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• Former nmcn building division staff take firm to tribunal

  07-04-2022 14:58 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Dozens of former workers at collapsed contractor nmcn’s building division are taking their redundancy claims to an Employment Tribunal.
  The ex-staff claim that the firm failed to properly consult with them during the redundancy process.
  Nmcn went into administration late last year with most jobs saved following deals with Galliford Try and Keltbray to acquire the main water and infrastructure operations.But administrator Grant Thornton failed to find a buyer for the building arm resulting
  
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• Countryside to cut loss-making offsite factories

  07-04-2022 13:47 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Countryside Partnerships is launching a major cost-cutting drive after a site-by-site review of the new partnerships-focused business revealed problems at its Midlands and North operations as well as mounting losses at its offsite business.
  John Martin, chair and interim CEO of Countryside, today said that the group’s expansions into the regions had been “too ambitious”.
  “After conducting a review of all operational sites, management has identified a number of areas where
  
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• Countryside to cut jobs at loss-making offsite factories

  07-04-2022 13:47 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Countryside Partnerships is launching a major cost-cutting drive after a site-by-site review of the new partnerships-focused business revealed problems at its Midlands and North operations as well as mounting losses at its offsite business.
  John Martin, chair and interim CEO of Countryside, today said that the group’s expansions into the regions had been “too ambitious”.
  “After conducting a review of all operational sites, management has identified a number of areas where
  
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• WOODSmith wins key contract with British Steel

  07-04-2022 11:27 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  North East contractor WOODSmith Construction Group has been taken on as a key contractor for British Steel at the Skinningrove site in North Yorkshire as part of what could be a long-term relationship with the company.
  WOODSmith was launched in March 2021 by Gary Wood, who has more than 15 years of experience in the construction industry, and forms part of Dale Smith’s SDDE Smith Group, a portfolio of real estate-related businesses.
  Wood who previously worked for Tolent Construction before
  
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• £50m turnover MechFS goes into administration

  07-04-2022 10:57 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Administrators are now in charge of M&E specialist Mechanical Facilities Services Limited and have made all but a handful of its 75 staff redundant.
  MechFS was founded in 2008 and operated as a mechanical and electrical contractor offering bespoke engineering solutions nationwide and through its sister companies in Ireland and Germany.
  It traded from a head office in Doncaster as well as from five other leasehold premises across the UK.Recently the majority of the group’s work had been
  
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• London most costly place to build in the world

  07-04-2022 09:11 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  London has returned to first place as the most expensive city in the world in which to build, according to the latest international construction costs report from Arcadis.
  According to the study of comparative construction costs across 100 global cities, London ranked first, followed by Geneva (2nd) and Oslo (3rd).
  In the latest update, markets in North America and many European cities recorded double-digit cost increases.This was due to a combination of cost drivers – including rising ene
  
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• First broadband cables to be fed through water pipes

  07-04-2022 08:49 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Full fibre broadband will be fed through water pipes in West Yorkshire to boost internet speeds in rural areas.
  The government technology trial will see fibre-optic cables deployed through 17 kms of live drinking water mains between Barnsley and Penistone.
  The Fibre in Water scheme will also explore how to help the water industry detect leaks by putting fibre sensors in the pipes which allow water companies to improve the speed and accuracy with which they can identify a leak and repair it.The t
  
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• Green skills gap threat to decarbonising London offices

  07-04-2022 08:16 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Central London urgently needs a larger skilled workforce to decarbonise its commercial buildings.
  A deepening green skills crisis in the Capital has prompted The City of London Corporation to establish a top-level industry taskforce to map and tackle a serious gap.
  The new Skills for a Sustainable Skyline Taskforce involves contractors like Mace and Willmott Dixon as well as building services trade body BESA, sitting alongside clients and consultants.It has been set up for three years after
  
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• £350m Romford town centre village approved

  07-04-2022 08:14 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Developer Impact Developments has secured planning permission for a £350m residential-led regeneration scheme close to the forthcoming Elizabeth Line station in Romford, Essex.
  The developer founded by Essex-born real estate entrepreneur Robert Whitton aims to build a contemporary urban village in the town centre at the 7-acre site of a former ice rink.
  Known as Rom Valley Gardens, its is Impact’s first major regeneration scheme and will be built using Impact’s own modular fact
  
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• Government to build eight more nuclear power stations

  07-04-2022 01:51 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Government will set out plans to build eight more nuclear power stations in its energy security strategy published later today.
  It will also ramp up delivery of offshore wind schemes hoping to produce 10GW more than previously planned.
  But the long-awaited energy strategy falls short on strong measures to conserve energy with greater energy efficiency from the existing building stock.The ambitious nuclear energy expansion would see 25% or up to 24 GW of UK electricity produced from this
  
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• Barratt puts cost of post-Grenfell upgrades at £600m

  07-04-2022 01:45 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Britain’s biggest house builder has put the total cost of post-Grenfell building safety retrofits at £600m.
  The volume house builder joined its publicly listed rivals in signing up to the Government’s pledge to pay for all fire safety remediation work needed on its buildings of over 11m.
  Around £200m has already been spent on recladding projects, most notably on its large Citiscape scheme in Croydon.Barratt chief executive David Thomas said a further £350-£400
  
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• Marshalls to buy Marley for £535m

  07-04-2022 00:29 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Concrete and stone products giant Marshalls is buying roof systems specialist Marley for £535m.
  The deal was confirmed in a stock exchange announcement on Tuesday afternoon,
  Marley will continue to be lead by its existing management team and will operate initially as a standalone division within the Marshalls group.Martyn Coffey, Chief Executive of Marshalls, said:  “The acquisition of Marley represents a significant step towards achieving our strategic goal to become the UK&rsq
  
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