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• Achilles helps customers save 97 thousand tonnes of CO2

  20-02-2023 15:41 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Supply chain specialist Achilles is demonstrating its commitment to a net zero future, both for the organisation and its customers, enabling more every year to achieve their own carbon reduction targets with an increase of 144% in Achilles’ Carbon Reduce Programme members in the past two years.
  In the last 12 months, the Achilles Carbon Reduce Programme has also helped its members to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions by a significant 97,411 tonnes CO2-e, which is the equivalent of 48,700 car
  
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• Mackley and Jones Bros win £167m Havant reservoir contract

  20-02-2023 12:41 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Portsmouth Water has appointed Future Water MJJV Limited to build the Havant Thicket Reservoir in southern Hampshire under a contract worth £167m.
  It will be the first large-scale new water storage reservoir built in the UK since the 1980s.
  The Future Water joint venture of civil engineering contractors Mackley and Jones Bros beat competition from Balfour Beatty and Hochtief to land the work.The £41m pipeline installation element of the job was awarded last year to Ward & Burke C
  
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• Willmott Dixon lands forensics centre in Bicester

  20-02-2023 08:46 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Thames Valley Police have selected Willmott Dixon as the preferred contractor to build a forensics centre in Bicester.
  The purpose-built centre will become the main forensics hub for the force, containing laboratories, new digital technologies and dedicated training facilities.  
  Construction of the forensics centre is expected to begin this summer and be completed in winter 2024/25, with Atkins also on the team as the appointed multi-disciplinary design consultants.Cherwell District Counci
  
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• Contractor fined over open-air site toilet

  20-02-2023 08:40 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A construction company and its director have been fined after they failed to provide suitable welfare facilities at a site in Belsize Park, North London.
  East Sussex firm ID8 Design and Build Ltd was in charge of the site on where the company was carrying out a full refurbishment of a two-storey flat into a converted house, including the erection of front and rear dormers.
  An HSE inspection of the site on 29 November 2021 found the welfare facilities did not comply with the minimum requirements.
  
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• Tolent staff to launch legal claims

  20-02-2023 08:27 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Former staff at Tolent are considering legal action against the collapsed contractor.
  Legal firm Aticus Law said it has been approached by ex-Tolent staff looking to make a claim for a protective award where they could claim compensation of up to 90 days pay.
  The whole Tolent group was placed in the hands of administrators Interpath Advisory last week with 313 staff made redundant.Workers told Aticus Law they were let go with immediate effect during a company-wide meeting last Monday.
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• Thames Water race for £500m medium projects deal

  20-02-2023 08:13 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Thames Water is inviting firms to tender for its next 10-year programme of above-ground asset infrastructure projects.
  The water company plans to split the next round of procurement into a quartet of what its dubs as runway frameworks based on size of project.
  The first of these to come out to tender, known as RW1, will cover non infrastructure medium-sized projects valued from £250,000 to £5m.This is split into three lots cover separate MEICA, Civils and combined non-infrastructure
  
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• KPMG settles with Carillion liquidator over £1.3bn legal battle

  20-02-2023 08:10 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  KPMG said has reached a settlement with the liquidator of Carillion over a legal battle involving alleged negligence around audits before the contractor’s spectacular collapse five years ago.
  Liquidators of Carillion last year sued KPMG for £1.3bn for missing ‘red flags’ during audits of Carillion accounts between 2014 and 2016.
  The Official Receiver, which is liquidating the group after its collapsed with liabilities of £7bn and just £29m in cash, alleged tha
  
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• Galliford Try £100m Peterborough A47 upgrade approved

  20-02-2023 08:10 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Gallford Try has got the green light for the dualling of a £100m stretch of the A47 around Peterborough as part of the major route upgrade to Great Yarmouth.
  Development consent has now been granted for the plan to transform a 1.6-mile single section of the A47 between Wansford and Sutton.
  Work on the project could begin this spring with completion expected by winter 2024/25.This scheme is one of six major improvement projects amounting to almost half a billion pounds of investment to deli
  
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