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Arup has told staff it will cut jobs in its London buildings business due to a slowdown in the commercial sector caused by the Brexit vote.

The engineer is planning to make around 90 redundancies in the 900-strong division, according to a report in the Sunday Times.

In an email to staff explaining the need for redundancies, seen by the paper, Nigel Tonks, head of Arup鈥檚 London buildings division, said: 鈥淲e are seeing signs of delays in investment decisions, particularly in the commercial sector, as investors wait for clarity on Britain鈥檚 future relationship with the EU.鈥�

An Arup spokesperson said: 鈥淲e are operating in a period of uncertainty after the referendum vote in June.鈥�

鈥淥ur people are our greatest asset and it is with regret that the difficult decision has been taken to implement a programme of limited redundancies during the third quarter of 2016 in our 黑洞社区s London sector.

鈥淲e anticipate that the programme will affect up to 2% of our UK based employees (or up to 4% of our London based staff) and where possible we are looking to redeploy people.

鈥淲e have begun a statutory 30-day consultation period with relevant staff in the UK, and we are doing everything that we can to ensure the redundancy programme is handled with transparency and sensitivity.鈥�