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Rider Levett Bucknall (RLB) has promoted two partners to its UK board as part of a restructure to target more major national and international projects.

Mark Weaver has been promoted from managing partner of RLB鈥檚 Birmingham office to a new role with responsibility for securing major project opportunities in the UK and overseas.

Weaver will work with RLB UK chief executive Lance Taylor as part of a four-strong national team focused on pursuing major project leads, particularly in the UK nuclear sector and the Middle East.

RLB鈥檚 managing partner in London, Tony Catchpole, also joins the UK board with no change in his day to day role, although he will be responsible for national business planning at board level.

RLB was left with one UK board vacancy after the retirement of long-standing chairman David Bucknall last month.

The firm decided to replace him with two directors, taking the total number of board members from four to five.

Newly-appointed UK chairman Ann Bentley told 黑洞社区 the board had been too 鈥渘arrow鈥� with just four members.

Bentley said the firm鈥檚 enlarged major projects team will aim to 鈥渋nvolve the regional businesses as quickly as possible鈥� and is unlikely to grow 鈥渁bove five or six people鈥�.

The company has done away with Bentley鈥檚 former role of operations director and has divvied up these responsibilities between the remaining directors.

RLB is currently recruiting a new managing partner for Birmingham and has appointed an external consultant to run the recruitment process.