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• 26 firms win £7bn schools framework – full list

  30-11-2021 19:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Twenty six firms have clinched places on the Department for Education’s £7bn school and further education building programme over the next four years.
  The firms are spread across 22 lots covering over three value bands and key English regions.
  Across the sweep of the framework Kier did best picking up 14 lots, followed by Bowmer & Kirkland with a dozen and Wates nabbing 11 lots.
  The major projects line-up welcomed a trio of newcomers: Bouygues, Graham and Skanska. As Sir Robert M
  
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• 26 firms win £7bn school building framework

  30-11-2021 19:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Twenty six firms have chalked up places on the Department for Education’s £7bn school and further education building programme over the next four years.
  The firms are spread across 22 lots covering over three value bands and key English regions.High-value projects over £12m NorthBowmer and Kirkland
  Willmott Dixon Construction
  BAM Construction
  Kier Construction
  Wates ConstructionSouthBowmer and Kirkland
  Willmott Dixon Construction
  BAM Construction
  Kier Construction
  Wates Co
  
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• Wates wins contract for underground houses

  30-11-2021 16:32 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Wates Residential has been chosen as main contractor on a pioneering eco-housing development in East Sussex.
  Wates will start work early next year on the Blackfriars in Battle for Rother District Council’s housing company Alliance Homes.
  All 200 new homes have been designed to significantly reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions, while minimising energy costs for residents.The site will see the unique use of Earth Sheltered Homes and inclusion of principles taken from Passivhaus &n
  
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• French specialist Matière to install HS2 cut and cover tunnels

  30-11-2021 16:10 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  HS2’s main works contractor EKFB has appointed French engineering specialist Matière to install the first three cut and cover tunnels in Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire.
  Derbyshire-based Stanton Precast has also signed a deal to manufacturer over 13,000 precast concrete segments for 7km of ‘green tunnels’.
  The precast firm will take on 100 staff at its Ilkeston factory, which is being expanded to deliver the big order. The pre-cast segments will then be sh
  
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• Deanestor lands kitchen deal with Bowmer + Kirkland

  30-11-2021 15:39 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Furniture and fitout specialist Deanestor has won its second contract to provide bespoke kitchens for Grainger plc – the UK’s largest listed residential landlord.
  The contract awarded by main contractor Bowmer + Kirkland is for the manufacture and installation of 261 high specification kitchens for a new £64m build-to-rent development in Milton Keynes.
  Developed by Peveril Securities with Mayforth and designed by Pick Everard, the scheme will provide 261 purpose-designed rental
  
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• VAT dodging electrician banned for five years

  30-11-2021 14:38 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Insolvency Service has secured a five-year disqualification order against a construction director after a £100,000 VAT tax bill went unpaid.
  Stuart Palethorpe, 33, from Nottingham was the sole director of electrical installation company On Form Electrical Ltd which traded from early 2015 until November 2018.
  HMRC petitioned to wind-up the business in 2018 due to outstanding VAT arrears, and the Official Receiver was appointed as liquidator.The subsequent investigation by the Insolvency
  
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• £11m in extra brownfield grants awarded – list

  30-11-2021 13:30 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Twenty-three derelict sites across the country can now be transformed for new homes after the award of £11m from the Government brownfield land release fund.
  The second round of funding to 15 councils will be used to demolish derelict buildings create new roads and infrastructure.
  Today’s release follows a £58m tranche handed out last month to 53 local councils across the country.Together the cash will release land for more than 6,800 homes by March 2024 and sustaining an estim
  
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• GMI lands £30m helicopter logistic hub

  30-11-2021 11:54 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Developer Graftongate has signed GMI Construction to build a £30m helicopter logistics hub in Yeovil on behalf of aerospace company Leonardo.
  The 210,000 sq ft project will consolidate eight existing warehouses into one all-encompassing logistics hub.Work on the logistic facility is expected to be complete before the end of next year when it will support Leonardo’s global fleet of helicopters through the storage of components and tooling.It will be constructed with a strong focus tow
  
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• Firms readied for £1.3bn highways surfacing framework

  30-11-2021 09:16 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  National Highways is planning a second industry day before inviting bids for its next-generation Pavement Delivery Framework.The new £1.3bn framework will replace the previous surfacing and pavement arrangement, presently dominated by Tarmac Trading and Aggregate Industries for projects valued over £1m.
  A formal invitation to tender was expected in February, which has now slipped to March.Under the new proposed set up, the existing framework of six geographical areas with two lots pe
  
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• Countryside Properties sets aside £41m for recladding

  30-11-2021 08:52 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Countryside Properties is setting aside £41m to cover post-Grenfell cladding and fire safety retrofits on its former building projects.
  The firm revealed its commitment to retrofit 69 buildings, as it unveiled improved results showing a return to profit as it began a strategic switch to focus entirely on its partnerships business going forward.
  John Martin, chairman, said: “We have examined all buildings developed by Countryside over the last 15 years and identified 69 buildings acro
  
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• HS2 Euston team to get designer training and welfare facility

  30-11-2021 08:03 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  HS2 is raising the bar on standards for site accommodation and skills training facilities with a major architect-designed temporary building for workers on the Euston station project in London.
  HS2’s Mace Dragados joint venture has just gained planning to build the 6-storey combined site accommodation and skills training centre on the grounds of the former Maria Fidelis School in Camden
  It will now install the 60,000 sq ft temporary modular building next year.When complete the building wil
  
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• HS2 Euston team to get architect-designed site huts

  30-11-2021 08:03 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  HS2 is raising the bar on standards for site accommodation and skills training facilities with a major architect-designed temporary building for workers on the Euston station project in London.
  HS2’s Mace Dragados joint venture has just gained planning to build the 6-storey combined site accommodation and skills training centre on the grounds of the former Maria Fidelis School in Camden
  It will now install the 60,000 sq ft temporary modular building next year.When complete the building wil
  
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• BAM pairing takes £26m Sunderland train station

  30-11-2021 07:59 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  BAM’s building and civils operations have teamed up to bid successfully for the new southern entrance project at Sunderland’s railway station.
  In a rare collaboration between the BAM Nuttall and the BAM Construction business, both firms will work together paving the way for possible closer working on further station and railway upgrades.
  Preparatory works are due to begin in early 2022, with demolition of the existing entrance clearing the way for the construction of the £26m s
  
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