestershire. The contractor will deliver the construction, along with the mechanical and electrical engineering services of new storage buildings, workshops and an office at the site located…

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…