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Homes England reappoints Lister as chair
months to 31st May. The data shows assistant site managers earning £37,600 per year, with the highest-flying candidates being offered £48,500 a year in London. Site managers have seen their pay rise 3 per cent to £50,500, up from £48,800 the previous year. Average salaries are higher in London, currently sitting at £53,400. Maintenance engineers have seen salaries rise by 5 per cent, from £31,800 to £33,500. Randstad reported that it has seen maintenance engineers in London secure starting salaries of £47,500 over the course of the last 12 months. A similar situation is developing in
project management, where average pay has risen 8 per cent, from £59,500 to £64,200. Pay for senior project managers has risen 7 per cent, from £75,700 to £80,800.
Site engineers have seen pay rise even
Sir Edward Lister has been reappointed as chair of Homes England. The appointment term is for three years, and follows the completion of Sir Edward Lister’s previous three-year term as Chair of the Agency. The new chair commented on his appointment: “Homes England has set out an ambitious mission to respond to the housing challenges across England and I am proud to have been reappointed as its chairman. “I look forward to continuing this work with colleagues across the business and with the wider housing sector, big and small, to deliver the homes this country needs.” As chair, Sir Lister will be responsible for
providing effective strategic leadership of the agency.
Construction salaries rising during skills shortage
Salaries in the construction industry are rising despite Brexit uncertainty, according to new figures. Research from Randstad Construction,
Property & Engineering into almost 6,800 permanent placed construction jobs has revealed that salaries across the sector rose 9 per cent in the last 12 months to 30th May 2018 – despite a drop in the number of vacancies being advertised. Pay in site management has risen 3 per
cent, with average asking salaries rising from £47,100 a year to £48,500 in the 12
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‘White paper’ calls for industry-wide H&S code
A common code to improve health and safety standards in the UK construction industry has been suggested in a new report from Hilti.
The Construct The Future white paper identifies cross-industry initiatives, led by trade associations and large contractors, as the most effective way to confront the construction sector’s future health and safety challenges. The call for collective action includes the
need for a sector-wide health and safety code to improve communication, education and consistency from site to site. Speaking in the report, Matias Jarnefelt, general manager (Northern Europe) at
further. Average asking salaries have risen 19 per cent, from £37,100 to £44,300 – with the best site engineers in the capital being paid up to £68,700. Owen Goodhead, managing director of Randstad, commented: “The most impor- tant thing to the construction industry is being able to hire, retain and train the talented people we need. That’s getting harder as the UK’s employment landscape changes in the wake of Brexit.” He concluded: “Given housebuilding and infrastructure building are bright spots in the sector and are continuing to grow, the government needs to ask, who’s going to put up these new homes? Who is going to build HS2?”
Hilti, says: “As much as we can work to mitigate risk, by their very nature, building sites remain dangerous places to work. To promote discussion and drive awareness of the issues, we’ve consulted at the highest level across the sector to produce this report. “We wanted to understand what firms see as their most pressing priorities and how they are moving to address them, and we’re keen to share these insights with the wider industry for everyone’s benefit.” He concluded: “It’s clear from speaking with the industry leaders involved that there is not enough consistency across jobsites, and only by committing to shared practices, will we ensure that all UK construction workers are able to go home safe from each shift.”
The white paper brings together expert opinion from across the sector, including contributions from the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) and firms such as Mace, Arcadis and Morgan Sindall.
Government reports rise in affordable units
An increase in the number of affordable homes being built in England has been reported in Homes England’s annual housing statistics. Between 1 April 2018 and 31 March 2019,
there were 45,692 new houses started on site under programmes managed by Homes England, and 40,289 houses completed. According to Homes England, these are the highest levels of starts for nine years, and the highest levels of completions for four. A total of 17,772 affordable homes started in 2018-19 were for affordable rent – a 4 per cent increase on the previous year – and 11,560 were for schemes including Shared Ownership and Rent to Buy – a 24 per cent increase on 2017-18. The remain- ing 1,231 were for social rent, a 12 per cent drop on the previous 12 months. Of the affordable homes completed, 18,895 were for affordable rent – represent- ing a 4 per cent decrease on the previous year, whereas the 8,854 completed under affordable housing schemes including Shared Ownership and Rent to Buy repre- sent a 75 per cent increase on 2017-18. Nick Walkley, chief executive of Homes England, commented: “At a time where the average house costs around eight times the average income, these are positive signs that the delivery of homes, and particularly affordable homes, is on the up.”
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