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• ACS launches “game changing” Intex range

  09-05-2023 13:51 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Structural building components specialist ACS Stainless Steel Fixings (ACS) has launched Intex Fire Protect.
  It is the first masonry support system combining four critical components in one easy-to-fit design – meaning it is over 40% faster to install.
  Paul Ruding, Strategic Specification Director at ACS, said: “It has been created to overcome previous issues of overly complex design, cavity congestion, incompatible parts and incorrect installation, whilst Intex Fire Protect is also
  
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• Tilbury Douglas names new South Wales chief

  09-05-2023 11:13 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Tilbury Douglas has promoted Chris Edmonds to become regional director for South Wales.
  His promotion follows the retirement of Carl Read, who worked at Tilbury Douglas for almost 40 years, having started his career as a general building operative in 1983.
  Since starting at Tilbury Douglas in 2006, Edmonds has progressed through a variety of senior roles, most recently as regional operations director for South Wales.
  He also spent five years leading the £130m refurbishment of Prince Charle
  
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• Major roof truss maker calls in administrators

  09-05-2023 09:40 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Timber frame and roof truss specialist Robinson Manufacturing Ltd has been placed into administration.
  The Northamptonshire headquartered business turned over more than £35m according to last published accounts and operated out of several branches across the south, Midlands and Wales.
  Despite challenges posed by Covid and timber prices, the firm had been expanding and bought Cardiff-based Castleoak Offsite Manufacturing from administrators just 18 months ago.The firm is understood to emplo
  
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• FM Conway buys Flowline from administrators

  09-05-2023 09:05 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  FM Conway has bought Essex based drainage specialist Flowline out of administration saving the jobs of 164 staff.
  Flowline was placed in the hands of administrator pwc last Friday when it was also renamed as F (Realisations) 2023 Limited.
  Pwc said: “Immediately following their appointment, the joint administrators successfully completed the sale of predominantly all of the Company’s business and assets, to FM Conway Limited.“The sale has secured the ongoing employment of all of
  
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• Costain’s major M62 upgrade axed over soaring costs

  09-05-2023 08:43 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Highways England has scrapped Costain’s major project to install concrete central reserve barriers on the M62 across the Pennines on the eve of main works starting.
  The M62 J20-25 project between Rochdale and Brighouse was originally conceived as a smart motorway scheme but had already been down-sized to a central reserve upgrade.
  Now the projected cost of the 19-mile central reserve upgrade has soared so high that Highways England has axed the scheme.It will now syphon off allocated fundi
  
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• Firms readied for £2.8bn Yorkshire Water bid races

  09-05-2023 08:42 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Yorkshire Water has put contractors on bid alert for two major framework deals worth around £2.8bn.
  These two frameworks will look to deliver water and wastewater asset investment over the next 10 years, and deliver on the water company’s drive to make substantial reductions in sewage overflows into watercourses.
  Planned works will cover the AMP8 regulatory period running from April 2025 to March 2030, with options to extend to APM9.A bidders day is due to be held on 5 June for the &
  
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