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• Supplies and skills shortages delay Midland Met opening

  14-10-2021 17:11 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Sandwell NHS trust bosses has revealed that the Midland Metropolitan Hospital is set to miss its 2022 opening.
  Carillion replacement builder Balfour Beatty kept the project going through the pandemic, but has recently been hit be supply delays, workforce shortages and unexpected facade replacement works.
  Sandwell and West Birmingham-Hospitals NHS Trust said the hospital project which has been dogged by delays since Carillion’s collapse is now likely to open in 2023, five years later than p
  
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• Supplies and skills shortages delay Midland Met hospital opening

  14-10-2021 17:11 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Sandwell NHS trust bosses has revealed that the Midland Metropolitan Hospital is set to miss its 2022 opening.
  Carillion replacement builder Balfour Beatty kept the project going through the pandemic, but has recently been hit be supply delays, workforce shortages and unexpected facade replacement works.
  Sandwell and West Birmingham-Hospitals NHS Trust said the hospital project which has been dogged by delays since Carillion’s collapse is now likely to open in 2023, five years later than p
  
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• Sisk to get new CEO as Steve Bowcott steps down

  14-10-2021 14:13 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Paul Brown will take over as the new CEO of John Sisk & Son from January.
  Current CEO Steve Bowcott, 66, will help with the handover after spending six-and-a-half years in the role.
  Company Chair Gary McGann said: “We are pleased to appoint Paul to this role and are very fortunate to have someone of his calibre and experience to take up the leadership of the company.“We are very grateful for Steve’s commitment and his service to Sisk since his appointment in 2015 and as his
  
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• Bristol contractor stops work on sites

  14-10-2021 13:40 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Staff at Bristol based contractor Hartry Global Limited are looking for new jobs after the firm pulled off sites this week.
  The £8m turnover business has worked on a number of Lidl stores and latest filed accounts at Companies House show it employed 15 people directly.
  Staff took to LinkedIn this week to look for new jobs.One said: “Disappointing to be on the sharp-end of insolvency so early in my business life.”
  Another added: “So for the first time in over 20 years I fi
  
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• Acrol Modular lands £5.8m Cheltenham growth hub

  14-10-2021 12:00 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Gateshead based Acrol Modular has won a £5.8m contract to build a unique urban rejuvenation scheme in Cheltenham.
  The pioneering joint venture between the public and private sector is partly funded from a grant of £3.5m from central Government’s ‘Getting Building Fund’ and the Growth Hub via First LEP, Gloucestershire’s Local Enterprise Partnership.
  The innovative modular construction building will house workspace for the cyber tech, digital and creative secto
  
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• Deal to start 400-home West London build-to-rent scheme

  14-10-2021 09:10 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Built-to-rent specialist Grainger has exchanged contracts to forward fund and acquire a 401-home build-to-rent development scheme in Southall, West London, for £141m.The deal for Merrick Place allows construction of the scheme to start in December with completion.
  Located adjacent to Southall Station, including the new Crossrail station, the scheme forms part of a wider development to be delivered by Network Homes with Henry Construction as the appointed contractor.In line with Graing
  
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• Gallagher Group buys four Cemex ready-mix plants in Kent

  14-10-2021 08:48 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Kent construction business Gallagher Group has more than doubled its ready-mix concrete operation buying four plants across Kent from Cemex UK.
  It is the firm’s first external acquisition after almost 50 years of consistent organic growth, taking its total number of concrete plants from two to six.
  New facilities at Tunbridge Wells, Sittingbourne, Margate and Dover join existing group operations at Maidstone and Ashford to give full coverage across Kent.Sean Connor, Managing Director of Ga
  
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• ‘Carbon before capex’ cuts CO2 by two-thirds on school build

  14-10-2021 08:32 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A radical rethink of rebuilding an existing school using a construction model based on reduced carbon has delivered a whole life carbon savings of two-thirds and cut energy consumption in half without a significant cost increase.
  The theorectical industry-led project known as Circular Twin involved digitally building a school that had already been completed.
  The school was reworked from start to finish and with help from 250 supply chain partners so that each decision and design choice favoured
  
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• Graphene enhanced concrete used in suspended floor pour

  14-10-2021 08:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Concrete strengthened with graphene has been used in its first commercial project in a suspended floor slab at Manchester’s Mayfield regeneration scheme.
  Concretene uses graphene to significantly improve the mechanical performance of concrete allowing for reductions in the amount of material used and the need for steel reinforcement.
  At developer U+I’s Mayfield site it has been used to create a new 54x14metre mezzanine floor which will become a roller disco at the Escape to Freight I
  
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• Green light for £300m Blackpool Central leisure park

  14-10-2021 07:27 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Plans have been approved for a £300m themed leisure development off the Golden Mile in Blackpool.
  Developer Nikal has teamed up with entertainment business Media Invest Entertainment to develop the Blackpool Central scheme, which will include three indoor entertainment centres, a hotel and restaurants.
  The new indoor theme park will including a flying theatre, rides for all the family and the latest immersive virtual reality experiences.It will also feature a new major public square for li
  
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