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• Suppliers holding materials price quotes for just 24 hours

  30-03-2022 15:42 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Contractors are reporting some suppliers are now only prepared to hold prices for 24 hours for tender quotes on jobs.
  The fresh volatility in materials prices is causing some contractors to think twice before entering fixed-price or long-term contracts.
  The latest market report from materials producers and builders merchants’ trade bodies reveals that the fresh wave of energy price hikes are already being felt in construction.
  It has prompted a joint task force monitoring materials, which
  
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• Morrison Construction names new building MD

  30-03-2022 13:45 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Morrison Construction has promoted David Ewing to become managing director of its Building Central business, succeeding Eddie Robertson who retires from the business in June.
  Ewing brings more than 30 years’ experience in the industry and has been with Morrison as commercial director for Building Central since 2015.
  He has been a key part of the team that has seen the Building Central business become a cornerstone of Galliford Try’s Building division, raising revenue to over £1
  
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• Vac UK puts in another giant order for £10m of machines

  30-03-2022 11:58 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Vac UK has signed a major contract to purchase 20 new Longo Rhino excavators as the specialist continues to invest heavily in its fleet to serve the growing suction excavation market.
  The latest order is worth almost £10m and brings the firm’s investment over a 24 month period to £25m.
  Vac UK, which is part of the Kilkern Group, will take delivery of the new machines in 2023.
  First unveiled in the UK in September 2021, Longo Rhino vacuum excavators are the most powerful twin fa
  
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• Main works start date for £900m Bishopsgate Goodsyard

  30-03-2022 11:29 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Joint venture developers Ballymore and Hammerson have set a 2024 start date for main construction works for plans to transform the Bishopsgate Goodsyard on London’s city fringe. into a £900m new urban quarter.
  The JV has just signed off the Section 106 agreement, unlocking the 1.7m sq ft mixed-use regeneration scheme in Shoreditch.
  Bishopsgate Goodsyard Regeneration JV will now start on detailed design, and prepare to start site enabling works.
  Office buildings have been designed by
  
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• Europe’s largest wet lab to be built at Canary Wharf

  30-03-2022 09:19 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Canary Wharf Group and specialist Dutch developer Kadans have formed a joint venture to build a 750,000 sq ft life-science, wet lab enabled building at London’s Canary Wharf .
  The development will anchor more ambitious plans to create a world-leading centre for health and life sciences on the 3.3 hectare North Quay site, next to the new Elizabeth Line station.
  The London Docklands developer is switching its attention to developing a major life sciences building cluster in east London after
  
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• Clarion tenders another 20-year homes upkeep deal

  30-03-2022 09:03 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  One of the country’s largest housing associations Clarion Housing Group has called up housing maintenance contractors to bid for a 20-year upkeep deal in south London.
  The planned housing maintenance and regeneration major works services deal is expected to be worth £600m over the full term.
  The 20-year contract will contain a “no-fault break clause” exercisable on notice after the first three years.Clarion said it would review the contract at least once every five years
  
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• Contractor admits safety breaches after boy dies in site pipe tragedy

  30-03-2022 08:35 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The contractor in charge of a building site where a seven-year-old boy fell into a pipe and died has admitted two health and safety breaches.
  Conley Thompson was found inside the plastic tube after he went missing in July 2015.
  Barnsley Magistrate’s Court heard the site in Barnsley, had “substandard” fencing which failed to keep youngsters out.The BBC reported Howard Civil Engineering, which admitted two health and safety breaches, will be sentenced in May.
  Conley told his moth
  
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• Contractor admits safety breaches after boy dies in site pipe

  30-03-2022 08:35 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The contractor in charge of a building site where a seven-year-old boy fell into a pipe and died has admitted two health and safety breaches.
  Conley Thompson was found inside the plastic tube after he went missing in July 2015.
  Barnsley Magistrate’s Court heard the site in Barnsley, had “substandard” fencing which failed to keep youngsters out.The BBC reported Howard Civil Engineering, which admitted two health and safety breaches, will be sentenced in May.
  Conley told his moth
  
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• ISG buys majority stake in modular specialist ESS Group

  30-03-2022 08:18 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  ISG has acquired a majority shareholding in modular specialist ESS Group.
  Modern methods of construction (MMC) contractor ESS employs more than 280 staff based in four offices and three manufacturing facilities across the UK and Ireland
  The group, which includes the ESS Modular and Spatial Initiative brands, specialises in delivering MMC solutions for clients in the public sector, healthcare and commercial markets.The backing of ISG will enable the firm to support its ambitious growth plans acro
  
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• Go-ahead for Leeds 1,000-home high-rise scheme

  30-03-2022 08:10 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Plans to build a 1,000-home high-rise mixed-use scheme on the site of Leeds’ first railway station have got the green light.
  Leeds-based property developer Rushbond Group, in partnership with residential development firm Gold and Amber, plans to bring forward the scheme on the East Side of Leeds’ city centre.
  The tallest of five distinct blocks will rise to 22 storeys
  To be known as Leeds City Village, the developer aims to create a new community at the former Goods Yard, located bet
  
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• Go-ahead for Leeds 1,000-home Goods Yard scheme

  30-03-2022 08:10 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Plans to build a 1,000-home high-rise mixed-use scheme on the site of Leeds’ first railway station have got the green light.
  Leeds-based property developer Rushbond Group, in partnership with residential development firm Gold and Amber, plans to bring forward the scheme on the East Side of Leeds’ city centre.
  The tallest of five distinct blocks will rise to 22 storeys
  To be known as Leeds City Village, the developer aims to create a new community at the former Goods Yard, located bet
  
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