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• Eight contractors trailblaze concrete carbon reduction plan

  05-07-2022 19:38 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Eight contractors have signed up to reduce concrete-related carbon emissions in a commitment to ConcreteZero by 2050.
  In total, 15 pioneering businesses have made the public commitment, which includes ambitious short-term commitments to use 30% low emission concrete by 2025 and 50% by 2030.Founding firms of ConcreteZero pledgeContractors
  Byrne Bros, The Carey Group, Clancy Group, Laing O’Rourke, Lendlease, Mace, Multiplex, Skanska, Wilmott Dixon,
  Clients
  Amazon, Canary Wharf Group, Grosven
  
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• Six locations shortlisted for Great British Railways HQ

  05-07-2022 15:06 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Six towns and cities have been shortlisted from a long list of 43 as potential locations for the national headquarters of Great British Railways.
  Shortlisted towns and citiesBirmingham (5 Centenary Square, Grand Central, Baskerville House)
  Crewe (Crewe Station, Padley Street car park, Weston Road, Weston Road car park, Macon Way, Macon Road) – Jacobs
  Derby (Rail Technical College site)  – Costain supporter
  Doncaster (next to train station) Volker Rail supported
  Newcastle upon Ty
  
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• Kit maker Genie fined after M25 work platform death fall

  05-07-2022 09:06 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Construction kit manufacturer Genie UK has been fined £270,000 after a plant hire employee died when a work platform fell onto the M25 motorway.
  Reading Crown Court heard that Rick Jeager-Fozard, an employee of Kimberly Access Limited, was carrying out a routine pre-delivery inspection on a mobile elevating work platform (MEWP) at the firm’s yard on 5 June 2013.
  The MEWP extended to an unsafe angle and fell across the adjacent M25 motorway. Jeager-Fozard was working in the platform o
  
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• £233m loan kick starts £3.5bn regen of Royal Docks site

  05-07-2022 08:55 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Ambitious plans to regenerate the Silvertown Royal Docks site in East London will now take off after Homes England agreed to release a £233m infrastructure loan.
  The funding will help bring to life a planned new £3.5bn neighbourhood at Silvertown on land in Newham that has been derelict for the last 40 years.
  A joint venture between Lendlease and Starwood Capital is planning to build 6,000 new homes and support the creation of 1.8m sq ft of business workspace and cultural and communi
  
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• Leeds college launches new construction and football course

  05-07-2022 08:13 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Leeds College of Building has launched a new construction course combined with football coaching lessons.
  Students studying for a BTEC Level 2 Certificate in Construction & the Built Environment can now incorporate an additional Level 1 Award in Football Coaching.
  Denis Metcalf, Student Liaison Officer and Football Academy coach at Leeds College of Building, said: “To my knowledge, no other specialist colleges like ours offer a football academy like this alongside non-sports courses.&l
  
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• Henry Construction wins £33m Oxford housing estate rebuild

  05-07-2022 08:07 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Housing association A2Dominion has named Henry Construction as the preferred contractor for the regeneration of Gibbs Crescent in Oxford. 
  The £33m project is the first contract agreed between A2Dominion and Henry Construction.
  The existing buildings form a crescent shaped residential development. The site is being redeveloped following an explosion on the site in 2017 leading to several dwellings being demolished and other neighbouring properties were left uninhabitable.Works consist
  
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• Rolls-Royce shortlists sites for first SMR factory

  05-07-2022 08:06 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Rolls-Royce has shortlisted six possible locations for the first of three offsite assembly factories to build key elements of the next-generation small nuclear reactor power stations.
  The first £200m factory will manufacture the ‘heavy vessels’ for SMR power stations.
  A further two factories will manufacture civils modules and mechanical electrical and plumbing modules.These will be transported to sites and assembled into a nuclear power station that will generate 470MW of low-
  
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