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BAM Nuttall narrows gender pay gap

The steel-framed wharf of the new Rothera Research Station in Antarctica was completed late last year. Four-Tees Engineers fabricated 1,000 tonnes of steel in the UK, before shipping it nearly 9,000 miles for assembly on one of the most inhospitable construction sites on earth. BAM Nuttall is main contractor for the British Antarctic Survey project. Photo supplied by New Steel Construction
The steel-framed wharf of the new Rothera Research Station in Antarctica was completed late last year. Four-Tees Engineers fabricated 1,000 tonnes of steel in the UK, before shipping it nearly 9,000 miles for assembly on one of the most inhospitable construction sites on earth. BAM Nuttall is main contractor for the British Antarctic Survey project. Photo supplied by New Steel Construction

BAM Nuttall has reduced its gender pay gap to 24.8%, as it continued its focus on diversity in 2020.

During the year, the company formed four ‘people networks’ covering gender parity, LGBTQ+, minority ethnicity and disability/neurodiversity to amplify the voices of minorities. Savoury said the firm ”almost” reached its target of a 1:4 gender balance across the business, while it continued efforts to close the gender pay gap, with a 6.6% improvement in the mean average to 24.8%.

The news came as BAM Nuttall hailed a record forward order book worth £3.4bn, despite a dip in pre-tax profit in 2020 amid the covid-19 pandemic.

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