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• Costain hires new Natural Resources MD

  16-11-2021 18:33 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Costain has hired Babcock’s defence arm managing director Sam White to head its Natural Resources division.
  He replaces Maxine Mayhew who is leaving at the end of the year after four years as the water, energy and defence sector division.
  White takes up the new role in January also joining the executive board.At Babcock International Group he held various leadership roles over the past nine years, most recently as managing director for Defence.
  Prior to this role White was managing di
  
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• Waste specialist buys water contractor Glan Agua

  16-11-2021 16:22 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Environmental management company BHSL has agreed to acquire water contractor Glan Agua.
  Clean water and wastewater solutions specialist Glan Agua works with leading water utilities in the UK and Ireland and is a division of a Portuguese engineering and construction company Mota-Engil.
  The acquisition will more than double BHSL’s revenues with plans for sales in 2022 of over £85m.The combined businesses will have over 300 staff across the UK and Ireland with expansion of Glan Agua set
  
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• HS2 hails big carbon saving on UK’s longest rail bridge

  16-11-2021 09:10 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Design and construction teams on the HS2 Colne Valley Viaduct project are on track to slash embedded carbon by 28%.
  Narrowing the width of the viaduct has delivered a significant reduction in carbon across the 3.4km viaduct structure, set to be the UK’s longest railway bridge.
  Reductions in concrete and steel on the project helped to slash embedded carbon by 63,300 tonnes CO2e – the equivalent of 234,500 flights from London to Edinburgh.Main works contractor Align JV – a team m
  
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• Amey fined £600k after excavator overturns on rail job

  16-11-2021 08:50 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Amey has been fined £600,000 after a road-rail excavator vehicle overturned during lifting work rebuilding Market Harborough station in Leicestershire.
  Leicester Magistrates’ Court  heard that the operator had to be pulled from the cab but no one was seriously injured during the incident in the early hours of 21 October 2018.
  An Office of Road and Rail investigation found there was a late change in the equipment being used on the night of the accident, which had inadequate lifti
  
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• Green schemes to be focus of infrastructure spending

  16-11-2021 08:29 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Advisors at the National Infrastructure Commission have announced the sectors that will “sit at the heart”of its next major assessment of the country’s investment priorities.
  Key areas will include identifying the infrastructure needed for hydrogen and carbon capture and storage to decarbonise parts of the economy, improving recycling rates and surface transport within and between cities and towns.
  The commission will undertake focused work to help address unanswered questions
  
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• Landsec to spend £135m to decarbonise its estate

  16-11-2021 08:26 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Developer Landsec has today announced plans to invest £135m on its existing estate of buildings to drive its transition to net zero.The fund will be used to finance a series of initiatives over the coming nine years to reduce Landsec’s carbon footprint and drive innovation and best practice across the wider industry.
  This will involve retrofitting more solar PV, and replacing boilers with air source heat pumps and upgrading building management systems.
  Its investment equates to
  
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• Willmott Dixon wins £21m West Sussex fire station

  16-11-2021 08:03 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Willmott Dixon has been selected by West Sussex Fire & Rescue Service to deliver a £21m fire service training centre and fire station.
  It’s the latest in a series of ‘blue-light’ projects for Willmott Dixon and follows the handover last month of a new HQ for Merseyside Police in the centre of Liverpool.
  The scheme in Horsham at a site off the A24 at Highwood Mill was procured using the SCF framework for on behalf of West Sussex County Council.Russell Miller, dire
  
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