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• Steelwork specialist Billington appoints MD

  10-01-2022 14:48 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Structural steel contractor Billington Structures has appointed former Severfield director Kevin Campbell as its new managing director.
  Campbell is now part the group’s senior leadership team with Mark Smith continuing in the role of chief executive officer of Billington Holdings.
  Most recently, Campbell worked for 18 months at steel decking specialist Construction Metal Forming, before that he spent nearly 10 years in several roles at Britain largest steelwork contractor Severfield.Smith,
  
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• Contractors readied for £150m Welsh stations upgrade

  10-01-2022 12:48 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Transport for Wales Rail has put firms on alert for a bid race to deliver £150m worth of station upgrades and improvements.
  Tenders are due to be invited at the start of February covering several work lots.
  The framework involves two distinct workstreams.
  Transport for Wales Stations Modifications and Enhancements FrameworkSchedule A – TfW Stations Projects (Minor and Non-Complex Works)– Lot 1: Pan Wales – projects worth more than £500k– Lot 2: North Wales &nd
  
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• Firms making £10m-plus profits told to fund cladding retrofits

  10-01-2022 12:21 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Government is ordering developers to stump up cash to fix the cladding crisis on intermediate height buildings between 11m-18m.
  Firms have been given until early March to agree fully-funded plans of action including remediating unsafe cladding on mid-rise buildings, currently estimated to cost around £4bn to fix.
  The Government has also pledged to unveil a package of measures to restore common sense to the industry and stop surveyors declaring buildings unsafe when they were not.In a b
  
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• LHC names winners of £500m consultants framework

  10-01-2022 08:44 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Public sector procurement body LHC has selected more than 100 firms for its first generation multi-disciplinary consultancy framework.
  Worth £500m over six years, the Multi-disciplinary Consultancy Services Framework (MDC1) will be available to all public sector clients across the North of England, Midlands and Anglia, and London and South East.
  MDC1’s workstreams cover: architecture, building services engineers, building surveyors, clerks of works, quantity surveyors, empl
  
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• Plans in for £23m library hub in Sunderland

  10-01-2022 08:20 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Sunderland City Council has submitted plans to build a £23m city centre civic library building.
  The landmark four-storey project to be known as Culture House will include an indoor city square featuring digital wall screens to create striking displays.The 80,000 sq ft library complex will replace four existing buildings on the site next to Keele Square and has been designed by FaulknerBrowns to become a focal point of the wider Riverside Sunderland regeneration masterplan.
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• Frustrated subbie asks MP for help over late VAT repayments

  10-01-2022 08:07 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A frustrated M&E boss has written to his MP following further delays in reclaiming VAT payments.
  The controversial “domestic reverse charge” change came into force last March and means companies in the construction supply chain no longer receive their 20% VAT payment when they submit bills.
  The VAT cash is instead paid direct to HMRC by the customer receiving the service who will reclaim it in the normal way.That has left a lot of specialist contractors no longer receiving VAT pa
  
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• Cala rebounds strongly to exceed pre-pandemic high

  10-01-2022 02:10 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  House builder Cala has topped its pre-pandemic performance to deliver revenue of £1.25bn for the first time.
  Kevin Whitaker, CEO at Cala Group, said he expected that Cala would be one of the only major home builders to deliver home completions above pre-pandemic levels, with 2021 sales 19% up on 2019 to 2,904 homes.
  This jump saw the house builder deliver a £130m pretax profit after plunging to £24m in 2020, and up from £96m reported in 2019,
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