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• Temporary works consultant IDH sets up housing design arm

  22-02-2022 14:53 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Temporary works, building and structural design consultant IDH has launched a specialist end-to-end consultancy for all housing design requirements.
  The new division, IDH Housing Design, will operate from Northampton. It will be led by newly-appointed associate director, Martin Czerniuk, a volume housing design expert.
  Czerniuk brings a wealth of residential expertise gained from a 35-year career working for majors like Taylor Wimpey and Bovis.
  He has a specialism in site layout design from conc
  
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• Bluespot launches noise-busting designer acoustic panels

  22-02-2022 13:24 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Bluespot Furniture has launched its high-performance range of wall acoustic panels.
  The design-led acoustic sound absorption panels combine functionality, visual appeal and value. They are designed to reduce the level of unwanted sound in a room by absorbing up to 85% of reverberate noise.
  They are suitable for use in a variety of buildings including offices, schools, universities, sport halls, swimming pools, music rooms, theatres, corridors and conference rooms.
  They help sound proof high ceil
  
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• ISG scoops £50m former Daily Mail office restoration

  22-02-2022 10:49 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  ISG has secured a £50m contract to expand and fit-out the Daily Mail’s former Art Deco office building on London’s Fleet Street.
  The Northcliffe House refurbishment project will restore the office to its former glory and extend the building with two more upper floors.
  ISG is targetting a BREEAM Outstanding rating for the 25,000 sq m project, which will include the addition of 9,000sq ft worth of green space including the south-facing landscaped roof terraces across levels six a
  
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• Telford Homes to build twin tower blocks at London Stratford

  22-02-2022 09:13 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Telford Homes has snapped up a site near East London’s Stratford International site to build two residential tower blocks.
  A three-way partnership between LCR, the Department for Transport and the high-speed rail company HS1, sold the taxi rank site to the developer.Telford already has planning for the 380 homes development, of which 60% will be build to rent and 40% affordable, bringing much-needed housing to East London in line with Government housing targets.
  The sale of the combined si
  
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• £75m bid race for Boddingtons Brewery housing job

  22-02-2022 08:43 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Latimer, the development arm of Clarion Housing Group, has started the hunt for a contractor to deliver a mixed-use scheme providing 461 new homes at the former Boddingtons brewery site in Manchester.
  The design and build contract involves two new buildings on the east and west of the public courtyard ranging from 11 to 27 storeys and a new pocket park.
  There would also be a residential ‘podium’ terrace.
  The 1.24-acre brownfield site is part of the former Boddington’s Brewery l
  
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• New app set to simplify site skills card checks

  22-02-2022 08:11 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Checking skills cards on site is set to get a lot easier thanks to the launch of a new app.
  Currently 38 card schemes are allowed to display the Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) logo leading to daily complications checking documents.
  The new CSCS Smart Check app means that for the first time all 2.1m cards displaying the CSCS logo can be electronically verified in a single place.Andy Reakes, chair of the working group developing the app, said: “Having one app to electronical
  
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• Buckingham wins £32m West London leisure centre

  22-02-2022 07:53 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Buckingham Group has started early ground testing work on a planned major sports and leisure complex in West Drayton, London.
  Works are underway with tree surveys and bore holes taking place before, demolition of the old buildings due in mid-April, and ground works scheduled to begin this summer.
  The leisure centre will house a 25m swimming pool, training pool, splash-zone, gym and health suite, soft play, climbing wall, youth zone, a café and terrace, and even a rooftop 3G turf football
  
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• GMI wins £32m Birmingham Jewellery Quarter flats job

  22-02-2022 07:50 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Property developer HBD has signed up GMI Construction to deliver a 101 flats with ground floor retail in the Jewellery Quarter of Birmingham.
  The canal-side development, titled ‘Setl’, is HBD’s first city centre development in Birmingham and has been designed by local architects BPN.
  The scheme will feature a courtyard, workspace, a lounge and a gym, along with a rooftop garden on the upper floors of the six-storey building.Andy Bruce, divisional managing director at GMI Constr
  
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• Start date for £67m BAM Glasgow super surgery project

  22-02-2022 01:21 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  BAM is set to start work on a major health hub project costing £67m in north east Glasgow.
  The Scottish Government has granted final approval for the project in Parkhead, which is being billed as Scotland’s first working net-zero carbon health and social care facility.
  The building will become home to three GP practices and a community pharmacy when it opens to the public in 2024.
  Hoskins Architects designed the super surgery project, which will be built on the site of the
  
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