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• Kier fined £4.4m after power line strikes on M6 job

  13-01-2023 16:48
  Kier has been fined £4.4m after its staff twice struck overhead powerlines while working on the M6 motorway causing cables to land in the path of passing vehicles.
  In one incident an overhead cable the Kier workers brought down hit a lorry. The second time a cable landed on the motorway.
  An HSE investigation found after one incident Kier workers failed to immediately tell the network provider Scottish Power what they had done.Both incidents happened on overnight road works as part of the s
  
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• Construction new work output slips 0.4% in November

  13-01-2023 09:28
  Construction new work output in November fell 0.4% after being impacted by a near 5% fall in new build housing.
  Overall total output remained flat as a modest 0.6% increase in repair and maintenance work helped to offset the new work fall.
  The fall in output was also attributed to a wetter-than-average November causing more difficult working conditions.Returns for the office of National Statistics Monthly Business Survey for Construction and allied trades (MBS) suggested that more businesses are
  
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• Barhale bags £9m deal to clean mussels from London tunnels

  13-01-2023 09:20
  Barhale has secured a £9m package of schemes under Thames Water’s Raw Water Tunnel Inspection & Refurbishment programme.
  Work will involve removing debris, silt and invasive species such as Zebra Mussels from 35km of raw water tunnels across West and North London.
  Zebra Mussels have formed major concentrations across the network with Barhale workers braced to scrub off 140m3 of molluscs from the hardest hit tunnels. Once cleared, the tunnels will be inspected and any structural r
  
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• Mission Zero review calls for pilot net zero city

  13-01-2023 08:58
  The Government is being urged to trailblaze plans to bring forward an ambitious pilot net zero city and local authority region by 2030.
  Former Energy Minister Chris Skidmore today published his independent Net Zero Review calling for the UK to go ‘further and faster’ on climate change.
  Recommendations include a new home boiler ban by 2025, a 10-year mission to make use of heat pumps commonplace and setting out an infrastructure strategy by 2025 supporting the building and adaptation
  
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• Taylor Wimpey plans £20m cost cutting drive

  13-01-2023 08:48
  Taylor Wimpey is considering plans to cut £20m in costs as the housing market tightens.
  The news came in a trading update this morning which also highlighted improved operating margins last year.
  The firm said: “As market conditions changed at pace in the third quarter we acted quickly and decisively implementing even tighter cost scrutiny, significantly reducing land commitments, and closely controlling the release of investment in work in progress.  “As we focus on
  
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• Former council highways worker jailed for £1m fraud

  13-01-2023 08:14
  A former council highways worker has been jailed for stealing nearly £1m from a local authority.
  Tyler Evans earlier pleaded guilty to one count of fraud by abuse of position and another of money laundering at Birmingham Crown Court and was sentenced to seven years and eight months imprisonment yesterday.
  Evans worked for the Highways Permit Team at Birmingham City Council from 2010 until April 2014.His role was to control the refund of payment bonds to contractors who carried out work on
  
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