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• Race to start for £25m Cardiff twin tower reclad jon

  18-03-2024 21:45 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Cardiff City Council is set to approve plans for a £25m post-Grenfell recladding job on two tower blocks in Butetown.
  These two blocks – Nelson House and Loudoun House – will mark the start of phase two of the council’s recladding and improvement works programme.
  It aims to appoint a contractor through a mini competition using the SEWSCAP3 Framework.
  Contractor ISG has been carrying out fire safety and improvement works to three blocks at Lydstep Flats in the first phase
  
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• Race to start for £25m Cardiff twin tower reclad job

  18-03-2024 21:45 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Cardiff City Council is set to approve plans for a £25m post-Grenfell recladding job on two tower blocks in Butetown.
  The two blocks – Nelson House and Loudoun House – will mark the start of phase two of the council’s recladding and improvement works programme.
  It aims to appoint a contractor through a mini competition using the SEWSCAP3 Framework.
  Contractor ISG has been carrying out fire safety and improvement works to three blocks at Lydstep Flats in the first phase of
  
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• Gove calls up ‘super-squad’ to clear London planning log-jam

  18-03-2024 17:17 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Housing Secretary Michael Gove has taken the unusual step of intervening in the London Plan to boost housing delivery in the capital.
  He has called on the Capital’s Mayor to review the London plan with view to releasing over 700 hectares of industrial land and relaunching opportunity areas.
  The Government has also called up new ‘super-squad’ of planners to work across London to speed up planning decisions.
  The specialist team will work on complex cases that for too long hav
  
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• Permasteelisa in £35m cladding win at St John’s Wood Square

  18-03-2024 15:44 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Permasteelisa Group has won a £35m contract to deliver the glazing and cladding at the St John’s Wood Square luxury residential scheme in central London.
  The £400m project involves redevelopment of the 5.5-acre former St John’s Wood Barracks, previously occupied by the King’s Troop, Royal Horse Artillery.
  McGee is currently on site overseeing piling, excavation, reinforced concrete, and installation of bearings on the five-acre basement ahead of main construction wo
  
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• Investor pumps another £30m into low carbon builder

  18-03-2024 12:58 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  M&G Investments has injected another £30m of funding into Greencore Homes.
  The house builder specialises in constructing low carbon homes using timber frame panels manufactured at its factory in Bicester.
  M&G acquired a majority stake in the firm in 2022 for £15m.Latest accounts for Greencore for the year to May 31 2023 show a pre-tax loss of £4m from a turnover of £579,800.
  The company said the new funding will initially go towards land acquisitions as it aims to
  
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• 800-bed Leeds student and shops scheme approved

  18-03-2024 09:00 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A joint venture between investor Tri7 and Fusion Students has got the green light for a major purpose-built student rooms and shopping scheme in Leeds.
  The plan will see the demolition of The Core shopping centre in the city to make way for 807 student bedrooms and around 36,000 sq ft of retail at ground level, including two new arcades.
  The project spread over three blocks will feature low-carbon air source heat pumps, low water consumption fixtures and fittings, and low energy and controlled v
  
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• Go-ahead for £175m Birmingham Broad Street tower

  18-03-2024 08:33 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Developer Regal Property Group has got the planning green light for a 47-storey build-to-rent scheme in the heart of Birmingham.
  Work will now start on the £175m 90-97 Broad Street scheme this Autumn.
  Designed by architect Glancy Nicholls, the Essington building has been designed to be a pinnacle development within an emerging cluster of towers.
  The Essington within the emerging Broad Street high rise cluster
   
  It will contain 525 apartments within a distinctive ‘H’ shaped
  
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• Modular homes specialist files administration notice

  18-03-2024 08:15 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Modular homes specialist Lighthouse had filed a notice of intention to appoint  an administrator.
  Bosses at the Sheffield based business have told staff to continue working from home today while they try to secure the company’s future.
  An email sent to all staff by CEO Tom White said: “I must now inform you that we have initiated a Notice of Intention to appoint an administrator. This decision was made after careful consideration of our financial situation.“It’s impo
  
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• Erith trading rebounds after lengthy bid-rigging probe

  18-03-2024 08:05 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Specialist engineering and demolition contractor Erith has rebounded after a long-running bid-rigging probe that saw it fined £17.6m last March.
  After already booking provisions for the fine in the previous financial year, Erith returned a pre-tax profit of £5.1m in the year to September 2023, compared with a loss of £13.8m in the prior year.
  Revenue at Kent-based Erith Holdings grew 9% to a record £227m, with operating margins edging up from 1.7% to 2.1%.Erith paid out &
  
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