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• Sledgehammer demo workers spread asbestos across store refurb

  09-06-2022 16:22 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Two former company directors have been sentenced and fined after a refurbishment project at a former department store was found to have disturbed asbestos containing materials (ACMs) while demolition work was still taking place.
  Newcastle Crown Court heard that during October 2017, the former Joplings Department Store in Sunderland was undergoing refurbishment when workers disturbed large quantities of asbestos.
  Following a reported concern regarding unsafe construction work at the site, an HSE&
  
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• Morgan Sindall director joins Skanska rail team

  09-06-2022 12:16 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Skanska has confirmed the appointment of James Corker as Operations Director (Rail) to help lead its growth plans in the sector.
  Corker will join Skanska later this month and brings more than 20 years’ experience in rail and civil engineering, most recently with Morgan Sindall where he was Area Director responsible for all Network Rail and third-party rail projects.
  Jonathan Willcock, Managing Director of Skanska’s Infrastructure business, said: “James has significant rail sect
  
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• Kier splits with WSP for £210m highways job

  09-06-2022 08:56 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  North Northamptonshire Council has named Kier as the preferred bidder for its new 7-year term highways contract worth up to £210m.
  This will be the first Highways contract to be awarded since the council came into existence in April last year.
  Worth £30m a year the deal will run for seven years, with the potential to extend to a maximum of 14 years.Since 2008, highways maintenance has been delivered Northamptonshire-wide by KierWSP.
  But last April, the previous county council was spl
  
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• Mitie swoops for solar energy design and fit firm

  09-06-2022 08:33 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Mitie has sealed a deal to buy the UK’s leading solar power design, installation and maintenance contractor for public and private sector clients. 
  The FM specialist will initially pay £8m for Custom Solar followed by a second payment of up to £4.4m.
  Mitie said Custom Solar’s design and installation expertise, combined with its own project management and mobile engineering offering, would support Mitie’s ambition to be a leading provider of end-to-end green ene
  
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• Mitie swoops for leading solar energy design and fit firm

  09-06-2022 08:33 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Mitie has sealed a deal to buy the UK’s leading solar power design, installation and maintenance contractor for public and private sector clients. 
  The FM specialist will initially pay £8m for Custom Solar followed by a second payment of up to £4.4m.
  Mitie said Custom Solar’s design and installation expertise, combined with its own project management and mobile engineering offering, would support Mitie’s ambition to be a leading provider of end-to-end green ene
  
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• Second UK plastic to hydrogen plant approved

  09-06-2022 08:02 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Plans for an innovative £20m facility to turn waste plastic into hydrogen and support the UK’s energy transition to net zero have been approved.
  West Dunbartonshire Council has given Peel NRE – part of Peel L&P – the green light to build the plant at Rothesay Dock on the north bank of the River Clyde.
  It’s the second such planned facility, with the first to be delivered at Peel NRE’s Protos site in Cheshire near Ellesmere Port – due to begin con
  
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• First hydrogen dual-fuel piling rig in trials

  09-06-2022 01:49 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Cementation Skanska is to start testing a prototype dual-fuel hydrogen and diesel piling machine in the drive to cut carbon emissions on sites.
  In what is claimed to be a world-first, a Soilmec rotary and CFA piling rig has been retrofitted for dual-use.Cementation will put the converted machine through its paces at its plant and fabrication facility at Bentley Works, south Yorkshire.
  The Government-backed trial supported by hydrogen fuel pioneer ULEMCo and the BRE will also provide a proof of c
  
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