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• Record-breaking TBM on way to Silvertown Tunnel

  15-12-2021 14:50 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The largest tunnel boring machine to be used in the UK has passed factory tests and is being shipped in pieces from Germany to the Silvertown Tunnel project in East London.
  The diameter of the TBM measures 11.91m – equivalent of almost three double decker buses – dwarfing other recent tunnelling machines.
  First machine pieces have begun to arrive on site from maker Herrenknecht’s works keeping the programme of assembly on track for the TBM launch next Spring. 
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• Balfour in race for £1bn Teesside carbon capture scheme

  15-12-2021 13:10 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Energy giant BP has awarded two front end engineering and design contracts for its planned £1bn-plus power station and carbon capture and storage scheme on Teesside.
  Net Zero Teesside Power’s carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) project is a world first for a new gas-fired power station with a built-in process to capture and pump waste CO2 into a North Sea abandoned gas field cluster.
  The first contracts for a design and development competition have been awarded to two engi
  
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• Government pumps cash into £93m Aston Expressway repairs

  15-12-2021 09:16 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Government has agreed to fund the £93m strengthening and repair programme to a key viaduct on northern section of the Aston Expressway between the city centre and the M6 motorway.
  The Tame Valley Viaduct, which carried about 80,000 vehicles a day, was starting to show signs of deterioration.
  Without government funding, the viaduct would need weight and width restrictions within a few years and, over time, the link could potentially face full closure.The Government is putting &poun
  
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• Breyer headhunts United Living COO

  15-12-2021 08:39 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Social housing contractor Breyer Group has raided rival United Living for its new managing director.
  Daren Moseley joins the Romford-based contractor after nearly nine years at United Living. most latterly in the last 18 months as chief operating officer.
  As Breyer managing director he will take full day-to-day executive responsibility of the £75m turnover group with Tim Breyer moving into the role of chairman.Chairman Breyer said “This appointment strengthens our Board and is vital
  
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• £200m London Holborn Viaduct offices approved

  15-12-2021 08:39 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Royal London Asset Management has got the planning green light for a £200m office scheme next to Holborn Viaduct in the City of London.
  The 36,000 sq m offices designed by PLP Architecture will see the demolition of three buildings with the foundation retained to reduce the scheme’s carbon footprint.
  City of London planners yesterday backed the scheme which will stand 10 floors tall on Holborn Viaduct and 12 floors on Farringdon Street.It is the eighth major office scheme to gain pla
  
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• Ibstock fined £530,000 after worker loses hand

  15-12-2021 08:06 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Ibstock Brick Ltd has been fined £530,000 for safety breaches after a worker lost his hand.
  North Staffordshire Justice Centre heard how, on 28 February 2020, a maintenance engineer was in the process of polishing a metal shaft as it rotated in a manual lathe, using an emery cloth directly by hand while wearing gloves.
  The cloth became entangled around the rotating shaft and dragged the engineer into the lathe resulting in his hand being severed in the machine. The engineer subsequently un
  
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• Housing giants face council fury over delays to promised school

  15-12-2021 08:05 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A council is considering legal action against three of the country’s biggest house builders to take control of a delayed school building project forming part of a major mixed-use scheme in Barry.
  The Vale of Glamorgan Council said it will consider legal action to take charge of building Barry Waterfront School if developer the Waterfront Consortium refuses to hand over control voluntarily.
  The council said the Waterfront Consortium – of Persimmon, Taylor Wimpey and Barratt Homes &nda
  
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