As the week draws to a close, CM rounds up the construction stories you may have missed over the past seven days.

Laing O’Rourke has won a deal to build the new Stephen A Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities for the University of Oxford.

Manufacturers’ organisation Make UK has launched a new trade body, Make Modular, to bring together Britain’s modular housing companies.

Ray O’Rourke, Laing O’Rourke founder, majority shareholder and Group CEO, will step down from the group chief executive’s position in September 2022, the company has announced.

Laing O’Rourke chief executive Ray O’Rourke has pledged that the firm will transform ways of working in the business, as it harnesses an appetite for change in the construction sector amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Laing O’Rourke has blamed “demographic changes” to the composition of its directly employed construction workforce and the impact of covid-19 on earnings among salaried staff for a widening gender pay gap.

Laing O’Rourke chief executive Ray O’Rourke has warned that construction remains in the “dark ages” and has urged the sector to move to more offsite manufacturing.

Tottenham Court Road Crossrail station, constructed by Laing O’Rourke, has become the third station on the project to be handed over to Transport for London.

Laing O’Rourke has appointed Vicky Bullivant as its first group head of sustainability, a month after the firm unveiled a target to achieve operational net zero carbon emissions by 2030.

A 17-year-old man has died after spending several days in a critical condition in hospital following an accident at a Laing O’Rourke in Liverpool last week.

A worker has been killed and another critically injured in an accident on a Laing O’Rourke site in Liverpool on Wednesday (19 May).

Laing O’Rourke has conducted 70% of the construction of a new university building in London offsite.