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• Government to sell £1.5bn of property for redevelopment

  31-08-2022 21:41 via constructionenquirer.com
  The government has set up plans to sell £1.5bn of property assets over the next three years as projects such as the Government Hubs programme sees government staff consolidated into fewer buildings.
  The government estate is made up of hundreds of thousands of assets, from prisons and courts, to schools and museums, hospitals and health surgeries, job centres, military bases, administrative offices, and many more, spread all around the UK.
  Previously the Government said it had generated &po
  
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• Mace wins £60m Oxford Uni science park job

  31-08-2022 12:55 via constructionenquirer.com
  Joint venture developers Oxford University and investor L&G have awarded Mace the first two building jobs in a £100m expansion of Begbroke Science Park.
  The 135,000 sq ft build projects are understood to be worth around £60m. Designed by nbbj architects, one building will become a new home for the University’s academics and the other will become a new commercial hub for companies looking to grow and build links with academia.
  Terry Spraggett, Managing Director, Construction
  
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• Mace wins £45m Oxford Uni science park job

  31-08-2022 12:55 via constructionenquirer.com
  Joint venture developers Oxford University and investor L&G have awarded Mace the first two building jobs in a £100m expansion of Begbroke Science Park.
  The 135,000 sq ft build projects are understood to be worth around £45m. Designed by nbbj architects, one building will become a new home for the University’s academics and the other will become a new commercial hub for companies looking to grow and build links with academia.
  Terry Spraggett, Managing Director, Construction
  
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• Contractor summit for £3.7bn hospital building plans

  31-08-2022 09:14 via constructionenquirer.com
  Construction companies are being invited to a major government summit to hear details of the first £3.7bn round of its New Hospital Programme.
  The programme is taking a transformative approach to designing and building hospitals including modern methods of construction, standardised design for manufacture and assembly, and the latest technology.
  The event follows the launch of a new procurement framework that will standardise construction across the majority of schemes in the programme.Fur
  
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• Seven more firms win £300m canal and rivers deal

  31-08-2022 08:25 via constructionenquirer.com
  Seven firms have been chosen by the Canal & Rivers Trust for up to £300m worth of civils work over the next ten years.
  The winners will work alongside JN Bentley and Kier who were awarded the £500m complex civil engineering deal by the trust earlier this month across its 2,000 miles of waterways.
  The seven successful contractors are Amco, Breheny, CPC Civils, Forkers, Jacksons, Land and Water and Onsite who will deliver less complex projects on a regional basis.Malcolm Horne, tru
  
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• Bouygues to pull bid for £300m HS2 catenary works

  31-08-2022 08:19 via constructionenquirer.com
  Bouygues has set out plans to pull a tender for the £300m HS2 overhead catenary works after the UK competition authority raised concerns about competition and its take over of Equans.
  Bouygues is buying rival French contractor Equans in a £6bn deal. But the UK competition authority has threatened to throw a spanner in the works because of concerns that the merged company would have two bids in the present HS2 contest to find an overhead powerlines contractor.
  Four bidders are in the
  
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• TfL funding deal secures £3.6bn work pipeline

  31-08-2022 01:42 via constructionenquirer.com
  The Government and Transport for London have finally agreed a funding settlement that will ensure the delivery of £3.6bn of key capital renewals and investment in London until March 2024.
  This deal will enable completion of several major projects, new road schemes and increased bus priority lanes.
  The funding will include brand new Piccadilly line trains, as well as modernisations and upgrades across the District, Metropolitan, Hammersmith and City and Circle lines for millions of Londoner
  
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