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• Bristol to reclad 38 tower blocks in EPS cladding fire scare

  10-11-2022 15:28 via constructionenquirer.com
  Bristol city council has committed to replace expanded polystyrene cladding on more than half the city’s 64 council-owned tower blocks.
  It is also introducing immediate waking watches at the 38 at risk blocks of flats after the local fire brigade warned that the EPS cladding contributed to the spread of a tower block blaze last month that injured eight in city.
  The council is the first commit to take radical action over EPS cladding. The move could prompt others to follow their lead said e
  
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• Latest construction playbook aims to boost productivity

  10-11-2022 08:59 via constructionenquirer.com
  Reformers across the construction supply chain have joined forces to produce a private sector playbook aimed at combatting low productivity in the industry.
  Trust and Productivity: the private sector construction playbook is designed to promote trust and collaboration in a traditionally fragmented industry and sit alongside the Government’s Construction Playbook.
  Backers of the playbook include British Land, Skanska, Lendlease, BAE Systems, Landsec, Sir Robert McAlpine, SOM, Turner & T
  
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• Construction green light for £250m London eye hospital

  10-11-2022 08:40 via constructionenquirer.com
  Plans to build a £250m eye hospital at King’s Cross in London have got the final Government green light.
  Known as project Oriel, the new 39,500m² hospital will be built near King’s Cross at the site of the former St Pancras Hospital.
  The project is a joint initiative between Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Charity.The full business case approval is the final step before construction starts in 2023 and it f
  
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• Mace tops October contracts league with four major wins

  10-11-2022 08:22 via constructionenquirer.com
  Mace soared to the top of the October contracts league ranking after securing four major projects in a strong month of work wins for the country’s leading contractors.
  The quartet of schemes worth more than £700m capped a strong month for Mace. In London, the new orders included what has been billed as the capital’s greenest office tower at London Bridge for Dutch developer Edge and a 430,000 sq ft scheme to transform Blackfriars Crown Court in a project that will create the UK
  
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• Mace tops October contracts league with four big jobs

  10-11-2022 08:22 via constructionenquirer.com
  Mace soared to the top of the October contracts league ranking after securing four major projects in a strong month of work wins for the country’s leading contractors.
  The quartet of schemes worth more than £700m capped a strong month for Mace. In London, the new orders included what has been billed as London’s greenest office tower at London Bridge for Dutch developer Edge and a 430,000 sq ft scheme to transform Blackfriars Crown Court in a project that will create the UK&rsqu
  
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• CITB sets aside £5.9m for apprentice admin blunder

  10-11-2022 08:16 via constructionenquirer.com
  The Construction Industry Training Board has been forced to set aside a £5.9m provision in its latest set of accounts after over-claiming for government apprenticeship funding.
  The latest CITB report and accounts for the year to March 31 2022 contain details of the blunder.
  The training body receives cash from the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) for apprenticeship training based on the number of apprentices it is helping.But an ESFA audit of CITB apprenticeship number submission
  
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