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• Keltbray buys nmcn infrastructure business

  11-10-2021 18:20 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Keltbray has agreed a deal to acquire a portfolio of infrastructure contracts and associated assets from nmcn which went into administration last week.
  The latest move secures the futures of 117 former nmcn employees and Keltbray will take over existing contracts with immediate effect.
  Some infrastructure contracts were not transferred as part of the deal leading to 19 redundancies
  The acquired contracts will be managed within Keltbray’s existing infrastructure division reporting to Managi
  
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• Keltbray acquires nmcn infrastructure business

  11-10-2021 18:20 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Keltbray has agreed a deal to acquire a portfolio of infrastructure contracts and associated assets from nmcn which went into administration last week.
  The latest move secures the futures of 117 former nmcn employees and Keltbray will take over existing contracts with immediate effect.
  The acquired contracts will be managed within Keltbray’s existing infrastructure division reporting to Managing Director, Phill Price.Keltbray CEO, Darren James said: “Keltbray are pleased with the &ls
  
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• M&E specialist Shackleton, Wintle and Lane goes into administration

  11-10-2021 17:26 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Cheltenham-based plumbing, heating and electrical specialist Shackleton, Wintle and Lane Limited (SW&L) has gone into administration with the loss of 69 jobs.
  Administrators at Mazars said the firm was brought down by the impact of the pandemic.
  SWL has been in business since 1983 specialising in new build housing schemes and bespoke property renovations.The £9.2m turnover company had seen strong profitability and year-on-year sales growth of 10% in the first half of the year ended 31
  
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• HS2 launches best practice sharing initiative

  11-10-2021 16:49 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  HS2 has launched a major new initiative to share insight from the country’s largest construction project with the wider UK infrastructure industry.
  The move will see the publication of lessons learnt, good practice and innovation from across the project published regularly here.
  The first tranche of Learning Legacy material includes over 100 resources covering a range of topics including Design Engineering & Architecture; Environment, Digital Engineering; Health & Safety and Occupa
  
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• Sisk starts £210m Birmingham Health Innovation Campus

  11-10-2021 11:16 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  John Sisk has started work on the first building at the £210m Birmingham Health Innovation Campus in Selly Oak.
  The development of No.1 BHIC forms the first phase of a ten-year masterplan for the campus which is the brainchild of developer Bruntwood SciTech in partnership with the University of Birmingham.
  The first phase of the campus will see a 7-floor 133,000 sq ft laboratory and office built for University of Birmingham’s Precision Health Technologies Accelerator.Targeting BREEAM
  
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• Last cooling towers blown down at Eggborough – video

  11-10-2021 09:17 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  DSM Demolition successfully demolished on Sunday morning the last four cooling towers at the former Eggborough power station plant in Goole, North Yorkshire.
  The landscape changing demolition was the next key milestone in the redevelopment of the site, earmarked for mixed-use regeneration in a joint venture between St Francis Group and Marshall Commercial Development Projects.The implosion took place at 9am within the perimeter of a secured 350m diameter exclusion zone to safeguard the public.Ov
  
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• Sale agreed for final £70m stalled Elliott Group scheme

  11-10-2021 08:44 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Agreement has been reached for the sale of the last of four stalled Elliot Group schemes after the developer collapsed into administration following the arrest of founder Elliot Lawless.
  Administrators for the company’s £70m hotel scheme on Norfolk Street in Liverpool’s Baltic tech district have exchanged contracts with the scheme’s original investors.
  HBG Insolvency Ltd will now put the sale proposal before the High Court for final ratification.The 306-bedroom property h
  
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• Sale agreed for final £70m stalled Elliot Group scheme

  11-10-2021 08:44 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Agreement has been reached for the sale of the last of four stalled Elliot Group schemes after the developer collapsed into administration following the arrest of founder Elliot Lawless.
  Administrators for the company’s £70m hotel scheme on Norfolk Street in Liverpool’s Baltic tech district have exchanged contracts with the scheme’s original investors.
  HBG Insolvency Ltd will now put the sale proposal before the High Court for final ratification.The 306-bedroom property h
  
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• Race starts for Sellafield £1bn concrete structures deal

  11-10-2021 08:43 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Sellafield’s project delivery team has fired the starting gun on race to find two key delivery partners for a combined concrete structures, groundworks and blockwork package worth £1bn over 18 years.
  The tender is the largest to hit the market from a new pioneering procurement model that uses Project 13-style integrated collaborative teams.
  The big procurement shake-up is being delivered the Programme and Project Partners (PPP) that are driving forward the clean-up of the Sellafield
  
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• Willmott Dixon wins £10.9m Oxford decarbonisation deal

  11-10-2021 08:30 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Willmott Dixon will work with Oxford City Council on a £10.9m project to reduce carbon emissions from public leisure centres.
  The programme will see water and air source heat pumps installed at four leisure centres around the city.
  The work is part of the council’s aim to become a Zero Carbon Council across its own estate and operations by 2030, with leisure centres responsible for around 40% of current building carbon emissions.Richard Poulter, Managing Director from Willmott Dixon&
  
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• Re-energised Kier tops September contracts league

  11-10-2021 01:01 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Kier has bounced back with a winning streak of contract wins after getting its finances back on track.
  The firm top September’s contracts league with a haul of 22 project wins, including the £200m Liverpool Bixteth Place office scheme for its in-house property division and a £66m project for Thames Water to modernise Mogden Sewage Treatment Works in Isleworth.The surge of projects last month also lifted Kier from sixth to second place in the 12-month rolling league table o
  
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