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• Worker killed on £683m waste power plant site

  28-11-2022 23:43 via constructionenquirer.com
  A worker was killed at the giant Edmonton EcoPark site in north London last week.
  Work has been suspended on the £683m Energy Recovery Facility  at the site where Spanish infrastructure and energy giant ACCIONA is main contractor.
  Police said the victim – a man in his 50s – was pronounced dead at the scene following a collision involving a heavy goods vehicle.A joint statement on behalf of ACCIONA and client the North London Waste Authority said: “This statement is t
  
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• Electrical contractors still confident despite staff shortages

  28-11-2022 11:03 via constructionenquirer.com
  Engineering services contractors are still confident about work prospects next year despite economic challenges and continuing recruitment problems.
  The latest Building Engineering Business Survey, backed by trade bodies ECA, BESA, SELECT and SNIPEF, revealed that 75% of firms expect to perform better in Q4 2022 than the same period last year.
  Almost four out of five businesses saw their turnover stay the same or increase between April and September this year, and most seem to expect the trend t
  
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• Electric car whizz joins O’Rourke

  28-11-2022 09:06 via constructionenquirer.com
  Laing O’Rourke has appointed Chetan Kotur as Head of Technology and Innovation for its Europe Hub.
  Kotur joins from electric car specialist Polestar where he was Head of Products for the Asia Pacific region.
  The appointment is part of O’Rourke’s increasing focus on “the development and deployment of new technologies with the potential to transform construction productivity and deliver improvements to project programme, quality, safety and sustainability.”Kotur start
  
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• Go-ahead for £200m lithium refinery on Teesside

  28-11-2022 08:59 via constructionenquirer.com
  Plans to build Europe’s first and largest lithium hydroxide processing hub at Teesside have got the planning green light.
  Tees Valley Lithium plans to build the £200m processing plant at the former ICI Wilton Works to supply critical metals to the fast-growing electric vehicle battery market.
  TVL has appointed Wave International, an Australian specialist process engineering and project delivery company, as its lead engineering and technology partner.The focus will now be on comp
  
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• HS2 agency workers paid the wrong wages

  28-11-2022 08:33 via constructionenquirer.com
  Workers on sites across the giant HS2 project have been left short in their wage packets by computer problems.
  The Enquirer understands that workers employed by labour agency McGinley Support Services have suffered delayed and incorrect payments for the past few weeks following the introduction of new payroll software.
  A string of complaints to Unite has prompted the construction union to write to main contractors across the project highlighting the problem.National Officer for Construction Jerr
  
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• Construction’s “Leading Lights” recognised

  28-11-2022 08:19 via constructionenquirer.com
  The Considerate Constructor Scheme has recognised 43 outstanding individuals, exceptional sites and organisations at its new Leading Lights Awards.
  The awards are the Scheme’s latest initiative to recognise projects that have gone the extra mile to deliver positive results in any of the three areas of the Scheme’s Code of Considerate Practice: Respecting the Community, Caring for the Environment and Valuing the Workforce.
  Amanda Long, Chief Executive of the Considerate Constructor Sc
  
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• Bouygues starts London 700-home council estate rebuild

  28-11-2022 07:53 via constructionenquirer.com
  Developer Linkcity has reached financial close on the first phase of the Tustin Estate rebuild scheme on the Old Kent Road in South East London.
  A significant housing project for Southwark Council, the overall project will feature nearly 700 new homes delivered by Linkcity’s sister business Bouygues Construction UK over the next eight years.
  The scheme includes 250 replacement council homes and shared equity properties, 220 additional council homes including keyworker homes, and 220 homes
  
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• BAM to deliver £44m Yeovil College campus build

  28-11-2022 07:51 via constructionenquirer.com
  BAM Construction has been appointed to deliver a £44m new higher education campus for Yeovil College in Somerset
  The project is being entirely funded by the Department for Education, as one of 16 colleges to gain a share of the £1.5bn FE capital transformation fund.
  Yeovil College campus will be redesigned and developed over the next four years. BAM will submit a planning application next month, with the aim to start work within the next 12 months.
  Graham Kindgon, Construction Direct
  
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