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• Birmingham Council cuts KPIs to simplify £2.7bn highways deal

  20-12-2021 15:11 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Birmingham City Council has cut hundreds of KPIs during a restructuring of its troubled £2.7bn highways PFI contract.
  The tender process for a new contractor for the revamped 12-year deal will start in February.
  Birmingham originally signed a 25-year, £2.7bn highways management and maintenance contract back in 2010 with Amey.But the contractor became embroiled in a lengthy performance dispute with the council which ended in March 2020 with Amey paying £215m to terminate its inv
  
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• Crackdown on directors who fold firms to rip-off creditors

  20-12-2021 14:02 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Rogue directors who dissolve their companies to rip-off staff, creditors and the taxpayer can now be disqualified from being a director.
  The Insolvency Service has been granted new powers to tackle unfit directors who place their firm in administration to avoid paying subcontractors and suppliers.
  The new legislation extends the Insolvency Service’s powers to investigate and disqualify company directors who abuse the company dissolution system.If misconduct is found, directors can face san
  
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• Skanska wins £53m Slough data centre job

  20-12-2021 08:58 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Skanska has signed a £53m contract to build a new data center in Slough for developer Virtus.
  The LONDON11 data centre design and build job includes fit-out of six new data halls, construction of external steelwork plant gantries, plant rooms for mechanical and electrical and public health services, all MEPH infrastructure across the site and office fit out.
  Construction work begins this month to complete the project by Spring 2023.The construction of LONDON11 will add more than 13MW of ne
  
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• First pier poured for UK’s longest rail viaduct – video

  20-12-2021 08:28 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Construction of the UK’s longest railway bridge has taken a major step forward with completion of the first of 56 giant concrete piers to support the Colne Valley Viaduct as it crosses a series of lakes on the outskirts of London.
  Stretching for 3.4km, the viaduct near  Hillingdon was cast by concrete specialist Kilnbridge working in partnership with engineers from HS2’s main works contractor Align JV.
  Weighing in at around 370 tonnes, the 6m tall reinforced concrete pier was ca
  
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• Worker loses leg after demolition roof collapse

  20-12-2021 08:22 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A self-employed builder has been fined £20,000 after a contractor working for him had to have his leg amputated after a single-story roof he was demolishing by hand collapsed at a site in Cobham, Surrey.
  Brighton Magistrates’ Court heard that, on the 15 April 2019, the contractor was standing on the roof of a partially demolished single-story extension of a domestic building undergoing refurbishment.
  While he was on the roof, it collapsed and the worker suffered significant injuries
  
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• Firms on notice for 20-year Suffolk highways upkeep deal

  20-12-2021 08:10 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Suffolk County Council is calling up firms for market engagement feedback ahead of inviting bids for a long-term highways maintenance deal worth up to £1bn.
  Kier currently holds the contract, which is a 10-year deal expiring at the end of September 2023.
  The council is enticing contractors with the prospect of a long-term 20-year deal for the highways maintenance services, worth around £50m a year.The initial contract length is anticipated to be 10 years from October 2023 to Septembe
  
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• Race starts for Sellafield £250m steelwork and cladding deal

  20-12-2021 08:09 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Sellafield’s project delivery team is starting the hunt for two key delivery partners for a combined steelwork and cladding package worth nearly £250m over 18 years.
  The tender is the latest to hit the market from a new pioneering procurement model that uses Project 13-style integrated collaborative teams.
  The big procurement shake-up is being delivered by Programme and Project Partners (PPP), driving forward the clean-up of the Sellafield site in West Cumbria.This overarching integr
  
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• Midgard bags world’s tallest octagonal resi tower job

  20-12-2021 08:08 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  JRL-owned main contractor Midgard has scooped the job to construct the world’s tallest pure octagonal residential building at the Paradise site in Birmingham.
  Under a 44-month contract Hertfordshire-based Midgard will now demolish the existing 77 Paradise Circus Queensway office building ahead of starting work on the 49-storey building.
  Singaporean real estate developer City Developments Limited (CDL) has just bought the scheme, which will cost £110m to develop including land co
  
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• Midas wins new £23m warehouse for power tool giant STIHL

  20-12-2021 08:08 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Midas Construction has been appointed main contractor for a new warehouse and headquarters for power tools company STIHL.
  Work will see the creation of a new 11,285m2 purpose-designed facility off the A331 in Camberley, Surrey.
  Construction information specialist Barbour ABI has the project valued at £23m.The deal will allow STIHL and its local workforce of 95 employees to move from their existing premises nearby in the Yorktown area of Camberley which the company has now outgrown.
  The Sou
  
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