Whitby Wood merges with rival engineer

Mark Whitby, Seb Wood and Peter Corbett

£6.5m turnover business brings in firm which worked on venue staging ABBA concerts

The structural engineer behind ABBA’s temporary auditorium in east London has been snapped up by rival Whitby Wood.

London-based Corbett & Tasker (C&T), which employs seven people, worked on the auditorium for the ABBA Voyage tour – a residency by the Swedish pop group which will run until October and depicts the group as they appeared in 1977 at the height of their fame.

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