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• City of London hots up as 9m sq ft under construction

  21-02-2024 22:59 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The City of London Corporation has revealed construction work is revving up across the Square Mile as investors start returning to the Capital’s financial centre.
  A new heat map of construction sites show over 9m sq ft of floorspace being delivered over the next few years, equivalent to the floorspace of around 10 ‘Cheesegrater’ buildings, or 18 ‘Gherkins’.
  Back on a roll: Square Mile’s sites presently under construction
  The Corporation saw a 25% hike last yea
  
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• HS2 viaduct blunder over wonky concrete segments

  21-02-2024 16:27 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A concrete joint on the HS2 Colne Valley viaduct is being drilled out this week after two giant segments on the crossing were misaligned.
  Main contractor Align JV – made up of Bouygues Travaux Publics, Sir Robert McAlpine and VolkerFitzpatrick – started remedial work on Monday and hopes to get back on on track with the planned construction schedule next week.
  The 3.4km viaduct will be the longest railway bridge in the UK and so far 700 of the 1,000 precast deck segments required to c
  
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• Four arrested in £140m property fraud probe

  21-02-2024 14:59 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Serious Fraud Office raided three residences on Wednesday and made four arrests in Merseyside and Greater Manchester as part of its investigation into collapsed property developer Signature Group.
  The business attracted over a thousand UK and international investors in the redevelopment of iconic landmarks including Belfast’s Scottish Mutual Building and the Coal Exchange in Cardiff.
  Signature Group operated for over seven years, buying up predominantly historic buildings within t
  
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• London £3bn housing framework out to tender

  21-02-2024 09:23 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Tendering is starting to refresh the line-up of firms for a major London and Home Counties public sector housing framework for new build and retrofit work.
  London’s Haringey Borough Council is handling the procurement of the £3bn framework, which has been reshaped to allocate places for SME firms as well as bigger players in the market.
  It will replace the existing London Construction Programme major works framework, which is due to expire in October.
  The previous framework covered a
  
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• Beard bags £24.5m Bristol office revamp

  21-02-2024 08:50 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Beard Construction has landed the main contractor role on the £24.5m redevelopment of Bristol’s One Friary building.
  Specialist UK Development Manager Bankfoot APAM has appointed the contractor to revamp the building to provide 80,000 sq ft of office accommodation in the heart of Temple Quay.
  Construction work will start on site in April focusing on maximising sustainability by reusing 99.5% of One Friary’s existing structural frame while adding three new floors on top of the e
  
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• BAM wins first major RAAC school rebuild

  21-02-2024 08:50 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  BAM has signed a pre-construction deal to bring forward the first major RAAC school rebuild project.
  The firm will build a new school for St Leonard’s Catholic School in Durham under a deal expected to cost around £46m.
  BAM Construction and its design team, Ryder Architecture has started work to fast-track the design of the new school.It aims to start demolition of the old building shortly with construction now expected to start from autumn 2024.The school told parents that the disco
  
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• Councils to turn screw on building owners over fire safety upgrades

  21-02-2024 08:22 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Housing and Building Safety Minister Lee Rowley has met council chiefs to press them to step up action against building owners who fail to fix medium and high-rise buildings with safety issues.
  The Government has handed £8m to councils to boost enforcement teams to force rogue building owners to act swiftly.
  The meeting follows successful legal action the Government, leaseholders and councils have taken in recent months against building owners to make sure vital safety work is carried out.
  
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• Failed strip out specialist owes £1.5m to supply chain

  21-02-2024 08:11 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Strip-out and demolition specialist Type Ten Limited has gone into liquidation owing its supply chain more than £1.5m.
  The scale of the Essex-based contractor’s debts has been revealed in a Companies House update from the liquidator who took charge of the company earlier this month.
  Type Ten has been in business since 2011 working on projects across London and the South East – the company changed its name from Pristine London in 2022.The liquidator’s statement of affairs,
  
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