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• Osborne wins £21m London City grade II interior refurb

  29-11-2021 22:38
  
  The City of London has signed Osborne as main contractor for the challenging £21m refurbishment for the 1903 Grade II listed building at 84 Moorgate.Formerly home to part of the London Metropolitan University, Electra House project will see the 54,000 sq ft building upgraded to offices to suit a fintech tenant.The project will demand the very careful and sensitive refurbishment to the basement and across the building’s seven floors.There will be alterations to partitions, secondary g
  
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• VolkerFitzpatrick wins £26m storage sheds deal

  29-11-2021 14:01
  
  Industrial and logistics developer Prologis UK has picked VolkerFitzpatrick to design and build two new production units at its Daventry International Rail Terminal (DIRFT) site.
  The project is worth over £26m and will see the firm build 230,000sq ft, and 280,000 sq ft. each to 18m in height.
  Work starts on site this month and will run to August 2022.
  The spaces will largely be used for goods storage and will be equipped with two-storey main office accommodation, as well as smaller hub off
  
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• VolkerFitzpatrick wins £26m DIRFT sheds

  29-11-2021 14:01
  
  Industrial and logistics developer Prologis UK has picked VolkerFitatrick to design and build two new production units at its Daventry International Rail Terminal (DIRFT) site.The project is worth over £26m and will see the firm build 230,000sq ft, and 280,000 sq ft. each to 18m in height.
  Work starts on site this month and will run to August 2022.
  The spaces will largely be used for goods storage and will be equipped with two-storey main office accommodation, as well as smaller hub office
  
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• Bouygues bags latest phase of Portobello Square regen

  29-11-2021 13:04
  
  Catalyst has confirmed Bouygues UK as construction partner on the next phase of the Portobello Square regeneration at the Wornington Green estate in North Kensington.
  Bouygues will start work on Phase 2b of the regeneration next June 2022 with work expected to take around two years to complete.
  Construction information specialist Barbour ABI has a value of £84m for the work.Once complete, the Portobello Square regeneration project will deliver around 1,000 new homes, with no loss of social
  
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• London Uni submits North Acton high-rise tower cluster plan

  29-11-2021 09:35
  
  Imperial College London has submitted plans for several major high rise buildings to form a new town centre in West London.
  The ambitious One Portal Way residential-led scheme will deliver up to 1,325 new homes across a range of tenures to create a new town centre at the heart of North Acton.
  Designed by architects Pilbrow & Partners on behalf of Imperial College London, the proposals have been developed through detailed pre-application discussions with the London Borough of Ealing, the Old
  
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• Race starts for £2.5m Ministry of Justice framework

  29-11-2021 09:04
  
  The Ministry of Justice has started the hunt for firms to sign up to a suite of constructors frameworks for projects valued up to £30m.
  The MoJ Constructor Services Frameworks could see a potential spend of up to £2.5bn over a five-year duration, with the possibility of £1bn of additional spend should the frameworks across all three value bands be extended for two years.
  Projects will include new build, refurbishment, maintenance and minor works and associated services.The thre
  
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• Race starts for £2.5bn Ministry of Justice framework

  29-11-2021 09:04
  
  The Ministry of Justice has started the hunt for firms to sign up to a suite of constructors frameworks for projects valued up to £30m.
  The MoJ Constructor Services Frameworks could see a potential spend of up to £2.5bn over a five-year duration, with the possibility of £1bn of additional spend should the frameworks across all three value bands be extended for two years.
  Projects will include new build, refurbishment, maintenance and minor works and associated services.The thre
  
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• Engineers battle to repair power network after Storm Arwen

  29-11-2021 08:40
  
  Engineers are battling to restore power to customers after Storm Arwen wreaked the “worst damage in 20 years” to the network.
  Teams at Northern Powergrid worked into the night across the North East, Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire after 240,000 customers were hit by power cuts.
  The scale of damage in some locations is so extensive that large sections of overhead lines will need to be rebuilt in order to restore supplies.Rod Gardner, Northern Powergrid’s Major Incident Manag
  
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• Galliard forms new partnership to build 850 homes

  29-11-2021 08:30
  
  London developer Galliard Homes has teamed up with regional landowner-developer Apsley House Capital and Midlands-based property developer Wavensmere Homes to deliver a brace of schemes worth £300m.
  The two residential-led schemes, Belgrave Village in Birmingham and the regeneration of the HMS Ganges Naval facility in Shotley near Ipswich.
  Belgrave Village will be built in Balsall Heath, between the city centre and Moseley, the 12-acre development fronts the A4540 Belgrave Middleway and th
  
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• Green light for £65m canalside scheme in Wolverhamption

  29-11-2021 08:26
  
  Full planning permission has been granted to build-to-rent developer Placefirst for 366 new homes and commercial space in the heart of Wolverhampton’s historic Canalside Quarter.
  Site preparation work is now expected to start next summer on the £65m scheme.
  The development will provide a mix of townhouses, new build apartments and commercial space across five acres of brownfield land.Sensitive restoration of heritage canalside properties including several listed buildings, and major
  
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