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• Galliford Try takes rebid £226m Carlisle Southern Link Road

  27-03-2023 16:05 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Cumbria County Council has picked Galliford Try Construction Ltd to design and build the £226m Carlisle Southern Link Road scheme.
  The project was retendered after previous winner Morgan Sindall failed a year ago to agree a final price on the project originally budgeted at £65m.
  Despite several challenges with rising costs of materials, the County Council, City Council and Government have remained committed to the project.The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities have
  
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• Galliford Try takes rebid £150m Carlisle Southern Link Road

  27-03-2023 16:05 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Cumbria County Council has picked Galliford Try Construction Ltd to design and build the £150m Carlisle Southern Link Road scheme.
  The project was retendered after previous winner Morgan Sindall failed a year ago to agree a final price on the project originally budgeted at £65m.
  Despite several challenges with rising costs of materials, the County Council, City Council and Government have remained committed to the project.The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities have
  
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• Balfour Beatty to invest £60m in retractable EV chargers

  27-03-2023 10:35 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Balfour Beatty’s investment arm is entering the on-street electric vehicle charging market with the formation of Urban Fox – a partnership with Urban Electric Networks, an EV chargepoint operator.
  Balfour Beatty Investments expects to invest up to £60m in the partnership to fund the rollout of up to 35,000 innovative retractable charge points across the UK over the next decade.Its 7kW on-street chargepoint is the first of its kind to the market. Installed into the pavement, the
  
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• Balfour Beatty to invest £60m in pop-up EV chargers

  27-03-2023 10:35 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Balfour Beatty’s investment arm is entering the on-street electric vehicle charging market with the formation of Urban Fox – a partnership with Urban Electric Networks, an EV chargepoint operator.
  Balfour Beatty Investments expects to invest up to £60m in the partnership to fund the rollout of up to 35,000 innovative retractable charge points across the UK over the next decade.Its 7kW on-street chargepoint is the first of its kind to the market. Installed into the pavement, the
  
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• GMI to build first warehouse at £200m Teesside business park

  27-03-2023 09:23 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  GMI Construction Grou has won a major contract to bring forward the first industrial unit at Teesside Airport’s £200m business park.
  Work on the 25,000 sq ft facility, situated on the south side of the airport, is expected to begin early next month, and three additional units will be constructed later as part of the first phase of development.
  Once fully operational, the business park is expected to create up to 4,400 jobs and will consist of a range of logistics, distribution and in
  
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• Skanska Costain Strabag JV sets up own rebar plant

  27-03-2023 08:47 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Contractors on HS2 have set up their own rebar threading facility to address materials shortages at its Copthall tunnel construction site in Hillingdon.
  The facility run by the Skanska Costain STRABAG joint venture (SCS JV) will make 92,000 rebar couplers needed to construct the Copthall tunnel.
  The team constructing the tunnel were faced with delays due to a shortfall of available prefabricated fatigue rated rebar couplers, after suppliers had exited the market.A team of 14 will now work at the
  
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• Bid race starts for Norfolk £30m Long Stratton Bypass

  27-03-2023 08:41 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Norfolk County Council has started the hunt for a contractor to deliver the £30m Long Stratton Bypass to the south of Norwich.
  The major highways scheme will remove through traffic on the A140 from the centre of Long Stratton be providing a bypass to the east of the town.
  The scheme involves building a single 3.9km carriageway road, three new roundabouts and two new junction arrangements.It will also involve two new overbridges and a new 450m single carriageway link into the town from the
  
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• Sellar switches London flats/hotel plan for 444 student rooms

  27-03-2023 08:19 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Developer Sellar has dropped plans for a London hotel and flats scheme in favour of now building a large student scheme on the Southwark site.
  It now plans to develop a 444-room student accommodation scheme at the Harper Road and Borough High Street.
  It is the second developer in a week to switch plans for private flats over to student rooms in the Capital.Regal London has also reset its Devonshire Place housing scheme on the Old Kent Road for 900 student rooms and 220 affordable homes.
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• Worker dies on major warehouse site in Stafford

  27-03-2023 08:15 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A construction worker has died in an accident at a major warehouse site in Stafford where Glencar is main contractor.
  Work has been halted while the incident is investigated at the site where work on the new 344,500 sq ft logistics centre for client PLP started last September and is due for completion by the end of June.
  The company said: “Glencar Construction is very sad to confirm that an operative from one of our supply chain partners was involved in a fatal incident, at our constructio
  
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• HS2 Euston needs full design reset as costs set to double

  27-03-2023 01:29 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The public spending watchdog has called for an urgent total design rethink of the Euston terminus of HS2 as its cost soars.
  A new National Audit Office report into the station warns that forecast project costs have continued to balloon despite attempts to simplify the project.
  The original £2.6bn station budget is now reckoned to have soared to £4.8bn, even with the cost-cutting decision to trim back platforms from 11 to 10.Spending to date on advanced works has already hit £54
  
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