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• Torus gets green light for £30m Liverpool scheme

  10-11-2021 23:22 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Developer Torus has won planning permission to build 185 apartments and 10 townhouses adjacent to Liverpool’s historic Stanley Dock complex.
  Torus will now choose a builder from its contractor framework for the £30m Lightbody Street redevelopment where construction is due to start next Spring.
  The contractors in the running for the scheme are Seddon, Anwyl Construction, Lovell Partnerships, Caddick Construction, Eric Wright and Vistry Partnerships North West.Work will completely tran
  
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• Muse set to start £50m Blackpool civil service building

  10-11-2021 09:27 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Muse is set to start work on phase 3 of its £350m Blackpool Talbot Gateway scheme after the Department for Work and Pensions confirmed it will take the block as a new regional office hub.
  The deal with the civil service brings forward construction of the planned BREEAM ‘Excellent’ building – designed by renowned architect Make.
  Blackpool Council’s planning committee will meet next week to give final approval for the 215,000 sq ft ultra-low energy office buildin
  
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• Cementation Skanska switches all large-scale plant to bio-fuel

  10-11-2021 08:37 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Piling contractor Cementation Skanska is switching all its plant fleet, including piling rigs, to hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) in the New Year.
  The decision follows a successful trial using the green bio-fuel on a Liebherr LB36 piling rig with an 390kW engine, the largest engine to ever trial the use of HVO.
  The trial, carried out in collaboration with HS2 and the Skanska Costain Strabag JV, collected data measurements with the engine running on diesel and then the engine running on HVO fuel
  
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• Subcontractors still waiting too long for VAT repayments

  10-11-2021 08:20 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Specialist contractors are still having to wait months before they receive reclaimed VAT payments following a controversial change in the tax regime earlier this year.
  The “domestic reverse charge” change came into force in March and means companies in the construction supply chain no longer receive their 20% VAT payment when they submit bills.
  The VAT cash is instead paid direct to HMRC by the customer receiving the service who will reclaim it in the normal way.That has left a lot o
  
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• Network Rail western renewals firm goes under

  10-11-2021 08:18 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The directors of civil engineering contractor R&W have shut down its specialist rail arm after it suffered heavy losses.
  R&W Rail was built from a start-up in 2016, investing in achieving RISCQ audit approval two years later to then securing a place as a Network Rail Tier one contractor on the western renewals framework for projects up to £4m.
  But investment in mobilising new team, loss-leader bids to build up a track record contributed to the firm recording a £0.8m loss in l
  
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• BAM first to join industry pallet reuse scheme to cut waste

  10-11-2021 08:15 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  BAM has become the first contractor to take up a fledgling pallet reuse scheme aiming for dramatic cuts to industry timber waste.
  The Pallet Loop scheme involves using more robust distinctive green pallets that its operators recover, repair and reuse.
  Widespread adoption of The Pallet LOOP across construction could achieve 40% less CO2 emissions and a 75% reduction in timber usage, compared to current pallet use.
  Other firms looking at the scheme include Careys, Morgan Sindall and Willmott Dixon
  
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• Winvic tops contracts league with big shed orders

  10-11-2021 08:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Industrial work for warehouses set the top two rankings of firms in the October contracts league.
  Winvic came top with shed jobs at two separate West Midlands sites, one at Peddimore for IM Properties and the other for Prologis at Coleshill.
  Just behind in second place came Buckingham Group with another big warehouse job heading its four orders during the month for Tritax at Symmetry Park in Northamptonshire.
  Wates took third place with its near 200-flats led scheme at plot A of the large Canada
  
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• Graham tops October contracts league

  10-11-2021 08:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Graham has taken pole position in the rankings for the highest value of orders secured during October after taking the third phase of the long-running Dounreay site clean-up in the Highlands.
  Valued at around £250m the final phase will involve remaining decommissioning, demolition, remediation and landscaping.
  Industrial work for warehouses saw Winvic rise to second place with orders for two separate West Midlands sites, one at Peddimore for IM Properties and the other for Prologis at Cole
  
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