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• Triton bags biggest shed job yet

  23-11-2021 09:29 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  North of England builder Triton Construction has clinched its biggest shed project to date for a site in Manchester.
  The 185,000 sq ft speculative manufacturing and distribution facility for Patrick Properties is to go up at a 10-acre site in Middleton
  Stakehill 185 was formerly a 190,000 sq ft distribution centre for Sainsbury’s and was acquired by Patrick Properties in 2009.Triton Construction has already started ground preparation works on site.
  Construction is expected to be complete b
  
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• Kier wins £32m Bournemouth council flats job

  23-11-2021 09:10 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Kier is understood to have beaten rivals Wates and Morgan Sindall to a affordable flats and hostel scheme in Bournemouth.
  The project is being brought forward by the city council at a site in Princess Road, Westbourne.
  Kier will build 121 flats and a hostel across four blocks rising to up to 10 storeys.Around 86 flats would be made available by the council at ‘affordable’ rates. The remainder would be provided at normal market levels.Alongside the flats, 20 units of short-t
  
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• Kier set for £32m Bournemouth council flats job

  23-11-2021 09:10 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Kier is understood to have beaten rivals Wates and Morgan Sindall to an affordable flats and hostel scheme in Bournemouth.
  The project is being brought forward by the city council at a site in Princess Road, Westbourne.
  Kier will build 121 flats and a hostel across four blocks rising to up to 10 storeys.Around 86 flats would be made available by the council at ‘affordable’ rates. The remainder would be provided at normal market levels.Alongside the flats, 20 units of short-
  
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• Driver crushed between vehicles at builder’s merchant

  23-11-2021 08:52 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A builder’s merchant has been fined £180,000 after a worker suffered multiple injuries when he was struck by a reversing vehicle.
  Mold Magistrates’ Court heard how on 6 June 2019, a skip lorry driver drove into the waste management yard area of Thorncliffe Building Supplies’ Abergele site and parked his vehicle.
  As he was removing the net from the skip, a loading shovel from the same company reversed into the driver, trapping him between his vehicle and the loading shovel
  
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• Severfield rises with record orders after strong first half

  23-11-2021 08:38 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The country’s leading steelwork contractor is boasting a record UK and Europe order book of £393m after a stronger than expected first half of trading.
  Alan Dunsmore, Severfield chief executive officer, said despite material price and labour supply challenges the order book gave the firm good visibility through to the full year 2023.
  The growth in the order book was driven by the new stadium for Everton FC, two large and various smaller distribution facilities in the UK, a waste-to-e
  
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• Severfield bags record orders after strong first half

  23-11-2021 08:38 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The country’s leading steelwork contractor is boasting a record UK and Europe order book of £393m after a stronger than expected first half of trading.
  Alan Dunsmore, Severdfield chief executive officer, said despite material price and labour supply challenges the order book gave the firm good visibility through to the full year 2023.
  The growth in the order book was driven by the new stadium for Everton FC, two large and various smaller distribution facilities in the UK, a waste-to-
  
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• Expanded starts work on giant HS2 station box

  23-11-2021 08:30 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Expanded has started work to construct the 850m-long station box at HS2’s Old Oak Common site.
  Expanded has been appointed by Balfour Beatty, Vinci Systra joint venture (BBVS) to deliver the reinforced concrete structure that will form the frame and base for the HS2 station building.
  Construction will see Laing O’Rourke company Expanded excavate 20m below ground level removing 690,000 cubic metres of clay, before placing 32,000 tonnes of steel and pouring 190,000 cubic tonnes of rein
  
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• Plans in for Manchester Red Bank enabling works

  23-11-2021 08:10 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Manchester City Council has submitted fresh plans for enabling works and infrastructure to create a 5,500 home neighbourhood on old railway sidings in the Red Bank area of the city.
  The Government has granted nearly £52m from the Housing Infrastructure Fund to overcome infrastructure constraints needed to bring about delivery of new homes and green spaces, including the first phase of a new City River Park within the Red Bank neighbourhood – part of the
  
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• GMI names head for new North East business

  23-11-2021 08:10 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  GMI Construction Group has lured Gary Oates back to the business to take up the newly-created role of North East operations director.
  Oates who left GMI Construction just over five years ago to join specialist industrial contractor TSL Projects where he became project director.
  He previously spent more than 16 years with GMI, starting as a site manager before progressing to contracts manager.He returns to lead the north east growth strategy from a new Teesside office. He is also joined by new No
  
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