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• Firm fined £120,000 for lifting two builders in a telehandler bucket

  27-01-2023 17:35 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A building firm has been fined for a catalogue of health and safety failings that included lifting two builders in a telehandler bucket high into the air.
  A photograph caught the moment a pair of workers stood in the bucket of a telehandler to fit a stone into the top of a new home in Littleborough, Greater Manchester.It was one of a number of health and safety failings found during construction work at The Villas development on Starring Road in Littleborough.Health and Safety Executive inspecto
  
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• Firms readied for raft of net zero and building safety frameworks

  27-01-2023 08:39 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Local authority procurement specialist LHC has set out plans to tender five major public sector frameworks this year for mission zero retrofits and building compliance.
  The frameworks from public sector construction framework provider LHC will support public sector organisations as they seek to tackle a backlog of retrofit, energy efficiency, and asset safety and compliance works.
  LHC is encouraging public sector organisations, as well as contractors, consultants, and suppliers to register their
  
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• United Living names new infrastructure services MD

  27-01-2023 08:38 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Infrastructure, housing, and property services specialist United Living Group has appointed former SSE Contracting operations director John Farrell as managing director of its Infrastructure Services arm.
  Farrell has previously held leadership roles within large, multidisciplinary infrastructure and service organisations such as McNicholas, Enterprise, Amey and SSE.
  Most recently, he was a key member of the management team that led the sale of the SSE Contracting business from regional electrica
  
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• Sunak promises Bill to build £100m Holocaust Memorial

  27-01-2023 08:16 via constructionenquirer.com
  Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has pledged to bring forward legislation to build the Westminster Holocaust Memorial next to Parliament.
  He pledge to take action after campaigners won a legal battle to quash planning permission to build the centre in Victoria Tower Gardens using a 1900 law protecting the park land.
  The Holocaust Memorial Bill will update the historic legislation, removing a statutory obstacle that has previously prevented the building of a new memorial and learning centre at the site
  
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• Plans in for two Derby city centre schemes of 1300 homes

  27-01-2023 08:11 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Plans have been submitted for a pair of mixed-use schemes in Derby to deliver around 1,300 homes and 300,000 sq ft of commercial space around the Derbion shopping centre.
  The same development team including investor Eurofund Group, Leonard Design Architects, Currie & Brown and Waterman have drawn up separate plans to redevelop the Eagle Market and Bradshaw Way Retail Park.
  The site forms part of the wider Derbion masterplan to breathe new life into the area near the bus station.The largest o
  
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