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• Balfour lands £297m East Sussex highways deal

  18-10-2022 16:52 via constructionenquirer.com
  Balfour Beatty Living Places has been awarded a new £297m contract by East Sussex County Council for highways maintenance and infrastructure services.
  There is an option to extend the seven-year contract by a further seven years worth up to a total value of £730m.
  Balfour beat off competition from rival bidders Colas and Ringway Jacobs to land the deal to replace current contractor Costain and Jacobs from May 2023.Balfour will work alongside East Sussex County Council to maintain the
  
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• Guinness Partnerships seeks firms for £160m recladding deal

  18-10-2022 09:07 via constructionenquirer.com
  Social housing landlord The Guinness Partnership is on the hunt for firms to deliver a programme of essential building safety improvements across England covering recladding, facades and balconies.
  Up to six firms will be selected to deliver the external wall systems framework, which has been valued at around £160m over four years.
  The new framework will be separated into two regional lots – one North and one South – with three contractors to be selected for each lot.
  Those fir
  
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• Bellway sees post-Grenfell building safety bill hit £514m

  18-10-2022 08:44 via constructionenquirer.com
  House builder Bellway set aside another £346.2m in its latest results for post-Grenfell cladding and safety improvements bringing its total bill to £513.7m.
  The firm has set up a new Building Safety Division to oversee remediation of legacy schemes.
  Results for the year ended July 31 2022 show Bellway made a pre-tax profit of £304.2m after the provisions from a turnover of £3,536m at an underlying gross margin of 22.3%.Housing completions grew by 10.5% to a record 11,198
  
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• Strict contract selection sees turnover dip at Stepnell

  18-10-2022 08:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  Stepnell saw a drop in turnover in its latest results as the contractor continued to pick contracts carefully.
  Revenue for the year to March 31 2022 fell to £90m from £104m last time as pre-tax profits nudged-up from £1m to £1.25m.
  Stepnell said its turnover was “slightly down on what was budgeted due to delayed works on some key projects due to the pandemic.”It added: “The dip was also as a result of the firm’s continued robust governance, turning
  
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• Willmott Dixon seals £31m London affordable housing deal

  18-10-2022 07:51 via constructionenquirer.com
  Willmott Dixon’s housing workload in London is in the rise after the London Borough of Brent signed a deal to build 55 affordable homes as well as two community centres.  
  The largest of the brace of projects is the £17m Brent Indian Centre project to create a new community facility and 29 affordable homes. The current building’s occupants, the Brent Indian Community, will move into the new development, which will include a large multi-purpose hall, commercial kitchen
  
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• VolkerFitzpatrick wins £81m M27 Junction 10 upgrade

  18-10-2022 07:48 via constructionenquirer.com
  Hampshire County Council has picked VolkerFitzpatrick to design and build an £81m upgrade to junction 10 on the M27 in Hampshire to pave the way for the planned 6,000-home Welborne Garden Village development.
  The upgrade involves the provision of a new motorway underpass to the west of the existing M27 Junction 10, three new slip roads to facilitate an ‘all moves’ arrangement and the construction of a new dual carriageway to link the new slip roads to the existing road network.
  
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