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• Ilke Homes put up for sale in battle to save modular builder

  09-06-2023 17:47
  
  Yorkshire-based modular house builder ilke Homes has been put up sale as the board and investors battle to save the loss-making business.
  The Enquirer understand that work stopped at both sites and its 250,000 sq ft factory in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire on Friday.
  Directors warned the business was struggling in the face of volatile macro-economic conditions and issues with the planning system complicate fundraising and housing delivery.
  A sale would allow the company to deliver its 4,200-hom
  
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• J S Wright lands latest package for Hill Group

  09-06-2023 16:41
  
  Mechanical and electrical building services provider J S Wright has secured a deal worth more than £2.5m for a major new development of all-affordable housing in Surrey.
  The Birmingham-based company is to design and build the mechanical services for all 97 apartments and communal spaces at Thames View House on Felix Road in Walton-on-Thames.
  The £20m one to two-bed scheme is being built with staggered heights from six to nine storeys by housebuilder The Hill Group for affordable hous
  
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• Barratt to demolish 36 new homes with faulty foundations

  09-06-2023 15:10
  
  Housing giant Barratt is set to demolish 36 new homes on an estate in Cambridge after finding faults in the foundations.
  Local paper the Cambridge Independent first revealed the problems on the Darwin Green site where Barratt David Wilson Homes Cambridgeshire is building a new community of nearly 1,600 homes.
  A spokesperson for Barratt David Wilson Homes Cambridgeshire said: “As a five-star housebuilder we have an extensive quality assurance process and during inspections we found that a s
  
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• Hercules Site Services boosts suction excavator fleet

  09-06-2023 14:48
  
  Hercules Site Services has taken delivery of its 30th RSP suction excavator.
  The latest investment in suction technology makes Hercules’ fleet of thirty excavators among the largest of any company in the UK.
  Chief executive Brusk Korkmaz said: “Suction excavation is a must for efficient, safety-focused projects. At Hercules, we pride ourselves on a high-quality, cost-effective service and our large fleet of RSP suction excavators enable us to provide that for all our customers.&rdquo
  
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• Search resumes for industry’s top construction managers

  09-06-2023 14:31
  
  The search for the industry’s best construction managers is back on as a new date for the coveted CIOB Awards is confirmed.Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) will host the event, formerly known as the Construction Manager of the Year Awards (CMYA), at London Hilton Metropole on 9 April 2024.
  They were due to be held in their regular October slot but have been pushed back due to a shortage of entries.
  Aspiring winners can enter their submissions online at Enter | CIOB Awards with catego
  
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• Firms readied for £750m Parliament repairs deal

  09-06-2023 09:18
  
  Construction firms are being called up to bid for a new Parliamentary Construction Works Framework to carry out interim repairs and improvements to the House of Commons and Lords estates.
  The £750m framework is being set up as a successor to the existing MEPFS (Mechanical, Electrical, Public health, and Fabric Safety) framework.
  This ends on the 31st March 2025.
  Run by the Strategic Estates it is running separately from the longer-term Palace of Westminster renewal plan which will ultimate
  
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• Magna Park developer to built 1.4m sq ft of spec sheds

  09-06-2023 08:54
  
  Logistic park developer GLP is set to speculatively develop 1.4m sq ft across four units at its Magna Park Lutterworth site in Leicestershire.
  GLP has received detailed planning permission for four new warehouses, three in Magna Park South, MPS Unit 9 (388,000 sq ft), MPS Unit 10 (119,000 sq ft) and MPS Unit 11 (136,000 sq ft) and one much larger building in Magna Park North, MPN 5, measuring 761 000 sq ft.
  The firm aims to steam ahead with construction work completing all sheds by the end of Sp
  
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• Magna Park developer to build 1.4m sq ft of spec sheds

  09-06-2023 08:54
  
  Logistic park developer GLP is set to speculatively develop 1.4m sq ft across four units at its Magna Park Lutterworth site in Leicestershire.
  GLP has received detailed planning permission for four new warehouses, three in Magna Park South, MPS Unit 9 (388,000 sq ft), MPS Unit 10 (119,000 sq ft) and MPS Unit 11 (136,000 sq ft) and one much larger building in Magna Park North, MPN 5, measuring 761 000 sq ft.
  The firm aims to steam ahead with construction work completing all sheds by the end of Sp
  
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• Bowmer + Kirkland bags £46m events centre in Derby

  09-06-2023 08:33
  
  Bowmer + Kirkland has been confirmed as main contractor on a new £45.8m performance venue in Derby.
  Construction work starts this month on the 3,500 capacity entertainment and events venue which  forms phase two of the £200m Becketwell regeneration scheme.
  Work is scheduled for completion in January 2025 for developer St James Securities and Peveril Securities who are the development arm of Bowmer + Kirkland and the funding and development partners for future phases of the Becke
  
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• Second staircases to delay resi tower projects by 9 months

  09-06-2023 08:15
  
  Cost consultant Arcadis has warned that the second staircase rule in the Capital will set back tall residential projects in procurement by up to 9 months.
  The firm also warns that the delay will be felt across the country once the Government introduces proposals for 11-storey and above block of flats across the country.
  In its latest tender price forecast for the UK, the cost consultant warned the new fire safety-based design delay would worsen the wider market slowdown.
  Simon Rawlinson, head of
  
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• Second staircases to delay resi projects by 9 months

  09-06-2023 08:15
  
  Cost consultant Arcadis has warned that the second staircase rule in the Capital will set back tall residential projects in procurement by up to 9 months.
  The firm also warns that the delay will be felt across the country once the Government introduces proposals for 11-storey and above block of flats across the country.
  In its latest tender price forecast for the UK, the cost consultant warned the new fire safety-based design delay would worsen the wider market slowdown.
  Simon Rawlinson, head of
  
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• Second staircase rule to delay resi tower projects by 9 months

  09-06-2023 08:15
  
  Cost consultant Arcadis has warned that the second staircase rule in the Capital will set back tall residential projects in procurement by up to 9 months.
  The firm also warns that the delay will be felt across the country once the Government introduces proposals for 11-storey and above block of flats across the country.
  In its latest tender price forecast for the UK, the cost consultant warned the new fire safety-based design delay would worsen the wider market slowdown.
  Simon Rawlinson, head of
  
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• Plan approved for tallest resi tower in Wales

  09-06-2023 01:12
  
  Developer Rightacres has got the planning thumbs up to build Wales’ tallest building in the centre of Cardiff.
  A 35-storey block of flats will be built at Wood Street around the city’s Central Square scheme. It will rise to 113m tall, edging above Swansea’s The Tower building at 107m.
  Design by Scott Brownrigg with McCann & Partners acting as M&E engineer and Jubb Consulting civil and structural engineer the project will provide 330 private rental flats.The ground floor
  
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