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• Van Elle says ISG hit contained at under £100,000

  26-09-2024 08:27 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Piling and ground engineering specialist Van Elle has revealed that the hit from the collapse of ISG is likely to be under £100,000.
  The firm will report its limited exposure to the fall-out at its annual general meeting today.
  Van Elle said that while market conditions in the first four months of the new financial year were challenging across all sectors, there were early signs of a recovery in the housing market. It said that increased enquiry levels and order intake would translate into
  
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• New work drives Q3 construction output uplift

  15-11-2024 08:55 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Construction output increased by 0.8% in the third quarter with growth coming solely from a 2% increase in new work, as repair and maintenance fell by 0.6%.
  The upward trend figure held despite a slowdown in September where overall construction activity was largely flat recording a meagre 0.1% increase in output, with new work slightly down for the month.
  More volatile orders figures were down 22% in the third quarter suggesting a potential hiatus in work going forward.
  In a mixed bag of figures
  
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• Green light for new £45m tax office in Portsmouth

  15-11-2024 08:29 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Plans have been approved for a new office hub in Portsmouth which will be occupied by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).
  Welbeck CP and Development Manager Coplan Estates are now looking for a main contractor and demolition specialist with work scheduled to start next Spring on the £45m scheme.
  The No.1 The Goodsyard project will transform the former Matalan car park on Station Street into 8,000 sq m of office space over four storeys.HMRC is contracted to take the building and will locate appr
  
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• Octavius cuts concrete formwork strike time by 5 days

  15-11-2024 08:21 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Civil contractor Octavius is making big savings in concrete formwork strike times using temperature probes to measure in-situ concrete curing.
  On test projects for HS2, monitoring the concrete core was achieved by casting sacrificial thermocouple wires into the concrete.
  These were attached to transmitters secured on the formwork outside of the concrete which linked to an online portal, giving real-time data on the internal temperature and curing rate.Initially, data from the monitors was compar
  
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• Site labour rates hit record high as cost inflation returns

  15-11-2024 07:53 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Labour rates hit a new high last month, reaching £1,048 per week for self-employed tradespeople.
  Latest figures from the industry’s biggest payroll provider show average earnings for self-employed tradespeople increased 1.9% to £1,044 per week during October.Average pay to freelance tradesThe return of inflationary pressure in the labour market mirrors price increases in parts of the materials and product market with some manufacturers citing employer national insurance contrib
  
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• Plan for 200-home student-led London scheme

  15-11-2024 07:04 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Joint developers Regal and 4C Group have submitted proposals for a scheme of 187 student bedrooms and 27 affordable homes in London’s Camden Town.
  Designed by architect Morris+Company the planned new building wraps around a historic 19th-century pub on Jamestown Road.
  Steve Harrington, Planning Director, at Regal said: “Our partnership with 4C Group is rooted in a shared commitment to delivering great urban developments.“Building on the success of ‘The Haydon’, this
  
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• Morris & Spottiswood acquires part of ISG fit-out division

  14-11-2024 16:28 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Morris & Spottiswood Group has acquired part of the collapsed ISG fit-out business saving more than 100 jobs.
  Acquiring the former ISG Cathedral business will extend Morris & Spottiswood’s presence further south in the UK with the addition of offices in Whitstable, Bristol and Huntingdon.
  The move sees 111 former ISG staff join the business including the senior management team led by Kevin Dengate.The new division – Morris & Spottiswood England – will sit alongside
  
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• SRL set for growth with expansion of leadership team

  14-11-2024 12:09 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  SRL Traffic Systems has signalled ambitious expansion plans with four appointments to newly created senior leadership positions.
  Dublin-based John Mason has become SRL’s first managing director of Ireland and will take responsibility for developing and overseeing the implementation of the company’s strategy to increase its capabilities and market share in the territory.
  The former group sales director at international manufacturing group Emtez has 25 years’ experience in busine
  
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• Extra tunnels included in £6bn East West Rail scheme

  14-11-2024 09:16 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Government has unveiled details of the proposed East West Rail project following its commitment to fund the project in the last Budget.
  Plans include a new section of railway between Bedford and Cambridge, including building new stations at Tempsford and Cambourne, and upgrades to the existing railway between Oxford and Bedford.
  Bowing to pressure to reduce the project’s environmental impact two tunnels are now proposed for the new stretch of railway in Cambridgeshire.Design engineers
  
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• Winchmore wins £6.5m brickwork package on Stratford flats

  14-11-2024 08:56 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Winchmore Brickwork Group has landed a £6.5m package from Graham on a major flats scheme in east London.
  Graham was confirmed as main contractor earlier this week on the £69m Stratford Mill project to regenerate a brownfield site with buildings rising from two to 12 storeys.
  Now the first major subcontract package has been awarded with Winchmore due to start brickwork in the second quarter of next year.The mixed-use Stratford Mill scheme will create 245 new Build To Rent homes and Wi
  
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• Infrastructure to get £80bn boost from public sector pensions

  14-11-2024 08:41 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Public sector pension ‘megafunds’ will be created to unlock £80bn of investment in infrastructure projects.
  Chancellor Rachel Reeves has unveiled radical pension reforms which will create megafunds through consolidating defined contribution schemes and pooling assets from the 86 separate Local Government Pension Scheme authorities.
  The megafunds mirror set-ups in Australia and Canada – where pension funds take advantage of size to invest in assets that have higher growth
  
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• Motts/Jacobs JV to design £2.5bn West Yorkshire Mass Transit

  13-11-2024 16:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Consultants Jacobs and Mott MacDonald have secured the job to design the £2.5bn West Yorkshire Mass Transit Programme.
  The Jacobs – Mott MacDonald consortium will support the West Yorkshire Combined Authority in further developing the mass transit programme’s first phases, which includes Light Rapid Transit.
  The government has allocated an initial £200m to develop the plans between now and 2027. This will cover design, consultation, environmental appraisal, consenting and
  
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• Bidders wanted for £800m building safety framework

  13-11-2024 15:51 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Fusion21 has started renewal of its national Building Safety and Compliance Framework which is worth up to £800m over four years from next April.
  Bids are now being invited from interested suppliers providing regional or national coverage.
  Winning firms will help landlords manage and maintain safe buildings and demonstrate compliance across the public sector.The framework is split into twelve lots:Lot 1 Asbestos Surveying and Consultancy
  Lot 2 Asbestos Abatement and Removal
  Lot 3 Legionell
  
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• Muse signs landmark deal to redevelop Sollihull shopping centre

  13-11-2024 09:09 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Morgan Sindall’s urban renewal arm Muse has signed a deal to regenerate Mell Square shopping centre in the heart of Solihull town centre.
  Plans for the wholesale redevelopment of the 6.4ha site will now be lodged in the New Year promising what is expected to be a 10-year-long building programme.
  Solihull Council chose Muse as the preferred development partner for this project last year and has now approved its ambitious plans to redevelop the site.The mixed-use scheme will include an impro
  
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• Muse signs landmark deal to redevelop Solihull shopping centre

  13-11-2024 09:09 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Morgan Sindall’s urban renewal arm Muse has signed a deal to regenerate Mell Square shopping centre in the heart of Solihull town centre.
  Plans for the wholesale redevelopment of the 6.4ha site will now be lodged in the New Year promising what is expected to be a 10-year-long building programme.
  Solihull Council chose Muse as the preferred development partner for this project last year and has now approved its ambitious plans to redevelop the site.The mixed-use scheme will include an impro
  
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• Utilities contractor turns to Africa for skilled workers

  13-11-2024 08:47 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Infrastructure contractor IES Utilities Group has been successfully recruiting staff from Africa due to the severe shortage of overhead lines personnel in the UK.
  The Manchester based specialist has welcomed its 100th linesman as part of the initiative which has initially focused on recruiting in South Africa and Zimbabwe.
  IES is looking to expand the scheme to unearth talent across the continent and is looking to take-on another 500 linesmen, jointers, fitters and engineers next year.The firm s
  
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• Balfour Beatty regional MD steps down

  13-11-2024 08:14 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  After leading Balfour Beatty’s Regional Buildings business, Lindsay McGibbon will be leaving the contractor at the end of the year.
  He is understood to be leaving for a fresh opportunity in the United States.
  Lindsay joined Balfour Beatty from Laing O’Rourke at the end of 2020 after 16 years with the business where he oversaw the firm’s central section Thames Super Sewer contract and its Quebec hospital job.
  At Balfour more recently he had responsibility for navigating and clos
  
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• Morgan Sindall aboard for £22m London station roof renewal

  13-11-2024 01:11 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Network Rail has awarded a £22m contract to Morgan Sindall Infrastructure to bring more light into London Liverpool Street by renewing the roof panels as well as improving the drainage system of station’s Victorian trainshed.
  The contract will deliver a package of work that will allow more natural light into the station and make the roof resilient to 1-in-10 year storms.
  The contract includes:replacement of the life-expired glass reinforced plastic panels at the northern end of the t
  
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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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• RVT offers trio of new ways to stay safe on dusty sites

  11-11-2024 22:28 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  RVT Group has introduced three new ways to keep construction workers safe from the dangers of dust on site.
  All businesses undertaking activities that create dust must provide controls that are effective in keeping within the Work Exposure Limit (WEL).
  Failure to install adequate dust control will leave workers exposed to health problems such as heart disease, lung disease, respiratory problems, asbestosis, silicosis and cancer.
  RVT Group has been innovating new hazard control solutions for the
  
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• Crown Estate unveils £1.5bn Cambridge Business Park revamp

  11-11-2024 18:53 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Crown Estate has unveiled plans for the £1.5bn redevelopment of Cambridge Business Park in the north east of the city.
  The site presently comprises a dozen buildings across 20 acres, providing 325,000 sq ft of commercial office space only.
  The developing masterplan intends a wholesale rebuild to create a science and technology park along with a mix of retail and leisure spaces and up to 200 homes.Plans are still at very early stages of design with public consultation planned for later
  
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