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• McAlpine signs £500m Broadgate dual towers deal

  18-04-2024 12:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Sir Robert McAlpine has today signed the main building contract for a dual high-rise building at Broadgate in London.
  The vast 750,000 sq ft 2 Finsbury Avenue project consists of a large 12-storey podium supporting a 36-storey East Tower and 21-storey West Tower.
  Both buildings will be characterised by triangular patterns combining a solid and glazed sawtooth-shaped façade.
  They will be linked by the podium incorporating publicly accessible spaces green and leisure spaces, with a single-s
  
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• Work starts on Manchester 26-storey Obsidian tower

  18-04-2024 09:41 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Manchester developer Salboy’s building contractor Domis has started work on the 26-storey residential tower block in the Greengate area towards the north of the city centre
  Salboy’s tenth central Manchester development in seven years, the £50m-plus building project, previously known as Trinity 2 and now renamed Obsidian, will deliver 250 flats and around 1,000 sq ft of ground floor commercial space at the Trinity Way and Willam Street site.
  Designed by architect Studio Power th
  
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• Race for £1.3bn West Midlands social homes framework

  18-04-2024 09:09 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A West Midlands housing association has restarted the hunt for contractors/developers and professional advisers to deliver its new build programme.
  Worcester-based Community Housing Group estimates the framework could be worth up to £1.3bn over four years across the Wyre Forest and the areas surrounding Worcestershire and West Midlands
  The larger value lots covering construction and development work on projects over £10m and specialist demolition and enabling works will be open acros
  
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• Winners revealed for £150m fire safety framework

  18-04-2024 08:36 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  More than 70 fire safety experts have been appointed to a new £150m UK-wide public sector fire safety framework.
  The Fire Safety (FS2) Framework from LHC Procurement Group (LHC) will see 72 winning companies deliver fire protection, suppression and safety related services for housing associations, local authorities and the wider public sector.
  Its launch will support organisations in meeting their legal responsibilities for fire safety under the Building Safety Act 2022 and Associated Legi
  
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• Worker rescued from collapsed four metre deep trench

  18-04-2024 08:31 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Firefighters battled for six hours to rescue a man trapped in a collapsed trench at a construction site in south London on Tuesday.
  The trench, approximately twelve metres long and four metres deep, collapsed and trapped a man up to his waist in sand and clay at the site in Charlton.
  Five Fire Rescue Units formed part of the brigade’s response, deploying specially trained Urban Search and Rescue crews to the scene working alongside the London Ambulance Service Hazardous Area Response Team,
  
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• Greenwich University tenders £300m framework

  18-04-2024 07:56 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Contractors have until early next month to submit applications for places on a major works framework for the University of Greenwich.
  The University is planning a £300m programme of works covering a mix of refurbishment, rebuild and new build at its three campuses.
  Three to five firms will be selected to deliver the 2030 masterplan with projects expected to vary in value between £50m and £250m.The mix of properties within scope include scheduled monuments, listed buildings, bui
  
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