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• Rebid starts for £200m M5 junction job

  09-08-2022 09:06 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Gloucestershire County Council has called up firms to rebid its planned £200m upgrade junction 10 of the M5 to the west of Cheltenham.
  The council has gone back to the market with refreshed procurement plans in the face of volatile market costs.
  Council procurement chiefs had originally planned to select a contractor in July but went back to the drawing board to reconsider project risk.Tenders are now being invited for the new procurement plan which includes a simplified approach to early
  
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• Countryside puts offsite factory up for sale

  09-08-2022 08:55 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Countryside Partnership’s MMC factory at Bardon in the East Midlands is now up for sale.
  The house builder confirmed it was closing the plant last month as part of an ongoing rethink of its offsite strategy.
  Earlier this year Countryside confirmed a review of its offsite operations which had left the firm with excess capacity and forecast operating losses of £10m.The Bardon factory only opened last Autumn making modular panels and Countryside was one of the industry’s earliest
  
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• New Downing Construction boss named

  09-08-2022 08:42 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Downing Construction techical director Andy Thomas has been promoted to operations director, following the retirement of director and head of construction Ian Orton.
  After 24 years with the developer/contractor, Orton has decided to take a step back, but will continue to work with Downing as a non-executive director.
  Sally O’Brien, joint chief executive at Downing, said: “We are really pleased that Ian will still be involved with Downing.“He is responsible for the great team we
  
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• WSP to buy consultant RPS Group for £591m

  09-08-2022 08:32 via constructionenquirer.com
  Consultancy giant WSP is buying UK based rival RPS Group in a deal worth £591m.
  The move will see WSP’s global workforce of 57,500 boosted by Oxfordshire headquartered RSP’s 5,000 staff.
  RSP employs consultants, designers, planners, engineers, and technical specialists across the world providing specialist services to government and private sector clients with a focus on front-end consulting.Ken Lever, Chairman of RPS, said: “The RPS Directors believe that RPS has a clear
  
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• Plans in for 600 homes at London Aylesbury estate

  09-08-2022 08:15 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Plans have been submitted for more than 600 new homes, a new park and a public square in the next phase of the Aylesbury regeneration in Walworth, south London.
  In addition to the 614 homes, Phase 2B will provide more than 400 m2 of non-residential space and will be centred around a brand-new park and a new public square on Thurlow Steet. 
  The scheme is 50 per cent affordable, with homes ranging from one-person flats to five-bedroom family maisonettes.John Hughes, group director of developm
  
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• M&E specialist Spie UK arm returns to profit

  09-08-2022 08:15 via constructionenquirer.com
  French-owned M&E contractor Spie returned to profit in the UK last year despite seeing delays in new projects coming forward.
  As a result revenue fell by around a fifth to £148m, but the firm remained profitable after earlier restructuring delivering a £2.5m profit after plunging to a £22m loss in the Covid-impacted 2020 accounts.
  The improved performance helped to chip away at the firm’s accumulated losses, now recorded at £158m.Chief executive Robert Goodhew s
  
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• Site boss fined for locking out safety inspectors

  09-08-2022 08:06 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A man who was in control of a construction site in Scotland has been fined for not allowing two HSE inspectors access to the site to deal with unsafe work.
  In 2021 multiple concerns about unsafe work at a construction site in Irvine had been reported to the HSE and on March 16 two inspectors attended the site and observed dangerous work at height taking place on a steel structure.
  The inspectors tried to gain entry to the site, but the gates were locked. They spoke to the person in control of th
  
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