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• Tilbury Douglas wins Dorset hospital upgrade

  27-06-2022 14:55 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Dorset County Hospital (DCH) has selected Tilbury Douglas as its main contractor to design and build a brand-new Emergency Department and Critical Care Unit.
  The project is part of DCH’s plans to revamp its clinical facilities which were granted £77.3m of government funding earlier this year
  The hospital has submitted an outline planning application seeking permission for the new Emergency Department and Critical Care Unit to be built on the former Damers School site, which forms par
  
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• London Bankside Yards next project switches from resi to offices

  27-06-2022 09:51 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Developer Native Land has submitted revised plans for a net zero ‘concept’ office at its £2.5bn Bankside Yards development next to Blackfriars Bridge in London.
  The application represents a change from the consented residential building to raise the amount of commercial space provided across the project.
  Native Land plans to develop an 18-storey office building, designed by Make Architects, to standards of design, sustainability and wellbeing rarely found in the London commerci
  
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• McGee in £2.4m provision for bid-rigging probe

  27-06-2022 09:23 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Specialist engineering and demolition contractor McGee Group has revealed that a £2.4m provision taken in previous accounts should cover the financial cost arising from its involvement in a bid-rigging probe by the cartel-busting watchdog.
  In the latest company accounts, McGee said that a £2.4m provision taken in 2020 would cover an expected penalty from the Competition and Markets Authority investigation into cover pricing in the demolition sector.
  The CMA announced last week that M
  
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• VolkerHighways and WJ Group shot blast roads with steel

  27-06-2022 08:53 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  VolkerHighways is working with WJ Group and West Berkshire Council on a new shot blasting system to improve the safety of roads in the region.
  Over time, traffic causes the skid resistance on asphalted roads to reduce.
  To tackle this VolkerHighways partnered with WJ Group and used their retexturing expertise to deliver 10,000sqm of an innovative, shot blast surface retexturing system.The sustainable solution fires small steel shots at the road surface to improve the texture, eliminating the requ
  
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• Barratt falls foul of planners on £25m estate

  27-06-2022 08:40 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Stoke-on-Trent City Council has started formal planning enforcement action against Barratt Developments following complaints from local residents about construction work on a new scheme in Trentham.
  Planning permission was granted in 2019 to build 227 homes, which included a condition that the developer continues to adhere to a construction management plan (CMP) to deliver the works on site.
  But the Local Planning Authority has received a number of complaints from local residents claiming the d
  
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• Plans in for Cambridge North major mixed-use scheme

  27-06-2022 08:04 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Chesterton Partnership has submitted plans for a major mixed-use scheme on former railway sidings next to Cambridge North Railway Station.
  The development partnership, involving Network Rail, DB Cargo and Brookgate, proposes to build 425 homes and nearly 600,000 sq ft of office, laboratory and retail space on the 17-hectare brownfield site.
  Designed by Acme and Make, the Cambridge North scheme is set to create over 2,000 construction jobs during a five-year construction programme.
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• First designs for £275m HS2 Midlands nerve centre

  27-06-2022 08:00 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Designs are being showcased for HS2’s £275m network control centre and rolling stock maintenance depot in Washwood Heath, Birmingham.
  The project is a key site for HS2 and will see a 30-hectare brownfield site transformed into the nerve centre of the high speed railway line.
  A contractor will be selected next Autumn for the job to build a Maintenance Building, Network Integrated Control Centre (NICC) and Cleaners and Drivers Building.Turkish construction giant Gulermak Agir Sanayi In
  
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