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• Sir Robert McAlpine chief Paul Hamer exits

  16-02-2024 12:19 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Paul Hamer has stepped down as chief executive of Sir Robert McAlpine and been replaced by former Lendlease chief Neil Martin.
  Hamer has been on gardening leave for several weeks prompting rumours in the industry about his looming departure.
  Sir Robert McAlpine announced changes at the top in an email to staff this morning.
  It is understood to come as McAlpine struggles to bed down its new operating structure, which switched from a regional to a national sector-based operating model.The statemen
  
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• Building control system on verge of collapse

  16-02-2024 11:29 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Building control chiefs are warning that councils will not be able to offer inspections from April when a new competence regime is due to come into force.
  The HSE-run Building Safety Regulator requires all building control professionals to be registered and prove their competence by April 6 as part of the post-Grenfell industry shake-up.
  At least 4,500 qualified inspectors are understood to be needed to cope with current workloads.But trade body LABC is warning the government that nowhere near t
  
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• Ford Dagenham site revamp to hit nearly 4,000 homes

  16-02-2024 08:51 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Developer Countryside Partnerships and housing association L&Q have secured planning approval for nearly 4,000 homes at their £1bn Beam Park regeneration scheme in Essex to transform the derelict site of a former Ford car manufacturing plant.
  The latest approval from the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham is for phases B-G of Beam Park.The new plans include an uplift of 947 homes meaning that when added to the two phases already delivered, 3,947 homes will be created in total. Ph
  
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• £90m Manchester zig-zag library approved

  16-02-2024 08:43 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Manchester Metropolitan University has got the green light to build a landmark campus library in the heart of the city.
  Architects Hawkins\Brown and Schmidt Hammer Lassen designed the futuristic-looking building that will replace the current library at All Saints on Oxford Road.
  Demolition works are expected to begin on site in the Autumn of 2024. Construction is due to complete in spring 2028, with the library ready for the start of the 2028/29 Academic year.
  The new 13-storey institution will
  
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• Mace clear to start £34m weather-watching HQ job

  16-02-2024 08:42 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Mace has got the go-ahead to start construction this November on an headquarters for research of medium-range weather forecasts at the University of Reading.
  The Government Property Agency was granted planning permission yesterday to push ahead with cutting-edge headquarters, which will house 300 scientists at the University’s Whiteknight’s campus.
  The HQ will mean Reading will house one of the largest clusters of weather and climate research and operational forecasting facilities in
  
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• Go-ahead for UK’s largest mass timber structure neighbourhood

  16-02-2024 08:41 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Campaigning development company Human Nature has secured planning for a 685-home riverside estate conceived, built and operated on circular principles and community-first thinking.
  The Lewes-based company, which was founded by former Greenpeace directors Michael Manolson and Jonathan Smales, has called on a dozen architects to design the UK’s ‘most sustainable neighbourhood’.
  Its visionary project, known as the Phoenix, will transform a former industrial site in Lewes, East Sus
  
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