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Consultancy Today briefing: Tuesday 13 October 2026
Seven stories from the last 24 hours and one date for the week ahead.
Stories from the last 24 hours
AECOM names Dwight Pullen chief executive of its global Transportation business
The consultancy's aviation and surface transport leader takes over the global business line with immediate effect from interim chief Russell Jackson, with the UK named among five countries with particularly strong growth prospects.
Gardiner & Theobald cost-managed Palm Houses restoration reopens at Edinburgh Biomes
The first stage of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh's Edinburgh Biomes programme has reopened to the public, with Gardiner & Theobald providing cost management and Balfour Beatty as main contractor.
Stace appoints Gaby Noimark to head neighbourly matters in London building surveying team
The 200-strong consultancy has hired the party wall specialist to lead its neighbourly matters work from London, with plans to grow the team and bring 360-degree cameras to schedules of condition.
Pick Everard survey finds 52% of firms busier despite low confidence in Government
The consultancy's Q3 2026 market intelligence report, produced with Artelia UK, finds more than half of respondents have grown workloads while 83% expect tender prices to keep rising.
Pick Everard reports completion of Thames Valley Police forensic centre in Bicester
The consultancy provided cost management, project management and contract administration on the three-storey building, which Willmott Dixon built and which the force says staff will move into over the coming months.
Potter Raper schemes take 11 places on Inside Housing Development Awards 2026 shortlist
The consultancy said nine schemes it helped deliver across London, Essex and Cambridge are shortlisted, including Hart Road in Thundersley, the one project it submitted itself, which is named in two categories.
John Weir starts as Montagu Evans head of planning after Church Commissioners role
The chartered surveyor and town planner takes over a planning department of more than 100 people from Craig Blatchford, following a hire the firm first announced on 11 June 2026.
This week
RIBA Stirling Prize
Takes place on Thursday 15 October.
About this briefing
Published on weekday mornings. Every item comes from a story Consultancy Today has already published and checked against its sources, from dates organisers have published, or from our data trackers. See the events and awards calendar, or get the week's stories by email with the weekly newsletter.