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• Hinkley workers evacuated from site after scaffold fire

  19-07-2022 15:02 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Construction workers at Hinkley Point C were evacuated from the giant nuclear site last night when a fire broke out on some scaffolding.
  Site fire crews and the Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service tackled the blaze.
  Hinkley Point C authorities said: “Fire crews from Hinkley Point C and Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service have attended a scaffolding fire on the construction site near Unit 1.“Workers were evacuated from the area and there are no reports of injuries at thi
  
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• Plans approved for new 15-storey City of London hotel

  19-07-2022 14:31 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The City of London Corporation’s Planning and Transportation Committee has approved a new hotel development at Boundary House on Jewry Street in the Square Mile.
  The higher block facing onto Jewry Street will be 15 storeys and the lower block facing onto Carlisle Avenue will stand at eight storeys.
  The Ploberger Hotel Group (RP Assets Limited) scheme will contain 311 hotel rooms, alongside a café/bar on the ground floor and a rooftop restaurant, both open to the public.The developme
  
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• Competition watchdog intervenes in HS2 tender race

  19-07-2022 09:34 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The UK competition watchdog has raised concern about the tender process for HS2 overhead catenary works in the light of Bouygues’ planned £6bn deal to buy rival Equans.
  Companies from each of the French-owned groups are in the final stages of separately bidding for the £300m overhead power lines package.
  Four bidders are in the chase including Bouygues-owned Colas Rail, Rapide JV – a consortium of Equans-owned SPL Powerlines UK/INEO and Keltbray – Balfour Beatty, an
  
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• Contractor Curo hands all staff £1,200 to help with cost of living crisis

  19-07-2022 09:04 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  London based contractor Curo Construction is giving all of its staff a £1,200 pay rise to help ease the cost of living crisis.
  The firm said: “To help assist with the rising cost of living. the board of directors have decided to award all staff with a £1,200 per year pay rise.“The rise will be effective from 1st July which will not impact their annual pay review. The board would like to take this opportunity to thank the entire team for their constant support.”Curo
  
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• JV named for major Devonport 10 dock rebuild job

  19-07-2022 08:45 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Devonport Dockyard manager Babcock has signed a deal with a Kier BAM joint venture to deliver its major 10 Dock Refurbishment Project forming part of a £1bn investment plan over 10 years at the Plymouth naval base.
  The framework deal will also allow for other call off contracts for extra dock upgrade works around the base.
  The main project includes the redevelopment of a dry dock for nuclear submarines alongside the demolition of existing buildings and construction of new ones to support t
  
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• McGee bags early works for £70m Westminister office rebuild

  19-07-2022 08:16 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  McGee has secured the job to deliver the demolition and enabling works for a £70m rebuild of an office project on Millbank close to the Houses of Parliament.
  Developer Old Park Lane Management aims to dismantle and rebuild 7 Millbank in Westminster.
  Mace, Skanska and Wates are understood to have been in the bidding for the main contract with a winner yet to be announced.The current 9-storey building, which sits as part of a group of buildings that surround Smith Square, was constructed as
  
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• McGee bags early works for £100m Westminister office rebuild

  19-07-2022 08:16 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  McGee has secured the job to deliver the demolition and enabling works for a £100m rebuild of a office project on Millbank close to the Houses of Parliament.
  Developer Old Park Lane Management – a company part owned by Hong Kong billionaire Ronald McAulay – aims to dismantle and rebuild 7 Millbank in Westminster.
  Mace, Skanska and Wates are understood to have been in the bidding for the main contract with a winner yet to be announced.The current 9-storey building, which sits as
  
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• Kier set for £100m Glasgow super prison

  19-07-2022 08:07 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Kier has secured the preconstruction services contract for HMP Glasgow, the new Scottish super-prison to replace Victorian-era HMP Barlinnie.
  HMP Glasgow will be built on a 54-acre site near the Provan gas works in north east of the city.
  Kier will now begin work on the pre-construction phase, closely collaborating with SPS as part of a strategic alliance of consultants and subcontractors.HMP Glasgow Strategic Alliance team
  Holmes Miller – architect
  Curtins – civils and structures
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• Contractor warns river jumpers not to climb scaffold

  19-07-2022 08:06 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  South west civils contractor Cormac is warning people not to climb a scaffold on a bridge undergoing major repairs in Wadebridge, north Cornwall.
  The warning comes after people were seen scaling the scaffold shrouding around Anneka’s bridge during the current heatwave to jump into the River Camel below.
  Cormac is working on the five month repair programme for Cornwall Council on the 180ft footbridge which was built in 1991 by Anneka Rice during an episode of Challenge Anneka.Cormac said:&r
  
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