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• Five hospitals at risk of collapse added to new build programme

  25-05-2023 17:52 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Government has added five hospital projects to its £20bn building programme due to the risk of structural collapse because of weak concrete.
  It will prioritise rebuilding the five hospitals by 2030, which used limited life-span reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RACC) now at the end of its design life.
  As a result of this reprioritisation, as well as the rising cost of construction materials, up to eight schemes that were originally due to be constructed towards the end of the dec
  
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• Vinci issues fraud alert to suppliers

  25-05-2023 11:03 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Vinci Construction UK has issued a warning to subcontractors and suppliers who are being targeted by fraudsters posing as representatives of the contractor.
  The alert states: “It has come to our attention that several suppliers have been defrauded of materials and services by fraudsters impersonating VINCI Construction UK.
  “The impersonation is relatively sophisticated and is conducted via telephone and e-mail correspondence. This fraudulent correspondence is branded with the name an
  
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• Jaguar Land Rover set to build huge gigafactory in Somerset

  25-05-2023 09:36 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Jaguar Land Rover is set to confirm plans to build a giant car battery factory in Somerset.
  The UK Government is poised to seal a deal with the car manufacturer owner Tata to build the gigafactory near Bridgwater, according to BBC reports.
  It is reported that the £1bn car battery factory could get as much as £500m of public support.
  Gravity business park, a 600-acre former Royal Ordnance Factory site.
  It would be located at the Gravity business park, a 600-acre business park campus c
  
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• Quantum Construction collapse costs suppliers £4.3m

  25-05-2023 08:17 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Staffordshire based contractor Quantum Construction went down owing 267 suppliers more than £4m.
  An update filed at Companies House by liquidator Quantuma Advisory revealed the scale of the debts at the business when it collapsed in April.
  Unsecured trade creditors have been left holding unpaid invoices totalling £4.3m while Quantum also owed its 24 staff £194,000 in unpaid wages.The firm had been in business since 2002 working on new build and refurbishment projects across the
  
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• Green light for Trafford Waters 85-bed care home

  25-05-2023 07:56 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Healthcare developer Montpelier Estates has gained planning for an 85-bed dementia care home, located within Peel L&P’s Trafford Waters £1bn masterplan in Greater Manchester. 
  The project forms part of the first wave of 350 homes to come forward at Peel’s mixed-use development, which has outline planning to build 3,000 homes, a primary school, hotels, offices and a 20-acre public park.
  Anna Ciesielska, Director of Montpelier Estates said: “We are very pleased wit
  
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• Go-ahead for Brum iconic curved truss HS2 bridge

  25-05-2023 01:31 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Birmingham City council has nodded through plans for the 150m long HS2 viaduct into Birmingham’s new Curzon Street Station.
  The structure including a 25m-high curved truss set to become a new feature on the city’s skyline.
  Birmingham City Council have approved the design of the Curzon No.2 viaduct, which is the tallest structure in the sequence of viaducts and structures that make up the Curzon Street Approaches taking HS2 trains into Birmingham.The bridge consists of a gently curved
  
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