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• Laing O’Rourke clinches £170m Oxford Uni humanities job

  04-01-2022 18:20 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Laing O’Rourke has scooped the job to build Oxford University’s £170m Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.
  The project is one of the largest single building projects ever undertaken by the University and lifts the firm’s tally of projects to 12 since 2003.
  The new building is largely funded from a £15om donation from Stephen Schwarzman, founder of The Blackstone Group private equity firm.
  When completed in Spring 2025, the project will bring nine faculti
  
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• Laing O’Rourke bags £170m Oxford University humanities job

  04-01-2022 18:20 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Laing O’Rourke has scooped the job to build Oxford University’s £170m Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.
  The project is one of the largest single building projects ever undertaken by the University and lifts the firm’s tally of projects with the instituion to 12 since 2003.
  The planned building will largely be funded with a £15om donation from Stephen Schwarzman, founder of The Blackstone Group private equity firm.When completed in Spring 2025, the pro
  
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• Kier wins 142 rental home job at BBC TV centre site

  04-01-2022 17:25 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Joint venture developer Stanhope, Mitsui Fudosan has picked Kier to build 142 affordable homes at its wider former BBC Television Centre development in West London.
  Construction of the two blocks on the site of a former BBC multi-storey car park at Macfarlane Place on Wood Lane will start in March with delivery expected in early 2024.
  The buildings form part of the major White City redevelopment scheme of the iconic BBC TV centre which will eventually have 950 homes in total.Designed by Mac
  
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• Colas clinches £328m West Midlands highways upkeep

  04-01-2022 16:53 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  National Highways has named Colas as it partner contractor to maintain roads across the West Midlands area 9 highways region.
  The contract worth £328m over eight years will start this July. Colas will carry out routine maintenance and repairs, respond to emergency incidents and severe weather services on some of the region’s busiest routes, including the M6, M42 and M54.
  Presently Kier is the incumbent contractor under a three-year deal awarded in 2018 to support the transition from
  
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• AGD Equipment boosts fleet following finance deal

  04-01-2022 11:52 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  AGD Equipment has linked-up industry funding specialist Walbrook Asset Finance to boost its hire fleet with six new Sennebogen 673R telescopic crawler cranes for major projects across the UK.
   
  Robert Law, MD of AGD Equipment said:  “In our business we rely on trusted suppliers of both equipment and finance.
  “Working with Walbrook Asset Finance was a hassle-free process – their ability to offer flexible lines of credit in a timely fashion allowed us to access the fund
  
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• Lyndon SGB lands HS2 scaffolding deals

  04-01-2022 11:19 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Lyndon SGB’s London division has landed major scaffolding and access contracts on HS2.
  The contracts will last five years and will see Lyndon SGB work alongside the Skanska Costain STRABAG JV (SCS JV).
  Scaffolding and access works will encapsulate some of the tunnel works and multiple riser shafts along  the length of track between Euston and Ruislip.
  Lyndon SGB will also be invited to tender for any larger  scaffolds throughout the SCS JV section of the HS2 route.
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• Weston breaks ground at offsite panel factory site

  04-01-2022 10:09 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  House builder Weston Group has broken ground on its planned offsite panel factory at Braintree in Essex.
  Its specialist British Offsite manufacturing and construction operation aims to open the 137,000 sq ft factory at the end of the year.
  The new factory’s £6m production line is being delivered by Swedish partner Randek AB and will boast a host of new automation and productivity machinery.Once complete and fully operational, the new British Offsite factory&n
  
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• Offsite specialists on alert for £10bn Government framework

  04-01-2022 09:42 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Crown Commercial Service is planning bidders days this month and next for a new mega offsite construction framework for use by all Government departments.
  Its planned pan-Government collaborative Offsite Construction Solutions framework deal is expected to be worth up to £10bn as more projects swing over to modular designs in the drive to cut costs.
  Offsite Construction Solutions (OCS) will replace the existing £500m modular building solutions agreement secured three years ago by
  
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• Lendlease to start £215m Turing Building in East London

  04-01-2022 08:34 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Lendlease and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) have formed a new 50/50 joint venture to develop  a new £1.5bn office-led neighbourhood at International Quarter London (IQL).
  The partnership has initially committed to developing the £215m Turing Building where construction will start early this year.
  The Turing Building is one of four major new office blocks planned for IQL across a total development area of 1.6m square feet.IQL is located at the gateway of
  
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• Balfour starts £110m Inverness prison enabling works

  04-01-2022 08:34 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Scottish Prison Service has allowed newly-appointed preferred bidder Balfour Beatty to start site clearance works for a new £110m prison in Inverness after years of delays.
  Balfour Beatty was named preferred bidder for the project before the end of the year beating rivals Kier, Morrison and Robertson.
  Final designs and costs are still to be agreed upon with the Scottish Prison Services ahead of a full construction start.
  To be built on land to the south of Inverness Retail and Business
  
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