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• FP McCann opens new concrete roof tile factory

  12-09-2023 18:02 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  FP McCann has opened a £30m state-of-the art concrete roof tile manufacturing facility which will supply an extensive range of concrete roofing products to the housing and commercial sectors.
  The brand-new fully automated facility based at the Company’s Cadeby precast site near Nuneaton in Leicestershire, has the capacity to produce 60 million roof tiles per annum and is 100% powered by solar panels.
  Concrete tiles together with complementary accessories are all designed and tested t
  
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• Kier gets start date for delayed £36m eye hospital

  12-09-2023 16:18 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Kier can finally start construction later this year on the new £36m Sunderland Eye Hospital.
  Kier was appointed preferred bidder back in November 2021 with work originally due to start in the summer of 2022.
  Leaders at South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust and Sunderland City Council have now given the green light to sign contracts with Kier with work expected to start on site before Christmas.The construction phase for the new Eye Hospital is expected to take two years once w
  
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• Go-ahead for 35-storey London Old Street tower

  12-09-2023 09:11 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Developer Endurance Land has got the planning green light to retrofit and extend an outdated 1990s office at Old Street roundabout on the City Fringe in London.
  The landmark transformation project has been designed Kohn Pedersen Fox for 99 City Road and will provide 650,000 sq ft of space for tech clients.
  New building will offer around 480,000 sq ft of office space and a 3,000 sq ft great room for conferences and public use.
  The site is presently the headquarters of satellite communications gro
  
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• Bidding deadline extended for frameworks worth £4bn

  12-09-2023 08:59 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  EN:Procure is extending the bidding deadline for two major frameworks worth nearly £4bn.
  The procurement specialist said the move was to ensure “ the highest quality of bids and allow as many businesses as possible the opportunity for selection.” 
  Its£3.2bn Installation and Repairs Framework had an original prequal questionnaire deadline of September 1 which has now been put back to September 29.For more information or to register an interest, click here.
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• Plans in for £100m Leith harbour housing blocks

  12-09-2023 08:58 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Property developer S Harrison Developments has lodged a planning application for a £100m residential-led development on the waterfront in Leith, Edinburgh.
  Architect CDA has drawn up the Ocean Point 2 scheme which will consist of two buildings containing over 400 beds of student accommodation and 120 build to rent homes.
  It has been estimated that 325 jobs will be created directly in the construction of the overall scheme.Ocean Point 2 neighbours Ocean Terminal, which is set to undergo a &
  
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• Inland Homes breaches loan covenant

  12-09-2023 08:28 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Cash-strapped house builder and brownfield developer Inland Homes has breached a loan covenant with banker HSBC.
  In a stock exchange announcement the firm confirmed: “Inland Homes has advised HSBC that  it considers that its subsidiary Inland Homes Developments Ltd is in breach of certain historic and forward looking covenants in relation to a debt facility of £13.6m provided to that company. 
  “The facility is guaranteed by Inland Homes plc. “The total amou
  
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• Birmingham City appoint Mace to finish Buckingham stands

  12-09-2023 08:19 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Birmingham City Football Club has appointed Mace as construction manager to oversee its stadium redevelopment following the collapse of original contractor Buckingham Group.
  Work restarted on the Tilton Lower and Kop Lower stands on Monday to boost the capacity of St. Andrew’s close to 30,000.
  Birmingham City will assume responsibility for the management of all subcontractors working on the remedial works and the project is now expected to be completed before the end of November 2023.Birmi
  
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• Sir Robert McAlpine tops August contracts ranking

  12-09-2023 08:06 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Final sign-off on the new Museum of London and Tollworth mental hospital projects catapulted Sir Robert McAlpine to the top of the August contracts league rankings.
  BAM ranked second with a brace of contract wins in Scotland each worth around £80m. These included the South and West Fife High School and Kinardochy substation for SSEN Transmission in Perthshire.Top 10 contractors by work confirmed in August
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  According to data compiled by Barbour ABI,
  
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• Planned school rebuilds won’t be bumped by RAAC projects

  12-09-2023 08:04 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Department for Education civil servants have confirmed that already committed to school building projects will not be bumped from the existing programme due to the crisis caused by crumbly concrete.
  Top civil servants yesterday confirmed that 400 school projects already identified will remain in the Government’s 10-year school programme to build 500 schools.
  Quizzed yesterday by watchdog MPs on the Public Accounts Committee, DfE permanent secretary Susan Acland-Hood insisted the government
  
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