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• Cardiff Bay swimming pool and viewing tower plan advances

  20-12-2022 09:28 via constructionenquirer.com
  Separate plans to build a floating swimming pool complex and viewing tower in Cardiff Bay have moved forward after the council agreed to lease land for the schemes.
  Finnish company Nordic Urban is planning to build the outdoor, floating swimming pool and sauna facility within two of the listed graving docks.
  The second attraction planned is a 90m high balloon ride with a rotating viewing platform on unused land close to the Red Dragon Centre.
  The platform would give panoramic views of the city a
  
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• Developer and builder sentenced after wall collapse kills labourer

  20-12-2022 08:31 via constructionenquirer.com
  A property development company has been fined £100,000 and a building firm director handed a suspended prison sentence after a labourer was fatally crushed while demolishing a wall.
  Jakub Fischer, a self-employed labourer, was hired as a subcontractor by North West Facilities Limited to work on a house refurbishment project for Thorndyke Developments Limited on Mansell Road, Liverpool.
  The 41-year-old, who was originally from the Czech Republic, was tasked with demolishing a rear yard wall
  
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• Firms readied for Parliament’s £70m Victoria Tower repair job

  20-12-2022 08:21 via constructionenquirer.com
  Tenders are due to be invited in March for the £70m restoration of The Palace of Westminster’s tallest tower.
  The project to restore the 99m tall Victoria Tower is primarily aiming to repair and replace crumbling masonry that is deteriorating in the freeze-thaw cycle and in the face of more stormy weather conditions.
  To take advantage of the erection of full scaffolding around the 160-year-old Grade 1 listed tower more thorough conservation works will also be carried out to the windo
  
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• Top Ten best read stories of 2022

  20-12-2022 08:20 via constructionenquirer.com
  The Enquirer is putting out its last daily newsletter of the year today as the industry winds-down for its traditional Christmas break.
  The website will be updated with any major breaking stories during the holiday season with the full daily news service returning on January 3.
  It has been another eventful 12 months and a busy news year for construction as the Enquirer keeps the industry up to date with what is really going on.These were the best read stories during the year:Our most popular sto
  
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• Mace seals its biggest London office refit for a decade

  20-12-2022 08:20 via constructionenquirer.com
  Mace has confirmed its biggest London interior refurbishment project for the past decade.
  The £120m green refit of Goldman Sachs’ former European HQ on Fleet Street is getting underway for a mid-2024 finish.
  Mace Interiors will remodel the 11-storey Peterborough Court building to create nearly 300,000 sq ft of Grade A workspace and ground floor retail.The design strategy for the refurbishment of the iconic building has been driven by focusing on retention of fabric and structural ele
  
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• Balfour Beatty backs US mini nuclear reactors for UK

  20-12-2022 08:11 via constructionenquirer.com
  Balfour Beatty has teamed up with US small modular reactor power station builder Holtec International to support its aims to build next-generation mini nuclear power stations in the UK.
  The US firm is presently working with Hyundai Engineering and Construction to advance projects using its SMR-160 pressurised water reactors in the UK, which generate 160MW.
  Under the new agreement, Balfour Beatty will act as the main UK construction partner and collaborate with HDEC on the civil construction and
  
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