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• Race for £490m North West & Central railway jobs

  20-06-2023 22:28 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Network Rail has started the hunt for firms to deliver £490m of large project works for control period 7 in its north west and central territory.
  Procurement chiefs aim to let several frameworks covering the “Backbone of Britain” route and this latest tender round covers procurement phase two known as Framework Category A.
  Procurement for phase one  – Framework Categories B,C & D – is being conducted separately and has already gone out to the market.The lar
  
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• McAlpine adopts AI technology from Buildots

  20-06-2023 16:10 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Sir Robert McAlpine has announced the adoption of ground-breaking AI technology platform Buildots, as its preferred partner.
  Buildots will automatically analyse data from Sir Robert McAlpine sites across the UK, captured by wearable 360-degree cameras.
  Using AI and computer vision, it generates true-to-life project progress reports, identifying risks of delays and opportunities for productivity gains, which in turn provides project managers with more control, outcome certainty, and facilitates s
  
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• Lyndon launches trio of new brochures

  20-06-2023 16:00 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Lyndon SGB by BrandSafway has launched a trio of new corporate brochures to showcase areas of its UK scaffolding and access sector business.The first is a heritage scaffolding brochure, showing the leading scaffolding firm’s expertise and experience in managing access on the UK’s premier historical construction and renovation projects, like Manchester Town Hall, Wentworth Woodhouse and Glasgow School of Art.The next is a focus on their MASTCLIMBERS business arm, showing off the natio
  
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• Causeway helps Balfour speed up payments

  20-06-2023 14:53 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Balfour Beatty and Causeway Technologies have joined forces to improve payment processes through digitalising Goods Received Notes (GRNs) and Proof of Delivery (POD) documents.
  Following consultation in 2019, the two organisations have revealed that a new solution, Causeway eGRN, is active on over 230 sites with 750 user accounts.
  Working in conjunction with Causeway’s Tradex invoicing solution, which Balfour Beatty has used for over 10 years, the Causeway eGRN solution is designed to digi
  
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• Berkeley bags £2.2bn Birmingham estate renewal

  20-06-2023 09:17 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Berkeley Group’s St Joseph Homes business is set to become development partner for the regeneration of the vast Ladywood Estate in Birmingham.
  The £2.2bn estate renewal scheme, set over 60 hectares, will take more than 20 years to deliver building 7,000 homes, new schools, 14 hectares of green space as well as two public parks.The city council’s cabinet is not set on 27 June to sign a development agreement with St Joseph’s.Cllr John Cotton, leader of Birmingham City Counc
  
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• Bid races for new Scape £4bn utilities works deals

  20-06-2023 09:16 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Procurement specialist Scape has launched the hunt for contractors to deliver specialist utilities civils and construction works.
  Two new 8-year frameworks are planned for the sector, one covering England, Wales and Northern Ireland and another Scotland.
  The frameworks will operate under a parallel lotting structure offering a choice of two contractors in the areas to deliver civil engineering and construction works.
  In Scotland, bidding firms will need to have a turnover of more than £100
  
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• Lovell hires former Stewat Milne regional MD

  20-06-2023 08:26 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Lovell Homes has appointed Paul Challinor to head its expanding North West operation.
  Challinor joins from his previous role as regional managing director at Stewart Milne, taking over the managing director position from Lee Sale, who left the company in January.
  In his new position, Challinor will be responsible for a number of key developments across the region.Coming from a finance background he previously held positions at Morris Homes, MyTravel and Thomas Cook. 
  Challinor said: “
  
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• Lovell hires former Stewart Milne regional MD

  20-06-2023 08:26 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Lovell Homes has appointed Paul Challinor to head its expanding North West operation.
  Challinor joins from his previous role as regional managing director at Stewart Milne, taking over the managing director position from Lee Sale, who left the company in January.
  In his new position, Challinor will be responsible for a number of key developments across the region.Coming from a finance background he previously held positions at Morris Homes, MyTravel and Thomas Cook. 
  Challinor said: “
  
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• Pre-pack deal saves staff jobs but subbies still owed £745,000

  20-06-2023 08:06 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A Yorkshire groundworks company has been sold out of administration in a pre-pack deal which saves the jobs of its 15 employees – but suppliers and subcontractors have been left holding £745,000 in unpaid invoices.
  YPP Groundworks & Civils Ltd went into administration earlier this month and has been acquired by Yorkshire Pro Paving Limited.
  Both companies have the same directors – Tom and Kylie Armitage.YPP had a turnover of £5.7m in the year to March 2022 but suffere
  
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