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• Two seriously injured in London steelwork collapse

  11-05-2022 23:42 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Two workers were seriously injured in a major steelwork collapse at contractor Ardmore’s Hammersmith Town Hall project in West London.
  Police, fire and ambulance services attended the Hammersmith Town Hall site in King Street after the incident at around 5.41pm on Wednesday.
  A spokesman for the London air ambulance service said: “Two men were found with potentially life-threatening injuries and were taken to a central London hospital. The Health and Safety Executive has been informed
  
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• Two seriously injured in London scaffolding collapse

  11-05-2022 23:42 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Two men are fighting for their lives after scaffolding collapsed at contractor Ardmore’s Hammersmith Town Hall project in West London.
  Police, fire and ambulance services attended the Hammersmith Town Hall site in King Street after the incident at around 5.45pm on Wednesday.
  A spokesman for the London air ambulance service said: “Two men were found with potentially life threatening injuries and were taken to a central London hospital. The Health and Safety Executive has been informed
  
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• Taylor Hart expands northwards with new Leeds office

  11-05-2022 15:30 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Drylining, partitioning and suspended ceiling specialist Taylor Hart is expanding in the north of England with the opening of a new office in Cleckheaton, Leeds.
  Will Hart, Taylor Hart Managing Director & CEO said: “By expanding North, it gives us the opportunity to serve our customers better and it is indicative of expansion and growth we are seeing at the moment.”
  Taylor Hart works in conjunction with Drywall Cut Pro – the leading off-site producer of pre-cut Drywall.
  Har
  
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• Building facade specialist CMS goes into administration

  11-05-2022 14:52 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Building envelope specialist CMS Enviro Systems has gone into administration.
  Joint administrators from Alvarez & Marsal are now in charge of the business which traded as CMS Group from its head office in Cumbernauld.
  The firm’s facade engineering division offered complete building envelope solutions and worked with a host of big name contractors.Latest accounts filed at Companies House show for the year to March 31 2020 CMS had a turnover of £45.3m generating a pre-tax profit of
  
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• More suppliers wanted on £683m waste power plant

  11-05-2022 12:16 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Main contractor ACCIONA is looking to boost its supply chain on the Energy Recovery Facility (ERF) at the £683m North London Heat and Power Project.
  ACCIONA will be hosting a Meet the Buyer event on Thursday  May 19 to encourage local suppliers to submit interest in working on the project.
  Suppliers from the following services are encouraged to attend this first ERF Project Meet the Buyer event:Construction and civil engineeringCivil, material and works
  Hired plant, including earth mo
  
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• Vistry Partnerships lands £128m London flats deal

  11-05-2022 10:09 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Vistry Partnerships has secured a £128m contract from Legal & General to construct 480-homes on a former Homebase site in Wandsworth, London.
  Constructed over five buildings, the New Acres development was designed by architect Hawkins Brown.
  It will also create more than 15,000 sq ft of mixed-use space, with retail, office and a civic square outside a proposed new station entrance to Wandsworth Town station.
  The former Homebase site, which was cleared by Rye Demolition, is the second s
  
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• Taylor Wimpey to tear down half-built £48m Hackney Wick scheme

  11-05-2022 08:53 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Taylor Wimpey is preparing to demolish a half-built development of 148 flats in east London after “a potential structural issue” was discovered in the concrete frame.
  Construction work was halted last year on The Factory scheme in Hackney Wick which was granted planning permission in 2019.
  The £48m mixed-use scheme is designed to reach seven storeys across the site near the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.A Taylor Wimpey spokesperson said: “Following the discovery of a poten
  
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• Taylor Wimpey to tear down half-built £48m Hackney scheme

  11-05-2022 08:53 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Taylor Wimpey is preparing to demolish a half-built development of 148 flats in east London after “a potential structural issue” was discovered in the concrete frame.
  Construction work was halted last year on The Factory scheme in Hackney Wick which was granted planning permission in 2019.
  The £48m mixed-use scheme is designed to reach seven storeys across the site near the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.A Taylor Wimpey spokesperson told the BBC: “Following the discovery of
  
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• Data centre work lifts TClarke orders to record high

  11-05-2022 08:24 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Building services contractor TClarke has seen orders soar to £585m from £472m a year ago fuelled by data centre jobs which are now expected to account for a third of this year’s turnover.
  Group chief executive Mark Lawrence will tell the agm today that the business is well on track to delivering next year’s target of £500m turnover.
  He reported trading in the early months of the 2022 financial year has continued to be strong and forecast revenues of £410
  
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• HS2 Project Bank Accounts “not worth paper they are written on”

  11-05-2022 08:08 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Project Bank Accounts on HS2 have been dismissed as “not worth the paper they are written on” after failing to protect subcontractors hit by the collapse of civils specialist Roadbridge.
  Subcontractors and suppliers have been left holding unpaid invoices worth more than £22.5m after Roadbridge went down – with most of the debts racked up on the firm’s HS2 contracts.
  Its largest deal was in a joint venture with Tarmac working for main contractor EKFB (Eiffage, Kier,
  
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• Phoenix ME forecast revenue to rebound by 20%

  11-05-2022 08:03 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  London building services specialist Phoenix ME is predicting sales revenue will rebound by 21% this year as UK orders compensate for a post-Brexit lull in European data centre work.
  Latest published accounts show turnover fell £50m to £140m in the year to 30 September 2021, knocking down pre-tax profit by a quarter to £5m.
  As a result operating margin slipped from around 4% previously to 3.5%, while over the year average headcount fell by nearly 100 to 307 staff.The current ord
  
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