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• Duo win £500m canal and river main works deal

  10-08-2022 23:32 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Canal & Rivers Trust has awarded Kier and Bentley a 10-year term deal to deliver complex civil engineering projects across its 2000 miles of waterways.
  The new contracts replace the previous deal with Kier alone and could be worth up to £500m, making it the Trust’s largest ever award of water engineering works.
  Covering the north and south of the network respectively, JN Bentley and Kier will carry out the largest restoration and repair projects and will work on the Trust&rsq
  
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• Plans in for Brentford 110-flat canalside scheme

  10-08-2022 09:44 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Developer Euthenia Developments – a joint venture between BlackOnyx and Brookworth Homes – has submitted plans for a mixed commercial and residential use scheme in Brentford.
  Plans for Makers’ Yard have been designed by architect Scott Brownrigg and will regenerate an underused brownfield site at Commerce Road along Grand Union Canal.
  The project provide 111 new homes 2,400 sq m light industrial space.In line with Hounslow London Council’s Climate Emergency Action Plan, t
  
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• Taziker revenue jumps 30% to record £73m

  10-08-2022 09:27 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Multi-disciplinary engineering specialist Taziker Industrial has risen to record revenue and nearly doubled pre-tax profit.
  Chorley-based Taziker saw revenue in the year to 31 March 2022 soar more than 30% to in excess of £73m, as it expanded outside of its core railway sector market.Driven by the strong growth, average headcount at the firm jumped by over 80 staff to 366.Steve Corcoran, chief executive of Taziker, said the business had continued to successfully develop, expand, and divers
  
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• Consultant buys scaffolding contractor

  10-08-2022 09:04 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Expanding consultant RSK has acquired one of the largest scaffolding contractors in the Midlands.
  MG Scaffolding services the Midlands and South-East of England and was established in 2002 by Carl Fallon.
  It has grown into one of the largest independent suppliers of scaffolding services in the region employing 125 people from branches in Gloucester, Oxford and Birmingham.MG Scaffolding complements many other businesses already part of RSK’s group of over 150 companies, including fellow sca
  
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• Hinkley Point C giant water intakes craned onto seabed

  10-08-2022 08:53 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Hinkley Point C has carried out its biggest-ever lift at sea using two huge floating cranes with platforms the size of football pitches.
  Engineers have just completed the first precision placement of a 5,000-tonne water intake head on the seabed of the Bristol Channel.The work to install the cooling water intake heads is regarded as one of the world’s most complex marine engineering projects – as the Bristol Channel has the second highest tidal range on the planet.
  Each intake head,
  
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• M&E specialist gears up for £16m Aston Martin package

  10-08-2022 08:52 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  E7 Building Services is starting work on a £16m MEP design & build works for Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One Teams’ new headquarters at Silverstone being buily by McLaren Construction.
  E7 will be handling the full MEP design & build alongside specialist research & development installation, including BMS and EMS systems, specialist gases, local extract ventilation systems & photovoltaic systems.E7 will work alongside McLaren and Aston Martin F1 to deliver the first
  
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• Kier pulls off contracts league double in July

  10-08-2022 08:05 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Kier is back on a winning streak of work after securing the highest tally of new work last month while also strengthening its pole position for contracts won over the last 12 months.
  The contractor secured top ranking on strength of three major jobs. In the North West Kier is set to build the A5036 Port of Liverpool access route valued at up to £335m.
  In the South West, a Kier/BAM JV picked up Devonport Dockyards 10 dock redevelopment worth around £100m to each of the partners, while
  
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