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• Sellafield starts £3bn hunt for key infrastructure quartet

  13-02-2023 19:34 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Sellafield has fired the starting gun on the race to find four top-level key infrastructure partners as part of the ongoing procurement shake-up at the nuclear decommissioning site.
  Procurement chiefs aim to replace the present Infrastructure Services Alliance with Morgan Sindall and Arup with a new overseeing team.
  The organisational shake-up will see a new overall strategic partner appointed. This firm will be supported by three key delivery partners covering specific electrical distribution,
  
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• Tolent now in administration

  13-02-2023 18:16 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The whole Tolent group is now in administration.
  The news was officially confirmed on Monday afternoon as 313 Tolent staff were made redundant while 91 staff were retained by the administrators to “assist them whilst they explore any possibility of a sale of the businesses and their assets.”
  James Lumb and Howard Smith from Interpath Advisory have been appointed Joint Administrators to Tolent plc and five of its operating subsidiaries.The Gateshead based firm also has offices in Leed
  
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• World War 2 bomb unexpectedly detonates at Bam/Farrans site

  13-02-2023 09:31 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A Second World War bomb has exploded unexpectedly at the Great Yarmouth third river crossing construction site in Norfolk.
  The 1m-long, 500lb bomb was discovered last Tuesday by a contractor working for BAM Farrans joint venture at the bascule bridge site.
  The moment the bomb detonates at Third River Crossing site in Norfolk
  It was discovered during dredging work in the River Yare at Bollard Quay close to the junction with Boundary Road.
  After raising the alarm,  cordons were put in place w
  
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• £600m Westminster housing estate plan advances

  13-02-2023 08:48 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Westminster City Council is advancing plans for its flagship regeneration project around Marylebone’s Church Street market area.
  The council plans to redevelop three major sites to deliver over 1,100 new homes, of which at least 50% will be affordable.
  This will involve full demolition of the massive Church Street Estate, first identified in 2010 as one of the five priority housing estates for housing renewal.
  Across all three sites, blocks containing 400 homes will be demolished to make w
  
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• Ex-Byrne Bros MD to run concrete facade firm Techrete

  13-02-2023 07:18 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Precast concrete cladding specialist Techrete has announced that former Byrne Bros managing director Alastair Smyth is joining the business as next chief executive.
   Smyth, who has previously held senior management roles at Murphy Group and Capita, will take the reins next month.He joins industry veterans Cormac MacCrann, former Canary Wharf contractors MD, and Tony Giddings, former  Argent director, on the board who were recently appointed independent non-executive directors.
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