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• Balfour Beatty to build £12m bridge over River Trent

  02-03-2023 23:30 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Nottingham City Council has named Balfour Beatty as its prime contractor to build a new bridge over the River Trent in the city
  The pedestrian and cycle bridge will connect the Lady Bay area south of the river with the Trent Basin waterside housing estate on the north side of the river, closer to the city centre.
  The current construction cost estimate is around £12m including contingency and this will be refined following the planning process.
  The budget was refined upwards from £9m&
  
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• Balfour Beatty to build £12m bridge of the River Trent

  02-03-2023 23:30 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Nottingham City Council has named Balfour Beatty as its prime contractor to build a new bridge over the River Trent in the city
  The pedestrian and cycle bridge will connect the Lady Bay area south of the river with the Trent Basin waterside housing estate on the north side of the river, closer to the city centre.
  The current construction cost estimate is around £12m including contingency and this will be refined following the planning process.
  The budget was refined upwards from £9m&
  
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• Ameon lands £1m shopping centre package

  02-03-2023 21:44 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Building services specialist Ameon and sister company Ameon Utilities have landed contracts worth £1m at Blackpool’s Houndshill Shopping Centre from lead contractor GRAHAM.
  Work will involve installing mechanical and electrical services in the shopping centre’s new building, which will house a Wilko store and a new cinema.
  It will involve installation of mains distribution, interior and exterior lighting, lightening protection, ventilation, emergency lighting, fire alarm and sp
  
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• ROCKWOOL launches recladding guide

  02-03-2023 21:39 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Stone wool insulation manufacturer ROCKWOOL has added to its suite of industry support resources with the launch of the Recladding with ROCKWOOL guide for specifiers.
  Following the ban on combustible materials in relevant new buildings over 18 metres many building owners are recladding existing buildings with non-combustible materials that comply with the updated regulations.
  In addition to addressing combustibility regulations, recladding brings many benefits to existing buildings, including im
  
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• Ameon lands £3m M&E package at Bolton academy

  02-03-2023 19:50 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Building services specialist Ameon has landed a £3m package to design and install mechanical and electrical services systems and utilities infrastructure for King’s Leadership Academy in Bolton.
  Ameon and its sister company Ameon Utilities have been awarded the contract by main contractor, Galliford Try.
  The building services phase will bring the new state-of-the-art academy to life with the installation of mechanical and electrical services infrastructure, including a building manag
  
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• Winvic fined £160,000 for polluting brook

  02-03-2023 14:28 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Winvic has been fined £160,000 for polluting a brook while working on the East Midlands Gateway development site.
  The contractor admitted causing pollution at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court yesterday following a prosecution by the Environment Agency.
  Winvic was also ordered to pay prosecution costs of £25,577.79.The court was told that the company were contractors at the site near Kegworth when Hemington Brook became highly turbid and discoloured with clay solids.
  A biological s
  
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• Smaller builders still upbeat despite economic headwinds

  02-03-2023 11:21 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Small and medium-sized builders are still optimistic about workloads despite inflation and wider cost of living pressures on household budgets.
  A  survey by the Independent Builders Merchant Group (IBMG) of its customers revealed that almost one-fifth had ‘too much’ or ‘more than usual’ work in the pipeline
  Even with a cost of living squeeze on domestic spending, 70% said demand had remained stable or increased and they had not felt the impact yet of tightening
  
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• Tipper truck hits overhead motorway gantry

  02-03-2023 10:35 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A large stretch of the M5 near Bristol was closed on Wednesday morning when a tipper truck hit an overhead gantry.
  Pictures shared with the Enquirer by local motorists show the body of the truck dislodged after colliding with the overhead gantry between J17 and J18.
  The livery on the truck is for local firm GTI Transport who specialise in the delivery of construction aggregates and removal of waste materials.
  
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• Kier wins £25m South Wales school job

  02-03-2023 09:43 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Kier has chalked up another big school job for Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council in South Wales.
  Under its latest deal, Kier will build a  £25m net zero in operation teaching block for the Hawthorn All-Through School.
  Three of the school’s existing buildings will be demolished to make way for a new teaching block.One of these buildings is the old caretaker’s house, with the stone from the Victorian building used in the building of the new structure.
  The new school w
  
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• Colmore Tang Construction suffers another year of losses

  02-03-2023 09:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Birmingham-based Colmore Tang Construction has suffered another loss after downsizing the business in a switch from major flats projects to delivering specialist cladding remediation.
  In latest abridged published accounts for the year to May 2022, the well-known Midlands contractor reported a pre-tax loss of £1.2m along with current liabilities exceeding current assets by £3.4m.
  The business continued to shrink with employee numbers down to 16 from 35 staff the previous year. Du
  
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• Taylor Wimpey warns home completions to fall by a third

  02-03-2023 08:53 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Taylor Wimpey has joined Persimmon in warning that housing completion this year are set to fall dramatically as it aligns build programmes with sales rates against a challenging planning backdrop.
  Reporting strong results for 2022, the number two ranked house builder said that home completions could fall by as much as a third in 2023.
  Chief executive Jennie Daly said that while there had been some signs of a recent uptick in sales, rates were running at 0.62 per outlet per week down from 1.02 a
  
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• Cladding contractor goes into administration

  02-03-2023 08:21 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Building envelope specialist Jessella Limited has fallen into administration with FRP Advisory Trading Ltd now in charge of the company.
  The St Albans based firm specialised in facade contracts up to £15m and has worked on a host of major residential jobs across London and the South east.
  Latest accounts for Jessella for the year to March 31 2022 show a turnover of £39.8m generating a pre-tax profit of £1.4m.During the year the company employed 42 people and paid dividends of &
  
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• Go-ahead for stepped 27-floor Manchester resi block

  02-03-2023 08:16 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Joint venture developers Property Alliance Group and Starwood Capital have got the thumbs up from planners to build a 27-storey block of flats at Manchester’s former Renaissance hotel site on Deansgate.
  The 300-apartment project forms the final part of a masterplan, which will see £200m invested into the Renaissance site to create a mixed-used scheme that also includes a hotel and offices.
  The planned residential building to be known as One Cathedral Square has a stepped design to cr
  
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