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• Kier appoints new London and southern chiefs

  23-10-2023 16:23 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Kier has decided to separate its London and Southern construction divisions into distinct operations again, just two years after merging the two business units.
  The U-turn sees former Morgan Sindall Northern Home Counties area director David Rowsell brought in as new managing director of Kier Construction London.
  Under Rowsell’s leadership, Kier Construction London will now focus on expanding its private sector offering in the capital to complement an already strong public sector base, whi
  
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• Pellikaan set to start £33m Essex leisure centre

  23-10-2023 12:07 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The UK arm of Dutch contractor Pellikaan Group is to start enabling works next month on a £33m project to build the new Epping leisure centre and swimming pool complex in Essex.
  The new centre will be located on Bakers Lane car park site and will provide a six-lane swimming pool, fitness suite, gym, studios, sports hall and two squash courts.Plans for the new Epping Leisure Centre were first approved by Epping Forest District Council in October 2021. Since then the project estimate has ris
  
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• Major health campus plan for Old Royal Liverpool Hospital

  23-10-2023 09:35 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Ambitious plans are being drawn up to convert the former Royal Liverpool  University Hospital into an Academic Health Sciences Campus.
  Senior leaders from the University and NHS Foundation Trust have struck a deal to advance plans for the site.
  The facility would house the University’s medical, dental, nursing and allied health professional students.Professor Louise Kenny, Executive Pro-Vice-Chancellor for the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at the University of Liverpool said: &l
  
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• Shed builder Readie revenue tops £400m

  23-10-2023 08:52 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Essex-based warehouse specialist Readie Construction has doubled in size since the owners sold to an employee-owned trust  over two years ago.
  The firm saw revenue jump 22% to £421m in the year to March 2023.
  Its expansion saw the business take on around 40 extra staff lifting head count to 260 staff.
  This compares with a business that employed 160 staff generating £180m turnover when the firm was sold to an EOT in March 2021.
  But a combination of supply chain failures, cost inf
  
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• Vistry appreciates “productive” chats with subbies over price cuts

  23-10-2023 08:37 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  House builder Vistry said it has held “productive discussions” with subcontractors over plans for 10% pay cuts on contracts.
  Vistry first floated the idea with subbies last month and has started holding meeting with suppliers in the last few weeks.
  In a trading update to the city today it said: “We appreciate the productive discussions we have had in recent weeks with our key supply chain partners to agree cost reductions for all our existing and future contracts.“With a
  
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• Forecasters now warn construction recession to last to 2025

  23-10-2023 08:20 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Forecasters have downgraded the expected construction recovery next year warning the industry is now set to remain in recession until the start of 2025.
  High interest rate will continue to drag down housing activity with infrastructure and even industrial activity expected to slide in 2024.
  The scale of next year’s contraction will be far less than this year’s expected 6.8% fall.According to the influential Construction Products Aassociation’s new Autumn forecast, contractors c
  
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• Whitby coast to get UK’s first Passivhaus hotel

  23-10-2023 08:19 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Leeds-based hotel specialist Silverstone Building Consultancy will project manage the construction of the UK’s first Passivhaus hotel.
  Developer Octopi Property appointed the firm to deliver plans to build the 20-bed luxury coastal hotel  at Runswick Bay, near Whitby in North Yorkshire.
  The Cliffemount hotel project will involve demolishing an existing 20-bed hotel. Subject to planning consent, construction is due to begin in late Spring 2024.Josh Brown, associate director at Silverst
  
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