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• Skanska names new building services division MD

  17-05-2023 14:13 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Dan Williams has been appointed as managing director of Skanska UK’s building services operating unit.
  Williams moves into the managing director role from his current position of operations director, where he was responsible for facilities management operations in the healthcare, local authority and commercial office sectors.
  Prior to that, Williams held a number of senior roles within the MEP side of the business, having joined Skanska in 2001 from college, as part of a student engineer p
  
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• HS2 to hold bidders day for subcontractors

  17-05-2023 13:38 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  HS2 is planning a meet the main contractor bidders day ahead of the next tranche of subcontract work tenders to progress civil engineering works and station fit-outs.
  To showcase the next stream of package work opportunities due out this summer, HS2 and its main contractors are inviting firms to the event being held in Manchester or online for those unable to attend.
  The ‘Meet the Contractor’ event is designed to help businesses understand how to get ‘HS2-ready’ so they a
  
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• Countryside to rebuild London’s South Kilburn estate

  17-05-2023 12:56 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  North London’s Brent Council has selected Countryside Partnerships as its preferred bidder to build over 200 new homes on the South Kilburn estate.
  This is the second Countryside Partnerships project in South Kilburn and will sit alongside the North West Quarter development, together delivering 547 homes.
  The South Kilburn estate’s existing buildings – Neville House, Winterleys, 113-128 Carlton House and Carlton Hall – will be demolished shortly.
  The new scheme prioritise
  
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• Segro to invest £2bn on net-zero warehouses in Midlands

  17-05-2023 11:56 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Logistics and industrial park developer SEGRO has committed to invest £2bn over the coming decade to deliver next-generation, net-zero warehouse facilities in the West Midlands.
  The firm aims to deliver 13.5m sq ft of sustainable warehouse space across the West Midlands by the end of 2033, focused on tech-enabled logistics facilities, R&D space and light manufacturing.
  The investment will be focused on a mix of warehousing types across the region.
  Planned expansion of Segro Park Covent
  
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• Muse JV signs 1,000-home Bradford city village deal

  17-05-2023 08:59 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Bradford Council has signed a pre-development deal to work with The English Cities Fund to deliver a city village of 1,000 homes in the heart of the city centre.
  ECF is a strategic joint venture between regeneration specialist Muse, investor Legal & General and the government’s housing agency, Homes England.
  The partners will now explore and shape the key elements for delivery, funding and phasing of City Village, which will include the former Kirkgate and Oastler Markets area of the c
  
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• Developer Citu picked for £300m Sheffield scheme

  17-05-2023 08:35 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Plans for a city village in Sheffield are set to forge ahead after the city council signed a development deal with regeneration specialist Citu.
  The 23-acre urban regeneration scheme known as Attercliffe Waterside scheme will transform brownfield land either side of the Sheffield and Tinsley Canal.
  It will become one of the largest zero carbon communities in the UK, featuring more than 1,000 homes alongside creative workspaces, an arts venue and shops.Extensive remediation works will now get und
  
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• Lovell wins £50m east London 160 home scheme

  17-05-2023 08:28 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  London Borough of Redbridge has signed a £50m deal with Lovell Partnerships to deliver a near 160-home scheme on the site of a former school in Ilford.
  DDS Demolition has started site clearance and enabling works at the Loxford Lane with the aim of starting piling works in August.
  These homes will be a mixture of 1, 2 and 3-bed flats spread across four blocks of between 5 and 7 storeys as well as 17 family houses.
  The site will also see improvements to green and play areas as well as refus
  
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• RED starts net energy generating hotel job

  17-05-2023 08:15 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  RED Construction South West has started on site to deliver the £22m 4-star Zeal Hotel in Exeter, following planning consent.
  The pioneering Zeal hotel will include the integration of renewable energy sources both on and within the building fabric, to deliver an exceptionally low Energy Usage Intensity below 55kWh/m2, generating more energy each year than it consumes.
  Its design has been four years in the making bringing together both teams from Zeal Hotels, architect ECE Westworks, Introba
  
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• Cladding firm wins £1.7m payment battle with ISG

  17-05-2023 08:14 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Cladding contractor FK Construction has won a high court ruling enforcing an adjudication requiring ISG pay it £1.69m.
  ISG challenged the adjudicator’s award relating to Project Barberry, a warehouse project at an industrial park in Avonmouth Docks.
  The payment dispute over the £3.4m cladding subcontract arose when FK issued a £1.69m application for payment which was greeted with a payless notice and then not paid.
  An adjudicator ruled in FK’s favour in February dir
  
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