Bouygues UK's chairman and chief executive Madani Sow suddenly stepped down from the contractor this week, leading to speculation of a potential vacancy on the industry's Construction Leadership Council. Sow was appointed to the rebooted leadership council last summer - a joint body between government and industry which replaced the axed chief construction adviser - making the cut while the government slashed its membership from 30 to just 12. A source on the Construction Leadership Council (CLC) told Building "everyone was quite surprised" at the news Sow had stepped down from Bouygues and he had made no indication he would be departing the firm during a CLC meeting last month.
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