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• Trafficking gang arrested and 55 builders safeguarded

  28-09-2021 23:30 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Met Police and officers in Romania arrested 13 men on Tuesday morning in a series of raids as part of a major investigation into human trafficking.Following the raids 54 men and one male juvenile have been safeguarded.
  The investigation was launched by detectives from the Met’s Specialist Crime Command in August 2019 after intelligence highlighted a Romanian organised crime group (OCG) operating between Romania and the UK.
  Romanian adult nationals have been recruited and trafficked to the
  
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• Plan to build two major prisons at RAF base in Essex

  28-09-2021 17:34 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Ministry of Justice has unveiled plans to build two new prisons on land around an RAF air base in Essex.
  New Category B and C prisons, each containing 1,715 inmates, are being proposed to be built at Wethersfield air base in Braintree.
  They will each follow the new standardised designs, consisting of seven separate house blocks each rising to four floors with 240 inmates in each block.Each prison will also have support buildings. These will include a reception area, kitchens, workshops, a vi
  
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• Aldi to open 100 stores in next two years

  28-09-2021 09:08 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  German discounter Aldi is sticking with bricks and mortar expansion plans aiming to open another 100 stores across the UK over the next two years.
  The group, which is now the fifth biggest supermarket operator in the UK, will also expand its logistics infrastructure, including a new 1.3m sq ft site in Leicestershire, as part of a £1.3bn spend.
  Work will start on the £100m national distribution centre project early next year with Birmingham warehouse specialist DSP Construction Manage
  
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• Bidding starts for £4.2bn major projects framework

  28-09-2021 08:44 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Willmott Dixon, Robertson and Farrans face a fight to renew their places on a £4.2bn major projects framework organised by the Procurement Hub.
  The four-year framework, which is run through housing provider Places for People, is moving into its second generation and is designed to deliver for a broad span of new and upgrade work for housing, education and health to offices, industrial and commercial.
  The Major Projects 2 framework, which has an option to extend for another two years, is di
  
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• Worker falls through scaffold safety rail

  28-09-2021 08:18 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A fit out contractor has been fined after an employee suffered multiple fractures after falling fifteen feet from scaffolding.
  Manchester Magistrates Court heard on the 24 October 2019, an employee of TA Knox Shopfitters Ltd was working from a tower scaffold at the front of the Footasylum Store in the Trafford Centre, Manchester, when the scaffold moved throwing him off balance.
  He fell backwards against the safety rail of the scaffold, which gave way and he fell fifteen feet to the ground. The
  
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• Ardmore starts £70m Mayfair mixed-use scheme

  28-09-2021 00:49 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Ardmore has started a landmark mixed-use luxury redevelopment of a former NCP car park in Mayfair, west London. 
  The builder has mobilised on the Carrington Street site to build 30 super-prime homes, gym and restaurant, a 2,400 sq m art gallery and 5,000 sq m of office and commercial space.
  Ardmore has started main works following the completion of a demolition and enabling works package by specialist McGee.The redevelopment designed by AHMM includes two blocks of up to eight storeys, forme
  
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