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• Green focus helps Willmott Dixon win £50m office job

  26-07-2022 14:40 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Investor FORE Partnership has awarded Willmott Dixon the £50m contract to transform an out-of-date 1990s office building next to Tower Bridge on the bank of the Thames into a 110,000 sq ft work environment that will be one of the UK’s most sustainable and healthy offices.
  Construction of the TBC.London project will start in September with the scheme scheduled for completion in mid-2024.
  FORE selected Willmott Dixon based on a shared commitment to sustainability. The contractor will a
  
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• Hill backs £450m Coventry city centre scheme

  26-07-2022 11:26 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Retail developer Shearer Property Group has teamed up with Hill Group as its development and funding partner for a £450m landmark mixed-use scheme in Coventry city centre.
  The joint venture, Shearer Property Regen, will now work up detailed plans for the City Centre South scheme, which gained outline planning at the start of this year.The aim is to start on the residential, shopping and leisure scheme site by summer 2023.
  The scheme, which has already secured £98m in funding from the
  
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• St Modwen to build 350 gas-free homes

  26-07-2022 08:52 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Developer St Modwen plans to build up to 350 all-electric homes at the former Longbridge MG Rover site in Birmingham.
  Powered by a dedicated ‘smart grid’, electricity will be supplied and tracked across a network of homes to ensure this first phase of homes will be 100% gas-free.
  The innovation is believed to be the first to be used by a major developer as St Modwen continues to pioneer sustainable new ways to build and power homes.The smart grid design is being developed alongside S
  
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• First tunnelling breakthrough on HS2

  26-07-2022 08:50 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  HS2 is celebrating the first tunnelling breakthrough on the project.
  A 2,000-tonne TBM named ‘Dorothy’ – after Dorothy Hodgkin, who in 1964 became the first British woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry – has completed its one-mile dig under Long Itchington Wood in Warwickshire.
  The 125m long TBM started its journey at the tunnel’s North Portal in December 2021 and broke through the wall of the reception box at the South Portal site on Friday.Nearly 400 people w
  
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• Start for £500m Television Centre phase 2

  26-07-2022 08:47 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Mitsui Fudosan and Stanhope, as development manager, have committed to start the second phase of the £500m redevelopment of BBC Television Centre in London’s White City.
  Phase 2 comprises a total of 511 homes in four separate plots, including a modern crescent-shaped block of 180 apartments and a contemporary 25-storey tall building of 167 apartments for completion in 2026.
  Stanhope has yet to announce the main construction partner to follow on from Mace’s phase one role on the
  
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• Major London M&E contractor goes under

  26-07-2022 08:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  London based M&E contractor Edge DBS Ltd has gone into administration.
  Stunned staff were given the news last Friday and a raft of suppliers now fear they will be left holding worthless invoices.
  The firm’s website is no longer working and one member of staff wrote on LinkedIn: “Current employer who I have been with for over three years went into liquidation without warning today. Now actively seeking new role.”Administrators Andrew Andronikou and Brian Burke of Quantuma Ad
  
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• Mid Group to be liquidated

  26-07-2022 08:10 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  All staff at Mid Group were made redundant yesterday with the offsite specialist set to cease trading imminently.
  Parent company Mid Holding Co UK Ltd went into administration last week and the decision has now been made to place Mid Group Services Ltd (MGSL) into liquidation.
  All 37 staff employed by MGSL were made redundant by email on Monday afternoon.Jason Elliott of accountant Cowgills is joint administrator of Mid Holding Co UK Ltd and will also be appointed as liquidator of MGSL.
  Staff wo
  
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• Seddon breakthrough with first major Sellafield job

  26-07-2022 08:03 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Seddon Construction has secured its first major tender success on the Sellafield nuclear clean-up project.
  The long-term key delivery partner deal will see Seddon deliver building fit-out requirements across the site under a 17-year deal worth around £175m
  It is the fourth major collaborative multi-project procurement framework agreement awarded by the Programme and Project Partners site management team.The framework includes general construction activities such as: internal walls, ceiling
  
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• Caddick hires Wates Northern boss as construction MD

  26-07-2022 07:54 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Wates Northern construction chief Paul Dodsworth has joined Caddick Construction as new group managing director.
  Dodsworth joins Caddick Construction after over seven years at Wates where he was managing director for Construction & Residential across the northern region.
  He said: “I am proud and humbled to be asked to take this position with Caddick Construction. A financially strong business, with a solid reputation for delivery.”Wates Construction has announced that Dave Savill
  
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