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• Revamp for CSCS skills card website

  06-11-2023 16:47 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) has launched its new and improved official website.
  The launch is the culmination of a comprehensive overhaul aimed at providing a more efficient and user-friendly experience for those looking to apply for a CSCS card.
  Following an extensive consultation and research process, incorporating feedback from various industry stakeholders and organisations, the new website boasts a sleek and contemporary design coupled with an easy-to-use menu naviga
  
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• IBMG strengthens senior management team

  06-11-2023 14:13 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Independent Builders Merchant Group, owner of 20 key builders merchant brands across the south of England, has strengthened its leadership team with several promotions.
  With immediate effect, former MD at group company Grant & Stone, Peter Cudd, takes on the role of chief commercial officer and Allun Pittingale is promoted to chief operations officer for the group.
  Cudd will be responsible for category, pricing, product information and marketing functions and will lead the integrati
  
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• Subcontractor prices fall for first time in over three years

  06-11-2023 11:08 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Construction buyers have seen the first fall in subcontractor prices in just over three years as output fell again sharply in October.
  The steep fall in house building is continuing to weigh heavily on overall construction activity. Also fragile client confidence and elevated borrowing costs were blamed for the fall in new work for the third month running
  The bellwether S&P Global/CIPS UK Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index registered 45.6 in October, up slightly from 45.0 in Septe
  
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• McLaren wins London office retrofit for Crown Estate

  06-11-2023 09:44 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Crown Estate has picked McLaren Construction to deliver a full retrofit of the former British Council building near the Mall in central London.
  Its 10 Spring Gardens office revamp will be one of the first in a series of development projects for The Crown Estate within its prime London portfolio.
  Nestled in a historic area of London between The Mall and Trafalgar Square with views over St James’s Park, the project will upgrade the 8-storey building to achieve a NABERS 5* rating, EPC A a
  
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• Engineering construction workers reject 15% pay deal

  06-11-2023 08:59 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  More than 3,000 engineering construction workers have rejected the latest employers’ pay offer and are poised to take strike action.
  The ballot on the latest improved offer of 10% for 2024 and a further 5% for 2025 closed Friday and saw a majority of 86% turn the deal down.
  GMB officials will meet with union reps today to discuss next steps and a strategy for industrial action.Charlotte Brumpton-Childs, GMB National Officer, said: “Engineering construction worker’s pay has plum
  
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• £45m North London Council HQ revamp up for grabs

  06-11-2023 08:50 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  North London’s Haringey Council is starting the hunt for a contractor to deliver full a refurbishment an expansion of the grade II listed civic centre.
  Designed by architect Hawkins\Brown, the £45m project will provide the 66-year-old headquarters building on Wood Green High Road with a new annexe, offices, and restored civic spaces.
  The building was the first civic centre of its size to be built after the Second World War and was listed in 2018.A three-storey office block will be c
  
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• L&G modular homes foray amassed £295m of losses

  06-11-2023 08:44 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  L&G’s modular housing business amassed accumulated losses of £295m in its abortive foray to modernise the house building industry with factory-assembled homes.
  Latest results posted since the decision to close its modular 550,000 sq ft factory near Selby reveal the business lost just over £120m last year year capping off seven years of heavy losses.
  The firm also revealed after closing its North Yorkshire factory this summer, it now planned to wind down operations and commi
  
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• Labourer cheats death in demolition masonry fall

  06-11-2023 08:24 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A Woolwich labourer is ‘lucky to be alive’ after part of a Victorian building fell on him during demolition work in Kilburn, North West London.
  MAC Demolition Ltd has been fined £60,000 after Tommy Brooks was left with life changing injuries. The 57-year-old had been employed on the site as a labourer for three months before the incident.
  The company had been contracted to carry out soft stripping works on the Victorian property on Willesden Lane as well as the demolition of it
  
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