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• Concrete frame specialist Statom looks to build on strong results

  04-04-2024 19:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A string of multi-phase RC Frame contract wins in London helped boost turnover at Statom Group to £143m last year.
  Latest results for the contractor for the year to November 30 2023 show pre-tax profit at £8.5m from  £8.2m last time as revenue rose to £143.2m from £113m.
  The balance sheet was also strengthened with year end cash balances of £15.8m from £9.1m as owners Thomas Brown and Stan Nikudinski looked to retain profits in the business.CEO Niku
  
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• Environment Agency picks 27 firms for £600m small works deal

  04-04-2024 12:40 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Twenty-seven contractors have secured places on the Environment Agency’s framework covering small civil engineering works under £1m, M&E and vegetation management.
  Amalgamated Construction, Breheny, Cheetham Hill Construction and Land & Water are among the firms to renew their places on the main civils engineering works lot, expected to be worth £336m over the four-year framework.
  On the M&E works, Amalgamated, Galliford Try, and  JN Bentley feature among the s
  
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• Environment Agency picks 27 firms £600m for small works deal

  04-04-2024 12:40 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Twenty-seven contractors have secured places on the Environment Agency’s framework covering small civil engineering works under £1m, M&E and vegetation management.
  Amalgamated Construction, Breheny, Cheetham Hill Construction and Land & Water are among the firms to renew their places on the main civils engineering works lot, expected to be worth £336m over the four-year framework.
  On the M&E works, Amalgamated, Galliford Try, and  JN Bentley feature among the s
  
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• Firms wanted for £750m ports upgrade programme

  04-04-2024 08:51 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Peel Ports has started the hunt for construction partners to deliver a £750m programme of works at its ports.
  The port owner hopes a framework approach will improve collaboration and early engagement with supply chain partners realising benefits from the optimisation of design and construction best practices.
  There are two places for contractors to deliver major works across its ports in England and Dublin, estimated to account for a £300m spend over eight years.
  Smaller works for ea
  
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• Groundworks firm Bowie Construction files for administration

  04-04-2024 08:50 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Cambridgeshire groundworks contractor Bowie Construction has filed a notice of intention to appoint an administrator.
  The firm has stopped work on two Norfolk housing sites where it was working for Lovell Homes with West Norfolk Council.
  Lovell Homes is now having to find a new firm to take on its 300-home Florence Fields project in King’s Lynn where the groundworks contract is believed to be worth £12m.The site is understood to have been dogged by flooding problems during bad weathe
  
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• Network Rail to recruit extra 400 drainage engineers

  04-04-2024 08:49 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Network Rail will channel £2.8bn of its total spend over the next five years into helping the railways better cope with extreme weather and climate change.
  The weather resilience programme will see Network Rail recruit almost 400 extra drainage engineers to increase the care and maintenance of its drainage assets to handle heavier rainfall.
  The infrastructure operator set out its plans to better cope with climate change as it entered its £43bn CP7 spending period yesterday.Network Ra
  
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• W1 Construction raids Mace for another director

  04-04-2024 08:27 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  London based contractor W1 Construction has appointed former Mace director Liam Florey as its Director of Operations to spearhead growth plans.
  W1 Construction was founded in 2022 by former Mace Commercial Director Barry Gavin and Associate Director Sam Walsh.
  Florey has a wealth of experience with notable projects including Battersea Power Station, 1 Grosvenor Square and most recently 1 Mayfair.Gavin said: “From day one the only person we wanted to head up operations was Liam after the th
  
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• Another Mace director joins W1 Construction

  04-04-2024 08:27 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  London based contractor W1 Construction has appointed former Mace director Liam Florey as its Director of Operations to spearhead growth plans.
  W1 Construction was founded in 2022 by former Mace Commercial Director Barry Gavin and Associate Director Sam Walsh.
  Florey has a wealth of experience with notable projects including Battersea Power Station, 1 Grosvenor Square and most recently 1 Mayfair.Gavin said: “From day one the only person we wanted to head up operations was Liam after the th
  
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