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• Landsec eyes £825m Glasgow Buchanan Galleries rebuild

  25-01-2022 18:17 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Developer Landsec is drawing up plans to demolish Glasgow’s vast Buchanan Galleries to replace them with an £825m mixed-use neighbourhood.
  Landsec is owner of the mammoth shopping centre and is working with the city council on the huge rethink plan to create new city centre region with shops, offices and homes.
  Proposals will include building a concrete raft over the railway line cutting into Queen Street Station for extra public space or a building.
  Glasgow City Council is consideri
  
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• Balfour Beatty names new investment arm chief

  25-01-2022 15:17 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Balfour Beatty has appointed Gavin Russell as CEO of its Infrastructure Investments business.
  Reporting directly to group chief executive, Leo Quinn, he will have responsibility for the construction group’s £1.1bn infrastructure investments portfolio across the UK and US.
  Russell will also be a member of Balfour Beatty’s group executive committee.Prior to his appointment, Russell had a number of strategic roles within Balfour Beatty, most recently as finance director of Balfour
  
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• Mace lands £300m London court and police complex

  25-01-2022 15:16 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Mace has been confirmed winner of a new court and police complex on Fleet Street.
  The Salisbury Square Development will house a flagship legal facility for Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) and a new headquarters for the City of London Police.
  With 18 courtrooms, the City of London Law Courts will combine all the Square Mile’s existing courts – except for the Old Bailey – into one building.During the build, the scheme will create 150 construction jobs wit
  
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• Spanish giant wins race to build £683m waste power plant

  25-01-2022 13:50 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Spanish infrastructure and energy giant ACCIONA has won the race for the main design and build contract for a £683m waste power plant in London.
  ACCIONA fought-off competition from French and Swiss rivals for the Energy Recovery Facility (ERF) contract for the North London Waste Authority at its site in Edmonton.
  The ERF will transform unhygienic black-bin-bag waste into electricity for up to 127,000 homes and heat and hot water for up to 50,000 local homes while preventing waste from endi
  
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• Spanish giant lands deal to build £683m waste power plant

  25-01-2022 13:50 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Spanish infrastructure and energy giant ACCIONA has won the main design and build contract for a £683m waste power plant in London.
  ACCIONA beat French and Swiss rivals for the Energy Recovery Facility (ERF) contract for the North London Waste Authority at its site in Edmonton.
  The ERF will transform unhygienic black-bin-bag waste into electricity for up to 127,000 homes and heat and hot water for up to 50,000 local homes while preventing waste from ending up in landfill.The ERF forms part
  
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• Plans go in for £280m Leeds Whitehall Riverside scheme

  25-01-2022 09:18 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Town Centre Securities has signed a joint venture deal with Manchester developer Glenbrook to bring forward a £280m riverside mixed-use development in Leeds.
  Plans have been submitted for the Whitehall Riverside scheme at one of the city’s most strategic locations just three minutes’ walk from Leeds train station.
  The Sheppard Robson-designed development will comprise 215,000 sq ft of grade A office space across two buildings, a 478 space CitiPark multi-story car park and trave
  
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• Galliford Try bags £28m Dover inland border control facility

  25-01-2022 08:54 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Galliford Try has secured a pre-construction agreement for the £28m construction of a major inland border control facility for the busy port of Dover.
  The White Cliffs inland border facility will be built alongside the A2 in Kent, near to the villages of Guston and Whitfield.
  The 15 hectares site will be used to carry out customs checks, comprising documentary and physical inspections of goods entering and leaving the country.It will include extensive parking areas for HGVs, vans and cars
  
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• M1 fraud probe reveals contract management problems

  25-01-2022 08:20 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A National Highways fraud probe revealed by the Enquirer last year has found a string of concerning management issues on the M1 J13-16 smart motorway scheme.
  The investigation by the agency’s in-house counter fraud squad has now concluded and unearthed that National Highway has suffered financial loss.
  But the national roads agency has decided not to pursue criminal prosecution due to ‘insufficient conclusive evidence’, according to the final report seen by the Enquirer.
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• M1 fraud probe exposes contract management problems

  25-01-2022 08:20 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A National Highways fraud probe revealed by the Enquirer last year has found a string of concerning management issues on the M1 J13-16 smart motorway scheme.
  The investigation by the agency’s in-house counter fraud squad has now concluded and found that National Highway has suffered financial loss.
  But the national roads agency has decided not to pursue any criminal prosecution due to ‘insufficient conclusive evidence’, according to the final report seen by the Enquirer.
  The in
  
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• Beaumont Morgan Developments goes into administration

  25-01-2022 08:15 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Manchester based contractor Beaumont Morgan Developments (BMD) is in administration.
  Documents filed at Companies House yesterday confirm Begbies Traynor is now in charge of the £47m turnover contractor.BMD is the construction delivery partner of Fortis Developments.BMD has been building the Fortis Quay residential scheme in Salford where the latest two towers are nearing completion.
  Concerned subcontractors have been contacting the Enquirer since before Christmas as fears grew over the co
  
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• Morgan Sindall hires Crossrail safety director

  25-01-2022 08:06 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Morgan Sindall Infrastructure has signed Crosstail director Carole Bardell-Wise as its new Safety, Health, Environmental and Quality (SHEQ) Director.
  The former safety director for the London rail project will replace its current SHEQ director, Martin Worthington, who will retire later this year.
  She will now play a pivotal role in strengthening the infrastructure division’s health and wellbeing, safety, environmental and quality programmes and standards, as well as supporting its commitme
  
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• Green light for major overhaul of Surrey pharma campus

  25-01-2022 08:04 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Global pharma company UCB has secured the planning green light for a major overhaul of a newly-acquired science campus in Windlesham, Surrey.
  The revamp project will include a striking new three-storey timber building at its heart designed by architect Thomas Heatherwick.
  Kier and Mace are understood to have their hats in the ring for the project, which could now start this autumn.
  The big job forms part of UCB’s plan to invest more than £1bn over five years to expand its r
  
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