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• Willmott Dixon set for Manchester science park job

  23-02-2024 11:44 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Willmott Dixon is understood to be on the verge of winning the next major phase of work at Manchester Science Park.
  Construction intelligence and market leads specialist Barbour ABI said the development is worth £75m.
  The Enquirer understands that Willmott Dixon is in the final stages of negotiation with developer Bruntwood SciTech – a 50/50 joint venture between Bruntwood and Legal & General – with an official announcement due shortly.Work to redevelop the Park’s exi
  
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• Didcot disaster investigation enters its ninth year

  23-02-2024 08:29 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The investigation into the Didcot Power Station demolition disaster, which killed four men, has still not found any answers for the bereaved families on the eighth anniversary of the tragedy.
  A joint investigation between Thames Valley Police and the Health and Safety Executive is ongoing into the deaths of Michael Collings, Ken Cresswell, Christopher Huxtable and John Shaw,who were all employed by Coleman & Company.
  The quartet were killed under falling rubble when the power station’s
  
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• Galliford Try nets two pipelines and road job worth £98m

  23-02-2024 08:25 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Galliford Try has signed three new infrastructure contracts totalling £98m, which involved two pipelines for Thames Water and a road improvement job for Calderdale Council.
  The Thames Water projects, awarded under the AMP7 framework, are both designed to increase the resiliency of the network in London and the South East.
  First the team will be installing a new £33m pipeline in South London, in Thames Water’s Riverside Flow Monitoring Zone, which is required to meet an anticipa
  
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• Offsite specialist Merit sees profits grow

  23-02-2024 08:16 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Northumberland based offsite specialist Merit has posted another strong set of results with a 46% increase in turnover to £88.4m.
  Pre-tax profits for the year to June 30 2023 were also up t0 £7.6m from 4.3m last time.
  The firm operates from one of the largest construction manufacturing facilities in the UK at 263,000 sq ft.Its key sectors include healthcare, bioscience and pharmaceutical, semiconductor, aerospace and battery tech.
  Tony Wells, CEO at Merit, said: “We are thrille
  
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• Trio of A47 road upgrades to go-ahead as legal challenge fails

  23-02-2024 00:17 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Three major dualling schemes of the A47 around Norwich can now proceed after environmental campaigners failed to block the scheme in the High Court.
  Three Court of Appeal judges upheld the original decisions by the Transport Secretary to grant development consent back in August 2022.
  The legal action has delayed the trio of dualling projects by 20 months, raising taxpayer costs by tens of millions of pounds.While environment campaigners could still take their case to the Supreme Court, National
  
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