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• Worker killed at new Everton stadium site

  14-08-2023 18:05 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A man has died following an accident at the new Everton stadium construction site on Monday.
  Workers were told to leave the Bramley Moore Dock site where Laing O’Rourke is main contractor on the £500m job.
  The 26-year-old victim is understood to have suffered severe head injuries and was treated at the scene but declared dead at Aintree  Hospital a short time later.A spokesman for Merseyside Police told the Liverpool Echo: “We can confirm that a man has died following an i
  
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• Winners named on £1.6bn NHS consultancy framework

  14-08-2023 15:51 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The winners have been confirmed for places on the latest £1.6bn NHS Shared Business Services Construction Consultancy framework.
  The new framework agreement offers the NHS and other public sector organisations a compliant and cost-effective route for procuring construction-related services including architecture, civil and structural engineering and surveying.
  Melissa King, NHS SBS senior category manager – Construction & Infrastructure, said: “To achieve the level of inves
  
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• Contractor wanted for Super Sewer testing phase

  14-08-2023 08:58 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  London’s new super sewer client Tideway is set to start the hunt for a contractor to maintain thousands of infrastructure assets through the project’s performance and reliability testing phase.
  With the main tunnel and its connection tunnels fully excavated and more than 85% of the construction work complete, the Tideway team is preparing to enter a phase of ‘system acceptance’ – essentially, ensuring the super sewer and its associated infrastructure functions as de
  
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• Green light for Manchester Georgian student scheme

  14-08-2023 08:43 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Student accommodation specialist Alumno is set to start a new project on Moss Lane East in Manchester following a successful planning application.
  Manchester City Council has approved the development, which is designed by architects Carson Sall and comprises a new build nine-storey block along with the refurbishment of an adjacent listed Georgian Villa overlooking Whitworth Park.
  The scheme will house 261 students in a mix of cluster en-suite rooms and self-sufficient studios, including a propor
  
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• Metal thieves strip Nottingham £8m building job

  14-08-2023 08:40 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Nottingham police are on the hunt for a gang of metal thieves that struck at a five-storey luxury care home project in the city.
  Thousands of pounds worth of copper piping and stainless steel were stolen from Midlands contractor Sandycroft’s building site in West Brighford.
  The firm was well advanced on the £8m project to build the 72-bed Trent Bridge care home project at the Loughborough Road and Bridgford Road junction.Police say the gang struck after workmen packed up on Monday af
  
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• Government demands single-sex toilets in new buildings

  14-08-2023 08:26 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The government is accelerating new building requirements for separate male and female toilets in new non-domestic private and public developments.
  The move is designed to “reverse the rise of gender-neutral toilets as part of wider efforts to protect single sex spaces.”
  Kemi Badenoch, Minister for Women and Equalities, said: “It is important that everybody has privacy and dignity when using public facilities. Yet the move towards ‘gender neutral’ toilets has removed
  
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• Plans in to convert Middleton cotton mill to 280 flats

  14-08-2023 08:19 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The UK arm of Chinese developer Kam Lei Fong has lodged plans with Rochdale Council to convert an historic cotton mill into over 280 flats.
  The plan to convert the derelict grade-II listed Warwick Mill in Middleton has been designed by GMA Architecture and will also include a new 10-storey build block alongside the Victorian mill that will accommodate around half the planned new flats.
  WSP is advising Kam Lei Fong on its proposals, which also include a rooftop extension, space for a new restaura
  
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• Brims wins £15m Sunderland construction academy

  14-08-2023 08:02 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Sunderland City Council has signed off a £15m deal with Brims Construction to design and build the Housing Innovation and Construction Skills Academy planned for the city.
  The project was to be delivered by Tolent Construction but stalled when the North East builder collapsed into administration last February.
  At the time Brims, which is run by the two sons of former Tolent founder John Wood, stepped in to buy just the Teesside operation of the crashed building group, saving around 150 job
  
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