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• Commercial work booms as construction gets off to January flyer

  04-02-2022 12:25 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Construction buyers reported their busiest month in January since last summer.
  Commercial work led the way as the bellwether IHS Markit/CIPS UK Construction PMI hit 56.3 in January, up from 54.3 in December.
  It was the 12th month in succession the index was above the crucial 50.0 no-change mark and the strongest rate of output expansion since July 2021.There were also encouraging signs for the near-term outlook as new orders rose at the fastest pace since August 2021 and input buying was the str
  
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• Hercules labour supply founder pockets £4m from float

  04-02-2022 08:56 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Infrastructure labour supply specialist Hercules Site Services floated on the Stock Exchanged alternative investment market this morning with ambitions for major growth.
  Around £4m has been raised for business growth with Hercules founder and chief executive Brusk Korkmaz netting £4m from the sale.
  The funds raised for the £30m revenue business will be used to scale-up its operations to supply labour to the northern section of the HS2 rail project from London to Birmingham.
  Her
  
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• Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick wins £40m Sellafield job

  04-02-2022 08:28 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick has scooped a £40m heating, ventilation and air conditioning contract for the Sellafield Product and Residue Store Retreatment Plant.
  It is the first time a major project awarded by the Programme and Project Partners through the new collaborative multi project procurement framework agreement.
  The overarching Programme and Project Partners consist of a five-strong team of firms delivering the massive clean-up plan spanning the next 18 years.The PPP partnership is m
  
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• Work experience labourer falls through roof

  04-02-2022 08:23 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A roofing contractor has been sentenced after an unpaid casual labourer fell through a skylight during the renovation of an old asbestos cement roof at an industrial building in Exeter.
  Plymouth Magistrates’ Court heard that on 23 October 2018, the labourer, who wanted to gain industry experience having never previously worked on roofs, was instructed by Ian Davey (trading as Exe Fibreglass) to cut fibreglass for the roof of the building.
  Once the fibreglass was cut, the labourer went up o
  
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• Surrey scammers steal machines worth £500,000

  04-02-2022 01:44 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Police are hunting scammers who stole £500,000 worth of construction plant by posing as a legitimate groundworks contractor.
  Machines were delivered to three addresses in Surrey in mid-January, after details of the contractor were used to place orders.
  The haul includes a 17-tonne excavator worth £185,000, 3-tonne dumper, a 3-tonne hydraulic breaker, four ditching buckets and four loading buckets.These items were delivered over the course of a week to addresses in Shepperton, Chertse
  
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• Scaffolders win lack of consultation claim over firm’s collapse

  04-02-2022 01:32 via constructionenquirer.com
  Former workers at a Cumbrian scaffolding contractor are set to receive cash payouts after being dismissed without consultation.
  Seventy-three former employees of Whitehaven-based Focus (MDC) have won their legal battle after they were dismissed without any consultation in July 2019 as the firm went bust.
  Construction union Unite took up the case and secured a 90-day protective award after an employment tribunal accepted directors of Focus (MDC) failed to consult on the redundancies as it went in
  
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• KPMG being sued for £1.3bn over Carillion audit

  04-02-2022 00:00 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  KPMG is being sued for £1.3bn by the Official Receiver over its role as auditor to collapsed contractor Carillion.
  It is alleged that KPMG failed in its duties as auditor to spot misstatements in the group’s accounts.
  Carillion went under in January 2018 owing £7bn including around £2bn to 30,000 suppliers and subcontractors.The action against KPMG will claim damages of more than £1bn on behalf of creditors – representing the sums Carillion paid out in dividen
  
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