Chris Glynn

The preferred bidder consortium, which also includes Innisfree, will expand the Toronto-based Humber River Regional Hospital into a 656-bed facility.

The infrastructure investor has been awarded a mandate for a 10-year, £100m public fund to help London go green, building-by-building. Amber is developing a track record managing public money and already has a £55m regeneration fund in Wales.

Ken Portnoy joined developer Balfour Beatty to bolster its US public-private partnership business in the newly created role of vice president of PPP. He will be based in Dallas, Texas.