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• Graham starts £20m Blackpool Houndshill centre extension

  27-09-2021 12:38 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Grham Construction has started enabling works for the £20m extension to the Houndshill shopping centre in Blackpool.
  First phase enabling works will involve initial utilities diversion works and preparations at the Tower Street site for the main building works to follow.
  The Houndshill Phase 2 extension, which has secured £5m from the Government’s Covid 19 Get Britain Building, fund will deliver a fresh range of entertainment, retail and leisure facilities.This will include a n
  
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• Ilke Homes raises £60m for top 10 house builder plan

  27-09-2021 12:00 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Modular housing specialist ilke Homes has raised £60m to keep the firm on track to become a top ten house builder within the next five years, delivering 10,000 factory-built homes.
  The fundraise was split between £30m debt from government agency Homes England and £30m of equity from multiple new investors.
  Affordable housing provider, The Guinness Partnership, is one of the new equity investors. It is also a customer of ilke Homes having signed two deals in the last year, for s
  
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• Plans in for Salford Greengate phase 2 tower

  27-09-2021 11:00 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Manchester high-rise specialist Renaker has submitted plans for a 42-storey residential building, forming the second phase of its Salford Greengate cluster.  
  Denton Corker Marshall Architects has designed the 444-apartment building, which was originally due to be brought forward as the final of three towers at the Greengate regeneration scheme.The sequencing has now been swapped to facilitate development with Renaker already on site delivering its 52-storey Colliers Yard building
  
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• McLaren lands another major deal at King’s Cross

  27-09-2021 09:21 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  King’s Cross Central Limited Partnership (KCCLP) has appointed McLaren Construction as main contractor on its latest commercial and residential development at the 67-acre central London site.
  Confirmation of the appointment comes just months after McLaren handed over the Luma residential building at Kings Cross.
  The new R8 building will comprise two 13-storey blocks linked by a two-storey podium garden with landscaped roof gardens for users of both buildings.To the east is a residential bu
  
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• £25m Cardiff coastal defence bid contest starts

  27-09-2021 08:47 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Contractors are being invited to bid for a £25m coastal defence scheme to save large parts of Cardiff from floods.
  Cardiff Council is planning to replace existing defences along the mouth of the Rhymney River, due to erosion and growing risks of flooding from climate change.
  The plans include putting 100,000 tonnes of rock on the coastline, raising the riverbank behind and raising embankments next to a highway.Works could begin on site by next Spring, and finish by October 2023. The Welsh
  
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• BDP replaced as architect on £600m new Leeds hospitals

  27-09-2021 08:46 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has replaced BDP as architect of its £600m children and adults hospitals at the Leeds General infirmary site.
  BDP was confirmed as preferred bidder for the scheme last month when initial designs were unveiled – but has now been replaced by a rival team.
  The trust said: “Following a period of preferred bidder engagement the Trust has not been able to progress these discussions and in line with procurement best practice, started preferred bidder
  
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• Government starts race for £30bn mega framework

  27-09-2021 08:05 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Crown Commercial Service has started the tender race for its ProCure23 and major project framework for public spending departments.
  The fourth-generation ProCure23 element for the NHS will be split into three lots, while two other lots in the bundled tender will cover MoD airfield works and major construction projects valued at more than £80m.
  The final major projects lot will account for the majority of total forecast spend over the 56-month lifetime of the frameworks at £20bn.T
  
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