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• HS2 pioneers first ‘box-slide’ bridge over motorway

  25-11-2021 20:02 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  HS2 joint venture contractor Balfour Beatty Vinci has started preparations for the first UK box slide for a rail bridge over a motorway.
  The Midlands project was originally planned as a traditional structure, which would have meant significant traffic disruption for motorway users, with around two years of reduced lane widths, 50mph speed limits and weekend and night closures.
  Now the team will build the whole structure on land next to the motorway in readiness to jack the 10,000t box into
  
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• Sellafield names £250m HVAC key delivery partners

  25-11-2021 12:02 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Sellafield has selected the first key delivery partners for its new integrated delivery team model for key work packages in the clean-up of the nuclear site in West Cumbria.
  Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick and EJ Parker Technical Services have taken the prized key delivery partner spots for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning, a framework agreement worth up to £250m over the life of the programme.
  The HVAC package is the first of several to be awarded by the overarching Programme and Proj
  
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• Northern contractors still reeling from rail cancellations

  25-11-2021 09:14 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Contractors across the north of England have raised fears over an “economic black hole” for the local industry following government cancellation of rail plans across the region.
  Leaders of the Construction Alliance North East (CAN) fear cancellation of HS2 and other scaling back measures in the Integrated Rail Plan (IRP) could lead to a “multi-billion pound economic black hole which will have a huge impact on regional SME contractors.”
  They predict that cancellations to p
  
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• TClarke on track for £500m revenue target

  25-11-2021 08:38 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Building services specialist TClarke is well on track to hit its revenue target of £500m by 2023 after a fresh surge in orders.
  The firm said revenue particularly at its London business had soared to a record high.
  Forward orders at the end of last month jumped to a new all-time record of £525m – £320m of which (2020: £257m) was already secured for 2022 with many other significant opportunities in TClarke’s bid pipeline, said chief executive Mark Lawrence.&ldq
  
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• Ray O’Rourke to step down from Group Chief Executive role

  25-11-2021 08:30 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Ray O’Rourke is stepping down as Group Chief Executive of Laing O’Rourke next September.
  The firm’s founder and majority shareholder will be succeeded by Seamus French who is currently CEO of mining giant Anglo American’s Bulk Commodities and Other Minerals division.
  French will will join the O’Rourke leadership team in January – initially as Managing  Director of the Europe Hub and CEO-designate, on a three-year contract.The appointment to first lead the
  
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• Plans in for £60m Stoke goods yard quarter

  25-11-2021 08:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Developer Capital & Centric has lodged plans to build a £60m urban quarter next to Stoke-on-Trent’s train station.
  Plans for the Goods Yard, involve creating a mixed-use community for new homes, works spaces, shops, bars, cafes and a new public square at the Swift House site.
  The project is advancing after receiving £16m from the Government’s Levelling Up Fund – one of three regeneration projects to benefit in Stoke-on-Trent up to the value of £56m.Plans f
  
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• Go-ahead for McAlpine’s £43m Edinburgh concert hall job

  25-11-2021 08:09 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Sir Robert McAlpine has got the planning green light to build Edinburgh’s first purpose-built music and performance venue for over 100 years.
  The firm signed a pre-construction services contract earlier this year for the 1,000-seat auditorium concert hall to be built behind the Royal Bank of Scotland’s historic home on St Andrew Square.
  Since then David Chipperfield Architects’ design for the Dunard Centre has been scaled-back, crucially with its planned height reduce
  
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