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Does Mansell Gain Signify Industry Upturn?
29 July 2010

The construction industry appears to be looking up and looking forward. Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, has announced that Mansell, the UK construction services business, have been appointed as one of three contractors to a £220 million four-year framework for the London Borough of Hackney and Hackney Homes’ Decent Homes programme. Mansell’s share of the framework will be worth approximately £73 million.

The programme will involve investment in existing housing stock and maintenance including external works and internal modifications to residential properties across the London Borough of Hackney. Mansell will also manage the specialist supply chain in collaboration with Hackney Homes. Work is scheduled to commence in October 2010.

Surely there has never been a better time to train, the construction sector is the nation's largest employing sector and the obvious upturn can only signal good times ahead for those fully trained and qualified tradesmen and women.