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• McAlpine wins bid race for £77.5m Carlisle Citadel campus

  01-03-2022 16:16 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  University of Cumbria has chosen Sir Robert McAlpine (SRM) to build its new Carlisle Citadel campus project.
  SRM won the tender for the £77.5m scheme with a winning bid “focussed as much on the social benefits of the new campus, such as jobs and training opportunities, as its construction.”
  The Carlisle Citadels campus project has been developed by the University of Cumbria, Cumbria County Council, Carlisle City Council, and Cumbria LEP as a key partner.The new campus
  
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• Contractors pull bids for £4m Clyde Bridge project

  01-03-2022 09:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  South Lanarkshire Council has been forced back to the drawing board after both its first and second-ranked bidders for a road bridge replacement revealed they could not deliver to promised cost at the eleventh hour.
  The unnamed winning bidder to replace Clyde Bridge on Pettinain Road, near Carstairs Junction, withdrew its tender blaming steel and cement cost inflation.
  The 90m steel bridge replacement for a weakened concrete structure was originally tendered with a £3.8m cost estimate by t
  
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• Laing O’Rourke signs off £158m London West End job

  01-03-2022 08:30 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Laing O’Rourke has confirmed signed off a £158m contract to deliver developer Derwent London’s big mixed-use scheme in London’s West End.
  Construction will begin in June on the 19-35 Baker Street project, which will rise to 10 storeys and offer a mix of commercial, retail, and 41 flats.
  Designed by Hopkins Architects, the 410,000 sq ft development will reduce embodied carbon through DfMA, sustainable procurement, and construction phase efficiencies.
  During the tender stag
  
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• Electrician killed in crane fall at Cleveland Bridge site

  01-03-2022 08:09 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Collapsed steelwork contractor Cleveland Bridge has been fined £1.5m after an electrician died after falling eight metres when an access panel on the raised walkway of an overhead crane gave way beneath him.
  Teesside Crown Court heard that on 25 October 2016, whilst working at Cleveland Bridge UK Limited’s site in Yarm Road, Darlington, electrician Keith Poppleton was repairing wiring that had been causing a short circuit on the lifting equipment of a large overhead gantry crane, kno
  
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• Ex-Midas director joins Red Construction

  01-03-2022 08:00 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  RED Construction Group has hired former Midas pre-construction and framework director Robert Brooks to drive the expansion of its fledgling south west business.
  Brooks joins the senior management team based out of Bristol, led by RED Construction South West managing director, Derek Quinn.
  The appointment of Brooks is the third senior hire for RED Construction South West, following Grant Millar and James Devey as operations and commercial director, respectively, last October.With almost 30 years&
  
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• Eric Wright starts major Salford Passivhaus project

  01-03-2022 07:58 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Eric Wright Construction has broken ground on a two-year project to build 96 Passivhaus flats in Salford.
  The Greenhaus project being delivered by Salix Homes forms part of the wider £1bn Salford Central masterplan being developed by The English Cities Fund (ECF).
  John Hartnett, managing director, Eric Wright Construction, said: “These new homes will deliver valuable social housing in partnership with Salix Homes and continues our role in the redevelopment of Chapel Street and Salfor
  
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• John F Hunt wins £20m South Shields enabling works

  01-03-2022 07:56 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  John F Hunt Regeneration has secured a £20m enabling and civils package for a docks redevelopment in South Shields.
  Work has just got underway to transform a 9 acres brownfield site and derelict docklands at Holborn to pave the way for a new £200m Riverside Quarter for South Tyneside Council.
  The former dock is currently split into two levels and has lain derelict for many years, following heavy industrial use, making the work challenging and complex.
  The remediation will be carried
  
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