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• RSK buys East Anglian M&E specialist Ceetech

  22-03-2022 09:07 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Fast-expanding multi-disclipinary group RSK is boosting its existing mechanical and engineering offer with its latest bolt-on acquisition for East Anglian firm Ceetech.
  Ceetech designs, specifies, installs and maintains infrastructure for hospitals and education, leisure, retail, industrial, custodial and military facilities.
  Established in 2001, the firm employs a strong team of about 70 staff and has a variety of multi-million-pound design-and-build projects on its books.RSK said it aimed to e
  
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• Wates soars to £40m record operating profit

  22-03-2022 08:57 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Family-owned building contractor Wates has reported its highest-ever operating profit of £40m after a bumper year of orders.
  The business secured £2.3bn of new work last year seeing its forward order book swell 7% to a record £7.1bn.
  David Allen, chief executive, said Wates Group was entering its 125th year primed for further growth and setting ambitious sustainability targets.
  “We see construction growing by £100m this year and more again in 2023 as major project w
  
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• Revised £260m Gateshead arena and hotel approved

  22-03-2022 08:57 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Rejigged plans for the £260m Newcastle Gateshead Quays waterfront conference centre, arena and hotel has been cleared by the local council.
  BAM Construction is presently carrying out enabling works at the large site next to the Sage centre ahead of starting main construction this spring.
  The latest changes to design mostly focus on the hotel which has been scaled down by two floors in height but extended in frontprint. The conference and exhibition centre green roof will be replaced with a
  
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• Barefoot builders found on Manchester housing site

  22-03-2022 08:22 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A contractor has been sentenced after shocked HSE inspectors discovered a catalogue of safety failings on a Manchester new housing job including builders working barefoot.
  Manchester Magistrates’ Court heard how between 2019 and 2020 Mustapha Matib had employed several groundworkers to excavate land at Gibraltar Lane, Denton in preparation for the construction of a family home.
  An inspection was carried out at the site in August 2020 after neighbours raised significant concerns. Work was s
  
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