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• Sisk names new data centres regional director

  15-02-2024 18:37 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Sisk has appointed John Hennessey as regional director at its data centre division.
  Hennessey joins Sisk from global data centre specialist STACK Infrastructure where he served as construction director EMEA with responsibility for the delivery of its data centre projects across Europe.
  He brings nearly 40 years of experience delivering complex projects in Ireland, the UK and Europe.Owen Sisk, managing director of data centres, said: “We are pleased to welcome John to our team as we look to
  
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• Director and site manager sentenced after labourer crushed

  15-02-2024 15:31 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A construction company has been fined £450,000 and the firm’s director has received a suspended prison sentence after a labourer was crushed to death at a building site.
  Simon Briggs, 61, principal director of Stonehurst Estates Ltd, was sentenced to 23 weeks’ imprisonment, suspended for 18 months, for a health and safety offence following the death of 49-year-old Oleksander “Sasha” Rudyy at a development site in Hockley, Birmingham, on May 8, 2019.
  Site foreman Vas
  
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• Balfour starts £171m Sussex Uni student DBFO job

  15-02-2024 12:31 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Balfour Beatty has just started work on a 1900-bed student accommodation scheme for Sussex University after closing a 54-year design, build, finance and maintain deal.
  The West Slope Residences is the next stage in the Unversity’s campus modernisation plan, which saw Balfour deliver the East Slope Residences project back in 2020.
  Balfour Beatty Investments will invest £32m to take 81% of the project equity, with the University of Sussex acting as a co-investor providing the remaining
  
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• Construction new work activity fell 2% in 2023

  15-02-2024 09:38 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Construction new work contracted by 2% last year as the slowdown in house building dragged the industry down.
  But despite the fall in new work activity, a sharp 8.3% rise in RMI work managed to lift the industry’s overall output into positive growth of 2% last year.
  Latest figures from the Office for National Statistics this picture was mirrored in the latest quarterly construction output figures today, which fell by 1.3% in Q4 compared with Q3.
  The decline came solely from a decrease in n
  
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• BAM Construction falls £13m into red

  15-02-2024 09:22 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Supply chain issues and cost overruns at a large project plunged BAM’s UK building business to a £13m loss last year.
  But the problems at BAM Construction were avoided at the Dutch construction group’s UK civils business.
  BAM Nuttall consolidated its position as the biggest of the two UK businesses while putting in a stellar performance more than trebling profit to £66m from £19m in 2022.The strong improvement at civil engineering came from improved project results
  
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• Robot brickies a step closer to working on sites

  15-02-2024 09:21 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A robotics startup has secured £20m in funding to scale-up the number of brick-laying machines it can deploy on sites across Europe and increase the types of blocks and construction tasks the robots can manage.
  The UK is a core target market for Dutch based firm Monumental which completed its first large-scale 15-metre facade for an office and warehouse building last year.
  Contractors can hire Monumental as a subcontractor to bring in its robots to work as bricklayers autonomously across t
  
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• McLaren confirms £132m London House of Fraser revamp

  15-02-2024 08:27 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  McLaren Construction has confirmed it has signed a £132m deal to overhaul the flagship House of Fraser store on London’s Oxford Street.
  The firm will repurpose the art deco landmark with an extensive programme of repair and refurbishment to produce a 34,000 sq m mixed-use development containing retail, office, leisure and catering elements.
  The building is badly damaged by ‘Regent Street disease’ a condition affecting early 20th Century buildings with steel structures cla
  
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• Oxford United plans first UK all-electric stadium

  15-02-2024 08:02 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Oxford United have unveiled plans to build the first stadium in the country powered solely by electricity.
  The club would use a low-carbon energy supply to create its ‘all-electric’, 16,000-seat stadium.
  After an extensive site search, Kidlington five miles to the north of the city centre, has been identified as the only viable available site for the new home of Oxford United.Oxfordshire County Council’s cabinet has given consent to lease this proposed Triangle site in Kidlingt
  
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• Green light for new Thames logistics wharf

  15-02-2024 07:59 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Developer Henley Investment Management has secured planning consent to revamp the Albert and Swedish Wharf in Fulham.
  The scheme will transform the two-acre site by Wandsworth Bridge on the north bank of the Thames to provide a 55,000 sq ft logistics facility.
  Cargo boats will bring goods up the River Thames to dock in the scheme’s newly operational ground-floor wharf, enabling them to be sustainably distributed across London. The planning application includes a new jetty to improve capaci
  
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