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• M&S launches legal challenge to Gove store rebuild rebuff

  31-08-2023 20:55 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Retail giant M&S has launched a legal challenge against Michael Gove’s decision to refuse plans to demolish and rebuild its flagship store on Oxford Street.
  The Levelling Up Secretary’s decision in early August went against the recommendation of his planning inspectors.
  Plans for a new ten-storey steel and glass office complex on the site have been approved by Westminster City Council the GLA and planning inspector David Nicholson.But Gove and his department disagreed with the pl
  
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• Over 100 schools told to shut buildings over RAAC concrete

  31-08-2023 17:11 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  More than 100 schools are facing the immediate closure of buildings constructed from potentially dangerous aerated concrete panels.
  The Department for Education this week widened the scope of closures due to the use Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete during construction.
  In guidance issued just days before the new school year, education chiefs have said that all areas and buildings with RAAC must close regardless of earlier risk ratings.The fresh guidance to teachers states: “We have b
  
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• Haydon M&E went down owing £10m to supply chain

  31-08-2023 16:26 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Haydon Mechanical & Electrical fell into administration owing nearly £10m to suppliers and subcontractors.
  The scale of the debts is highlighted in an update from administrators at insolvency specialist Leading.
  The report also confirms that Leading will be looking-into the novation of contracts to a sister company called Millharbour FM Ltd before Haydown went into administration in early August.Companies house records show that Millharbour FM has some of the same directors as Haydon.
  
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• Laing O’Rourke lands £700m hospital contract

  31-08-2023 10:29 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Laing O’Rourke has been appointed preferred construction partner on a major new hospital job in Lanarkshire.
  The current estimate for construction cost alone to replace University Hospital Monklands is £700m but a final figure is yet to be determined.
  NHS Lanarkshire is looking to deliver Scotland’s first fully digital and net zero carbon hospital through the Monklands Replacement Project (MRP).Colin Lauder, NHS Lanarkshire Director of Planning, Property and Performance, said:
  
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• Henry Boot sells historic head office

  31-08-2023 09:13 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Henry Boot has completed the sale of its historic head office at Banner Cross Hall in Sheffield.
  The Grade II listed building has been used by Henry Boot since 1932 but the contractor is relocating to a new head office at the Isaacs Building in Sheffield city centre.
  Banner Cross Hall has been bought by Davison Property Investment who will restore it to provide modern workspace for local businesses to use on a flexible basis.Tim Roberts, Chief Executive Officer, Henry Boot said: “Banner Cr
  
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• Water pollution costs Keepmoat and Applebridge £135,000

  31-08-2023 08:04 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Keepmoat Homes and Applebridge Construction will donate a total of £135,000 to the Aire Rivers Trust after polluting Pitty Beck multiple times while building a new housing estate near Bradford.
  Site owner Keepmoat will donate £100,000 while subcontractor Applebridge will hand over £35,000.
  An investigation by the Environment Agency found that Pitty Beck was polluted a number of times between October 2016 and November 2018 while construction was underway.The companies submitted
  
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• Kier names new Eastern and Midlands director

  31-08-2023 06:56 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Kier health, safety and sustainability director Chris Lilley has been promoted to a regional director within the Eastern and Midlands region of the group’s construction business.
  Over the past two years, Lilley has created a new health, safety and wellbeing strategy and overseen a strong improvement in the Group’s safety performance.
  Chris has also played a leading role in the design and roll out of a culture programme across the Group, as well as developing Kier’s evolved sust
  
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• Morgan Sindall to build £20m R&D centre to decarbonise steel

  31-08-2023 06:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Morgan Sindall Construction is to design and build a £20m R&D facility in Neath Port Talbot to help steel and metal industries decarbonise.
  The net zero facility is the brainchild of Neath Port Talbot Council in partnership with Swansea University.
  To be known as SWITCH – South Wales Industrial Transition from Carbon Hub – Harbourside it will be located close to Tata Steel’s Port Talbot plant and is expected to take 18 months to complete.SWITCH Harbourside will be a p
  
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• Housing associations to cut home building by 22%

  31-08-2023 06:11 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A perfect storm of construction inflation, higher interest rates, decarbonisation work, regulatory pressures, and cost of debt is causing housing associations to slash building programmes.
  As increased build and finance costs bite, a third of housing associations in the UK are reporting a deficit of between 11-25% on individual development schemes.
  According to a new in-depth study, registered housing providers are now reining in affordable homes programmes, which across the UK will be hacked ba
  
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