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Turner & Townsend names new KSA Head of Infrastructure to drive next phase of growth
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Charlotte Treadwell
UK Communications Manager
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Global programme management company, Turner & Townsend, is supporting the UK Government's Strategic Sites Accelerator (SSA) programme.
This follows the appointment of CBRE by the Department for Business and Trade (DBT), through the Office for Investment (OfI), as National Delivery Partner via a highly competitive tender process.
CBRE will act as the sole lead adviser over the next three years, working in partnership with Turner & Townsend as part of its wider delivery team.
The Strategic Sites Accelerator is a flagship Government initiative designed to unlock complex, high-potential industrial and commercial sites across the UK. The Government has provided over £600m of funding to support the delivery of a number of nationally significant strategic sites over the next three years.
Together, CBRE and Turner & Townsend will provide end-to-end advisory and delivery support across commercial advisory and site selection, financial structuring, real asset and infrastructure delivery and programme governance.
Turner & Townsend will specifically provide technical, cost management and project management support to help assess, plan, and deliver key development sites. This includes advice on infrastructure needs, site challenges and viability, costs and delivery risks as well as working with local and national partners to move projects forward efficiently and make sure sites are investment ready.
The programme will deploy targeted interventions through a combination of non-financial support, grant funding and minority equity or debt investment, helping to address key barriers to development including fragmented ownership, infrastructure constraints and viability challenges.
The appointment represents one of the most significant advisory mandates awarded by DBT and plays a central role in supporting the Government's growth mission by unlocking private investment and accelerating delivery across priority industrial sectors.
"We are proud to be supporting the Strategic Sites Accelerator programme alongside our colleagues at CBRE.
"This appointment reflects the strength of our combined capabilities and our extensive experience delivering complex programmes that unlock investment, accelerate development and create long-term value for communities and businesses.
"We look forward to working with Government and stakeholders across the UK to help bring forward nationally significant sites and support sustainable economic growth."
Darren Laybourn
Head of Government & Public Sector, UK
Turner & Townsend
About Turner & Townsend
Turner & Townsend is a global programme management company with over 23,000 people in 64 countries.
Working with clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, Turner & Townsend specialises in major programmes, project, cost and commercial management, project controls and performance, net zero and digital solutions, in markets around the world.
Turner & Townsend is majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm and a premier provider of critical infrastructure services, with its partners holding a significant non-controlling interest.
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