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• Murphy seals main build on £124m Essex station

  15-09-2023 11:42 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Network Rail has awarded the main £124m build contract to J Murphy & Sons Ltd for the new Beaulieu Park station in Chelmsford.
  Murphy was awarded the initial £37.8m enabling works contract for the station in January.
  Beaulieu Park station is currently expected to be completed by end of 2025. Once open, the station will be managed by Greater Anglia and served by its fleet of new trains with services into London.Katie Frost, Network Rail’s route director for Anglia said: &ldq
  
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• Focus on frameworks pays off for Applebridge

  15-09-2023 09:02 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A series of recent framework wins helped North East civils contractor Applebridge Construction boost turnover and profits in its latest results.
  Turnover at the civils and utilities specialist hit £62.5m for the year to April 30 2023 from £50.7m last time with pre-tax profits increasing to £5.4m from £3.5m.
  The Middlesbrough based firm is part of the Applebridge Family group which also includes the ZTL earthworks division and specialist plant hire and utilities operations
  
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• FM Conway revenue tops £500m

  15-09-2023 08:41 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Kent-based civil engineering contractor FM Conway has passed the £500m revenue milestone.
  The 12% uplift in turnover to £535m in the year to March 2023 was in part due to inflation and also new work wins, such as a five-year highway construction and maintenance contract for the City of London.
  The firm also secured a pot on the £1.3bn five-year National Highways pavement delivery framework for south and central England which got underway last March.
  The strong inflationary pres
  
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• Builder jailed for stealing wallet from site drying room

  15-09-2023 08:22 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A construction worker has been jailed after sneaking on to a site next to his own job and stealing a wallet from a drying room.
  Luke McAllister of Buntingford was working on a separate site, on the A1198 in Cambridgeshire last November when he trespassed on to the plot, went into site hut and took a wallet containing a bank card.
  The 35-year-old then walked over to a nearby petrol station and attempted to purchase a packet of cigarettes but the card was declined twice.The victim received a notif
  
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• HS2 leg to Manchester could be axed

  15-09-2023 08:02 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Contractors have warned the UK will become an international laughing stock if reports are true that the Government plans to axe the northern leg of HS2 to Manchester.
  Civil engineers have reacted with alarm warning the move would be short-sighted and undermine the UK net zero goals for 2050.
  Prime minister Rishi Sunak and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt are in talks about scrapping the project’s second stage in a bid to save £35bn for tax cuts ahead of the next general election, according to
  
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