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• Thirty construction workers killed on site last year

  06-07-2022 22:50 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Thirty construction workers were killed in site accidents last year according to the latest official figures from the Health and Safety Executive.
  Construction makes up nearly a quarter of the 123 workers killed in work-related accidents across all industries in the UK in the 12 months to March 2022.
  The 30 figure for construction is lower than the previous five-year average of 36 annual deaths and the previous year’s total of 40.Latest annual figures for Mesothelioma – the cancer th
  
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• Aecom hires Arcadis veteran to grow northwards

  06-07-2022 19:14 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  After more than 30 years at Arcadis, Jonathan Moore is joining Aecom to grow its business in the North and Midlands.
  Moore has joined as Head of Project, Programme and Cost Management in the region, including its strategic city hub of Manchester.
  He will also help spearhead commercial growth more widely, with a special focus on Birmingham and the Midlands.He will now start recruiting locally to build up the team to support property clients in all sectors.
  Moore has held several leadership positi
  
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• Construction and housing ministers resign

  06-07-2022 18:02 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Construction minister Lee Rowley and housing minister Stuart Andrew have joined the growing exodus from Boris Johnson’s beleaguered government.
  Rowley has been construction minister since last September.
  He said in a resignation statement that it has become “increasingly clear that the government cannot function given the issues that have come to light and the way in which they have been handled”.Rowley also called for Johnson to step aside “for the good of the party and
  
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• Leisure centre legal battle ends 15 years after handover

  06-07-2022 11:25 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Sefton Council has finally secured a £2.2m payment award from contractor Allenbuild 15 years after work on its Splash World leisure centre completed.
  Problems at the water park included tiles coming detached from the pool wall and floor, parts of the concrete flume tower staircase failing and “failures in the steel frame coating system”.
  The council spent several years trying to resolve issues informally but last year resorted to adjudication to resolve a latent defects claim a
  
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• Red Construction lands London Victoria office overhaul

  06-07-2022 09:28 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Red Construction has landed a £9m office extension and revamp next to St James’s Park in London.
  Joint developers CIFI and Arbrook Land have instructed Red Construction to restore and extend an existing 7-storey office building at 19 Dacre Street adding another two upper floors.
  Architects Darling Associates designed the building revamp
  The project will include a complete façade refurbishment to all elevations.
  There will be a key focus on sustainability and a target for BREEA
  
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• Go-ahead for two Tilbury Douglas hospital jobs

  06-07-2022 08:53 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Two hospital projects to expand accident and emergency facilities in the Wirral and in Stockport have got the green light.
  Tilbury Douglas is understood to be on board to deliver both projects together valued at nearly £60m.
  In the Wirrall, demolition work has just started to clear the way for a £28m upgrade of Arrowe Park hospital.Bulldozing Arrowe Park Hospital is expected to take about five weeks, allowing Tilbury Douglas to start main construction in September and the new facilit
  
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• Welfare Hire Launches New ECO & Social Value Calculator

  06-07-2022 08:35 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Welfare Hire has launched a bespoke ECO & Social Value Calculator  to help contractors use environmentally friendly site welfare and lighting units.
  The innovative tool is designed to help clients scope their projects effectively, whilst maximising associated social and environmental benefits and overall project savings.
  The development involved the team analysing hundreds of thousands of days of live hire data from a wide range of client projects to aggregate an accurate reflection of
  
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• M&E contractor Kershaw went down owing subbies £10m

  06-07-2022 08:21 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Collapsed M&E contractor Kershaw Mechanical Services Limited went into administration owing hundreds of suppliers nearly £10m in unpaid invoices.
  Documents filed at Companies House reveal the full extent of the Cambridge based firm’s debts when administrators at Grant Thornton took control of the company in April.
  Grant Thornton said Kershaw was brought down by delayed projects during the pandemic and the financial impact of placing its cladding subsidiary into administration in
  
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• Green light for UK’s first plastic recycling park

  06-07-2022 08:03 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Developer Peel L&P Environmental is pressing ahead with plans to build the UK’s first plastic recycling park in Cheshire.
  The £165m park will be developed at Protos and extends beyond already consented plans for a plastic to hydrogen plant also to be built at the site.
  Peel’s strategic energy and resource hub near Ellesmere Port will feature innovative processing and treatment technologies to make the most of up to 367,500 tonnes of mixed recyclables and plastic every year.
  
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