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• Northern routes and HS2 scaled back in latest Tory rail plan

  18-11-2021 13:10 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The government has unveiled the “biggest ever public investment in Britain’s rail network” with £96bn pledged to deliver faster journeys for people across the North and the Midlands.
  But a lot of the programme is money previously committed and savings from scrapping HS2’s eastern leg to Leeds. An £18bn cheaper version of the Northern Powerhouse Rail plan has also been adopted.
  The original Hs2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail plans were costed at £185mThe In
  
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• Wates poaches Balfour ‘Beyond Net Zero’ chief

  18-11-2021 09:02 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Private builder Wates has poached Balfour Beatty net zero lead Bekir Andrews to accelerate progress towards its bold environmental targets by 2025.
  In the new environmental sustainability director role, he reports to John Dunne, group safety, health, environment, quality and sustainability Director.
  Andrews will lead on Wates’ efforts to decarbonise its operations as well as focusing on establishing Wates as the low carbon solution provider of choice within the built environment.At Balfour
  
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• Boris scraps HS2 “grindingly slow to build” Leeds leg

  18-11-2021 08:49 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Boris Johnson has appeared to confirm reports that the eastern leg of HS2 has been scrapped.
  The Prime Minister returned to his former role as a journalist today penning a column in the Yorkshire Post trumpeting rail improvement plans for the region.
  The £96bn Integrated Rail Plan will help transform services across the Midlands and north of England cutting journey times ten years earlier than planned.Full details of the plan will finally be revealed by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps lat
  
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• First trio of major build deals signed for London Canada Water

  18-11-2021 08:41 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Developer British Land has signed the first major building contracts for the vast Canada Water regeneration scheme in London.
  Wates, Mace and McAleer and Rushe have secured the first three jobs which are together work up to £300m.
  Enabling works are underway at British Land’s 53 acre, mixed-use scheme in Southwark, which will deliver up to 3,000 homes.The first three buildings will be net zero embodied carbon calling for innovative new approaches. Operational carbon will be reduced b
  
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• Notting Hill Genesis seeks firms for £1.2bn building safety deal

  18-11-2021 00:38 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Housing association Notting Hill Genesis is on the hunt for firms for a £1.2bn framework to support its building safety and planned investment programmes over the next 15 years.
  The framework, which will run for four years with an option to extend, is split into five lots each with specialist contractors.
  Procurement for the framework will start in January, ready to formally commence in October 2022.
  Lotting structure
  Planned investment works: Building envelope and communal spaces
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• Notting Hill Genesis launches £1.2bn building safety deal

  18-11-2021 00:38 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Housing association Notting Hill Genesis is on the hunt for firms for a £1.2bn framework to support its building safety and planned investment programmes over the next 15 years.
  The framework, which will run for four years with an option to extend, is split into five lots each with specialist contractors.
  Procurement for the framework will start in January, ready to formally commence in October 2022.
  Lotting structure
  Planned investment works: Building envelope and communal spaces
  Planned
  
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• Morgan Sindall wins £50m Hertfordshire Uni science block

  18-11-2021 00:36 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Morgan Sindall Construction’s Northern Home Counties business is set to start work on the University of Hertfordshire’s planned School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science.
  A central site at the University’s College Lane Campus in south Hatfield has already been cleared for the landmark 165,000 sq ft project.
  It is designed as a five-storey steel-frame building compartmentalised into three separate internal blocks divided by a central T-shaped atrium.
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