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• Barhale bags deal to keep sewage pumping in East London

  05-11-2021 08:35 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Barhale has been selected by Thames Water to deliver a £10m power resilience scheme in East London.
  Work will start early next year on the the project in East Ham which will provide an extensive overhaul of the Folkestone Road Pumping Station – one of four strategic pumping stations that reinforce flows along the Northern Outfall Sewer which feeds into Beckton Sewage Treatment Works.
  The Barhale team will initially carry out investigations to understand the control philosophy, &ldquo
  
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• United Living buys telecoms infrastructure business

  05-11-2021 08:34 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Housing contractor United Living has bought telecoms infrastructure business Great British Communications in a move to broaden its offer.
  GBC is a specialist provider of acquisition, design, build, procurement, installation, commissioning, maintenance and repair services to mobile network operators.
  The £28m revenue business is a leading player in the roll out of 5G. This latest acquisition significantly enhances the £450m revenue group’s ability to provide critical infras
  
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• Bathroom pod specialist OEP goes into administration

  05-11-2021 08:15 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Lancaster based modular construction company OEP Building Services has gone into administration.
  Administrators from Dow Schofield Watts are now in charge of the business which specialised in bathroom pods.
  OEP Building Services was hoping to reach a turnover of £18m in 2020 but was hit hard by the pandemic and the Enquirer understands that OEP is still in adjudication with its insurance company over a £250,00 business interruption claim following a five-week Covid shutdown.OEP has a
  
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• McLaren poised for £100m Amazon “spy centre”

  05-11-2021 08:13 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Tech giant Amazon is lining-up contractors for three new massive data centres – one of which is set to be used to host classified material for the UK spy agencies.
  The Financial Times has reported that GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 have struck a deal with Amazon’s cloud computing arm AWS to host classified material in one of the centres.
  And the Enquirer understands that McLaren Construction is set to build the snooping centre.A number of contractors have been in the running but one said: &ldquo
  
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