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• Graham hospital site hut complex destroyed by blaze

  06-02-2023 15:43 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Burnt-out portable office buildings are being removed from a Graham hospital site following a devastating blaze on Saturday night.
  A fire broke out in the site office buildings at the contractor’s £40m job to redevelop West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven where work started last May.
  Local firefighters took eight hours to bring the blaze under control.A hospital statement said: “The portable cabins are a safe distance from the main hospital building as per building and fire r
  
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• Mace wins £150m over-station job at Liverpool Street

  06-02-2023 14:51 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Mace has been appointed principal contractor for the £150m development at 1 Liverpool Street in the City of London.
  It is the second over-station project which  Mace is delivering for Aviva Investors and Allianz Real Estate, following its appointment at 101  Moorgate which is currently on site.
  The Liverpool Street scheme designed by Eric Parry Architects will provide 176,000 sq ft of premium office and retail space when complete, spread over the ground and upper ten floors.The 1
  
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• Buyers see brighter days ahead despite resi slump

  06-02-2023 11:42 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Confidence levels among construction buyers reached their highest point for six months in January despite output suffering its fastest fall since May 2020.
  The latest bellwether S&P Global/CIPS UK Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index dropped to 48.4 in January from 48.8 in December and was below the neutral 50.0 threshold for the second month running.
  House building led the decline at 44.8 with the steepest rate of contraction in the sector since May 2020.Commercial activity decline
  
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• Heavy materials sales fall amid slowdown in starts

  06-02-2023 09:23 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Heavy side product producers have reported a second quarter of falling sales impacted by a slide in project starts.
  But light side product sales have held up supported by later use in project programmes and refurbishment and activity for energy-efficient retrofits continuing apace.
  The split in fortunes was revealed in the Construction Products Association’s latest State of Trade Survey for the last quarter of 2022.Around 20% of heavy side manufacturers reported that sales of construction
  
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• Scaffolders and sparks strike at antibiotic plant

  06-02-2023 09:11 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Engineering construction workers at the GSK antibiotics plant in Irvine started another week of strike action today in a row over bonus payments.
  Around 40 members of Unite employed by maintenance contractor Kaefer Limited downed tools this morning following an initial week of strike action last month.
  The dispute is based on workers seeking a bonus payment of £2.37 an hour – the maximum allowed under the National Agreement for the Engineering Construction Industry [NAECI]).The strik
  
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• Project delays curb Ardmore growth ambitions

  06-02-2023 08:42 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  South East contractor Ardmore missed ambitious profit and growth targets last year after four major project starts were delayed and several subcontracts collapsed.
  The firm expected to deliver a sharp jump in revenue to £550m last year on the back of a strong pipeline of orders.
  But the delays and wider market and inflationary challenges saw revenue rise by a more modest 7% to £435m, although still reaching a record for the hotel refurbishment and luxury to affordable housing contrac
  
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• Australian firm to buy £300m gigaplant backer Britishvolt

  06-02-2023 08:28 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  An Australian firm has been revealed as preferred bidder for car battery firm Britishvolt which went into administration last month.
  Britishvolt was building a £300m car battery plant in Northumberland where main contractor ISG paused construction work last summer when funding dried-up for the project.
  The company was placed in the hands of administrator EY with most of Britishvolt’s 200 staff made redundant.EY has now entered into an agreement with Scale Facilitation Partners LLC an
  
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