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• 140 jobs axed as HB Projects goes under

  03-11-2023 09:23 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Bradford-based specialist retail contractor HB Projects has ceased trading with the loss of around 140 jobs.
  Directors broke the news that they had filed a notice to appoint administrators to staff at the firm’s HQ in Bradford as well as Livingtone and Gatwick offices.
  The firm, which was set up 30 years ago, struggled through Covid when workloads fell but was finally felled by project delays, creating the cashflow crisis at what would normally be its busiest time.A statement issued yester
  
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• Nixon Hire to put 500 machines under the hammer

  03-11-2023 09:06 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Euro Auctions is set to sell off Nixon Plant’s rental fleet in a four-day super auction in Leeds.
  Nixon Hire plans to offload 500 machines as part of a fleet rationalisation following the announcement of a new growth strategy at the hirer to focus on wellfare and site accommodation.
  Large plant will continue to be an offer within the north-east of England through Newcastle and Stockton depots.In all other areas large plant requirements will be met through strategic partnerships with Nixon
  
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• Manchester Met Uni submits ‘visionary’ library plan

  03-11-2023 08:47 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Manchester Metropolitan University has unveiled plans to build a landmark campus library in the heart of the city.
  Architects Hawkins\Brown and Schmidt Hammer Lassen are designing the futuristic-looking building that will replace the current library at All Saints on Oxford Road.
  If the planning application is approved, work will start next summer with full completion by 2028.
  As well as space for students, the building would be home to the Manchester Poetry Library and would also house a new gal
  
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• Data centres waste heat to warm thousands of homes

  03-11-2023 08:45 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Government is injecting £65m into funding five big district heating schemes, including constructing the UK’s first heat network using waste heat from data centres to heat over 10,000 London homes.
  Grants from the Green Heat Network Fund will allow the big district heating projects in London, Watford, Suffolk and Lancaster to proceed.
  London’s Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation scheme in west London will get just over half the funding for its ambitious scheme to
  
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• Subbies raise concerns over Colmore Tang

  03-11-2023 08:44 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Subcontractors working for Birmingham based Colmore Tang have raised the alarm after the company’s website disappeared and the head office phones stopped working this week.
  The Colmore Tang main website is now showing as expired and calls to the head office say the number is no longer recognised.
  One subcontractor said: “We are trying to get in touch with them about money we are owed but it doesn’t look good.”Latest abridged accounts for the year to May 20022 showed a pre
  
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