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• Deanestor fits out new £14m Scottish school

  04-07-2022 16:50 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Deanestor has provided bespoke furniture and fitout services for a new £14m primary school in West Lothian.
  The new Calderwood Primary was built by Morrison Construction Building Central and delivered by hub South East for West Lothian Council.
  Deanestor manufactured and installed around 1,250 items of bespoke fitted furniture for this project, including learning walls, storage cabinets, adjustable shelving units, tilting craft tables, shoebox storage, and worktops.
  Around 3,000 items of l
  
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• Offsite Solutions seals £4.2m pod deal from Midgard

  04-07-2022 16:21 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Offsite Solutions has been appointed by principal contractor Midgard to provide 839 bathroom and shower pods for a new £260m build-to-rent neighbourhood now under construction for Moda Living in Hove, Sussex.
  The £4.2m contract is Offsite Solutions’ fourth and largest for Moda to date and brings the total number of pods ordered for the developer to more than 2,600.
  The latest win follows the successful delivery of bathroom pods for Moda communities in Manchester and Liverpool &
  
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• Carillion collapse hospital hit by more construction delays

  04-07-2022 15:35 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The opening of the new Midland Metropolitan University Hospital near Birmingham has been delayed again “following a reset of the construction programme.”
  The super-hospital at the Smethwick site was due for completion in October 2018 before original contractor Carillion collapsed.
  Balfour Beatty was drafted-in to finish the job in 2019 with hopes of getting it completed by the end of this year.But Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust has now confirmed the new hospital will not open
  
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• Positive results from first cement-free pile tests

  04-07-2022 11:47 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Cemfree concrete has been used by Aarsleff Ground Engineering in the world’s first trial driving of cement free ultra-low carbon precast piles.
  Cast and cured at Centrum’s Piles Newark Headquarters, the piles were driven in non-working positions at a site in Peddimore during the trial which is part of a wider scope of work in the LOCOWAG (Low Carbon Concrete within Aggressive Ground) project.
  Cemfree parent company DB Group are main partners on the project and were present on site al
  
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• O’Connor Utilities sold to private equity

  04-07-2022 10:56 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  North West utilities contractor OCU Group has been snapped up by private equity group Triton Partners in a deal rumoured to be worth nearly £400m.
  Based in Stockport, OCU is the holding company for O’Connor Utilities and Instalcom which operate within regulated infrastructure markets, including electricity, rail, water, gas and telecoms.
  Founded in 1994 by brothers Tim and Tom O’Connor, OCU has a workforce of over 3,000 staff and contractors across the country and delivered rev
  
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• £550m plan to redevelop The Galleries centre in Bristol

  04-07-2022 09:02 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Bristol developer Deeley Freed working with LaSalle Investment Mangement has set out plans to demolish the main shopping centre in Bristol city centre to make way for a £550m mixed-use scheme.
  Full details of the plan to tear down The Galleries centre and redevelop the 4.8 acre site will be revealed in a public consultation starting on 13 July.
  The developer will then submit for planning in early 2023, with the aim of starting construction in Autumn 2024.The 1.2m sq ft scheme will include
  
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• City leaders launch net zero construction skills drive

  04-07-2022 08:48 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Skills for a Sustainable Skyline Taskforce will meet for the first time today in a bid to avert a construction labour crisis across central London.
  The City of London Corporation launched the three-year initiative in response to skills gaps in the construction, retrofit and maintenance of low-carbon commercial buildings which emerged from recent research.
  It found 91% of respondents in a poll of industry professionals said the commercial built environment sector lacks sufficient skilled work
  
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• Marlborough Highways lands £32m Islington civils deal

  04-07-2022 08:26 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Marlborough Highways has been awarded the £32m five-year Term Service Highway Works Contract by the London Borough of Islington.
  The first jobs under the deal will start this month with a wide range of civils work set to include safer routes to schools, the creation of new cycleways, and public realm improvements programmes, including ‘greening’ initiatives.
  Marlborough will also carry out traditional carriageway resurfacing and road markings works, footway reconditioning schem
  
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• Costain cancels supply chain event on £260m road job

  04-07-2022 08:15 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Costain has been forced to cancel a “Meet the Customer” supply chain event for the A1 Morpeth to Ellingham upgrade scheme as Transport Secretary Grant Shapps continues to dither over approving the job.
  Shapps has been due to make a decision on the £260m scheme since January and will now take until December to make a ruling on the project which was due to start construction this summer.
  Costain is lined-up as main contractor and has been working to put a significant supply chain
  
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• £170m London Holborn Circus office approved

  04-07-2022 08:15 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Property developer Evans Randall has got the planning green light for a 10-storey office block at Holborn Circus in London.
  The 12,000 sq m project will replace an existing 1950s neo-Georgian building at 3-4 Holborn Circus and is expected to cost around £55m to build.
  Designed by architect WilkinsonEyre, the building is designed as two interlocked blocks on an L-shaped floor plate, sitting on the southern side of Holborn Circus between New Fetter Lane and St Andrew Street.Retail space will
  
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• Willmott Dixon hikes provision for recladding work to £61m

  04-07-2022 08:13 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Willmott Dixon boss Rick Willmott has blasted the Government for making the industry a scapegoat for years of regulatory failure over building safety.
  He said the Building Safety Act had laid the blame on developers, contractors and their supplychain rather than accepting the role successive Government’s, their regulators and agents had played in creating the building safety crisis.
  Willmott spoke out as he revealed the privately-owned building group had almost doubled to £61m its pr
  
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• Willmott Dixon blasts new Building Safety law

  04-07-2022 08:13 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Willmott Dixon boss Rick Willmott has blasted the Government for making the industry a scapegoat for years of regulatory failure over building safety.
  He said the Building Safety Act had laid the blame on developers, contractors and their supplychain rather than accepting the role successive Governments, their regulators and agents had played in creating the building safety crisis.
  Willmott spoke out as he revealed the privately-owned building group had almost doubled to £61m its provision
  
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• Willmott Dixon blasts building safety law

  04-07-2022 08:13 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Willmott Dixon boss Rick Willmott has blasted the Government for making the industry a scapegoat for years of regulatory failure over building safety.
  He said the Building Safety Act had laid the blame on developers, contractors and their supplychain rather than accepting the role successive Government’s, their regulators and agents had played in creating the building safety crisis.
  Willmott spoke out as he revealed the privately-owned building group had almost doubled to £61m its pr
  
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