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• UK Connect signs site broadband deal with Cala Homes

  10-01-2023 17:07 via constructionenquirer.com
  UK Connect has signed a deal for its Cellular Broadband solution to replace on-site fixed-line services and traditional IT systems on all Cala Homes and Legal & General Homes jobs.
  The latest 5G connectivity solutions replace traditional wired infrastructure which can take many months for utility providers to install and to go live.
  UK Connect’s Cellular Broadband can be installed in just a few days enabling house building teams to have full connectivity and fast communication from day
  
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• Connect UK signs site broadband deal with Cala Homes

  10-01-2023 17:07 via constructionenquirer.com
  UK Connect has signed a deal for its Cellular Broadband solution to replace on-site fixed-line services and traditional IT systems on all Cala Homes and Legal & General Homes jobs.
  The latest 5G connectivity solutions replace traditional wired infrastructure which can take many months for utility providers to install and to go live.
  UK Connect’s Cellular Broadband can be installed in just a few days enabling house building teams to have full connectivity and fast communication from day
  
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• Unite buys site for 36-floor London student tower

  10-01-2023 16:36 via constructionenquirer.com
  Student rooms developer has completed the £73m acquisition of a site in London Stratford for its next major project.
  The site of the existing Jubilee House HMRC office building has full planning consent for a 36-storey tower providing 716 beds for students.
  The development in Farthingale Walk will also incorporate 65,000 sq ft of academic space, which will be occupied by the London Academy of Excellence (LAE) for an initial 35-year term, through the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Hou
  
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• Piling rig topples over on £60m Stoke site

  10-01-2023 14:01 via constructionenquirer.com
  A piling rig toppled over on developer Capital & Centric’s £60m Goods Yard site on Stoke-on-Trent on Monday afternoon.
  No-one was hurt in the incident which saw the rig crash through the roof of a former signal box on the site which is being transformed into a new neighbourhood next to the west coast mainline train station.
  Bowmer & Kirkland is main contractor on the job where work started last October. Social media pictures show the stricken piling rig was branded as a Cohes
  
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• HMS and Sovini win £1.2bn Torus housing upkeep deal

  10-01-2023 09:44 via constructionenquirer.com
  Liverpool affordable housing group Torus has picked local contractors HMS and Sovini Property Services to manage and maintain its 40,000 homes.
  Worth £1.2bn, Torus’ new framework is the largest ever let by the North West housing association and will see the Liverpool contractors delivering a myriad of planned maintenance, reactive and emergency repairs.
  HMS has been appointed as the Tier 1 contractor for £450m of work and Sovini Property Services as the Tier 2 contractor on the
  
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• NEPO awards £300m decarbonising framework deal

  10-01-2023 09:14 via constructionenquirer.com
  The North East Procurement Organisation body has awarded 2o firms places on a  new  multi-lot Retrofit and Decarbonisation Works framework.
  Valued at £300m, the framework partners will be used to deliver funded projects across the north East in the residential and non residential sectors.
  Among the main delivery partners Equans, Esh and Tolent Living secured places.NEPO Retrofit and Decarbonisation WorksAnelec Electrical ContractorsMarshall and McCourt Plumbing & HeatingCarbo
  
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• Former Vauxhall warehouse site to become 60 acre commercial park

  10-01-2023 08:48 via constructionenquirer.com
  Vauxhall’s former aftersales warehouse in Luton will be transformed into a  1.2 million sq ft industrial and logistics park after developer Goodman secured outline planning permission for the scheme.
  Goodman London Luton will offer flexible space strategically located next to Junction 11A of the M1 and just 17 miles from the M25 providing excellent connectivity to Greater London and the Midlands while placing 30.5 million consumers within a two-hour drive.
  Nigel Dolan, Development Dir
  
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• Avonside collapse cost SIG £5m

  10-01-2023 08:27 via constructionenquirer.com
  The failure of the country’s largest roofing contractor Avonside last September cost materials supplier SIG £5m.
  The hit was revealed in a trading update today which revealed strong growth at the insulation and building products supplier despite the Avonside blow.
  SIG said full year like-for-like sales were up 17% in 2022 increasing revenue to £2.74bn with underlying operating profits are expected to be up to £80m from £41m in 2021.The update said: “This perfo
  
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• RED Construction revenue soars to £65m

  10-01-2023 08:09 via constructionenquirer.com
  Main contractor RED Construction Group is expecting to top £70m turnover this year after more than doubling revenue last year.
  The firm has set a path of both regional and project diversification helping revenue to rise from £25m to £65m in the year to March 2022. 
  Pre-tax profit also rose in step with turnover to £1.46m as operating margin hovered around 2.2%.Founded in 2016, RED Construction Group has grown from its London base delivering building projects typicall
  
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• DAKO Construction ceases trading

  10-01-2023 08:04 via constructionenquirer.com
  Nottingham contractor DAKO Construction ceased trading on Monday closing offices and sending workers home.
  The contractor, which was founded in 2018 by a former Knight Haywood project manager and Willmott Dixon business manager, has now filed for adminsitration.
  Around 30 staff are expected to be laid off.A source told ther Enquirer: “DAKO took on student accommodation work from North Midland Construction when it went bust in 2021.
  “It looks like they took on more than they could dea
  
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