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• J S Wright hands out awards to supply chain

  08-02-2023 16:10 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  It was a second year of success for all three companies that picked up the prizes at J S Wright’s Supplier Awards.
  The awards are an annual event celebrating outstanding levels of quality, commitment and service delivery by the suppliers of the Birmingham-based mechanical and electrical services specialist.
  National building fixings and support products supplier R&M Fixings & Supports, underfloor heating specialist Mec-Serv and renewable energy systems supplier SAV Systems, were na
  
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• QR codes make hiring kit from AFI Rentals easier

  08-02-2023 16:04 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  AFI Rentals has launched a smart off-hire process using a MEWP-specific QR code on each powered access machine.
  The new system allows customers to quickly and easily off-hire their rental equipment using a unique QR code on each machine they scan with the camera on their phone.
  Every AFI Powered Access machine has a unique QR Code to off-hire without logging into an AFI Account or by simply scanning the machine-specific code using the camera on a smartphone or tablet.
  The codes, which are placed
  
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• Deanestor delivers again for Morrison

  08-02-2023 15:56 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Furniture and fitout specialist Deanestor has delivered a £1.8m contract for Morrison Construction for a new £60m multi-school campus in West Lothian.
  The new Winchburgh Campus near Edinburgh is Deanestor’s 12th project for Morrison.
  It was built by the contractor on behalf of West Lothian Council and their delivery partner, Hub South East Scotland. It has provided two new secondary schools, a primary school with an early years facility, and a sports and wellbeing hub.
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• RG Group wins £82m Leeds build to rent job

  08-02-2023 13:30 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Developer HUB ­has awarded RG Group an £82m contract to deliver Latitude Blue, a 488-home build-to-rent project in Leeds.
  Construction will now start at the Whitehall Road scheme consisting of two towers rising to 26 and 31 storeys.
  Designed by local architects Carey Jones Chapman Tolcher (CJCT), the scheme is the second phase of development by Hub at the previous site of Doncaster Monkbridge Iron and Steelworks.
  Sisk is presently building a smaller £68m double-block project, kno
  
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• Barratt sees early signs of a New Year trading uplift

  08-02-2023 09:06 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Britain’s biggest house builder Barratt this morning reported early signs of improved trading in January but also warned it was still too early to say whether the housing market will suffer a mild downturn or a much deeper fall out.
  Reporting good first half financial results for the year to December, Barratt chief David Thomas said the firm was still in a wait and see mode, as it was still difficult to call how the Spring selling season would go.
  He said based on the improved reservation
  
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• Speedy kit count finds £20m of missing equipment

  08-02-2023 08:45 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Speedy has discovered £20m of “missing” kit following an audit of its hire equipment.
  A recent count-up of its hire kit has revealed a £20.4m stock deficit in smaller site items like scaffolding towers, fencing and non-mechanical plant.
  Last March Speedy reported the book value of its fleet at £226.9m with large “itemised assets” like machines with serial numbers making up £177m alongside £49.9m of “non-itemised assets” consisting
  
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• Concrete specialist Byrne Bros names new boss

  08-02-2023 08:34 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Concrete frame contractor Byrne Bros has promoted project director Philip Beausang to the role of managing director.
  Beausang, aged 40, has more than 20 years of experience in construction.
  He joined Byrne Bros in 2011 as a project manager on the Heathrow Terminal 2B development.Prior to his appointment as a director in 2018, he was responsible for the Paddington Crossrail Station development and the 100 Bishopsgate project in the City of London.
  More recently he led the construction of complex
  
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• World’s first net zero cement production trial starts

  08-02-2023 08:30 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Production trials are starting in the search for construction’s holy grail – the world’s first commercially available zero-emissions cement.
  The process developed at Cambridge University combines scrap steel recycling with cement clinker production using recycled concrete as a flux rather than limestone.
  Over the planned two-year trial period the Cement 2 Zero project will investigate both the technical and commercial aspects of upscaling Cambridge Electric Cement production to
  
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