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• Laing O’Rourke plans to cut 200 staff jobs

  07-06-2023 18:40 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Laing O’Rourke has started staff consultations to streamline the UK business with up to 200 jobs losses.
  The firm blamed the weakening market and delays in publicly funded jobs for the planned redundancies, which will mainly impact the Dartford head office.
  Cathal O’Rourke, group chief operating officer, said: “Since the pandemic the UK market has weakened and we have seen delays to some of the major public works we have geared up for.
  “Therefore we need to reduce our ope
  
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• McLaren wins £28m East London health centre job

  07-06-2023 09:07 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  McLaren Construction has been awarded the £28m contract to build a health centre in East London.
  The St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub project in Hornchurch will bring together primary care, mental health and prevention services, along with cancer care and dialysis in purpose-built premises.
  McLaren will be using a hybrid of traditional and modern methods of construction for the three-storey building.Richard Eager, McLaren’s divisional director and head of healthcare, said:
  
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• Winners named for £500m Suffolk construction deal

  07-06-2023 08:44 via constructionenquirer.com
  Suffolk County Council has picked 14 general contractors and 7 building services specialists for its latest framework deal running to May 2027.
  The new iteration of the framework for the East of England consists of three separate construction lots and two building services lots.
  The introduction of building services lots will allow public sector partners access to firms carrying out decarbonisation works as well as other M&E-based project work, including EV charging points, solar panel insta
  
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• Unfit planning system means 4,700-year wait for onshore wind

  07-06-2023 08:35 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The current planning system will fail to deliver the Government’s ambitions to build infrastructure to build net zero goals or meet housing need.
  That is the conclusion of a damning report by the Institute for Public Policy Research, which is calling for a complete reset of planning.
  It warns that is would take 4,700 years for England to reach the onshore wind capacity called for by government advisers, at the current rate of development.Progress in England was stalled in 2015 when plannin
  
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• Illegal cartel whistleblower reward raised to £250,000

  07-06-2023 08:30 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Whistleblowers providing information on the operation of illegal cartels they have witnessed will now receive cash rewards of up to £250,000.
  The reward hike and guarantee of anonymity to whistleblowers is part of a major new campaign by the Competition and Markets Authority to crackdown on cartels.
  The cartel watchdog hopes to uncover more illegal activity in industry’s like construction where bid-rigging was recently uncovered among 10 demolition contractors and 12 years ago found
  
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• Illegal cartel whisletblower reward raised to £250,000

  07-06-2023 08:30 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Whistleblowers providing information on the operation of illegal cartels they have witnessed will now receive cash rewards of up to £250,000.
  The reward hike and guarantee of anonymity to whistleblowers is part of a major new campaign by the Competition and Markets Authority to crackdown on cartels.
  The cartel watchdog hopes to uncover more illegal activity in industry’s like construction where bid-rigging was recently uncovered among 10 demolition contractors and 12 years ago found
  
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