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• Former Carillion director banned for 11 years

  03-07-2023 16:55 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The former finance chief of Carillion has been banned from being a company director for 11 years.
  Zafar Khan has been hit with the ban by the Insolvency Service.
  A spokesperson said: “The Insolvency Service, acting on behalf of The Secretary of State for Business and Trade, has accepted a disqualification undertaking from Zafar Iqbal Khan for 11 years for his conduct as a director of Carillion Plc.“As the litigation against the remaining directors is ongoing, with a trial set to comm
  
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• Careys looks to bounce back after £35m construction loss

  03-07-2023 14:16 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Civils and construction specialist Careys is looking to bounce back from a “turbulent” year which saw the main contracting business record a £35m loss.
  Accounts filed for parent company Araglin Holdings Ltd for the year to September 30 2022 show a record pre-tax profit of £30m from a turnover of £366m bolstered by a £65m profit from property and land sales.
  But the main contracting division was plunged into the red by a number of problem contracts, project del
  
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• Lendlease Europe names new CEO

  03-07-2023 09:44 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Lendlease has announced that the head of its Italy and Continental Europe business, Andrea Ruckstuhl, has become new CEO of its overall European operations.
  He takes over from CEO Europe, Neil Martin, who retires this September.
  Joining the company in 2005, Ruckstuhl has more than 25 years’ real estate experience – including more than 18 years with Lendlease.
  He has played a pivotal role in establishing the group as a leading real estate company in Italy across the investments, devel
  
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• Weston launches £45m robotic MMC factory

  03-07-2023 09:18 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  British Offsite, the MMC specialist business owned by house builder Weston Group, has launched its £45m automated factory to produce light gauge steel panel systems for the industry.
  The firm has invested in the new 137,000 sq ft Horizon factory in Braintree banking on the flexibility its system offers building designers over box-like volumetric designs.
  Bob Weston, Chairman of British Offsite & Weston Group, said: “The launch of the ‘Horizon’ factory has created one
  
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• Fire safety experts wanted for new £140m framework

  03-07-2023 08:42 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Specialists are being urged to join a new framework to supply fire safety measures for the public sector.
  LHC Procurement Group’s Fire Safety (FS2) Framework is now open for prospective suppliers across the country to apply until mid-August.
  The deal is worth £105m in England, £20m in Scotland and £15m in Wales and will feature six spaces per lot, per regional area.FS2 will provide new or replacement passive and active fire protection measures for existing and new domesti
  
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• McAvoy seals £37m deal for modular Essex school

  03-07-2023 08:23 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Offsite specialist McAvoy has signed off a £37.5m deal to build a new eight-form secondary school building to be located in Grays, Essex.
  Work on the new Orsett Heath Academy is set to start on site this August.
  The project suffered a major delay moving to construction as a result of the collapse of offsite specialist Caledonian Modular, which originally was in line to deliver the three-storey school building.Stride Treglown Architects designed the new 1,200-pupil school with input fr
  
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• PP O’Connor wins Fiddlers Ferry blow down

  03-07-2023 08:20 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Manchester demolition contractor PP O’Connor has clinched the job to blow down the cooling towers at Warrington’s iconic Fiddlers Ferry power station.
  The first stage of demolition will include the phased demolition of the coal stock yard, four northern cooling towers and some of the former administrative buildings to the north of the site.
  It is anticipated the site’s cooling towers will be blown down by the end of January 2024.
  Developer Peel NRE, which acquired the decommiss
  
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