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• Mace hits 1m tonnes carbon saving target for clients

  01-12-2022 21:24 via constructionenquirer.com
  Mace has built a pipeline of projects that will see it surpass its 2026 target of saving 1m tonnes of client-associated carbon emissions.
  The target, announced in January 2020, as part of Mace’s 2026 Business Strategy, includes commissioned projects with over 125 clients across the globe.
  Mace is supporting over 100 clients reduce their carbon emissions, from small-scale PV rollout to national estate rationalisation, and global portfolio decarbonisation.Mace detailed its journey to 1m tonn
  
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• Green light for £135m Leeds twin tower resi scheme

  01-12-2022 16:40 via constructionenquirer.com
  Leeds City Council planning committee has approved developer Glenbrook’s plans for a new 500 build to rent apartment development at Whitehall Riverside.
  The scheme forms part of a wider £280m masterplan which is being brought forward with Leeds-based property investor and car parking operator, Town Centre Securities (TCS).
  The two blocks of 16 and 19 storeys have been designed by Sheppard Robson with spacious terrace gardens overlooking the River Aire and 4,500 sq ft of commercial ac
  
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• Belfast firm signs the biggest work deal yet under Project Gigabit

  01-12-2022 09:29 via constructionenquirer.com
  Belfast-based supplier Fibrus signed the biggest contract yet under the government’s Project Gigabit programme.
  Fibrus has just started to connect tens of thousands of people living and working in rural Cumbria to lightning-fast broadband under a deal worth more than £108m.
  Around 60,000 premises in the county will be connected to the fastest broadband on the market.Dominic Kearns, CEO of Fibrus, said: “We are committed to supporting local communities, ensuring any work underta
  
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• Mount Anvil to start 900-home North London estate rebuild

  01-12-2022 09:04 via constructionenquirer.com
  Developer Mount Anvil and Newlon housing association have got the planning thumbs up to redevelop an Islington housing estate in North London with more than 900 new homes.
  Mount Anvil is now aiming to start construction work in March 2023 on what will be a 10-year redevelopment programme.
  All Newlon residents will get a new home reprovided as part of the scheme with 46 overcrowded households all getting a new, larger, and more energy-efficient home of the correct size for their family.Newlon and
  
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• Crushed demolition worker vows to return to industry

  01-12-2022 08:59 via constructionenquirer.com
  A demolition worker left in a coma after being crushed on site is vowing to return to the industry despite her injuries.
  Shannon Brasier, 22, was working at her “dream job” with Ace Demolition Services when she was crushed between a 21-tonne excavator and a mobile fuel tank while helping to demolish a college in Southend, Essex in 2020.
  She was left in an induced coma and put on life support after the crush caused a brain injury, broken facial bones and a fractured neck bone.Brasier
  
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• Plans in for £40m surf park at former Kent colliery

  01-12-2022 08:41 via constructionenquirer.com
  A planning application has been submitted to Dover District Council for a surf lagoon resort on the site of a former colliery spoil tip in Betteshanger Country Park, Kent.
  The £40m Seahive project has been designed by Hollaway Studio, for the site near Deal.
  The overall masterplan for the 15-acre site will feature a Wavegarden Cove surf lagoon at its centre, which can generate over 20 different wave types from 50cm to 2m, providing rides of up to 15 seconds long for all ages and abilities.
  
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• Green light for major laboratory campus in Cambridge

  01-12-2022 08:01 via constructionenquirer.com
  US life sciences developer BioMed Realty has received planning approval to build 600,000 sq ft of purpose-built laboratory space in Cambridge.
  The firm will deliver the speculative development on the 15-acre Cambridge International Technology Park site, which it acquired in September 2021.
  The complex designed by Scott Brownrigg will consist of around five major laboratory and office buildings with multistorey car parking and will be built in several phases.A spokesman for the firm said that pro
  
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