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• Science park starts contractor hunt for £12m office scheme

  12-12-2018 08:35 via constructionenquirer.com
  The Sci-Tech Daresbury science and innovation campus has started the tender race for a contractor to build  its new 43,000 sq ft grade A office complex.
  The Project Violet scheme involves construction of two buildings providing 12,500 sq ft each and one building providing 18,000 sq ft.
  The buildings will be three storeys high and situated at the gateway of the campus near Liverpool.As part of the work there will be major landscaping improvements around the site.
  The development includes the
  
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• 15 win £3.5bn Eastern Route Partnership railway deal

  09-05-2024 09:10 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Network Rail has named the 15 firms it will work with on its new Eastern Routes Partnership set up to deliver a £3.5bn work programme through the control period 7 investment phase to 2029.
  The framework covers four main delivery areas, with each split with generalist firms forming the core partnership team to deliver the larger, more complex projects and several specialists.Eastern Routes PartnershipBuilding & Civils
  Generalists: Amco, BAM, Morgan Sindall, Story
  Specialists: Taziker (s
  
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• 33 firms secure spots on £3.6bn Northumbrian Water framework

  09-05-2024 09:06 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Northumbrian Water has completed the final contractor appointments to deliver its £3.6bn AMP8 capital investment programme.
  The latest wave sees 33 firms take spots on its collaborative framework including 11 firms joining for the first time for work across the company’s Northumbrian Water and Essex & Suffolk Water operating areas.Northumbrian Water AMP8
  AE Yates
  GLC Projects
  MGL Demolition
  Absolute Civil Engineering
  Gowland and Dawson
  Network Plus Services
  Applebridge Constructi
  
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• Ready mix concrete giant files administration notice

  09-05-2024 09:05 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  London concrete supplier Mixit has filled a notice of appointment to appoint an administrator.
  The firm’s ready mix lorries are a regular sight in the capital where the company used to operate as Jim’ll Mix It until it rebranded in 2015.
  Mixit Concrete Ltd has been in business since 1983 with plants in Tilbury, Barking and Edmonton.Latest results for the firm for the year to September 30 2021 show a turnover of £21.8m generating a pre-tax loss of £698,000 while employing
  
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• Construction boss in court over dodgy van deals

  09-05-2024 08:34 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The director of a Leeds-based construction firm who failed to keep up-to-date accounting records and explain why his company spent more than £800,000 on over 100 vehicles has been given a suspended prison sentence.
  Eugenijus Nalivaika was sentenced to 15 months in prison, suspended for 18 months, when he appeared at Leeds Crown Courty. He was also ordered to complete 250 hours of unpaid work and pay costs of £4,714.30.
  The 46-year-old pleaded guilty to failing to keep accounting reco
  
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• Expanding Caddick Group tops £500m turnover

  09-05-2024 08:29 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Yorkshire-based Caddick Group lifted revenue 17% to £575m last year after a turnaround in fortunes at the construction arm.
  Caddick Construction returned to profitability across all regions, helping the operation to swing from a £2m loss previously to deliver a £7.4m profit as revenue jumped 38% to £318m in the year to August 2023.
  This helped the developer, rental homes operator and construction group deliver a £35.5m profit.
  During the year, construction benefitte
  
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• Structure Tone returns to profit

  09-05-2024 08:20 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Structure Tone is back in the black and confident of future prospects in the London fit-out and refurb market.
  The contractor’s latest results for the year to December 31 2023 confirm a £1.28m pre-tax profit compared to a £130,000 loss last time as turnover ticked-up to £134m from £121m.
  Structure Tone said “the last couple of years has seen a significant improvement in both the quality, management, and close out of projects establishing a great foundation on
  
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• Dual student towers plan for Birmingham Gun Quarter

  09-05-2024 08:19 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Birmingham-based residential developer Sama Investments has unveiled plans for a dual tower scheme at a former city council office building in the Gun Quarter of the city.
  The planned student scheme, known as Perryian Works, will be located at 1 Lancaster Circus and and involves building towers rising to 40 and 50 storeys.
  The proposals will support the continued growth of nearby universities, with Aston and Birmingham City University only a short walk away.Plans are now out for public consultat
  
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• Government set to fund £1bn final HS2 London tunnel drive

  08-05-2024 09:30 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Government is set to give the go-ahead for the final HS2 main tunnel drive under London to Euston station.
  The project was halted as part of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s £6.5bn cost-cutting plan announced last October.
  This involved axing phase 2 to Manchester and finding a private investor to pay for the final 5.4-mile TBM drive to the station and the redevelopment of Euston site through over-station development.
  According to Whitehall sources, the Government has decided now to
  
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• Development firm fails hitting London building team for £2.6m

  08-05-2024 08:38 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The collapse of a developer behind a planned super-prime residential scheme on London’s Victoria Embankment has left main contractor Ant Yapi and consultants owed over £2.6m.
  A special purpose vehicle, Doulton Development, was set up by Australian developer Thirdi to buy the existing Westminster Tower building so that it could be redeveloped into 28 luxury flats.
  The SPV enlisted the professional team and last June signed up contractor Ant Yapi to advance the 18-storey project, marke
  
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• Developer fails hitting London building team for £2.6m

  08-05-2024 08:38 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The collapse of a developer behind a planned super-prime residential scheme on London’s Victoria Embankment has left main contractor Ant Yapi and consultants owed over £2.6m.
  A special purpose vehicle, Doulton Development, was set up by Australian developer Thirdi to buy the existing Westminster Tower building so that it could be redeveloped into 28 luxury flats.
  The SPV enlisted the professional team and last June signed up contractor Ant Yapi to advance the 18-storey project, marke
  
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• Bidding open for £800m professional services deal

  08-05-2024 08:33 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Procure Partnerships has started the race for its second-generation professional services framework for public works promising places for smaller firms.
  The new professional services agreement will run for four years alongside its established national contractor framework and is estimated to be worth up to £800m.
  The body has been operating and delivering successful frameworks across England for the past seven years, supporting the delivery of over 400 public sector projects.The tender doc
  
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• G&H Group lands £20m+ M&E package from JJ Rhatigan

  08-05-2024 08:16 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Main contractor JJ Rhatigan has selected G&H Group to deliver a £20m+ mechanical, electrical, and public health (MEP) design and build package at the Crown Trading Centre in Hayes.
  The £109m scheme in West London on the Grand Union Canal for property manager Greystar will consist of 407 build to rent, affordable rent and shared ownership apartments, commercial spaces, amenity areas, car and cycle parking, and landscaped areas.
  G&H Group’s 100-strong team will start on s
  
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• G&H Group lands £10m+ M&E package from JJ Rhatigan

  08-05-2024 08:16 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Main contractor JJ Rhatigan has selected G&H Group to deliver a £10m+ mechanical, electrical, and public health (MEP) design and build package at the Crown Trading Centre in Hayes.
  The £109m scheme in West London on the Grand Union Canal for property manager Greystar will consist of 407 build to rent, affordable rent and shared ownership apartments, commercial spaces, amenity areas, car and cycle parking, and landscaped areas.
  G&H Group’s 100-strong team will start on s
  
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• Stricken road sweeper specialist rescued

  08-05-2024 08:15 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Waste Management contractor Sweeptech has acquired road sweeper hire specialist Go Plant after the firm went into administration last week.
  The pre-pack deal was completed by administrators from Alvarez & Marsal Europe who sold a number of depots to Go Plant saving 116 jobs.
  Not all of Go Plant’s depots were sold with some shutting resulting in redundancies at the firm which employed over 400 staff.Sweeptech provides a broad range of services including waste management, high pressure j
  
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• Amazon fires up Big-Box market with £500m job

  08-05-2024 08:05 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Online retail giant Amazon has confirmed plans to build a £500m super-shed at the the giant SEGRO Logistics Park site near junction 15 of the M1.
  The decision marks Amazon’s return to the Big-Box building market in the UK after expansion plans went on hold two years ago in a belt-tightening exercise.
  Amazon said the new building offering around 2m sq ft will be the latest generation fulfilment centre, with three floors of robotics where goods will be stored and customer orders will b
  
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• Costain highways lead joins Buro Happold

  08-05-2024 08:04 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Costain’s key account director for National Highways Paula Gough has left the contractor to join engineering design consultant Buro Happold.
  She has taken the role of UK Development Director for Infrastructure after two and a half years as part of Costain’s Highways Senior Leadership Team.
  Gough will lead Buro’s infrastructure growth strategy for the UK public sector, leveraging the extensive global expertise within the business. She aims to expand and enhance key highway and r
  
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• SRL appoints Mark Eburne as CEO

  07-05-2024 22:48 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Traffic management specialist SRL Traffic Systems has appointed Mark Eburne as chief executive officer.
  The seasoned CEO has 25 years’ senior leadership experience and has worked extensively throughout the utilities, hire and construction sectors. He will bring considerable commercial expertise, which will be beneficial to SRL as it continues its growth journey.
  Eburne joins SRL from tool, fixings and building supplies retailer, FFX Group, where he was CEO.
  He said: “I am joining SRL
  
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• Conquip BulkX makes site excavations easier

  07-05-2024 13:04 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Conquip has developed a new excavation method that significantly enhances the efficiency and safety of construction projects.
  Conquip BulkX can handle large volumes of material, discharging into muck bays or directly into muck away trucks, rapidly and safely.
  The Smart-Release BulkX is the latest addition that Conquip launched this year.
  Fully-electric and remote-operated, this versatile system reduces plant-people interface and can be discharged in muck bays, barges, trucks or stockpiles.
  The d
  
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• Construction buyers see fastest growth for 14 months

  07-05-2024 11:47 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Construction buyers reported another rise in business activity in April with commercial building work leading the way.
  The bellwether S&P Global UK Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index posted 53.0 in April, up from 50.2 in March.
  The index was in positive territory for the second month running and signalled the strongest pace of expansion since February 2023.Commercial building (index at 53.9) increased for the first time since August 2023 and was the fastest-growing area of constru
  
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• Trio of builders win King’s Award for sustainability

  07-05-2024 09:19 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Three construction contractors have been recognised in the King’s Award for Enterprise for their efforts in promoting sustainable development.
  Northern Ireland’s Henry Brothers, privately-owned building contractor Willmott Dixon and offsite specialist ZED Pods all won recognition in the Sustainable Development category.
  Willmott Dixon has been recognised in the prestigious business accolade for the second successive year after last year winning an award in the category of Promoting O
  
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• Go Modular Technologies files administration notice

  07-05-2024 08:58 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Southampton offsite specialist Go Modular Technologies UK has filed a notice of intention to appoint an administrator.
  The firm specialises in bespoke modular construction from rooftop extensions to existing buildings to multi-storey new build flats.
  According to latest accounts for 2023, the volumetric timber frame producer employed around 60 staff from its South Hampshire Industrial Park base in Southampton.
  The business was set up six years ago operates across the south from Bristol to L
  
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• Kent police seize huge haul of stolen site tools

  07-05-2024 08:52 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Kent police have unearthed a haul of more than 1,000 stolen site tools.
  Officers from Kent Police’s Rural Task Force made seven arrests after seizing the stolen items in Cranbrook.
  Five local men, aged between 18 and 44, were arrested alongside a 19-year-old woman and 17-year-old boy on suspicion of multiple offences relating to theft. They have since been bailed pending further investigations.The haul was discovered following a search for a power drill fitted with a tracking device after
  
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• Cladding firm went down owing supply chain £7.7m

  07-05-2024 08:26 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Cladding specialist Alucraft Systems Ltd crashed into administration owing more than £7.7m to suppliers and subcontractors.
  The Staffordshire based contractor called in administrators from PwC in March who have now posted an update at Companies House on the firm’s finances.
  It reveals that the supply chain is owed £7.7m with little chance of unsecured creditors getting a penny for their unpaid invoices.Alucraft started its highest-profile project to date last May to deliver the
  
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• Rydon dogged by legacy fire safety remediation costs

  07-05-2024 08:21 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Legacy fire safety work continues to be a drag on Rydon Group’s financial performance.
  Revenue across the parent group fell by nearly a third last year to £64m with the group managing to generate a £560,000 pre-tax profit following a £11m contribution from Rydon Homes.
  Rydon Construction, which has been wound down with the exception of working through existing legacy contracts, suffered a £9.7m loss (2022:  £3.9m loss) from £0.6m revenue in the year
  
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• Robertson names new Northern construction chiefs

  07-05-2024 08:16 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Robertson Construction has promoted Ian Phillips to regional managing director of its Northern business in Scotland.
  His appointment to the business comes six years after joining as operations director and follows the retirement of Frank Reid after 43 years of service.
  In another appointment Morgans Sindall’s Ricky Brown has joined the business to fill the operational vacancy created by Phillips’s promotion.
  Elliot Robertson, chief executive officer at Robertson Group, said: “W
  
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• Carpenter killed by falling timber frame panels

  03-05-2024 14:19 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A specialist contractor has been fined after a 22-year-old carpenter died after he was struck by roofing materials on a building site.
  On 30 October 2019, Niall McCormack from Kettering, Northamptonshire had been working for KM Carpentry Contractors Limited installing roof trusses at a new build site at Alconbury Weald, Cambridgeshire.
  Both the truss packs and party wall spandrel panel had been lifted by crane onto a pair of semi-detached properties the day before the incident – temporaril
  
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• Anglian Homes rides in to finish crashed Everest contracts

  03-05-2024 09:21 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Anglian Home Improvement has pledged to fulfil orders taken by crashed double-glazed window rival Everest 2020.
  Administrators Resolve confirmed today that a deal has been struck to sell certain assets of the failed business to Anglian Home Improvements.
  While the terms of the agreement are finalised, the joint administrators have entered a subcontractor arrangement that will enable customer orders to be fulfilled by Anglian where possible.
  This will ensure all Everest customers impacted by Ever
  
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• Final work starts to connect super sewer to London system

  03-05-2024 08:46 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Engineers on the super sewer project have begun work to connect the new infrastructure to London’s existing sewer system. 
  Major construction work on the 25km Thames Tideway tunnel was finished last month after a 1,200-tonne concrete ‘lid’ was lifted into place to cap the project’s deepest shaft at Abbey Mills Pumping Station in east London.
  Now, the teams are preparing to bring the tunnel into service by making a connection to the 6.9km Lee Tunnel, which has been in
  
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• Road sweeper specialist files administration notice

  03-05-2024 08:35 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Road sweeper hire specialist Go Plant has filed a notice of intention to appoint an administrator.
  The firm’s machines are a common sight on building and civils jobs across the country.
  Go Plant’s latest accounts show the business had a turnover of £44.8m for the year to June 30 2022 generating a pre-tax loss of £4m while employing 443 staff.Sister company Go Plant Fleet Services has also filed a a notice of intention to appoint an administrator.
  The current operation is
  
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