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• Ilke Homes falls into administration

  30-06-2023 13:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Modular house builder ilke Homes has been placed into administration after failing to find a buyer for the business.
  Clare Kennedy, Joint Administrator and a Partner & Managing Director at AlixPartners said: “This is an incredibly difficult time for all associated with ilke Homes, and in particular its employees, who have worked tirelessly alongside management over recent months to find a resolution.
  “Unfortunately, the market and economic headwinds have proven too strong to over
  
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• CITB offers £500,00 for any training ideas

  30-06-2023 09:31 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The CITB has launched a new campaign that states: “Have you got a big idea that could have a positive impact on the construction industry? The Industry Impact Fund could be just what you need to turn that idea into a reality.”
  The “innovative new fund invites CITB-registered employers to apply for up to £500,000.”
  The wording continues: “Being the first of its kind for CITB, the fund will pilot a new way of supporting the needs of industry by putting employers
  
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• Super sewer contractors safe from Thames Water crisis

  30-06-2023 09:16 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Contractors working on the £4.1bn Thames Tideway project will still get paid whatever happens to debt stricken client Thames Water.
  The company told the Enquirer that the massive infrastructure project will not be hit by the doubts over its financial future.
  A debt mountain of £14bn has left Thames Water on the brink of possible administration as it scrambles for cash from investors.Some of the industry’s biggest names including Ferrovial, Laing O’Rourk, BAM Nuttall,Morga
  
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• Springfield boss one-man protest over ‘snail’s pace’ planning

  30-06-2023 09:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The chief of one of Scotland’s largest independent house builders stage a one-man protest yesterday featuring an eight foot snail to highlight the slow pace of planning at Stirling Council.
  Sandy Adam, Chairman of Springfield Properties’, has challenged Stirling Council on the considerable delays by planning officials to progress housing at Durieshill. 
  He said Springfield had waited a staggering 287 weeks since planning was submitted for the development and still has failed to
  
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• Costain cuts payments to company pension scheme

  30-06-2023 08:43 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Costain has struck a deal to cut payments to the company’s pension scheme releasing more cash to invest in operations.
  Monthly payments to the defined pension scheme had increased to an annual payment of nearly £12m, paid in monthly instalments.
  But a new deal reached with pension trustees will see the payment cut to £3.3m a year, plus inflationary increases.The scheme funding position at 31 March 2022 was a deficit of £25.1m – a funding level of around 97%.
  Going f
  
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• Domis to build 37-storey Manchester resi job

  30-06-2023 08:24 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Domis Construction has taken the construction contract to build a £125m apartment block in Manchester’s Deansgate area.
  The Vision development on Whitworth Street has been designed by JM Architects and will comprise 327 one, two and three-bed flats over 37 storeys.
  The building will also boast a gym, yoga and spin studio, cinema as well as concierge and resident lounge areas.Paul Strutt, director at Domis, said: “Vision is set to be an impressive residential tower and we are de
  
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• Ant Yapi takes big fit-out job at Chelsea Barracks

  30-06-2023 08:23 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Turkish-owned London specialist builder Ant Yapi UK has secured a major build project at the Chelsea Barracks redevelopment in South West London.The firm will deliver the fit-out for building 8 at the Belgravia scheme, which forms part of phase four of the long-running project.Multiplex is the principal contractor for phase four, which consists of three blocks, arranged around a private courtyard.The designer for this phase is Eric Parry Architects. Previously Ardmore delivered fit-out on the ot
  
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• HS2 team starts on UK’s first double composite viaduct – video

  30-06-2023 08:08 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The first of 38 French-made steel beams that will be used to construct the UK’s first ‘double composite’ structure viaduct have arrived at HS2’s Wendover Dean site in Buckinghamshire.
  Manufactured by Eiffage Metal 560 miles away at a specialist facility in France, each of the 25m long steel beams are being transported on the back of extra-long lorries to the Buckinghamshire site.
  Engineers have come up with the innovative design to create a lower carbon structure than tra
  
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• Construction workers secure 7.6% pay increase

  30-06-2023 01:09 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Construction unions and contractors have agreed a pay increase from next month of at least 6% for around 500,000 site workers operating under the Construction Industry Joint Council agreement.
  In a two-stage CIJC deal, workers will receive a further 1.5% rise from 1 January 2024, delivering a compound increase of around 7.6%.
  Additionally, the lowest pay rate for labourers will increase by 8%, with the entire increase being introduced in July.
  The improvement in the labourer’s rate follows
  
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