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• Balfour M25 workers vote for strike in pay row

  13-03-2024 14:42 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Around 150 M25 maintenance workers employed by Balfour Beatty have voted for strike action following a pay dispute.
  Unite organised the strike ballot for the workers who provide vital maintenance across the entire M25.
  Balfour has offered them a 3.4% pay rise which has been dismissed as “meagre”.Unite confirmed the strike vote on the day Balfour released its latest results showing a pre-tax profit of £244m from a turnover of nearly £10bn.
  Unite general secretary Sharon Gr
  
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• Andrew English returns to Skanska as infrastructure boss

  13-03-2024 11:51 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Skanska has appointed Andrew English as Managing Director of its infrastructure business.
  He returns next week to Skanska UK to lead the infrastructure business having previously worked at the company for almost a decade including two managing director positions.
  English left Skanska in 2020 to lead Australian firm John Holland Group’s national infrastructure business and more recently has overseen AtkinsRéalis’ transportation division in the UK.He will be a member of Skanska&
  
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• Construction back in growth as output rises 1.1% in January

  13-03-2024 09:36 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Construction enjoyed a surprise return to growth at the start of 2024 with monthly construction output in January rising 1.1% in volume terms.
  The uplift follows three consecutive monthly falls, with green shoots of growth fed by increases in both new work (1.1%) and repair and maintenance (1.2%).
  At the sector level, six out of the nine sectors saw a rise in January 2024. The main contributors to the monthly increase were private new housing, and non-housing repair and maintenance, which increa
  
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• Galliford Try expands offer for water clients

  13-03-2024 09:23 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Galliford Try has launched a new partnership with selected consultants that will enable water industry clients to meet their AMP8 programme objectives by having access to guaranteed levels of high-quality design engineering.
  The arrangement, known as GT5C, includes consultants AtkinsRéalis, WSP, Binnies, Sweco and GHD who will enhance Galliford Try’s own in-house design capability.
  Wayne Hickling Managing Director, Midlands & West Asset Creation for Galliford Try’s Environ
  
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• UK Construction shines in solid year for Balfour Beatty

  13-03-2024 09:15 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Improved profitability at the UK construction division lifted Balfour Beatty’s overall performance last year with group revenue rising 7% to edge closer to £10bn.
  In a challenging year, group pre-tax profit fell 15% to £244m, due mainly to lower gains from investment disposals.
  UK Construction proved the star performer among the trading divisions, with higher transport volumes driving a 10% rise in revenue to just over £3bn.
  Underlying profit at the UK Construction increa
  
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• Henry Construction scaffolding goes under the hammer

  13-03-2024 09:05 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Tonnes of scaffolding and formwork owned by collapsed contractor Henry Construction are being auctioned off.
  The sale organised by Hilco Valuation Services ends next week and the 66 lots can be viewed online here.
  Henry went under last year in one of the biggest collapses to hit the industry in 2023.More than 700 suppliers and subcontractors were left holding unpaid invoices worth more than £43m.
  
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• Cornish plant hire firm files administration notice

  13-03-2024 08:41 via constructionenquirer.com
  South west specialist Duchy Plant Hire Ltd has filed a notice of intention to appoint an administrator.
  The St Austell based firm has a fleet of more than 400 construction machines supplying kit to sites across the region.
  Latest accounts for Duchy Plant Hire for the year to December 31 2022 show the business employed 38 people and had assets of £15.2m.Data and credit checking specialist Red Flag Alert highlighted the firms’ administration notice with its regular checks of high court
  
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• Norfolk invites bids for £600m highways deal

  13-03-2024 08:26 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Norfolk County Council has started the tender race for £600m of highways work.
  The council is seeking works, professional services and traffic signals contractors to deliver a range of highways and infrastructure services across the county.
  A highways and infrastructure services term maintenance and works contract will be worth an estimated £500m over 12 years alongside a highways professional services contract worth a further £100m and a traffic signals deal worth around &poun
  
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• JJ Rhatigan wins £49m London co-living homes job

  13-03-2024 07:43 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Developer HUB has picked JJ Rhatigan to deliver a £49m co-living flats project in Wood Lane, west London.
  JJ Rhatigan will build 209 co-living homes alongside amenity spaces and two roof terraces at the Yardhouse project, which will start on site immediately.
  Through a partnership with Women’s Pioneer Housing, a specialist housing association, the project will also provide 60 new affordable homes for single women, as well as a new head office for WPH.Designed by archit
  
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