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• 35 jobs axed as London builder MEC collapses

  11-04-2023 09:16 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  London-based refurb and building specialist ME Construction and its civils arm MEC groundwork have been placed into administration.
  The firm was founded in 2007 by two ex-employees of Bovis Lend Lease – Barry O’Sullivan and Dennis Bernard who left the business three years ago.
  MEC specialised in small to medium projects within the M25 across heritage, residential, commercial, healthcare and schools sectors with revenue peaking at around £23m before Covid.While the business had
  
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• Sisk starts £300m Birmingham Jewellery Quarter job

  11-04-2023 09:15 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  John Sisk & Son has broken ground on a major rental high-rise rental scheme in Birmingham, beginning the transformation of a site left undeveloped for more than 70 years.
  Build to rent specialist Moda Living is redeveloping the Ludgate Hill Carpark to create its Great Charles Street high-rise residential-led neighbourhood in the city’s famous Jewellery Quarter.
  When completed the project will offer 722 rental homes across four blocks spanning 6 to 39 stories.Designed in partnership wit
  
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• Countryside and Guinness pair up for 700-home London scheme

  11-04-2023 08:36 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A development deal has been confirmed to build 700 homes a major redevelopment in Kingston upon Thames, London.
  Guinness Partnership and Countryside Partnerships have agreed a joint venture deal to bring forward phase 2 of Signal Park in Tolworth with a development value of £400m.
  The partners now hope to start work on site by early-2025 once full planning permission is granted.Arcadis will act as the partnership’s supervisor on the housing project
  Stephen Teagle, chief executive, Co
  
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• Jump in builders’ merchants going ‘nuclear’ over unpaid bills

  11-04-2023 08:35 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The country’s top 20 largest builders’ merchants are turning to last resort measures to force struggling customers to settle unpaid bills.
  Mounting tension in the supplychain has spurred a four-fold hike in the number of winding-up petitions issued against builders and civils contractors.
  According to figures collated by accountant Mazars, leading builders’ merchants applied to the courts to wind up 185 construction firms for 2022/23 compared to just 44 petitions in the prior y
  
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• Covid after effects tip G F Tomlinson £2.3m into the red

  11-04-2023 08:32 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A mix of contract award delays and increased costs on Covid-impacted contracts saw Derby-based G F Tomlinson Group run up a £2.3m loss last year as revenue slipped 7% to £81m.
  Chairman and managing director, Andy Sewards said that client project sanction delays resulted in turnover coming in £30m below budget.
  Despite more challenging market conditions, the family-owned contractor decided to avoid job cuts among its 226-strong workforce and complete Covid-impacted projects.
  The
  
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• Bam signs £30m deal for Birmingham girls school job

  11-04-2023 08:30 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  BAM Construction has secured the contract to rebuild King Edward VI School for Girls in Handsworth Wood, Birmingham.
  As part of a huge project, all the existing teaching accommodation apart from the relatively new 6th Form Centre will be demolished over the course of three phases of the programme while the school continues to operate.
  BAM will suppy temporary teaching accommodation to enable the school to remain fully operational throughout the construction period.
  Existing 1960s school building
  
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• O’Rourke to switch to low carbon concrete on all sites

  11-04-2023 02:01 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Laing O’Rourke is switching to low carbon concrete on all of its new UK projects.
  The move applies to all new projects that begin main construction from this month and follows a long-term research programme showing that a range of low carbon concrete options can be successfully deployed on projects as a like-for-like substitute for traditional concrete.
  Research has involved Laing O’Rourke and Innovate UK working with the University of Cambridge and Sheffield University’s Advan
  
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