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• McLaren gets green light for 45-storey Leeds tower

  12-04-2024 09:04 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  McLaren’s property arm has got the planning green light to build a 45-storey build to rent tower and two lower-rise office blocks to the west of Leeds city centre.
  Designed by Glenn Howells Architects, the Wellington Square scheme will be located on the city skyline by the landmark hexagonal-shaped residential block which will rise to 141m and provide just over 460 flats.
  Two adjacent office blocks of 14 and 15 storeys will provide around 435,000 sq ft of space next to the main block of fl
  
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• Major project veteran named civils director for Sizewell C

  12-04-2024 08:37 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Veteran major project delivery boss David Speight has been appointed Main Civils Programme Director for the Sizewell C nuclear power station project.
  He joins as enabling works are underway ahead of a final investment decision later this year.
  Preparatory works for the £20bn-plus project include improvements to roads and rail lines around the Suffolk site, ensuring the necessary local infrastructure is in place before full construction begins.Speight brings over 30 years’ major progr
  
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• Major project veteran appointed civils director for Sizewell C

  12-04-2024 08:37 via constructionenquirer.com
  Veteran major project delivery boss David Speight has been appointed Main Civils Programme Director at the Sizewell C nuclear power station project.
  He joins as enabling works are underway ahead of a final investment decision later this year.
  Preparatory works for the £20bn-plus project include improvements to roads and rail lines around the Suffolk site, ensuring the necessary local infrastructure is in place before full construction begins.Speight brings over 30 years’ major progra
  
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• Heavy rain causes 1.9% construction output fall

  12-04-2024 08:31 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Construction output fell 1.9% in February as heavy rainfall dampened construction activity.
  New work was hit hardest dropping by 2.3% with repair and maintenance decreasing by 1.4% during the month.
  Despite the uptick in output in January, construction new work output in the last three months to February sharnk by a total of 3%.
  Scott Motley, head of programme, project and cost management at consultant AECOM, said: “The construction industry will be dismayed that output has slipped back in
  
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• £220m London wharf homes scheme approved

  12-04-2024 08:05 via constructionenquirer.com
  Planners have given the thumbs up to a scheme to build 285 flats in blocks next to protected wharves near Wandsworth Bridge in London.
  As a former industrial shipping site, Albert and Swedish Wharves, will be improved and retained with new logistics warehouses below high-rise house blocks overlooking the Thames.
  Developer Henley Investment Management can now demolish warehouse buildings on the site to make way for the mixed-used scheme of seven buildings rising from 6-20 storeys.
  As part of the
  
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• Taziker restruture to return to profitability after £1.2m loss

  12-04-2024 08:03 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Multi-disciplinary engineering specialist Taziker Industrial suffered a £1.2m pre-tax loss last year that prompted the previous founders to buy back a controlling stake in business from its private equity owners.
  The ownership change back to Thomas Taziker, Nigel Taziker and Graham Moor agreed in October 2023 also deleveraged the business and prompted a strategy rethink away from a path of diversification and rapid growth.
  While the previous growth drive doubled the size of the business in
  
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