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• £775m Paddington Cube gets planning green light

  07-12-2016 08:51 via constructionenquirer.com
  Westminster City Council has given the thumbs up to developer Irvine Sellar’s revised plans for his £775m Paddington Quarter scheme in West London.Cube office building will sit 12m above the ground
  The 14-storey cube-shaped office building replaces earlier plans for a landmark 72-storey residential tower, nicknamed the ‘Paddington Pole’, which was abandoned after running into fierce opposition.
  Great Western Developments and development partner Sellar Paddington are
  
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• Subcontractors form alliance for major civils jobs

  23-04-2024 08:45 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Three leading specialists have joined forces to form an alliance to help deliver major infrastructure schemes more collaboratively.
  The Shropshire Alliance consists of locally based firms Beaver Bridges, Chasetown Civil Engineering and Foundation Piling.
  The alliance members have a combined turnover of £250m and will aim is to “create something greater than the sum of its parts, delivering more efficient and cost-effective  development outcomes to the benefit of the communities
  
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• Higgins wins £75m Peabody Passive House job

  23-04-2024 08:32 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Housing association Peabody has appointed Higgins Partnerships to build 189 affordable, low-energy homes at Deptford Landings in south east London.
  The £75m scheme will be one of the largest single-phase Passive House projects in the UK and will see residents benefitting from reduced energy costs and a significant improvement in comfort and air quality.
  It will be made up of three eight-storey buildings designed by architects Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM).The homes will be part of a
  
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• Wates set up business to target 160,000 mouldy social homes

  23-04-2024 08:14 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Wates has launched a new dedicated service for social landlords to tackle the damp and mouldy homes epidemic, estimated to impact 160,000 social homes in England.
  The new Healthy Homes service will see Wates deliver bespoke programmes of work, using both a direct labour force and specialist supply chain.
  This will help social landlords to address repairs before they become legal disputes, reducing legal fees and resulting in happy and safe residents.
  Wates said it had already signed six social h
  
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• Contractors and unions sign Sizewell C working agreement

  22-04-2024 21:42 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A dozen contractors and unions Unite and GMB have signed labour agreements with EDF for the construction of Sizewell C nuclear power station in Suffolk.
  The site-wide deal described as ‘best in class’ by all signatories sets pay and conditions for the site, which will cover up to 8,000 workers at peak construction.
  Details have still to emerge, but the new deal is said to offer better sick pay and parental leave terms than agreed in 2013 for the Hinkley Point C site.The three Solidar
  
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• Contractors and unions agree Sizewell C working deal

  22-04-2024 21:42 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A dozen contractors and unions Unite and GMB have signed labour agreements with EDF for the construction of Sizewell C nuclear power station in Suffolk.
  The site-wide deal described as ‘best in class’ by all signatories sets pay and conditions for the site, which will cover up to 8,000 workers at peak construction.
  Details have still to emerge, but the new deal is said to offer better sick pay and parental leave terms than agreed in 2013 for the Hinkley Point C site.The three Solidar
  
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• Competition chiefs win legal fight for more construction raids

  22-04-2024 14:52 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has won a legal challenge in the High Court after it was refused a domestic search warrant as part of a construction cartel investigation.
  Last October the CMA applied for warrants to search business and domestic premises as part of its investigation into suspected anti-competitive conduct regarding the supply of chemical admixtures for use in the construction industry. The CMA conducted raids to gather evidence as part of its investigation.
  While the
  
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• Kier wins Worcestershire town centre renewal

  22-04-2024 09:18 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Kier has clinched the job to renew Bromsgrove town centre in Worcestershire with a new 50,000 sq ft commercial and cultural hub on the site of the former market hall.
  The regeneration project involves a pavilion building for exhibitions, markets, and community use, a separate larger 4-storey building for offices, a restaurant on the ground floor and a roof top food and drink outlet and landscape works around the site.
  Designed by ONE Creative environments and project managed by Arcadis, a large
  
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• BAM signs Kent school contract at £42m

  22-04-2024 08:37 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  BAM Construction has agreed a £42m price to build a new school in Sevenoaks, Kent.
  The wave two school project for the Department of Education will see the firm replace 800-pupil Wrotham School to provide 265 more places from September 2027.
  The final negotiated price is £8m above initial estimates for the project which now has full planning.The buildings to be demolished are situated to the northwest and southeast corners of the built-up area of the school campus. These will clear t
  
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• McLaren wins multi-storey urban logistics contract

  22-04-2024 08:33 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  British Land has appointed McLaren Construction to build a four-storye last mile logistics hub for Southwark and central London.
  It will be the first of British Land’s pipeline of urban logistics projects in Greater London with a development value of £1.3bn.
  The 140,000 sq ft building on a 0.78 hectare site on Mandela Way will stack logistics space over multiple floors allowing the building to be subdivided, multi-tenanted and adaptable to future trends and climates.The ground floor
  
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• Big social housing schemes at risk over funding uncertainty

  22-04-2024 08:29 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  JV North is warning house building will slow unless funding certainty is given beyond the current Affordable Homes Programme end date.
  With less than two years left of the 2021/26 Affordable Homes Programme, JV North says developments of over 50 homes or those that take longer than 12 months are now at risk.
  Usually government-funded programmes overlap with the last two running from 2018 to 2021 and then 2021 to 2026 allowing housebuilding to carry on unabated.
  With no announcement made in last
  
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• More Osborne companies file administration notices

  22-04-2024 08:13 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Another three divisions of the Osborne group have filed notices of intention to appoint an administrator.
  The Enquirer broke the news last week that main business Geoffrey Osborne had filed an administration notice after an 18-month restructuring programme and attempts to secure new funding.
  Now a further three divisions – Osborne Construction Ltd, Osborne Group Holdings and Osborne Homes Ltd – have followed suit.Osborne said it is currently in talks with interested parties “wi
  
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• RG Group signs £121m Newcastle rental homes job

  19-04-2024 11:28 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Contractor RG Group has signed another major building job with client Olympian Homes to deliver 519 build to rent flats on the banks of the River Tyne between the Redheugh and King Edward VII bridges in Newcastle.
  It is RG Group’s fourth major project with Olympian following earlier awards in Manchester, Leeds and Nottingham.
  The 325,000 sq ft Pottery Lane scheme will be delivered in two phases. The first 11-storey block, with 292 private units, will be completed in the first quarter of 20
  
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• Another contractor cleared after high profile immigration raid

  19-04-2024 08:58 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Another contractor has been cleared after a high-profile raid by immigration officials on a site in Wales last month.
  The Home Office briefed the media following the raid on the Shotton Mill site in Deeside, north Wales warning that precast concrete specialist McCann and frame contractor Adana Construction could face fines of up to £225,000 after 13 people were arrested.
  Immigration officials decided to take no action against FP McCann earlier this week.And now Adana Construction has also
  
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• Shed specialist Benniman rides out market lull

  19-04-2024 08:46 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Worcestershire builder Benniman weathered a lull in the shed building market last year to maintain profit levels.
  The warehouse market slowdown saw revenue drop by around a fifth to £130m, but Benniman managed to keep pre-tax profit level at £8.4m.
  The shed builder also managed to end the year with stronger net cash at £55m, up from £38m in the year before.
  Steven Smith managing director of Benniman, said: “The industrial and logistics market has been challenged thr
  
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• McAleer & Rushe wants to meet new London suppliers

  19-04-2024 08:37 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  McAleer & Rushe is looking to expand its supply chain of specialist subcontractors and suppliers following a series of recent contract wins including a £102m student tower in the City of London.
  The firm is holding a ‘Meet the Buyer’ event on Wednesday May 1 at the County Hall, Westminster in London.
  McAleer & Rushe said it is a prime opportunity for new companies to find out how to become a valued member of its supply chain and benefit from its strong pipeline of live
  
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• Winners named for £260m Manchester Uni framework

  19-04-2024 08:36 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Manchester University has named its new line-up of contractors to deliver its ongoing works and expansion programme.
  The new build framework will be used to deliver the University’s next five-year investment strategy. It has been divided into four lots that will also cover demolition, refurbishment, decoration and landscaping, up to a total value of £260m.
  Twenty firms secured places on the framework although details of the winners for each of the four project value lots are sti
  
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• Geoffrey Osborne files administration notice

  19-04-2024 08:19 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Contractor Geoffrey Osborne has filed a notice of intention to appoint an administrator.
  The famous industry name was founded in 1966 by civil engineer Geoffrey Osborne and its main shareholders are still the Osborne family.
  Latest published accounts for the firm showed a turnover for the year to September 30 2021 of £325.8m generating a pre-tax profit of £2m while employing 800 staff.Last year group chief executive Mark Hoyland stepped down after just one month in the top job while
  
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• McAlpine signs £500m Broadgate dual towers deal

  18-04-2024 12:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Sir Robert McAlpine has today signed the main building contract for a dual high-rise building at Broadgate in London.
  The vast 750,000 sq ft 2 Finsbury Avenue project consists of a large 12-storey podium supporting a 36-storey East Tower and 21-storey West Tower.
  Both buildings will be characterised by triangular patterns combining a solid and glazed sawtooth-shaped façade.
  They will be linked by the podium incorporating publicly accessible spaces green and leisure spaces, with a single-s
  
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• Work starts on Manchester 26-storey Obsidian tower

  18-04-2024 09:41 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Manchester developer Salboy’s building contractor Domis has started work on the 26-storey residential tower block in the Greengate area towards the north of the city centre
  Salboy’s tenth central Manchester development in seven years, the £50m-plus building project, previously known as Trinity 2 and now renamed Obsidian, will deliver 250 flats and around 1,000 sq ft of ground floor commercial space at the Trinity Way and Willam Street site.
  Designed by architect Studio Power th
  
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• Race for £1.3bn West Midlands social homes framework

  18-04-2024 09:09 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A West Midlands housing association has restarted the hunt for contractors/developers and professional advisers to deliver its new build programme.
  Worcester-based Community Housing Group estimates the framework could be worth up to £1.3bn over four years across the Wyre Forest and the areas surrounding Worcestershire and West Midlands
  The larger value lots covering construction and development work on projects over £10m and specialist demolition and enabling works will be open acros
  
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• Winners revealed for £150m fire safety framework

  18-04-2024 08:36 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  More than 70 fire safety experts have been appointed to a new £150m UK-wide public sector fire safety framework.
  The Fire Safety (FS2) Framework from LHC Procurement Group (LHC) will see 72 winning companies deliver fire protection, suppression and safety related services for housing associations, local authorities and the wider public sector.
  Its launch will support organisations in meeting their legal responsibilities for fire safety under the Building Safety Act 2022 and Associated Legi
  
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• Worker rescued from collapsed four metre deep trench

  18-04-2024 08:31 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Firefighters battled for six hours to rescue a man trapped in a collapsed trench at a construction site in south London on Tuesday.
  The trench, approximately twelve metres long and four metres deep, collapsed and trapped a man up to his waist in sand and clay at the site in Charlton.
  Five Fire Rescue Units formed part of the brigade’s response, deploying specially trained Urban Search and Rescue crews to the scene working alongside the London Ambulance Service Hazardous Area Response Team,
  
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• Greenwich University tenders £300m framework

  18-04-2024 07:56 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Contractors have until early next month to submit applications for places on a major works framework for the University of Greenwich.
  The University is planning a £300m programme of works covering a mix of refurbishment, rebuild and new build at its three campuses.
  Three to five firms will be selected to deliver the 2030 masterplan with projects expected to vary in value between £50m and £250m.The mix of properties within scope include scheduled monuments, listed buildings, bui
  
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• Delancey submits £400m King’s Cross lab plans

  17-04-2024 17:20 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Developer Delancey has submitted plans to build 200,000 sq ft of research and laboratory space overflying railway tunnels close to the surface on a brownfield site near London’s King’s Cross station.
  Situated in the growing Knowledge Quarter and Innovation District, the constrained site is located next to the disused York Road underground station,
  The innovative design for 176-178 York Way was drawn up by architect Kohn Pedersen Fox with structural engineer Arup to avoid loads on thr
  
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• Gove puts another major building scheme on hold

  17-04-2024 14:25 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Michael Gove has waded-in to another planning debate and put proposals for a major mixed-use scheme in the City of London on hold.
  The Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities issued an Article 31 notice this week on the plans for the redevelopment of the 140 and 150 London Wall sites, known as Bastion House and the former Museum of London.
  The move meant the City of London Corporation Planning Applications-Sub Committee was not allowed to grant full permission for the scheme
  
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• Sellar plans £500m City tower next to Walkie-Talkie

  17-04-2024 08:52 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Sellar and Japanese developer Obayashi Properties UK are planning a landmark office tower that would link the City cluster to the Walkie-talkie on the capital’s skyline.
  The proposed tower at 60 Gracechurch Street within the Square Mile is being designed by Danish architectural practice 3XN, whose projects include 2 Finsbury Avenue at Broadgate.
  The intention is to commence the redevelopment of the building once vacant possession is secured in 2026, subject to securing planning consent.
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• Severfield ends year on high with record order book

  17-04-2024 08:22 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Britain’ s biggest steelwork contractor ended its financial year on a high with a record order book up 6% to £511m.
  In a trading update this morning the firm said it expected to announce pre-tax profits slightly ahead of market expectations and would be launching a £10m share buyback to return excess capital to investors.
  Alan Dunsmore, Chief Executive Officer said: “The Group is performing well, the outlook is positive and our businesses are well-positioned in markets wi
  
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• Second senior director exits National Highways

  17-04-2024 08:02 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  National Highways commercial and procurement director Malcolm Dare is leaving after five years at the roads delivery body.
  Dare worked at National Highways through the Roads Investment Strategy 2 period, steering it through the challenges of Covid 19, building greater collaboration and setting out the organisation’s intent towards net zero.
  He presided over the major and ongoing procurement shift towards new integrated delivery mega frameworks, which will set the contractor procurement str
  
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• New scheme fuels London lab building boom

  17-04-2024 07:59 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The surge in planned laboratory-led building projects in London shows no sign of slowing with another major scheme submitted for planning in Whitechapel.
  Specialist life sciences developer Lateral has teamed up with HIG Realty to submit plans for a 160,000 sq ft laboratory scheme located in the shadow of the Royal London Hospital site.
  Designed by AHMM, the 100-136 Cavell Street laboratory building will rise from 5 to 9 storeys and form part of the growing Whitechapel Life Science Cluster, which
  
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