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• Keltbray raids Skanska Cementation for piling boss

  13-12-2021 15:43 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Keltbray has lured Skanska Cementations’s Paul Wiltcher to take up the role of operations director at its piling division.
  Wiltcher spent nearly five years as Skanska Cementation operations director and brings over 25 years experience in the piling and foundations industry.
  During that time he has worked on many complex major projects, most notably, Amsterdam NoordZuid Lijn, NLE Battersea Station Box, the New US Embassy in London, 21 Moorfields and London City Airport.
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• Hill gets nod for 420-home East Cambridge phase 2

  13-12-2021 14:51 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Hill Group and joint venture partner Marshall have secured planning for the 420-home second phase of the Marleigh development in East Cambridge.
  This new phase will run in conjunction with the current phase to deliver 550 homes, a primary school, market square and community centre over the next five years.
  Construction will start on site to build the homes in early 2022, when a mix of private and affordable apartments and homes will be delivered as part of the long term masterplan.
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• London Square deal for three new towers at Nine Elms Park

  13-12-2021 12:07 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Developer London Square has struck a series of deals at the Nine Elms Park site in south west London which will see the construction of three new residential towers.
  London Square has agreed to purchase the final three phases of the site in a deal worth £400m in gross development value – and struck a partnership deal with build-to-rent pioneer Moda Living on land for two buildings on the site.
  The land deal sees London Square exchanging contracts on 3.04 acres for £111.23m to d
  
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• Eutopia Homes lands deal for Gloucester £70m resi scheme

  13-12-2021 11:06 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Brownfield developer Eutopia Homes has acquired an 8-acre brownfield site in central Gloucester for a £70m residential-led regeneration project.
  Eutopia Homes is planning on bringing forward proposals early next year for up to 300 homes in a mix of single-family homes for rent, alongside city centre flats adjacent to Gloucester City train station.
  The deal is the third Eutopia Homes has made with Network Rail, following previous transactions for Exmouth Junction in Exeter.Scott Hammon
  
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• Eutopia Homes land deal for Gloucester £70m resi scheme

  13-12-2021 11:06 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Brownfield developer Eutopia Homes has acquired an 8-acre brownfield site in central Gloucester for a £70m residential-led regeneration project.
  Eutopia Homes is planning on bringing forward proposals early next year for up to 300 homes in a mix of single-family homes for rent, alongside city centre flats adjacent to Gloucester City train station.
  The deal is the third Eutopia Homes has made with Network Rail, following previous transactions for Exmouth Junction in Exeter.Scott Hammon
  
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• Contractor sentenced after asbestos toilet blunder

  13-12-2021 09:24 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A contractor has been handed 100 hours community service and ten days Rehabilitation Activity after labourers disturbed asbestos and worked dangerously at height while refurbishing a disused park toilet block.
  Southwark Crown Court heard how, in 2019, a charity hired a local contractor, Fahadh Rasheed, to convert a toilet block in Valentines Park, Ilford, into a community meeting centre. The work included replacing the weather-damaged roof.
  Rasheed employed unskilled and untrained labourers to u
  
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• Crackdown starts on pandemic self employment fraud

  13-12-2021 09:19 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Government is to spend £510m on a major crackdown on benefit and self-employment fraud.
  The cash will be used to raise capacity to detect and catch fraudsters.
  Around 2,000 trained specialists will be deployed review claims in the crackdown carrying out property checks, following up earning declarations of self-employed claimants and cross-checking bank details.It builds on the department’s counter-fraud team investigations in cyber security and serious and organised crime.
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• 14-storey tower built in record time by offsite specialist

  13-12-2021 08:50 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  British Offsite has completed construction to the topping-out stage of a 14-storey residential tower in Southend “in just a few months”.
  The £53m (GDV) Victoria Central apartment building has been built using the firm’s factory built UniPanel system allowing the envelope of the tower to be completed in 30% less time than traditional building methods.
  British Offsite sells its exterior building and interior fitout components to house builders and contractors including sist
  
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• Sellar in talks for next £1.5bn London station project

  13-12-2021 08:30 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Developer Sellar Property is in talks with Network Rail for a landmark redevelopment at London’s Liverpool Street Station.
  The proposed major project is at an early stage of development although an indicative construction cost has been put at £1.5bn, according to initial estimates seen by the Enquirer.
  The project would be Sellar’s third major station scheme in the Capital following the Shard at London Bridge Station and the Paddington Square project at the Great Western termin
  
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• Problem gas station contract to cost Costain up to £53.5m

  13-12-2021 08:29 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Costain has received a series of adjudication decisions following a contract bust-up with National Grid.
  The contractor and client parted ways in June 2020 more than halfway through a £113m upgrade to gas compressor stations at Peterborough and Huntingdon.
  In a stock echange update today Costain said: “Under the terms of the termination agreement with National Grid, there is an expected requirement to make a payment of £53.5m in January 2022, which now represents the maxim
  
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• Green light for £80m Merseyside station

  13-12-2021 08:07 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Enabling works will start in the New Year on the proposed new £80m Merseyrail train station on Headbolt Lane in Kirkby.
  Knowsley Council has granted planning permission for a new station which is planned to open by Spring 2023.
  The scheme is being delivered by the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority in partnership with Knowsley Council, Network Rail, Merseyrail and Northern.The new station plans include:Step-free access throughout the station
  A bus interchange
  Cycle parking
  Links to l
  
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