Park Güell tickets will only be sold online as a way to disperse crowds
27 Jun
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Park Güell tickets will only be sold online as a way to disperse crowds

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Top Stories Tamfitronics The tickets will be available for certain time slots in order to distribute the tourists more evenly throughout the day Just two months after Barcelona’s Park Güell made headlines after the info about a bus line passing by it was removed from navigation maps, the city’s famous landmark is once again in the news. This time around, its management decided to make all ticket sales digitalstarting from 1 July. Just like with the bus line measure, this step was motivated by a desire to reduce the crowding in the area that has become an unwanted and annoying byproduct of the site’s popularity for tourists. Residents of La Salut, the neighbourhood where Park Güell is located have been complaining for years about the inconveniences of living next to a perennial tourist...
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Balfour Beatty names new construction boss
27 Jun
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Balfour Beatty names new construction boss

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Top Stories Tamfitronics Nick CrossfieldBalfour Beatty has hired Alstom Transportation’s UK and Ireland managing director to be its new head of construction.Nick Crossfield will become chief executive of Construction Services at the UK’s largest building firm, filling the role formerly carried out by Mark Bullock for three years before he retired.A statement from Balfour Beatty said Crossfield will focus on developing its construction business with a focus on developing its presence in the growing infrastructure market – including the energy, defence and sustainable transportation sectors.He will sit on the firm’s executive committee and report directly to group chief executive Leo Quinn, it added.Balfour Beatty has three divisions: Construction Services, Support Services and Infrastructure Investments. The largest by far is Construction Services, which accounted for £8.1bn of its total £9.6bn revenue in 2023.Crossfield has worked at...
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M Group Services sold to Luxembourg fund
27 Jun
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M Group Services sold to Luxembourg fund

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Top Stories Tamfitronics The UK’s ninth-largest contractor has been sold for an undisclosed sum.M Group Services, which turned over £1.86bn in its 2022/23 financial year, will officially have a new private equity owner in autumn upon completion of the deal between seller PAI Partners and buyer CVC.The infrastructure contractor has 11,000 staff and carries out work across water, energy, telecoms and transport from more than 216 locations across the UK. It was formed in 2016 from Morrison Utility Services and placed 9th in the CN100 2023.Paris-headquartered PAI Partners bought the company in 2018 from private equity firm First Reserve.Since then, M Group has acquired 14 businesses, with revenue increasing from £1bn to “over £2bn today”, according to the contractor - although its accounts for the year ending 31 March have not yet been published.Luxembourg-headquartered CVC...
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The construction skills crisis: Five ways contractors can bridge the gap
27 Jun
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The construction skills crisis: Five ways contractors can bridge the gap

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Top Stories Tamfitronics Deborah Blackhurst is Founder and Director of Strategic Resourcing, a platform that streamlines talent acquisition in the construction sector. Here, she addresses the hot topic of the construction industry skills gap and, more importantly, what employers can do about itIt’s well documented that a widening skills gap is having a devastating impact on the construction sector. A recent Construction Skills Network report identifies “substantial recruitment and training challenges” in the industry. It forecasts an extra 251,500 construction workers will be needed by 2028 to meet the expected levels of work.The same report states that construction employment fell by 0.9 per cent in 2023 following marginal growth in 2022. Further decline is predicted for 2024 at 1.5 per cent before anticipated growth in 2025.According to a House of Commons Committee Reportthe skills shortage...
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