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• Kier to noise-proof 20,000 homes around Heathrow

  10-09-2024 08:51 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Kier has sealed an eight-year deal with Heathrow Airport to noise-proof up to 20,000 homes and local schools in the area.
  The 100% funded Quieter Neighbourhood Support Scheme is a major programme to better protect homes with noise insulation measures.
  The QNS in made up of three distinct programmes, the largest being theResidential Insulation Scheme. It also includes a quieter schools programme and vortex impact and prevention scheme.The latter includes repairs for vortex strikes and the provisi
  
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• Refurb contractor went down owing supply chain £9.5m

  15-01-2025 09:08 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Suffolk based refurbishment contractor Troy Central Ltd owed suppliers and subcontractors £9.5m when it went into administration last November.
  The scale of the company’s debts has been revealed by administrator Grant Thornton.
  An update at Companies House details 327 unsecured creditors owed a total of £9.56m.The firm specialised in the hotel, leisure and commercial sectors working on jobs up to £3m in value.
  Latest accounts for Troy for the year to August 31 2023 show a
  
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• Vistry slims down to three operating divisions

  15-01-2025 08:56 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Partnership housing specialist Vistry has slimmed down its operational structure from six to three divisions after reporting a £165m hit last year when it unearthed under-estimated build costs at its southern division.
  The new operational structure is designed to reduce reporting lines and allow CEO Greg Fitzgerald to get closer to the business.
  Each of the new three larger divisions is being led by newly-promoted executive chairs reporting directly to Fitzgerald.The new executive cha
  
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• Business better than expected at bullish Galliford Try

  15-01-2025 08:46 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Galliford Try issued a bullish trading statement to the City this morning with the business performing better than the board and analyst’s expectations.
  The contractor is on course to post pre-tax profit of around £35m for the year to June 30 2025 on turnover of £1.8bn.
  The company said: “The Group is performing well, winning a number of key projects and places on strategic frameworks throughout the first six months of the current financial year.“Trading is ahead of
  
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• Tilbury Douglas bags major Barbican Centre M&E upgrade

  15-01-2025 08:15 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Tilbury Douglas has secured the first phase of a major long-term M&E upgrade to the famous Barbican Arts Centre in London.
  The first phase works contract will be worth £22.5m, while the full programme of planned works is expected to rise to £185m over a decade of improvements to the grade II listed complex.
  The Corporation of London’s Barbican Renewal programme aims to deliver an exemplar of sensitive and sustainable conservation and retrofit for one of the UK’s most
  
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• Cardo breaks into Scotland with fifth acquisition

  15-01-2025 08:14 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Growing building maintenance specialist Cardo Group has gained a foothold in Scotland with the acquisition of energy services contractor HeatCare Oil and Gas.Established in 2000, HeatCare employs around 80 staff. It started out as a reactive gas maintenance repairs firm expanding into wider trades delivering plumbing, electrical work, joinery, painting, and refurbishment projects.
  With HeatCare’s operations rooted in Scotland the acquisition expands Cardo’s geographical reach and enh
  
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• Morgan Sindall starts £90m Cambridge mixed-use job

  15-01-2025 08:13 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Morgan Sindall Construction has finally started work on a £90m contract to build a mixed-use scheme in Cambridge more than two years after it gained planning.
  The Mill Yard project, formerly known as Devonshire Gardens, is being developed by Railpen, manager of the £34bn railways pension fund, and its development partner Socius.
  This landmark brownfield regeneration will unlock a vital space in the heart of the city, located close to Cambridge train station.Mill Yard comprises 110,00
  
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• Bid race for £55m London leisure centre and homes

  14-01-2025 09:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is advancing plans to build a new leisure centre and associated block of flats.
  The plan forms part of the council leader’s anti-austerity drive to build new housing and improve services.
  Now it is on the hunt for a contractor to demolish the existing St George’s swimming pool building in Shadwell to make way for the new leisure centre and an eight-storey block of 29 flats on the site.Both the leisure facilities and residential accommodation will b
  
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• Crest Nicholson delays results over £250m fire safety provision

  14-01-2025 08:50 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Crest Nicholson is pushing-back publication of its latest results following a request from its auditors for more time to confirm historic building firs safety costs.
  The delay is for “additional time to complete standard procedures and audit the appropriateness of the fire remediation provision.”
  Crest Nicholson will now publish its results for the year ended 31 October 2024 on February 4 and not on January 21 as previously planned.The company said it has made “significant prog
  
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• Trio of tech giants unveil £14bn AI data centre hub building plans

  14-01-2025 08:30 via constructionenquirer.com
  The boom in data centre building work will be further fuelled by another wave of planned projects worth £14bn.
  Latest plans revealed by three big tech companies will take the total committed investment in AI and data centre infrastructure over the next five to 10 years to a staggering £39bn.
  The fresh tranche of planned investment was unveiled yesterday in tandem with the launch of a new Government action plan to turbocharge the AI infrastructure industry.The Government has set out a
  
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• Former Keltbray site managers stand trial over contract “bribes”

  14-01-2025 08:11 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Three former site managers at Keltbray were paid hundreds of thousands of pounds in bribes linked to construction projects including Battersea Power Station, a court has heard.
  Details were revealed at the opening of a trial at Southwark Crown Court last week which is expected to last until mid-February.
  The Keltbray managers were “bribed” by Arben Hysa, the owner of specialist demolition contractor Tony Demolition Workers (TDW) to ensure his workers were used on various projects, Pa
  
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• Winners revealed as NHS plans to spend £500m on decarbonisation

  13-01-2025 15:25 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Winners have been confirmed for a £500m framework to help the NHS decarbonise its buildings.
  The NHS is aiming to become the “world’s first net zero national health service”, reaching net zero by 2040 for emissions the NHS controls directly.
  Work covered under the four-year agreement includes internal and external wall insulation, ground source and air source heat pumps, electric heating solutions, photovoltaic systems, ventilation systems and lighting works as well as tr
  
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• Seven scoop £850m Yorkshire Water complex projects deal

  13-01-2025 13:27 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Yorkshire Water has picked seven partners for an £850m framework delivering complex non-infrastructure works.
  Barhale, Galliford Try, Glanua, Kier, Mott MacDonald Bentley, Tilbury Douglas, and Ward & Burke will deliver on the utility’s increased investment in non-infrastructure clean and wastewater assets over the next five years.
  This framework forms part of Yorkshire Water’s AMP8 investment programme, its largest-ever environmental initiative, which has been approved by r
  
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• L&G submits plan for £350m Bristol Temple Island

  13-01-2025 09:25 via constructionenquirer.com
  Legal & General has submitted a planning application for Bristol Temple Island, a £350m regeneration project that will transform the derelict, former diesel depot site into a new urban quarter.The development masterplanned by architects Zaha Hadid aims to deliver 520 homes, two new office buildings, retail space, flexible workspace, and a new hotel with conference facilities.
  L&G’s will work in partnership with Bristol City Council to ensure 40% of housing is for social and a
  
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• London Embankment scheme rebooted as student rooms

  13-01-2025 09:14 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Plans to redevelop a major site on London’s Albert Embankment have been brought back to life with proposals for a 770-bed student scheme over two towers.
  It is the third incarnation of plans for the 36-46 Albert Embankment site in Vauxhall, which received planning for a 900-bed hotel across similar proposed towers two years ago.
  Before this plan, the site occupied by a Jet petrol station and owned by engineering firm Hotchkiss, had started out in the early 2000s as a planned flats scheme.U
  
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• £22m Leicester station revamp rethink after one bid

  13-01-2025 08:51 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Leicester City Council is to retender the £22m project to restore the city’s historic railway station after just one firm submitted a bid after a call for tenders last summer.
  The city council, Network Rail and East Midlands Railway are now expected to rebid the project which secured nearly £18m in levelling up funding early this year.
  City mayor Sir Peter Soulsby confirmed that only one company bid for the contract so no agreement was signed.Under the revised plan the council
  
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• Hercules tops £100m turnover but suffers £1.7m loss

  13-01-2025 08:44 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Labour supply specialist Hercules Site Services has topped £100m turnover for the first time, just three years after floating on the Aim market.
  But the firm, which saw a 35% rise in people deployed to 1,150 operatives, reported an overall £1.7m pre-tax loss down to its suction excavator business.
  Brusk Korkmaz, chief executive officer, said that Hercules now aimed to offload the £5m turnover suction excavator business to focus on core services, and booked a £3.3m loss fo
  
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• Watchdog extends competition probe into house builders

  13-01-2025 08:42 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Government’s competition watchdog is extending its investigation into suspected breaches of competition law by seven major house builders.
  The Competition and Markets Authority launched a probe last February after uncovering evidence during a far-reaching study into housing market delivery that indicated some house builders may be sharing commercially sensitive information with their competitors.
  The original investigation period finished in December but has now been extended to May 20
  
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• Precast worker loses leg after 800kg pallet drop

  13-01-2025 08:06 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A precast concrete manufacturer has been fined after a steel pallet landed on an employee leaving him permanently disabled.
  The 800kg load crushed Wayne Hatton’s legs during a night shift at Amber Precast Ltd’s factory on 14 January 2021.
  Hatton, from Doncaster, had his right lower leg amputated with two toes on his left foot also being removed following the incident at Davy Business Park.The pallet was being removed from a reinforced concrete cast when it fell onto the father-of-two
  
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• Universal Civils and Build picks-up another ISG job

  10-01-2025 14:27 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Nottingham based contractor Universal Civils and Build has won another job to restart a leisure centre stalled by the collapse of ISG.
  Hyndburn Borough Council has confirmed that Universal will restart construction at Wilson Sports Village in Clayton-le-Moors later this month.
  Work on the £12m scheme was about 45% complete when ISG went into administration last September.Universal has also landed completion works on a £24m leisure centre in Chesterfield which was being built by ISG.
  
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• Downing Construction hit by third year of losses

  10-01-2025 09:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  Liverpool contractor Downing Construction has suffered a third year of losses after further provisions for building safety works and challenges on an Edinburgh student accommodation scheme.
  The construction arm of the Downing property group saw revenue double to more than £107m as project work stepped up at its major First Street scheme in Manchester.
  But problem projects and cost rises saw pre-tax losses deepen to £5.8m in the year to March 2024, from £3.4m in 2023 and £
  
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• £250m Stockport homes scheme set to start

  10-01-2025 08:39 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  North West developer Cityheart has picked local contractor Oak Construction Projects to deliver the first phase of its 440-flat Stopford Park scheme in Stockport town centre.
  Construction work will start this month on Bosden, the first of three residential buildings at Stopford Park between Greek Street and Wellington Road in Stockport town centre.
  Bosden will provide 62 one and two-bedroom homes for sale within a new neighbourhood community and landscaped public realm in the heart of the town.A
  
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• Building stone firm ignores silica dust safety warnings

  10-01-2025 08:38 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A building stone products manufacturer and its director have been fined £19,000 after repeatedly failing to protect workers from exposure to Respirable Crystalline Silica (RCS).
  The HSE carried out several inspections on Warmsworth Stone Limited, which produces carved stone masonry products using limestone, sandstone, granite and marble, at the company’s site at Thurnscoe, South Yorkshire starting in May 2023.
  Following these visits the company was served with seven improvement notic
  
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• Problem contracts make it another tricky year for Taziker

  10-01-2025 08:17 via constructionenquirer.com
  Multi-disciplinary engineering specialist Taziker Industrial has seen losses increase in its latest results due to legacy contract issues.
  Results for the year to March 31 2024 show pre-tax losses increased to £5.6m from £1.2m last time as turnover stayed steady at £86.4m.
  The previous year’s losses prompted the original company founders to buy back a controlling stake in business from its private equity owners and change the strategy and financial structure.But legacy co
  
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• SRL makes life easier for drivers on Kier road job

  09-01-2025 22:35 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  SRL Traffic Systems, in collaboration with National Highways and Kier, has introduced variable message signs (VMS) to clearly communicate changes to the layout during roadworks.
  New signs were installed in a contraflow section of the A417 Missing Link project as part of the broader Electronic Boards for Roadworks review, which has significantly increased understanding of the changes due to roadworks.
  Industry research has shown that messages which can be read within four seconds are better for d
  
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• Prep work starts for vast HS2 box slide under A46

  09-01-2025 16:34 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Balfour Beatty Vinci joint venture has complete construction of a 14,500-tonne box structure designed to allow HS2 trains beneath the A46 Kenilworth Bypass in Warwickshire.
  Engineers worked around the clock successfully lifted into place 120 gigantic beams forming its top of the box structure in just 14 days.
  The milestone paves the way for the vast box to be jacked 64m under the dual carriageway using a system designed by French contractor Fressynet.The box will jacked across on a guiding raft
  
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• Morgan Sindall wins Canary Wharf office-to-labs job

  09-01-2025 14:55 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Morgan Sindall has been confirmed for a £65m life sciences development in Canary Wharf.
  Work for clients Oaktree Capital Management and LS Estates will see the existing office building at 17 Columbus Courtyard (17CC)  transformed into a new state-of-the-art life science and technology hub.
  Construction will start on site this month with completion scheduled for late 2026.Richard Dobson, Morgan Sindall Construction’s Area Director for London, said: “17CC will exemplify how
  
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• Management buyout at Midlands contractor

  09-01-2025 09:08 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Midlands commercial contractor GI Sykes has been bought by its management.
  The third-generation family business based in Stourbridge employs 40 permanent staff as well as dozens of independent contractors.
  The buy-out gives control of the business to the existing management team led by Richard Downs, who becomes Managing Director, and includes fourth-generation family member James Sykes (Operations Director), Anthony Bennett (Contracts Director) and Dan Westbury (Commercial Director).The deal pr
  
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• Five contractors win £550m airfield framework deal

  09-01-2025 09:05 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Manchester Airports Group has revealed its line-up of firms to deliver airfield infrastructure work for the next five to eight years.
  The selected partners for the £550m Airfield Infrastructure Framework includes two design consultants and five contractors.MAG partners and work pipeline value
  Arup – Design – value £51m
  Jacobs – Design – £51m
  Volker Fitzpatrick – Pavement quality concrete – £187m
  Lagan Aviation & Infrastructure &ndas
  
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• Galldris bounces back to strong profits

  09-01-2025 09:04 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  North London civils contractor Galldris has delivered strong profits reaping rewards from a selective bidding regime and cost-plus contracts.
  Despite a challenging market, the firm managed to more than double operating margins last year on steady revenue at £125m.
  According to latest account for the year to March 2024, the firm generated a strong pre-tax profit of £21m up from £880,000 in the prior year.Trading margin for the main Galdris Services business, which employs around
  
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