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• Morgan Sindall lands £19m Milton Keynes hospital job

  11-04-2024 18:39 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Morgan Sindall’s Northern Home Counties business has been appointed to develop a £19.1m ward expansion on behalf of the Milton Keynes University Hospital (MKUH) NHS Foundation Trust.
  Procured via the Pagabo Framework, the project will create a new two-storey building known as Oak Wards as well as a link corridor to the existing A&E department in MKUH’s main building.
  Work  is due to start on site this winter and be completed in late 2025.The hospital has an air ambulan
  
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• Clancy bolsters civils leadership team

  11-04-2024 10:49 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Clancy has strengthened its senior leadership at the civil engineering team with two new hires.
  Former Morrison Water Services contracts manager Daniel Tonkin has joined to become operations director for Clancy’s work for South West Water.
  He joins as Clancy gears up for a significant work programme after securing South West Water’s Capital Delivery Programme Tier 1 Delivery Partners framework.The other senior newcomer, former Buckingham Group major projects director Simon Hyams, tak
  
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• Balfour names new project boss for HS2’s super-hub station

  11-04-2024 10:02 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Balfour Beatty has brought in major project specialist Steve O’Sullivan as project director for its HS2 Old Oak Common station project joint venture.
  O’Sullivan replaces Nigel Russell, who was promoted to chief executive officer of Balfour Beatty’s HS2 Major Projects business at the start of this year.
  With over 40 years’ experience in the industry, O’Sullivan has helped deliver some of the largest and most complex infrastructure projects in the UK and overseas incl
  
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• Buckingham Group supply chain hit doubles to £256m

  11-04-2024 09:16 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Administrators for collapsed contractor Buckingham Group have revealed the true extent of the hit for unsecured creditors following its collapse last September.
  At the time the directors statement of affairs disclosed there were 1,292 unsecured creditors with claims totalling £113m.
  But the latest progress report from administrator Grant Thornton reveals this figure has now more than doubled.In total 1,375 claims have now been received totalling £256m, which includes significant clai
  
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• Builders demand an end to police plant bans

  11-04-2024 09:00 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The National Federation of Builders is calling for an end to police bans on moving mobile cranes and large plant on the country’s roads.
  The Enquirer revealed last month that police forces across the country had implemented bans this Easter.
  Crane and plant hire firms fear police forces are increasingly looking to prohibit their movements.Now the NFB is adding its voice to the debate with demands to revamp the current system of travel bans.
  Rico Wojtulewicz, Head of Policy and Market Insig
  
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• £200m carbon capture plan for Deeside site

  11-04-2024 08:30 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Energy from waste operator enfinium has unveiled plans to invest around £200m in carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology at the Parc Adfer facility in Deeside, North Wales.
  The project could capture up to 235,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide every year because installing CCS would enable the plant to take more CO2 out of the atmosphere than it produces.
  The Parc Adfer plant was opened in 2019 and currently diverts up to 232,000 tonnes of unrecyclable waste from climate damaging landfill.Wi
  
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• Green light for £65m Blackpool multiversity campus

  11-04-2024 08:06 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Blackpool Council has gained planning for a £65m education campus in the town centre.
  The Multiversity plan has already received almost £50m in Government funding as part of the Levelling Up Fund and Blackpool Town Deal.  
  The approval paves the way for a 3-acre site including 59 homes in the Talbot Gateway area to be levelled to make way for a 350,000 sq ft education facility across three major blocks rising to five storeys.It will be delivered in two phases, starting with
  
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