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• Keltbray wins first deal for former nmcn infrastructure arm

  19-01-2022 12:34 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Keltbray has landed its first major deal for the infrastructure team taken on late last year when nmcn collapsed.
  Keltbray acquired infrastructure contracts and assets from the administrators of nmcn last October in a deal which saved 117 jobs.
  The division has now landed a £6m contract to deliver the design and construction of a new Waste Processing Facility in Hull.The project will be delivered for recycling specialist Geminor and will be located close to the Energy Works (Hull) energy p
  
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• Crest Nicholson trebles cladding retrofit provisions to £43m

  19-01-2022 08:55 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  House builder Crest Nicholson has upped its provision to £43m to cover post-Grenfell cladding and fire safety retrofits on its former building projects.
  It is the first house builder to raise its estimates since the Government last week called on developers to stump up extra cash to fix the cladding crisis on intermediate height buildings of around four to seven storeys.
  Crest this morning said it had now managed to assess the potential building safety work needed to all its properties of
  
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• Kier signs deal for £169m Luton hospital revamp

  19-01-2022 08:36 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has signed a contract with Kier after getting government backing for its £168.6m scheme to build an Acute Services Block and New Ward Block on the Luton and Dunstable University Hospital site.
  Kier will start main works on site this month and are scheduled to complete in 2024.
  Demolition and enabling work has been taking place over the past eight months to clear the hospital site in preparation for the main build.The five-storey Acute Services Bl
  
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• Balfour Beatty UK construction MD to step down

  19-01-2022 08:10 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Balfour Beatty’s managing director in charge of regional UK construction is stepping down.
  Tom Edgcumbe will leave Balfour Beatty shortly after a little more than a year in the top job where he led a team of 1,100 staff generating around £600m revenue.
  Edgcumbe joined Balfour Beatty 10 years ago rising quickly through the ranks at the rail business before taking the role of MD of the North and Midlands in 2017.
  A Balfour Beatty spokesperson said: “We can confirm that Tom Edgcum
  
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• Winvic to start UK’s largest speculative shed

  19-01-2022 07:58 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Winvic Construction is to start main construction of the largest speculative warehouse project in the country.
  Developer Firethorn Trust has appointed the specialist contractor to deliver the landmark 42-acre development, Link Logistics Park in Ellesmere Port.
  The project is understod to be worth over £80m and will see more than 760,000 sq ft of industrial space built on the former brownfield site, including a single unit spanning 655,000 sq ft, making it the biggest single cross-docked wa
  
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• 50 firms win £750m decarbonisation framework

  19-01-2022 07:56 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Procurement body Fusion21 has awarded spots to 50 main contractors and specialists on its new national Decarbonisation Framework
  Specifically designed to meet the needs of housing associations, local authorities, schools, NHS trusts, and blue light organisations, the framework will support the design and delivery of energy efficiency measures, combining contracts that can deliver thermal fabric improvements, heating and renewables, power as well as building management systems.
  Big name contracto
  
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• Willmott Dixon nabs £38m Kirklees police HQ

  19-01-2022 00:59 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Willmott Dixon has boosted its portfolio of blue light projects after winning West Yorkshire Police’s flagship new headquarters for the Kirklees district. 
  Procured through the SCAPE construction framework, the 10,000 sq m  district HQ will be built on Halifax Road at the site of the former Dewsbury College.
  Designed by Ryder Architecture, the project understood to be worth around £38m will also see a full refurbishment of the attractive Oldroyd building, restoring the 1880
  
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• Willmott Dixon nabs £30m Kirklees police HQ

  19-01-2022 00:59 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Willmott Dixon has boosted its portfolio of blue light projects after winning West Yorkshire Police’s flagship new headquarters for the Kirklees district. 
  Procured through the SCAPE construction framework, the 10,000 sq m  district HQ will be built on Halifax Road at the site of the former Dewsbury College.
  Designed by Ryder Architecture, the project understood to be worth around £30m will also see a full refurbishment of the attractive Oldroyd building, restoring the 1880
  
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