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• Balfour to replace Ringway Jacobs on £176m Bucks highways deal

  03-08-2022 20:13 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Buckinghamshire Council has confirmed that Balfour Beatty Living Places has been awarded an eight-year highways maintenance contract worth £176m.
  Balfour will take over on 1 April 2023 when the council’s current agreement with Ringway Jacobs comes to an end.
  The new contractor will work closely with the council and alongside newly appointed design contractors, who will be announced later this year, to deliver the ongoing programme of maintenance, investment and improvement to the cou
  
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• Balfour Beatty to replace Ringway on £176m Bucks highways deal

  03-08-2022 20:13 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Buckinghamshire Council has confirmed that Balfour Beatty Living Places has been awarded an eight-year highways maintenance contract worth £176m.
  Balfour will take over on 1 April 2023 when the council’s current agreement with Ringway Jacobs comes to an end.
  The new contractor will work closely with the council and alongside newly appointed design contractors, who will be announced later this year, to deliver the ongoing programme of maintenance, investment and improvement to the cou
  
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• Kier to start new £400m ‘smart’ prison this autumn

  03-08-2022 19:11 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Kier has signed the contract to build a new £400m prison in East Yorkshire with construction set to start this autumn.
  The new Category C prison will be designed from top-to-bottom with the latest smart technology to cut crime and protect the public when it opens in 2025.
  The jail will include an unprecedented array of workshops and classrooms, so prisoners spend their time behind bars learning new skills to find work on release.It will also be the first new prison to operate as zero-carbo
  
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• Equans bags Birmingham 300 council homes retrofit pilot

  03-08-2022 08:53 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Birmingham City Council has picked contractor Equan to deliver 300 homes energy-saving retrofit to test the way for ambitious plans to decarbonise the council’s 60,000 properties in the region.
  The 300 properties are in East Birmingham and will be used to pilot approaches to improve thermal efficiency, reduce carbon emissions and provide energy savings for tenants.
  The project will also be used to address fuel poverty in an affordable and achievable way, by developing and implementing inno
  
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• Taylor Wimpey staff to get £1,000 towards fuel bills

  03-08-2022 08:40 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Taylor Wimpey is making a one-off payment to staff of £1,000 to help pay surging fuel bills this winter.
  The house building giant said: “In advance of our annual salary review process, we recently concluded a benchmarking exercise to ensure competitive levels of pay, alongside our excellent benefits package.
  “We have been closely monitoring the impact of rising inflation and the predicted increase in fuel bills this winter on the cost of living for our employees.
  “In addi
  
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• Kier signs off £36m Liverpool school job

  03-08-2022 08:32 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Kier Construction is set to start work on a large Merseyside school rebuilding project after agreeing a £36m deal.
  The redevelopment plan for Deyes High School in Maghull will see most existing buildings replaced with the goal of creating new facilities that are “net zero carbon” in operation.
  Apart from the 300-student sixth form, all existing buildings on the 13-acre site would be demolished to make way for a new 110,000 sq ft facility. The new school has been desig
  
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• Van Elle returns to profit after £125m record revenue

  03-08-2022 08:28 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Ground engineering specialist Van Elle has returned to profit after revenue jumped by nearly half to £125m.
  Delivering an operating margin of 3.5%, pre-tax profit climbed to £3.6m in the year to April 2022, after a loss of £1.4m previously.
  Mark Cutler, chief executive, said there had been a strong rebound across all sectors, although price inflation across the spectrum had impacted margins.“These results are the first to reflect a full year’s trading post-Covid and
  
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• Race for places on £2bn housing decarbonising deal

  03-08-2022 07:18 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A south west housing association procurement body is on the hunt for firms to deliver a £2bn programme of housing energy saving retrofits.
  Advantages South West, which is a central buying body for 16 housing associations across the region, is setting up a dynamic purchasing systems deal to delivery energy efficiency and decarbonisation retrofit works for 10 years.
  The panel of services and supply firms will be able to offer a host of expertise from whole house retrofits to specialist retro
  
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