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• Reds10 raids house builders for two director hires

  12-11-2024 23:44 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Modular building contractor Reds10 has strengthened its operational leadership team with two senior appointments from the housing sector.
  The twin appointments of regional operational directors come after four years of growth capped by revenue rising by 70% to £143m last year.
  (l-r) David Newey and James Bateman
  New director of operations in the south of England, David Newey, brings 17 years of experience to the expanding firm which has built growth mainly on education, health and some Min
  
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• Builder killed as telehandler overturns

  12-11-2024 15:42 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A house builder has been fined £160,000 after a man was killed by a telehandler at a site in Glasgow.
  Scott Bradley had been reversing the vehicle at the Stepford Road site when it slid down an embankment and overturned on 11 May 2022.
  The 44-year-old, employed by Merchant Homes Partnership Limited, had been using the telehandler to move scaffolding behind houses that had been partially built.Despite the efforts of colleagues and the emergency services, Bradley died from crush injuries at
  
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• Firms put on alert for £1.5bn decarbonisation framework

  12-11-2024 15:33 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Procurement body Fusion21 has placed firms on alert for a £1.5bn tender race for spots on a national decarbonisation framework.
  Places on the second-generation framework will be available on two lots covering whole house decarbonisation and public and education building decarbonisation.
  Big-name national contractors like BAM FM, Kier, Lovell, Vinci and Wates alongside a host of specialist and regional firms secured places on the first national framework that will now be renewed.The framewo
  
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• Latest networking event for industry young professionals

  12-11-2024 13:06 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  JCT’s Young Professional Group (YPG) is hosting its second joint networking event in partnership with members of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ (RICS) Matrics UK, and the Chartered Institute of Building’s (CIOB) Tomorrow’s Leaders.
  The event, hosted jointly between the three groups and KPMG, will be taking place on Wednesday, 27 November at KPMG’s Canary Wharf offices in London. It will be the second occasion that JCT’s YPG has joined with peer
  
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• McLaren boosts building safety and refurb team

  12-11-2024 12:52 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  McLaren Construction is cranking-up its focus on the building safety and refurbishment market.
  The firm confirmed that it has promoted Paul Woodhams to the newly created role of Managing Director, Building Safety & Refurbishment
  Woodhams joined McLaren in 2021 as Operations Director and has successfully led a wide range of projects including complex and large-scale remediation programmes of residential and mixed-use estates.He will continue to grow a team which specialises in building safety
  
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• BAM finally breaks ground at £60m-plus Yeovil College

  12-11-2024 08:25 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  BAM has finally broken ground on its £60m-plus Yeovil College campus redevelopment in Somerset.
  The project was initially expected to start more than 12 months ago and was originally estimated to cost around £40m before inflation impacted the industry.
  Entirely funded by the Department for Education, Yeovil College campus will be redesigned and developed over the next four years.Bath-based groundwork contractor Pennys has started work on site.
  Bristol architect AHR designed the new c
  
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• Firms fight to renew places on £450m JV North deal

  12-11-2024 08:21 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  North West social housing consortium JV North plans to refresh the line-up of firms it uses with a £450m new build framework.
  Seventeen incumbents now face a battle to renew their places on the multi-lot framework due to come into force in August 2025.
  The bigger existing partners include: Equans, United Living (North), Lovell Partnerships, Rowlinson, Seddon Construction, Anwyl Partnerships and Vistry Partnerships.Ahead of formally inviting tenders in January, JV North will be holding a vi
  
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• McLaughlin & Harvey returns to profit

  12-11-2024 08:18 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  McLaughlin & Harvey is back in the black after posting a pre-tax profit of £12m for the year to June 30 2024 from a turnover of £870.4m.
  The numbers were a major improvement on the previous year when the contractor suffered an £8.5m loss on a turnover of £736m.
  Philip Cheevers, Group Chief Executive, said: “Our reported results show a return to profitability in the financial year, with all parts of the business contributing positively to performance.“The b
  
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• United Utilities names water and waster water design consultants

  12-11-2024 01:26 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  United Utilities has named the consultant it will use as it prepares for the largest investment in water and wastewater infrastructure in the North West for a century.  
  As it awaits approval of its proposals from its regulator, the North West’s Water company has chosen 13 more partners across its network modelling and specialist design and development frameworks.   
  They are: AtkinsRéalis, Jacobs, Stantec, Binnies, Mott MacDonald, RPS, and WSP. These firms will
  
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• United Utilities names water and waste water design consultants

  12-11-2024 01:26 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  United Utilities has named the consultants it will use as it prepares for the largest investment in water and wastewater infrastructure in the North West for a century.  
  As it awaits approval of its proposals from its regulator, the North West’s Water company has chosen 13 more partners across its network modelling and specialist design and development frameworks.   
  They are: AtkinsRéalis, Jacobs, Stantec, Binnies, Mott MacDonald, RPS, and WSP. These firms wil
  
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