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• Keltbray wins £73m structures deal on Mace court job

  19-04-2023 16:00 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Keltbray has started work on the £73m sub and superstructure packages on the Salisbury Square Development where Mace is main contractor.
  The latest deal follows on from the successful completion of the £10m demolition and enabling works package by Keltbray.
  Structures work will include the installation of over 500 king post piles, secant piles, contiguous piles and bearing piles, construction of a new basement slab, core base and box, as well as four new cores, the formation of a rei
  
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• Worker hit by falling insulation panel

  19-04-2023 15:50 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Two contractors have been sentenced after a worker was hospitalised for nearly two weeks after being struck by a 124kg panel.
  The man was working as a lift supervisor at a site in Jesmond, Newcastle, on 22 January 2020.
  He had been using a tower crane to lift a structured insulated panel (SIP). During the lifting operation, the SIP struck steel work and fell on top of the worker.He spent 13 days in hospital following the incident after fracturing his collarbone, left shoulder blade, left ankle a
  
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• Birmingham more expensive to build in than Tokyo

  19-04-2023 08:56 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  UK cities feature heavily in the world’s most expensive places to build with Birmingham dearer for contractors than Tokyo.
  But London has slipped to being the second most expensive city in the world in which to build according to the latest Arcadis 2023 International Construction Costs (ICC) report.
  The study of comparative construction costs across 100 global cities showed London was overtaken by Geneva, with New York coming third and San Francisco fourth.High levels of inflation continue
  
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• Plans go in for green revamp of Aldgate site

  19-04-2023 08:38 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Investor Patrizia has submitted plans to revamp two buildings at 30 Minories in the City of London.
  The current main 16-storey tower will be replaced with 17,314m2 of office space on the upper levels and a range of flexible retail, leisure and employment uses on ground and lower ground floor levels.
  The zero carbon design will include terraces on each floor accessible for the office occupiers with ‘English woodland’ landscaping inspired by landscape architect, Kim Wilkie.The six-stor
  
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• Sisk trials robot printer to set site floor plans

  19-04-2023 08:00 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Sisk has started trials of a robot site printer than can draw out floor plans in a fraction of the time it takes surveyors.
  Developed by Hewlett Packard in Barcelona, the mobile robot is claimed to increase accuracy and get layout jobs on concrete decks done 10 times more quickly.
  Sisk has begun trialling the HP SitePrint robot on two major high-rise residential blocks it is building for developer Quintain at Wembley Park in north London.The robot operates from information relayed from a central
  
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• 30 jobs lost as Teesside facade specialist crashes

  19-04-2023 08:00 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Building facades specialist Topside Group has been placed in administration with the loss of up to 30 jobs.
  The Teesside-based cladding, curtain walling and balustrades specialist operated out of a 26,000 sqft facility on Cowpen Lane Industrial Estates in Billingham.
  Present work included Wates’ £35m Central Science Labs projects for Teesside University where it was windows and doors subcontractor and Bowmer & Kirkland’s £90m Stepenson’s Building for Newcastle U
  
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