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• Quartet win ‘Project Speed’ £1.3bn A66 dualling

  13-10-2022 16:23 via constructionenquirer.com
  Balfour Beatty, Costain, Kier and Keltbray have signed a contract to deliver the £1.3bn A66 Northern Trans-Pennine project.
  The firms are to work under an enterprise-wide collaborative working agreement to dual the remaining 18-mile single carriageway sections of the road and key junctions between M6 Junction 40 (Penrith) and the A1 at Scotch Corner improved.
  The A66 Northern Trans-Pennine project is one of the most critical road upgrades in the north of England.The Government has designat
  
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• Train hits hand trolley left by rail maintenance crew

  13-10-2022 14:18 via constructionenquirer.com
  Rail investigators have released a report after a hand trolley was hit by a passenger train after being left on the line by an overnight maintenance crew.
  The train travelling at 123 mph last October near Challow, Oxfordshire destroyed the trolley on impact. There were no injuries among the passengers or crew on board and the train did not derail.
  A maintenance team had carried out overnight work at Challow and no one noticed the team had left its hand trolley on the track.Manual checks undertak
  
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• Race for £430m South West Wales civils framework renewal

  13-10-2022 09:46 via constructionenquirer.com
  The race has started for places on the next-generation framework for civil engineering projects in South Wales.
  Carmarthenshire County Council in association with Ceredigion County Council, Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council, Pembrokeshire County Council and Swansea Council are aiming to renew the line-up of firms and this time around have opened the door to smaller contractors.
  The new framework which will run from 2023 to 2026 with an option to extend for up to an additional 12 months no
  
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• Mace and Erith win “sky forest” office scheme

  13-10-2022 08:45 via constructionenquirer.com
  Client Fabrix has appointed main contractor Mace and enabling works specialist Erith to build a pioneering new office block in Southwark containing a “sky forest”.
  The 430,000 sq ft Roots in the Sky scheme will transform Blackfriars Crown Court into a sustainable office complex containing the UK’s first rooftop urban forest.
  Mace will deliver the main contract while Erith will work on the basement box and demolition works as part of a two-stage construction process.Start on sit
  
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• Balfour Beatty rejigs UK senior business team structure

  13-10-2022 08:43 via constructionenquirer.com
  Balfour Beatty has unveiled a shake-up its senior UK business management team responsibilities to sharpen focus on critical infrastructure work.
  Among the top level management changes, Balfour Beatty highways and major projects chief Stephen Tarr is taking on extra executive responsibility for the Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering, Power Transmission & Distribution and Rail businesses in the new role of chief executive officer, Transport, Energy & Power Major Projects.
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