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• Cash-strapped Roadbridge stops work on HS2

  10-03-2022 23:24 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Civils contractor Roadbridge has suddenly stopped work on HS2 as the company faces a cash-flow crisis.
  The Enquirer understands that hundreds of civils operatives were sent home from HS2 sites on Thursday and Roadbridge’s vast plant fleet is being packed-up.
  Workers are also understood to have been let go at sites in Ireland and Scotland.Limerick based Roadbridge has offices in England, Scotland and Wales and has been in business for more than 50 years.
  The contractor has a direct labour f
  
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• BAM limbers up for £25m Bedworth leisure hub

  10-03-2022 11:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  BAM Construction has signed a pre-construction deal for the planned Bedworth Physical Activity Hub in Warwickshire.
  The leisure centre plan includes a 25m swimming pool, a teaching pool, a new fitness suite, and a four-court sports hall. Outside there will be a 3G sports pitch, plus a new ‘all wheels’ skate park and learn to ride facility.Delivering not only construction but also facilities management, design and property development, BAM’s team is now working alongside Nuneato
  
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• UK construction loss slows Balfour Beatty profit recovery

  10-03-2022 09:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Another year of losses at Balfour Beatty’s UK construction arm dampened the recovery in group profits.
  UK construction recorded a £2m loss last year improved from £26m in 2020 following £46m of write downs on three residential jobs in London.
  One of these projects, one was completed in November 2021, with the remaining two projects expected to complete in the middle and at the end of 2022.
  But this morning chief executive Leo Quinn said the construction had returned to pr
  
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• Bricklayers hurt in makeshift platform collapse

  10-03-2022 09:09 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A contractors has been fined £36,000 after two bricklayers fell from height during the construction of a parapet wall.
  Manchester Magistrates’ Court heard that on 31 October 2019, two employees suffered serious injuries at a property in Over Alderley, Cheshire when the makeshift platform they were working on collapsed.
  The two men, along with plywood boards and bricks, fell approximately eight feet to the concrete floor below.The first man sustained fractured ribs, severe bruising an
  
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• Carillion drainage changes blamed for fatal train crash

  10-03-2022 08:52 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Changes to the original design of a drainage system built by failed contractor Carillion have been blamed for the 2020 Stonehaven rail crash which killed three people.
  A Rail Accident Investigation Branch report said the train derailed and hit a bridge parapet after it struck debris that had been washed out of a drainage trench.
  The trench was built by Carillion  between 2011 and 2012 and contained a perforated pipe that had been installed as part of a project to address a known problem wit
  
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• McLaughlin & Harvey wins £140m plasterboard factory

  10-03-2022 08:33 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  McLaughlin & Harvey has landed the main contract from Etex for a £140m expansion of its Bristol plasterboard factory.
  Construction will start later this month at the former brownfield site to increase production of its Siniat brand by over 50% by 2023.
  The state-of-the-art manufacturing facility will have a core focus on sustainability, utilising a rainwater harvesting system, solar PV, electric car charging points and a fully electric forklift fleet.The extra space will also support p
  
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• McLaughlin & Harvey wins £140m Etex factory

  10-03-2022 08:33 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  McLaughlin & Harvey has landed the main contract from Etex for a £140m expansion of its Bristol plasterboard factory.
  Construction will start later this month at the former brownfield site to increase production of its Siniat brand by over 50% by 2023.
  The state-of-the-art manufacturing facility will have a core focus on sustainability, utilising a rainwater harvesting system, solar PV, electric car charging points and a fully electric forklift fleet.The extra space will also support p
  
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• Offsite giant Caledonian Modular goes into administration

  10-03-2022 08:09 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Enquirer understands offsite giant Caledonian Modular has fallen into administration.
  The firm is a major player in the offsite market having won places on a raft of public modular frameworks servicing contracts from its manufacturing facility in Newark.
  Staff are now looking for new jobs after at least 20 workers were made redundant when administrators took control this week.Former staff across a range of professions have taken to LinkedIn to change their status to “open to work&rdquo
  
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