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• Former Keltbray directors join demolition firm Downwell

  28-04-2022 15:32 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Demolition contractor Downwell Group has appointed Andy McClafferty and Mark Roberts to the roles of Group Managing Director and Business Development Director respectively.
  Both have held senior positions within some of the UK’s foremost demolition and decommissioning contractors and will assist in driving Downwell’s growth aspirations.
  McClafferty spent 25 Years at Keltbray as a main board director with responsibility for their demolition activities before joining Getjar as Group De
  
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• Downwell recruits experienced demolition leaders

  28-04-2022 15:32 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Demolition contractor Downwell Group has appointed Andy McClafferty and Mark Roberts to the roles of Group Managing Director and Business Development Director respectively.
  Both have held senior positions within some of the UK’s foremost demolition and decommissioning contractors and will assist in driving Downwell’s growth aspirations.
  Matt Phillips, Downwell Group CEO, said: “We are working to a strategy for growth across all the Downwell brands, and having both Andy and Mark
  
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• Glencar wins pioneering 6-storey urban warehouse

  28-04-2022 11:31 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A joint venture between Berekely Group and SEGRO has named the builder for their first urban multi-storey warehouse scheme.
  Contractor Glencar will build the six-storey warehouse, which is being plugged into St George’s Grand Union major mixed-use neighbourhood in Brent, North West London.
  The pioneering 135,000 sq ft building is the first in a new concept for delivering multi-storey light industrial property in an urban backdrop.This dovetails with the Greater London Authority’s new
  
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• Plant hirer Vp put up for sale

  28-04-2022 09:47 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Listed equipment hire specialist Vp has started the hunt for a buyer for a majority stake in the business.
  Vp’s Chairman Jeremy Pilkington plans to sell his 50.26% stake, held through his company Ackers P Investment Company.
  Announcing the start of the sale process, the firm this morning reiterated it was not currently in discussions with, nor in receipt of an approach from any potential buyer.
  The group presently has a market capitalisation of around £330m, but has an estimated ente
  
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• Summer start for £300m Leeds Lisbon Square towers

  28-04-2022 09:01 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Work will start this summer on a £300m mixed-use scheme to transform the former International Swimming Pool site in Leeds.Development partners Marrico Asset Management and Helios Real Estate have brought forward the scheme’s start date to July after striking a deal with a US private rental operator Cortland Group.
  The entire Lisbon Street scheme consists of a cluster of four high-rise buildings and gained full planning last year.The partners will now start work on the first phase of
  
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• Tritax submits plans for £80m Oxfordshire R&D project

  28-04-2022 08:05 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Shed developer Tritax Symmetry has submitted plans for 600,000 sq ft global R&D facility for Siemens Healthineers.
  The combined research, development and production facility in Oxfordshire will provide superconducting magnets used in MRI systems.
  Designed by Leicestershire architect SGP, the facility will cost around £80m to build sustaining around 670 construction jobs over the two-year build programme.The 48-acre site on land north of the A41 and east of Junction 9 of the M40, known
  
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• Call for carbon rating system for concrete

  28-04-2022 08:04 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Construction experts have proposed a standardised carbon rating system to make it easier for clients and designers to choose low-carbon options.
  It is one of the chief recommendations set out in a Low Carbon Concrete Routemap to set out a path for reducing the impact of concrete on global co2 emissions.
  The report is the result of a collaboration between the Green Construction Board and the Institution of Civil Engineers.It brings together experts from across the industry including the Concrete
  
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• McLaren lands £22m Stevenage warehouse deal

  28-04-2022 08:00 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  McLaren has landed the £22m main contract to build three new warehouses for developer Wrenbridge Land in Stevenage, Hertfordshire.
  Main construction works will start this week on the design and build deal which is expected to last 50 weeks.
  The new warehouses will stretch across 200,000 sq ft on the 16.5 acre site on North Road.Construction works will also include associated car parking, fenced and gated service yards, anew signalled junction, development estate access road, associated lan
  
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• Caledonian went down owing suppliers and clients £20m

  28-04-2022 07:58 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Offsite giant Caledonian Modular fell into administration owing more than £11m in now-worthless invoices to a host of subcontractors and suppliers.
  A number of clients are also listed as unsecured creditors on top of the expected raft of trade creditors.
  A statement of affairs by the administrator, seen by the Enquirer, lists major project clients as creditors owed cash following Caledonian’s collapse.Student accommodation developer Studytel is listed as an ‘unsecured creditor
  
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