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• Caddick wins £23m Lancaster extra care homes job

  12-04-2023 16:14 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Caddick Construction has secured a £23m contract to deliver Lancaster’s first extra care facility on behalf of Progress Housing Group.
  Groundwork is now getting underway in advance of main works on the 92-unit extra care scheme which is slated for completion in May 2025.
  Two existing buildings at the site will also be converted into 16 one and two-bedroom general needs flats.Additional features such as assisted bathing, spa bathing, hairdressing facility, a games room, roof terraces
  
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• Countryside to start 650-home North London scheme

  12-04-2023 15:45 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Network Homes has exchanged contracts with Countryside Partnerships to begin construction of 654 homes and commercial facilities at Brent in North London.
  The deal triggers the first stage of the major Brent regeneration project known as Northwick Park.Around 50% will be affordable tenures with the rest for private sale or rent, with proceeds reinvested in building more affordable homes for people in housing need.
  The overall regeneration of the Northwick Park former hospital site will eventuall
  
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• Creagh Concrete hit with £1m fine after works fatality

  12-04-2023 15:17 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A concrete manufacturer has been fined £1m after a 24-year-old worker suffered fatal head injuries when the jaws of a metal grabber closed.
  Stewart Ramsay, from Mansfield, was working for Creagh Concrete Products at its Hoveringham site in Nottingham when he suffered fatal head injuries on 15 March 2017.
  The young worker was trying to fix a problem that happened as he and colleagues were using a metal grab to unload Spantherm, a concrete building product, from some trailers.The metal grab
  
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• Lendlease sets aside £114m for recladding work

  12-04-2023 14:24 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Leandlease Europe has revealed the expected cost on its business of signing up to the Government’s remediation contract.
  The firm has set aside £114m to cover liabilities which it said come mainly from its Crosby business acquired from Berkeley group for £261m back in 2005.
  The provision relates to over 50 buildings developed by Crosby, which is no longer owned by Lendlease.Lendlease is one of 46 house builders/developers to have signed up to the UK Government remediation contr
  
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• Barhale fits digital ‘thumbs up’ safety signs to diggers

  12-04-2023 10:37 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Barhale is using a new AI-driven human recognition system that lights up an LED safety shield fitted to diggers to indicate when it is safe to approach plant.
  The new Digital Thumbs Up lights have been fitted to 26 Kubota diggers.
  The Safety Shield forms part of a suite of digital and AI features installed on the latest additions to the BCS fleet
  The system lets machine drivers advise other workers wishing to approach their machines when it is safe to do so.It also sounds an audible alarm when s
  
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• Bid race for Middlesbrough £100m town centre scheme

  12-04-2023 08:43 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Middlesbrough Development Corporation has kicked off its first procurement competition since being formed last month to regenerate a derelict brownfield site in the heart of the town centre.
  The planned £100m Gresham scheme marks the first major project of many that will transform the town, creating jobs and opportunities for local businesses and it focuses on a site that has been left empty for decades.
  The MDC is looking for a developer to bring forward the 2ha Gresham site, which is loc
  
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• Inland Homes calls in FRP Advisory to probe transactions

  12-04-2023 08:23 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Cast-strapped developer Inland Homes has appointed accountants FRP Advisory to carry out an independent review of certain business transactions before publishing delayed results for last year.
  The decision to enlist FRP comes after the brownfield site developer and house builder revealed in March it would delay publishing its results for the year to September 2022.
  The delay was needed to allow new auditors PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP more time to go through the books following the discovery of &
  
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• GMI Construction trebles turnover to £360m

  12-04-2023 08:14 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A shift to complex and higher value projects has seen Leeds contractor GMI Construction Group treble turnover to £360m in the year to September 2022.
  But the rapid growth came at a cost with the group running up a loss of £2.3m, after a large-scale investment of £3m in new offices and digital construction systems.
  This ended 37 years of consecutive profit for the firm, which started out as an industrial shed builder.To meet swelling order books the group’s headcount was a
  
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• RG Group tipped for £100m Docklands tower job

  12-04-2023 08:09 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Developer Olympian Homes has got the planning thumbs up to build a 46 storey co-living homes tower on the Isle of Dogs in London Docklands.
  Contractor R G Group is expected to be a front runner to deliver the estimated £100m building project having built several other major schemes for Olympian, including high-rise student blocks in Leeds and Coventry.
  Following planning approval from the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, the scheme will now go to be rubber-stamped by the London Mayor.Assum
  
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• Balfour Beatty lands £160m Highland hospitals dual deal

  12-04-2023 04:06 via constructionenquirer.com
  NHS Highland has confirmed Balfour Beatty as the principal supply chain partner for the Lochaber and Caithness General Hospital redesign projects.
  Balfour will take on the role of managing contractor, leading the design and construction processes for the new hospital in Fort William and the refurbishment of Caithness General in Wick.
  The two projects represent an investment of over £160m.NHS Highland’s Senior Responsible Officer for the redesigns, Louise Bussell, said: “We have
  
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• Roofing boss jailed after worker dies in five metre fall

  12-04-2023 03:52 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A building boss has been jailed after a worker fell from the roof of a commercial property in North London and died a week later.
  Patrick McCarthy (trading as All Care Home Improvements) was given a 14-month custodial sentence after the death of Andrei-Ionel Hutanu in 2019.
  No scaffolding or other measures had been put in place to prevent falls from the roof.Harrow Crown Court heard how 33-year-old Hutanu and another man were working at the rear of  commercial premises in Neasden on 19 Augu
  
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• Galliford Try leads March contracts league with roads wins

  12-04-2023 01:09 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Two major road jobs accelerated Galliford Try up through the ranks to take pole position in the March contracts league.
  Its Carlisle Southern Link Road job, which was rebid after original contractor Morgan Sindall failed to agree a final price, was secured for £226m, while Leicestershire’s Melton Mowbray distributor road was signed off at £115m.
  The two jobs contributed heavily to the firm’s total haul of orders for the month at nearly £395m.Top 10 contractors by wo
  
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