Construction news

• Durkan names new construction MD

  21-02-2022 12:33 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  South east house builder Durkan has promoted group new business director Tim Carpenter to managing director of construction.
  Carpenter joined Durkan just over a year ago and will succeed Jim Briggs, who is retiring after 44 years with Durkan, including more than eight years as managing director.
  Before joining Durkan, Carpenter was managing director at Mears New Homes and before that managing director of Willmott Dixon’s largest residential business.
  The new appointment comes as Durkan bui
  
  Read more

• Digger hits bridge after being swept away by swollen river

  21-02-2022 12:22 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Construction equipment used on a flood defence job in Leeds has been swept away by the swollen River Aire.
  Video footage sent to the Enquirer shows site workers looking on helplessly as the machinery floats along the river on a pontoon before colliding with a bridge.
  The video was filmed yesterday as Storm Franklin became the latest storm to batter the UK.
  
  Read more

• Developer High Street Group went down owing £212m

  21-02-2022 09:09 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Newcastle-based private rental flat developer The High Street Group collapsed into administration owing an estimated £211m.
  A report from administrators for the group, which built Newcastle’s Hadrian Tower, revealed the huge estimated liabilities warning creditors it had still not received a full director’s report.
  Tolent, which built the Hadrian Tower, is listed as one of the unsecured creditors, claiming £1.7m.
  Joint administrator SKSi and Insolve Plus said the develope
  
  Read more

• Tarmac low carbon concrete used by Align on HS2

  21-02-2022 08:58 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A new low carbon concrete from Tarmac has been used by contractor Align on the Central 1 (C1) section of HS2.
  Concrete for the structural slabs was produced in normal plants and poured via mixer truck and by skip with tremie pipe.The new material offers a 62% reduction in CO2e per cubic metre of concrete, compared to a standard CEM I concrete, meeting the same specification in the same raw materials. This represents a saving of 220 tonnes CO2e for every 1000m3 produced.Robert Gossling, Tarmac he
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Laing O’Rourke decarbonises bids with new carbon calculator

  21-02-2022 08:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Laing O’Rourke has developed an innovative carbon calculator that can decarbonising project bids by up to 19%.
  The tool can quickly analyse levels of embodied carbon in digital designs, enabling its technical team to reduce the carbon content of projects.
  Embodied carbon content of the sub- and super-structure elements of a typical building project can account for more than half of the upfront embodied carbon.Since last Spring, Laing O’Rourke’s in-house technical leaders have b
  
  Read more

• Contractors wanted for £10m civils job at waste power plant

  21-02-2022 08:11 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  North London Waste Authority (NLWA) is looking for up to three contractors to upgrade civil infrastructure worth up to £10 million at Edmonton EcoPark.
  Local contractors based in North London or nearby are are being particularly encouraged to bid.
  Work will involve the construction and commissioning of upgrades to the civil infrastructure, essential to support the successful delivery of the £683m North London Heat and Power Project (NLHPP) to provide a brand-new sustainable waste hub
  
  Read more

• Pioneering vaulted thin shell floor cuts concrete by 75%

  21-02-2022 08:01 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  UK engineers have developed a new vaulted-style, thin-shell concrete floor that uses 75% less material than a traditional flat slab floor.
  The innovative design is being trumpeted as a major advance in the industry’s effort to reduce its carbon footprint.
  An interdisciplinary team of structural engineers, mathematicians and manufacturing experts from the Universities of Bath, Cambridge and Dundee has unveiled a full-scale demonstration of a thin-shell floor, which uses 60% less carbon in i
  
  Read more

Follow @new_constructio on Twitter!