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• O’Donovan launches hazardous waste management service

  11-01-2023 16:58 via constructionenquirer.com
  O’Donovan Waste has added hazardous waste management to its comprehensive portfolio of wide-ranging waste services.
  The new hazardous licence will allow the business to handle an array of different hazardous materials such as asbestos sheeting, paints, aerosols and other chemically contaminated wastes.
  O’Donovan will deal with the hazardous materials from ‘cradle to grave’ including free site visits, completion of required legal documentation, the provision of instruction
  
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• Deanestor lands £5m fit out deal from BAM

  11-01-2023 16:23 via constructionenquirer.com
  Fit out specialist Deanestor has been awarded its largest contract to date in the education sector – a £5m project for BAM to manufacture furniture and fit out the two high schools on the Dunfermline Learning Campus.
   The Deanestor team will supply and install more than 42,000 items of loose and fitted furniture for St Columba’s RC High School and Woodmill High School that are relocating to Dunfermline Learning Campus in Fife.
  Due to open by Summer 2024, the high school pr
  
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• Hinkley construction workers take over local Pontins

  11-01-2023 14:39 via constructionenquirer.com
  A Pontins holiday park near the giant Hinkley Point C site will be shut to visitors for the next three years as it becomes home to 900 construction workers.
  Client EDF Energy has had its plans approved by Sedgemoor District Council to use Pontins Brean Sands as an accommodation centre while the new nuclear plant is being built.
  EDF will pay for a phased multi-million refit of the holiday park and the first construction workers have now moved in to their chalets.A Hinkley Point C spokesperson sai
  
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• Barratt starts recruitment freeze and slows new building

  11-01-2023 08:57 via constructionenquirer.com
  Britain’s biggest house builder has instituted a staff recruitment freeze and slowed further new site openings in the face of falling demand for homes.
  In a trading update for the first six months, chief executive David Thomas warned that the first half of the financial year had seen a marked slowdown in the UK housing market prompting stricter controls on Barratt’s spending.He said: “Political and economic uncertainty impacted the first quarter, this was then compounded by rap
  
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• Barratt starts recruitment freeze and slows land approvals

  11-01-2023 08:57 via constructionenquirer.com
  Britain’s biggest house builder has instituted a recruitment freeze and slowed further new site openings in the face of falling demand for homes.
  In a trading update for the first six months, chief executive David Thomas said that the first half of the financial year had seen a marked slowdown in the UK housing market prompting stricter controls on spending.He said: “Political and economic uncertainty impacted the first quarter; this was then compounded by rapid and significant chang
  
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• MY Construction wins £33m rental scheme for young workers

  11-01-2023 08:50 via constructionenquirer.com
  MY Construction Limited has landed the main contract for a £33m co-living scheme in west London aimed at the young professional rental market.
  The project has been made possible by an £18.1m loan from specialist lender Maslow Capital to developer Yari Investments Limited.
  Work on the 121 apartment scheme in Feltham will start imminently and the project is designed to “transform the way young professionals experience city living in the borough.”MY Construction will use mod
  
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• Renaker to build Select’s £130m Manchester BtR tower

  11-01-2023 08:10 via constructionenquirer.com
  Developer Select Property has given contractor Renaker Build a February start date for its One Port Street build to rent scheme in Manchester’s Northern Quarter.
  The scheme designed by SimpsonHaugh will consist of three connected blocks rising to 33, 11 and 9 storeys and is expected to cost around £130m to build.
  Built at the corner of Great Ancoats Street and Port Street it will provide 477 high-end private rental flats, managed by Select’s Affinity Living brand.Adam Price, ch
  
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• McLaughlin & Harvey wins £29m food research hub job

  11-01-2023 08:08 via constructionenquirer.com
  McLaughlin & Harvey has signed construction contracts worth nearly £29m for the next stage of the ongoing redevelopment of The James Hutton Institute’s Invergowrie estate In Scotland.
  The latest project involves the construction of a combined Advanced Plant Growth Centre and International Barley Hub to establish Scotland as a leader in global food security and crop resilience.
  Several older buildings at the site are now being demolished to make way for the new facility being buil
  
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