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• New MD at Quest to drive company growth

  15-04-2024 17:03 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Clive Leadbetter has joined the Quest management team as Managing Director bringing over 25 years of operational and strategic expertise across the transport and environmental sectors.
  Quest is targeting significant growth over the next five years, with the aim of furthering its cross-sector operational capacity throughout the whole of the UK.
  Leadbetter said: “My aim is to establish Quest as a reliable partner for delivering innovative solutions using our industry-leading fleet and techno
  
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• BAM go-ahead for Leeds 200,000 sq ft office

  15-04-2024 16:55 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  BAM Properties has got the nod from Leeds planners to build its 12-storey Latitude Yellow office scheme in the city centre.
  The 200,000 sq ft project will be located on the last remaining plot of the former Doncaster Monk Bridge Works off Whitehall Road in the established Leeds West End Business District.Work is understood to be timetable to start in September of the project worth around £60m.
  Designed by architect Cooper Cromar, the project team includes Gardiner & Theobald as cost co
  
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• Lendlease veteran is latest new McAlpine director

  15-04-2024 16:02 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Sir Robert McAlpine has appointed Paul Sims as its new Operations Director.
  Sims joins from Lendlease where he has worked for more than 40 years.
  He will now work closely with Commercial Director Glen Harding to boost McAlpine’s growing pipeline of work.Sims was most recently the Operations Director at Lendlease Europe, where he worked on a number of high-profile projects, including TV studios for both the BBC and Sky along with multiple offices, 5-star hotels and rail schemes across the c
  
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• VolkerFitzpatrick wins £30m logistics job

  15-04-2024 15:14 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  VolkerFitzpatrick has been chosen by logistics developer Prologis UK to design and build five new distribution units at Prologis Park Hemel Hempstead, within Maylands Business Park.
  Enabling works are now underway on the £30m scheme which is scheduled for completion in August 2025.
  It is the second project VolkerFitzpatrick has worked on at Prologis Park Hemel Hempstead and once complete will see the Park grow by over 280,000 sq ft, with units ranging between 19,000 and 75,000 sq ft.All of
  
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• Wates-owned SES restructure delivers record profit and revenue

  15-04-2024 09:09 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Wates is finally seeing the benefits of its acquisition of SES Engineering Services eight years after it bought the then loss-making M&E contractor from Shepherd Group
  Latest published results for SES (Engineering Services) show the firm delivered record results last year after a significant restructure of the business under new managing director Rob Clifford.
  Despite challenging market conditions, revenue soared 73% to £299m, generating a near doubling in pre-tax profit to £5.8m
  
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• Energy efficiency firms angry at lack of CITB support

  15-04-2024 08:23 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A leading trade body for the energy efficiency sector has attacked the lack of support from the CITB for its specialist installer members.
  The Installation Assurance Authority Federation has been lobbying for CITB grants for months to help with training courses and a new National Energy Efficiency Centre Park in Leighton Buzzard.
  CEO Nigel Donohue was stunned to read the Enquirer report last month highlighting how the CITB was sitting on a £100m cash pile claiming contractors were  &l
  
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• 25 groundworks firms win £100m Places for People deal

  15-04-2024 08:15 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Housing group Places for People has picked its line-up of groundworks contractors to deliver new-build homes projects homes across England and Scotland.
  Around 25 firms have secured places on the groundworks panel of firms across four main regions for the affordable homes provider.
  M&J Evans Construction, Carmac (Building & Civil Engineering), Churngold Construction and John Reilly Civil Engineering featured with the greatest number of places across the framework.The 230,000-home associa
  
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• Precast firm FP McCann cleared after immigration raid

  15-04-2024 08:11 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Immigration officials have decided to take no action against precast concrete contractor FP McCann after a dawn raid on one of its sites last month.
  The Home Office briefed the media on the raid on on the Shotton Mill site in Deeside, north Wales warning that McCann could face fines of up to £225,000 after 13 people were arrested.
  But McCann has now been issued a “No Action Notice” from the Immigration Enforcement division of the Home Office after it was established that all it
  
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• £400m South Cambridge science park approved

  15-04-2024 08:11 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Joint developers Bridgemere Land and Foundation Capital Ventures have secured outline planning for a £400m landmark science and innovation park in South Cambridge.The Cambridge Discovery Campus, designed by BCR Infinity Architects, will provide over 340,000 sq ft of science and innovation space over six detached, laboratory-enabled buildings.It will be built on the site of a former sewage works in Huxton and involves a total investment of around £170m.
  The outline approval allows dem
  
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