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• PERI launches rental scheme for DUO formwork

  09-11-2022 14:54 via constructionenquirer.com
  PERI’s lightweight formwork system, DUO, is now available to rent after being a sale-only product since its UK launch in 2017.
  The formwork and scaffolding specialist introduced the change to give its customers greater flexibility and confidence when sourcing formwork systems for their projects. With the option to rent DUO, customers can try the system on their projects before committing to buying it outright.
  Rental customers will also benefit from the DUO rent-to-own scheme should they w
  
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• CSCS Alliance: Raising standards and safety in construction

  09-11-2022 14:42 via constructionenquirer.com
  The Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) is well known throughout the industry.
  But not everyone is aware that CSCS cards are made up of an alliance of 38 different organisations representing not just the traditional construction trades but the many specialist occupations across the built environment.
  Since 2020 the 38 card schemes have come together under the banner of the CSCS Alliance to deliver to a common standard under a CSCS licence.
  Jay Parmar, Chair of the Alliance, said: &ld
  
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• Muse bags delivery role on £3.2bn Midlands regen scheme

  09-11-2022 09:44 via constructionenquirer.com
  Muse has been signed up for the key delivery role on the planned £3.2bn, mixed-use commercial and residential scheme near the HS2 Interchange station in the Midlands.
  The deal was struck with Arden Cross Limited, a special-purpose delivery vehicle created by landowners Birmingham City Council, Packington Estate and Coleshill Estate to drive forward the 346-acre regeneration site located alongside the NEC campus, Birmingham Airport and Birmingham International station. Eventually Arden
  
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• O’Shea and Galliard win East London 236 homes job

  09-11-2022 09:15 via constructionenquirer.com
  Southern Housing Group has agreed a deal to build 236 affordable homes at Wickside in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
  Working in partnership with O’Shea Group and Galliard Homes, the Fish Island development in Hackney Wick will boost the availability of energy-efficient affordable housing in the area.
  Southern Housing Group is a key provider of social housing in Tower Hamlets. Wickside homes will utilise air source heat pumps for heating and hot water.The development will improve urba
  
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• Solar shading specialist Levolux goes into administration

  09-11-2022 08:56 via constructionenquirer.com
  Solar shading specialist Levolux has fallen into administration less than three months after being sold by former owner Alumasc.
  Levolux was sold to private investor Rcapital Partners LLP for £1 in August after making a loss of £2m on sales of £7.8m during the year to June 2022.
  Levolux designs, manufactures, and installs solar shading systems, architectural solutions and balconies that are used to enhance buildings and to reduce the impact of sunlight for occupiers.It was orig
  
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• Solar shading specialist Levolux files for administration

  09-11-2022 08:56 via constructionenquirer.com
  Solar shading specialist Levolux has filed a notice of intention to appoint administrators less than three months after being sold by former owner Alumasc.
  Levolux was sold to private investor Rcapital Partners LLP for £1 in August after making a loss of £2m on sales of £7.8m during the year to June 2022.
  Levolux designs, manufactures, and installs solar shading systems, architectural solutions and balconies that are used to enhance buildings and to reduce the impact of sunligh
  
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• Galliford Try wins two Welsh Water framework deals

  09-11-2022 08:44 via constructionenquirer.com
  Galliford Try’s purchase of contractor nmcn has helped the firm to pick up its first capital maintenance framework win in the water sector.
  Welsh Water has awarded Galliford Try places on the Major Mechanical and Major Electrical frameworks covering a five-year period transcending AMP7 and AMP8, with a potential extension for a further three years.
  The framework is expected to be worth in the region of £20m to the group in the initial five-year term. The win represents Galliford
  
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• Sheffield Hallam Uni to build satellite London campus

  09-11-2022 08:25 via constructionenquirer.com
  Sheffield Hallam University is set to build a new campus site in north west London bringing extra stimulus to the £8bn Brent Cross Town development
  Sheffield Hallam University has struck a deal with developer Argent Relate to take the first commercial building at Brent Cross Town, which recently obtained full planning approval.
  It will take half the space in the planned 240,000 sq ft building, which will be built with a low-carbon hybrid timber and concrete structure.The first part of the
  
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• Government starts race for £500m housing upkeep deal

  09-11-2022 08:24 via constructionenquirer.com
  The Crown Commercial Service has opened bidding for places on a £500m  dynamic purchasing system for housing maintenance and repair services to wider public sector clients.
  The DSP will replace an existing workplace maintenance framework agreement which ends in January 2023.
  Incumbent firms on this include: Amey, Bell Decorating, Equans, Fortem, Galliford Try, Graham, Kier, Mears, Mitie, Morgan Sindall, Vinci and Wates.Freshly selected suppliers for the new DPS panel will be able to p
  
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