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• Costain appoints Galliford Try technical services chief

  20-04-2022 14:14
  
  Costain has appointed former Galliford Try technical services managing director Gavin Stonard as its water sector technical development director.
  Stonard joins after seven months at Galliford Try, having transferred over when the contractor bought collapsed nmcn’s £100m water business for £1m, where he was both technical and engineering director for over four years.
  He will be integral to driving innovation and developing leading-edge services for the water market as Costain wo
  
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• Plans in for £150m Leeds private rental flats scheme

  20-04-2022 13:24
  
  Manchester developer Glenbrook has submitted detailed plans for a 618-apartment build to rent scheme at Kirkstall Road on the bank of River Aire in Leeds.
  The £150m scheme will regenerate a prominent, vacant site on the western fringe of Leeds City Centre.
  The firm will now look to appoint a contractor to deliver the brick-clad project in the Summer, which should start on site in the Autumn subject to planning.
  Glenbrook acquired the site, with outline planning consent, from Marshalls CDP.
  
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• Roofer gambled away covid bounce back loan in three weeks

  20-04-2022 12:18
  
  The Insolvency Service has successfully secured restrictions against a roofer after he falsely applied for a bounce back loan designed to help companies survive the pandemic.
  David Michael Godderidge, 40, from Tamworth, falsely applied for £13,000 from the Bounce Back Loan scheme which blew on gambling in just three weeks.
  Godderidge applied for his own bankruptcy in October 2021 and declared himself as a self-employed roofer.While assessing his assets to make payments to his creditors, th
  
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• Weston Homes revamps £270m Anglia Square scheme

  20-04-2022 09:03
  
  Weston Homes has unveiled revamped plans for its £270m Anglia Square scheme in Norwich.
  Initial proposals for the 11.5 acre site were passed by Norwich City Council but rejected by the Housing Secretary in November 2020 forcing Weston back to the drawing board.
  The new lower-rise scheme contains 14 buildings, ranging from three to eight storeys, designed around inner courtyards, two public squares and a network of pedestrian streets.The revised proposals for Anglia Square will provide for
  
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• Severfield surges with record steelwork orders

  20-04-2022 08:33
  
  Britain’s biggest constructional steelwork contractor has enjoyed a work-winning spree in the second half of the year taking orders to a record level despite market volatility.
  In a trading update for the year to April, chief executive Alan Dunsmore said the order book has topped out at a record £479m, 22% up on six months ago.
  The orders contain a healthy mix of projects across the group’s key market sectors, with £382m of work due for delivery over the next 12 months.
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• Contractor fined after workers flee building collapse

  20-04-2022 08:12
  
  A Manchester construction company has been fined £30,000 after workers had to run for their lives when a three-bedroom house in Stretford collapsed during a loft conversion and ground floor extension work.
  Manchester Magistrates’ Court heard that on 4 May 2020, Mughal Construction Limited had been carrying out a loft conversion when it collapsed, causing workers to flee from the site.
  The building had insufficient temporary supports and workers did not have sufficient skills, knowled
  
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• Government school builder takes top job at DIO

  20-04-2022 08:07
  
  A former civil engineer and driver of standardised, modular design for the Government’s school building programme has taken the top job at the MoD’s procurement arm, the Defence Infrastructure Organisation.
  Mike Green has taken up the role of chief executive of DIO after most recently, serving as chief operating officer of the Department for Education and director general of its operations directorate.
  His previous roles include director of commercial at DfE and Departmental Lead for
  
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• Gilbert-Ash bags £28m Manchester office revamp

  20-04-2022 08:05
  
  Gilbert-Ash has secured an eight-storey building overhaul and refit worth £28m in Manchester.
  The firm will start work later this month on the redevelopment of Evershed House at 70 Great Bridgewater Street.
  Designed by OMI Architects, the building will be stripped back to the frame and extended upwards by two floors to offer 110,000 sq ft of office space targeting BREEAM Outstanding.The existing masonry facade on the 2001-constructed building with be replaced unitised curtain wall and alum
  
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• Piling contractor pre-packed for second time

  20-04-2022 08:04
  
  The Nottingham piling firm that bought the assets of collapsed piling specialist All Foundations (UK) has itself fallen into administration and been pre-packed.
  Derbyshire piling contractor All Foundations (UK) was first placed into the hands of administrators FRP Advisory last August, blaming covid disruption for its cash crisis.
  It was sold for £180,000 in a pre-pack deal on the same day to the Nottingham business Founda, run by former All Foundations directors finance director Jonathan
  
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