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• Mast climbers can spare residents “scaffold shroud” during recladding work

  02-02-2023 17:05 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Mast climbers are making ground over traditional scaffolding in post-Grenfell recladding work as the welfare of residents becomes more of a priority.
  Rob Munns, head of sales and business development at specialist BFT Mastclimbing said: “Nothing gets my heart strings more currently than driving past a residential building wrapped in scaffolding when it doesn’t need to be.
  “The damage to the residents mental health and wellbeing on top of their current plight with the re-claddin
  
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• Green light for £275m HS2 Midlands nerve centre

  02-02-2023 16:31 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Birmingham City Council has granted planning approval for HS2’s £275m Washwood Heath Depot.
  The site north-east of Birmingham city centre is where HS2 trains will be maintained, serviced and stored when not in use, and includes the Maintenance Building, Network Integrated Control Centre (NICC) and Cleaners and Drivers Building.
  A contractor for the job is due to be chosen this autumn from a shortlist of Turkish construction giant Gulermak Agir Sanayi Insaat and JVs of Vinci/Keltbray
  
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• McLaren wins massive Portland House refurb

  02-02-2023 15:06 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  McLaren is understood to have secured a major refurbishment contract from Landsec at Portland House in central London.
  The Enquirer understands the contractor is due to sign a Pre-Construction Services Agreement with the developer imminently.
  The Westminster scheme has a total development value of £380m and involves a complete remodelling of the existing 28-storey  building.Original redevelopment plans granted for the building in 2020 included a 15-storey extension with Mace understoo
  
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• £4.75m remediation work provision tips Higgins into the red

  02-02-2023 09:15 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Essex-based contractor Higgins Group was plunged into a loss last year after making a £4.75m provision for remediation work on completed housing schemes.
  The legacy jobs from the partnership side saw the group record a pretax loss of £5.4m after a £200,000 profit in the prior year.
  Revenue in the year to July 2022 was up 39% to £210m, helped by a surge in post Covid lockdown activity.This saw average headcount jump by around 90 staff to 318 as the firm took expanded contr
  
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• £4.75m building work provision tips Higgins into the red

  02-02-2023 09:15 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Essex-based contractor Higgins Group was plunged into a loss last year after making a £4.75m provision for remediation work on completed housing schemes.
  The legacy jobs from the partnership side saw the group record a pretax loss of £5.4m after a £200,000 profit in the prior year.
  Revenue in the year to July 2022 was up 39% to £210m, helped by a surge in post Covid lockdown activity.This saw average headcount jump by around 90 staff to 318 as the firm took expanded contr
  
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• Vital Energi lands £13m package at Plumstead regen site

  02-02-2023 08:53 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Specialist Vital Energi has been awarded the latest major work package on the new Lombard Square development in Plumstead.
  Berkeley and Peabody are transforming 17 acres of unused land in South East London which were once home to Arsenal Football Club.
  Vital Energi has bagged the £13m design and build contract for the site’s Energy Centre and ground source heat pumps across all eight blocks containing 1,750 apartments.The ground source heat pumps will extract water from aquifers belo
  
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• John F Hunt snaps up London temporary works design firm

  02-02-2023 08:38 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The John F Hunt Group has bought a majority stake in London-based geotechnical and structural engineering design specialist RKD Consultant.
  A leading designer of temporary works projects RKD has worked on some of the most iconic and complex projects in the capital, including Battersea Power Station, Chelsea Barracks, and the basement extension of Claridge’s.
  RKD management team Mark Blackmore and Dr Adam Pellew together with their 10-strong engineering team will continue to operate out of
  
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• Staff at Outco Surfacing start looking for new jobs

  02-02-2023 08:22 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Staff at civils contractor Outco Surfacing are looking for new jobs.
  A notice of intention to appoint an administrator was filed by Outco Surfacing Ltd last week and staff have now taken to social media looking for new opportunities.
  Former Outco workers posted on LinkedIn that they had been made redundant this week.One said: “After recent news of being made redundant I would like to thank each and everyone I’ve met at Outco.
  “It has been a pleasure working alongside many great
  
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• Galliford Try to start £14m Scunthorpe Market scheme

  02-02-2023 08:19 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Galliford Try’s Building North East and Yorkshire business has been appointed to a £14m contract by North Lincolnshire Council, for the redevelopment of the former Scunthorpe Market site.
  The works will consist of two phases, the first being an accommodation building, which will accommodate NHS staff, and the second seeing the addition of a new office space. 
  The project will ultimately create a three-storey L-shaped building, with both the accommodation and office facilities br
  
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• Winners named for Government £10bn offsite framework

  02-02-2023 08:06 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Crown Commercial Service has picked 29 firms for spots on a mega offsite construction framework for all Government departments.
  Its new pan-Government collaborative Offsite Construction Solutions framework deal is expected to be worth up to £10bn as more projects swing over to modular designs in the drive to cut costs and aim for carbon net zero targets.
  Among mainstream contractors Kier in partnerships with McAvoy and Metek features alongside Laing O’Rourke and Bowmer + Kirkland
  
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