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• YORbuild selects firms for £600m minor works deal

  01-08-2022 09:21 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  YORbuild has announced the fresh line-up of firms selected for its minor works framework, expected to account for £600m of spending over the next four years.
  The third-generation frameworks are designed for new build and refurbishment works valued up to £4m and for new housing developments up to 25 units.
  They have been divided into five regional lots across Yorkshire, with each region split into three project-type lots.
  Winners have now been named for four of the five regions with t
  
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• Sheep keep grass in check on hospital solar panel farm

  01-08-2022 08:56 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A flock of sheep are being used to keep the grass in check on a multi-million solar farm recently completed at Castle Hill Hospital in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
  The traditional maintenance solution came about when Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust approached a local shepherding family.
  Now 51 sheep are happily munching away among the 11,000 panel field opposite the hospital which generates all its power since construction was completed in February.Alex Best, Head of Capital for th
  
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• Wynne chalks up £21m Welsh Newtown school job

  01-08-2022 08:47 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Wynne Construction continues to grow its footprint in mid-Wales with a £21m job to build a replacement building for Newtown’s Ysgol Cedewain in Powys.
  Enabling works are getting underway for the new two-storey school building, which will include facilities for very vulnerable learners, including a hydrotherapy pool, sensory and physiotherapy rooms and garden as well as a community café.
  Steve Davies, Wynne construction director, said: “We’re aiming to have the site
  
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• Silvertown Tunnel cutter head lowered into shaft

  01-08-2022 08:25 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Silvertown Tunnel project reached another major milestone last week as the cutter head for the Tunnel Boring Machine was lowered into the shaft.
  The TBM, which measures 11.91m and is the equivalent of almost three double decker buses, is the largest diameter TBM in the UK.
  The 1,800 tonne machine began being lowered into the launch chamber in pieces last month where it will be assembled before commissioning and starting to bore the 1.4km tunnel later this summer.As well as the cutter head, p
  
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• Manchester tower gets go-ahead after haircut

  01-08-2022 08:18 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Developer Select Property has finally got the planning green light for a £154m scheme in Manchester city centre.
  Manchester planners nodded the scheme through on the build to rent developer’s third attempt after the main tower height was lowered by one floor to 33 storeys.
  The planned scheme on the corner of Great Ancoats Street and Port Street will provide 481 private rental flats, managed by Select’s Affinity Living brand.Renaker Build is understood to be lined-up as main con
  
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• £3bn Sellafield infrastructure race set to start

  01-08-2022 08:18 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Sellafield has fixed the start date for the race to bid to become one of four new key infrastructure partners in a strategic delivery shake-up at the nuclear decommissioning site.
  The firm aims to replace its Infrastructure Services Alliance with Morgan Sindall and Arup with a new Infrastructure Delivery Partnership.
  It planned organisational shake-up will see a new overall strategic partner, supported by three key delivery partners for electrical distribution, utilities, and civils.The winning
  
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• Galliford Try starts revolutionary first secure school

  01-08-2022 08:17 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Galliford Try has started work on delivering the country’s first secure school for young offenders.
  The new school called Oasis Restore is being built in the shell of Medway Secure Training Unit in Kent, a custodial centre that shut down two years ago.
  The school, which is expected to cost around £26m, will see young offenders go straight from the courtroom to the classroom, with every single pupil enrolled in formal education or training and encouraged into further learning or
  
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