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• Rolls Royce gets funding for new mini nuclear reactors

  09-11-2021 12:02 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Rolls-Royce has officially launched its mini nuclear reactor building business after securing £400m of funding.
  The Rolls-Royce Small Modular Reactor (SMR) business includes BAM and Laing O’Rourke among its main supply chain partners.
  SMR has secured £195m in investment from Rolls-Royce Group, BNF Resources UK Limited and Exelon Generation Limited alongside grant funding of £210m from UK Research and Innovation funding.The business will now start to identify sites for fac
  
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• Graham seals £36m Sheffield build to rent tower

  09-11-2021 09:04 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Graham has signed a £38m deal with Manchester developer Panacea Property Development for a built to rent tower block that will form the final phase of the Well Meadow regeneration project in Sheffield.
  Funded by rental homes specialist Grainger, the scheme will provide 284 studio, one, and two-bedroom apartments across two residential buildings designed for the build to rent market in the Well Meadow Conservation Area in Sheffield City Centre.
  Peter Reavey, Regional Director at Graham said
  
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• Complete Utilities suspends trading

  09-11-2021 08:52 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Gloucestershire based civils contractor Complete Utilities has ceased trading.
  The firm was lead contractor on Gloucestershire and Herefordshire County Councils’ Fastershire project to lay the infrastructure for broadband provider Gigaclear.
  A spokesperson for Gigaclear told Gloucestershire Live: “We were notified on Sunday 31 October 2021 that Complete Utilities Ltd, one of our partners working with us to deliver ultrafast broadband across Herefordshire and Gloucestershire, were to
  
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• Vistry warns on labour as materials shortages ease

  09-11-2021 08:43 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  House builder Vistry has reported some signs of material shortages easing in its supply chain.
  But the firm warned that labour inflation looked set to continue into next year as the industry faced ongoing skills shortages.
  In an upbeat trading statement for 2021 this morning, chief executive Greg Fitzgerald, said: “We continue to see some pressure across the building materials supply chain resulting in extended lead times and inflationary price increases on certain products, although there
  
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• Vistry sees materials shortages ease but warns on labour

  09-11-2021 08:43 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  House builder Vistry has reported some signs of material shortages easing in its supply chain.
  But the firm warned that labour inflation looked set to continue into next year as the industry faced ongoing skills shortages.
  In an upbeat trading statement for 2021 this morning, chief executive Greg Fitzgerald, said: “We continue to see some pressure across the building materials supply chain resulting in extended lead times and inflationary price increases on certain products, although there
  
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• Barry McNicholas to leave Kier

  09-11-2021 08:16 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Barry McNicholas is leaving Kier at the end of this year.
  McNicholas is Group Managing Director Utilities at Kier who bought his family firm McNicholas Construction for £24m in 2017.
  He has decided to leave Kier at the end of Decemberto to pursue non-executive opportunities.Andrew Davies, Kier Group CEO said: “I would like to thank Barry for his hard work over the past few years.
  “Since Kier acquired McNicholas in 2017, Barry has been an integral part of our leadership team, an
  
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• Arup quits fossil fuel-related project work

  09-11-2021 08:14 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Arup has committed to never again take on energy fee work involving the extraction, refinement, or transportation of hydrocarbon-based fuels.
  From next April, Arup said all future energy commissions will focus entirely on low-carbon solutions, including wind, solar, hydroelectric, and hydrogen projects that it assesses as advancing progress toward a fully decarbonised future.
  Last year, Arup announced a commitment to achieve net zero across its global operations by 2030.The latest announcement s
  
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