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• Soaring prices blamed for Woodhead going into liquidation

  16-09-2022 19:17 via constructionenquirer.com
  RSM UK Restructuring Advisory LLP has confirmed it is working with the directors at contractor Robert Woodhead Limited with a view to placing the company into voluntary liquidation.
  Woodhead has ceased trading and made the majority of its employees redundant.
  The company cited market conditions and the impact of rapid price increases throughout the supply chain, coupled with fixed price contracts as being the root cause of its demise.Teresa Westwood, managing director at Robert Woodhead Limited,
  
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• BAM installs UK’s biggest 3D concrete printed structure

  16-09-2022 09:04 via constructionenquirer.com
  BAM has become the first contractor in Scotland to make use of 3D concrete printing on a major civil structure.
  The firm teamed up with Dutch concrete printing factory Weber Bemix to create the staircase elements on the Sighthill Bridge project across the M8 in Glasgow.
  The seven flights of stairs to the pedestrian bridge is thought to be largest printed concrete construction in the UK to date.Working on behalf of Glasgow City Council, BAM craned in the new staircase this week.
  Once fully instal
  
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• Roger Bullivant restructure to boost profits

  16-09-2022 09:03 via constructionenquirer.com
  Vinci-owned piling contractor Roger Bullivant has announced a strategic restructure in an attempt to boost profits.
  To accelerate its strategic transformation Bullivant is merging its two operations in the south west and south east.
  The firm said the new Southern Region business would simplify operations and enhance profitability.
  Southern Business Development Manager, Paul Wearing said: “2022, is already looking to be a very exciting year for us and we have already secured an extensive pi
  
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• SRM steps-in to save Greswolde school jobs

  16-09-2022 08:58 via constructionenquirer.com
  Pupils will be returning to new schools hit by the collapse of Greswolde Construction thanks to Coventry firm SRM Construction Services.
  Greswolde went down last month with the loss of 24 jobs as work stopped at all of the £20m firm’s sites.
  Among them were the Hill Avenue Academy in Wolverhampton and the Blessed George Napier school in Banbury.Pupils were left facing long delays in returning to school but SRM stepped-in and the schools will re-open after construction work is complet
  
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• Workers in pay limbo over Queen’s funeral bank holiday

  16-09-2022 08:24 via constructionenquirer.com
  Thousands of construction workers are being left in limbo about whether they will receive pay for the Queen’s funeral bank holiday.
  The confusion follows a bust-up between unions and employers on the industry’s largest working rule agreement covering more than 500,000 workers, primarily in civil engineering and the ‘biblical’ trades.
  Contractor representatives on the Construction Industry Joint Council have rejected union calls to agree one extra day’s paid public h
  
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• Bogus firm scammers swindle rebar suppliers

  16-09-2022 08:22 via constructionenquirer.com
  Scammers are targeting rebar suppliers to order deliveries in the name of bogus or cloned firms that vanish without paying.
  The sudden outbreak of orders from bogus and cloned firms has caused the industry trade body to raise the alarm about the swindle.
  More than £112,000 of mesh has been reported to have gone missing in the last week alone.But the British Association of Reinforcement believes the full extent of the scam has not fully come to light and could run into millions of pounds.
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• Sisk tipped for £200m Oxforshire water resort

  16-09-2022 08:17 via constructionenquirer.com
  Contractor John Sisk is understood to be in line to build a major new hotel and water park in Oxfordshire.
  The plan is the brainchild of American company Great Wolf Resorts, which aims to build its first European resort on a 46-acre site at Chesterton, near Bicester.
  The Great Wolf Lodge will feature a 500-room hotel, indoor water park, with slides and pools for adults and kids, along with an adventure park with climbing walls and ropes courses.Also on-site will be a nature trail, bowling alley,
  
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• Sisk tipped for £200m Oxfordshire water resort

  16-09-2022 08:17 via constructionenquirer.com
  Contractor John Sisk is understood to be in line to build a major new hotel and water park in Oxfordshire.
  The plan is the brainchild of American company Great Wolf Resorts, which aims to build its first European resort on a 46-acre site at Chesterton, near Bicester.
  The Great Wolf Lodge will feature a 500-room hotel, indoor water park, with slides and pools for adults and kids, along with an adventure park with climbing walls and ropes courses.Also on-site will be a nature trail, bowling alley,
  
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