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Apprentice decorator blinded by PVC hoarding

12-11-2021 14:51 via constructionenquirer.com

A Bradford contractor has been fined after an employee suffered significant sight loss in his right eye on a retail refurbishment job.
Manchester Magistrates’ Court heard how Pearl Services UK Ltd had been contracted to carry out refurbishment of a store in Cheetham Hill, Manchester.
On the 23 February 2020 employees were erecting PVC hoarding within the store to separate the refurbishment work area from members of the public.An apprentice decorator who was helping joiners set up the hoard

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HS Simm names new MD for engineering arm in the south

12-11-2021 11:31 via constructionenquirer.com

Family-owned M&E contractor HE Simm Group has appointed Phoenix ME operations director Marcus Wallis to head up its Engineering division in the south.
Wallis started his career in the industry following the completion of an electrical apprenticeship with Drake & Skull.
He has held director level roles in a number of companies, including Laing O’Rourke, Skanska and Mace, before moving to London-based Phoenix ME in 2018.In his new role at MD in the south, Wallis will be part of the g

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McGee wins landmark Covent Garden office job

12-11-2021 09:19 via constructionenquirer.com

McGee has secured the demolition, piling and RC frame for a major £150m landmark office building in the heart of Covent Garden.
The Acre project is being advanced by development manager Platform on behalf of client Northwood Investors International.
The existing 90 Long Acre building complex consists of a grid of blocks up to 11 storeys high built in the 1980s.
The Acre project will see the existing building on a corner of this scheme replaced with a taller building that also infills a gap

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Major logistics hub at Lancashire former colliery approved

12-11-2021 08:40 via constructionenquirer.com

The regeneration of the redundant Parkside Colliery into a major new logistic hub site has been approved by the secretary of state Michael Gove.
Parkside Regeneration, the joint venture between developers Langtree and St Helens Council formed to redevelop the coal mine, can now advance the first phase of development.
The Newton-le-Willows scheme will see 93,000 sq m of new employment space built on the site and a £38m Parkside link road to the M6.This first phase is expecte

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Willmott Dixon gets start date for £29m special needs school

12-11-2021 08:07 via constructionenquirer.com

Willmott Dixon has got the green light to start a £29m net-zero carbon school build at Silverwood School’s Rowde campus in North Wiltshire to provide a high-quality environment for 350 SEND pupils by September 2023.
Enabling works to prepare the site will begin in February 2022 with the start of the main construction works in March after planning was granted this week.
To achieve net zero carbon in operation, the buildings will utilise biomass boilers and incorporate a larg

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