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• Asphalt giants make low carbon standard for road mixes

  20-06-2022 14:26 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Materials giants Tarmac and Aggregate Industries are switching to warm mix asphalt (WMA) as standard across their plants.
  The move marks the end of the reign of hot mix asphalt for road surfacing which has been in use for more than 100 years.
  From next month 40 of Tarmac’s asphalt plants across the UK will default to warm mix for all lower layer materials as the company phases out traditional hot mix asphalt for highways projects, while Aggregate Industries has already made the switch.Warm
  
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• Modular specialist TopHat to open vast housing factory

  20-06-2022 13:10 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Volumetric modular house builder TopHat is to open an enormous new housing factory in Northamptonshire next year.
  At 650,000 sq ft in size it will be bigger than rival L&G’s 550,000 sq ft warehouse in Sherburn-in-Elmet near Leeds.
  The Goldman Sachs-backed house builder aims to employ the latest robotics technology to manufacture and distribute up to 4,000 beautiful homes per year.
  If it reaches full production, it could produce up to “one-house-an-hour”.Goldman Sachs’
  
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• Kier to trial hydrogen generators on site

  20-06-2022 11:49 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Kier has signed a deal with AFC Energy to trial its new Power Tower clean Hydrogen power generator units on one of its sites
  The zero-emission generator will be deployed in the coming months and be used to power site cabins.
  AFC Energy is hoping the trial will lead to a long-term collaboration with Kier as the contractor aims to reach its Net Zero carbon reduction target by 2045 with the transition away from on-site fossil fuel power generators a key component.Chris Lilley, health, safety, wellb
  
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• Hinkley Point remobilises to over 8,000 workforce – video

  20-06-2022 09:03 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Work has accelerated at the Hinkley Point nuclear power station site as constraints from the pandemic ease, with around 8,000 workers now back on site.
  Work on the second reactor unit at Hinckley is progressing well Nigel Cann, delivery director claiming between 20% and 30% efficiencies in the construction process compared to unit 1.
  The skyline of the site has changed drastically, with the first reactor building now standing at 34 metres tall.One more small ring will be lifted into place before
  
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• Bid contest for £600m Scottish civils framework

  20-06-2022 08:27 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Scottish Procurement has fired the starting gun on bidding for a new national civil engineering framework for Scotland.
  The framework valued at £600m over four years has been split into three key lots covering, general civil engineering, structural civil engineering and major projects.
  A virtual bidders day is to be held on 14 July to support the contest ahead of prequalification documents being returned on the 1 August.
  Civil engineering framework Scotland
  Lot 1 General Civil Engineering
  
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• VolkerFitzpatrick lands £59m viaduct job

  20-06-2022 08:15 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  VolkerFitzpatrick has won a £59m contract from Birmingham City Council to strengthen and refurbish the A38(M) Tame Valley Viaduct.
  The 620m long composite viaduct, which forms the northern end of the A38(M) Aston Expressway near ‘Spaghetti Junction’, has started to show signs of deterioration having been built in the early 1970s.
  Works will start this month to strengthen the viaduct’s superstructure with steel plates secured in position using a combination of welding and
  
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• Urban Splash modular failure to cost supply chain £12m

  20-06-2022 08:14 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Documents filed at Companies House by the administrators of House by Urban Splash have revealed the scale of debts owed to the supply chain.
  The updates also highlight a series of inter-company debts between various collapsed offshoots of the modular giant.
  Administrator Teneo took charge of a string of firms last month making 160 staff redundant blaming “various operational issues relating to the factory in Alfreton.”The main operations placed in administration were Urban Splash Hou
  
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• Kier and Wates win £500m six prisons expansion

  20-06-2022 01:01 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Kier and Wates have signed alliance contracts to construct new houseblocks at six prisons – capable of accommodating more than 2,600 offenders.
  They will also build workshops at the six locations at HMPs Bullingdon, Channings Wood, Elmley, Highpoint, Hindley and Wayland.
  The Accelerated Houseblock Development Programme forms part of the Government’s £4bn prison estate investment plan. This includes building four new prisons while refurbishing existing sites to bring out of date
  
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• Kier and Wates win £500m deal to expand six prisons

  20-06-2022 01:01 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Kier and Wates have signed alliance contracts to construct new houseblocks at six prisons – capable of accommodating more than 2,600 offenders.
  They will also build workshops at the six locations at HMPs Bullingdon, Channings Wood, Elmley, Highpoint, Hindley and Wayland.
  The Accelerated Houseblock Development Programme forms part of the Government’s £4bn prison estate investment plan. This includes building four new prisons while refurbishing existing sites to bring out of date
  
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