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• Contractors and unions sign Sizewell C working agreement

  22-04-2024 21:42 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A dozen contractors and unions Unite and GMB have signed labour agreements with EDF for the construction of Sizewell C nuclear power station in Suffolk.
  The site-wide deal described as ‘best in class’ by all signatories sets pay and conditions for the site, which will cover up to 8,000 workers at peak construction.
  Details have still to emerge, but the new deal is said to offer better sick pay and parental leave terms than agreed in 2013 for the Hinkley Point C site.The three Solidar
  
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• Contractors and unions agree Sizewell C working deal

  22-04-2024 21:42 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A dozen contractors and unions Unite and GMB have signed labour agreements with EDF for the construction of Sizewell C nuclear power station in Suffolk.
  The site-wide deal described as ‘best in class’ by all signatories sets pay and conditions for the site, which will cover up to 8,000 workers at peak construction.
  Details have still to emerge, but the new deal is said to offer better sick pay and parental leave terms than agreed in 2013 for the Hinkley Point C site.The three Solidar
  
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• Competition chiefs win legal fight for more construction raids

  22-04-2024 14:52 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has won a legal challenge in the High Court after it was refused a domestic search warrant as part of a construction cartel investigation.
  Last October the CMA applied for warrants to search business and domestic premises as part of its investigation into suspected anti-competitive conduct regarding the supply of chemical admixtures for use in the construction industry. The CMA conducted raids to gather evidence as part of its investigation.
  While the
  
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• Kier wins Worcestershire town centre renewal

  22-04-2024 09:18 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Kier has clinched the job to renew Bromsgrove town centre in Worcestershire with a new 50,000 sq ft commercial and cultural hub on the site of the former market hall.
  The regeneration project involves a pavilion building for exhibitions, markets, and community use, a separate larger 4-storey building for offices, a restaurant on the ground floor and a roof top food and drink outlet and landscape works around the site.
  Designed by ONE Creative environments and project managed by Arcadis, a large
  
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• BAM signs Kent school contract at £42m

  22-04-2024 08:37 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  BAM Construction has agreed a £42m price to build a new school in Sevenoaks, Kent.
  The wave two school project for the Department of Education will see the firm replace 800-pupil Wrotham School to provide 265 more places from September 2027.
  The final negotiated price is £8m above initial estimates for the project which now has full planning.The buildings to be demolished are situated to the northwest and southeast corners of the built-up area of the school campus. These will clear t
  
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• McLaren wins multi-storey urban logistics contract

  22-04-2024 08:33 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  British Land has appointed McLaren Construction to build a four-storye last mile logistics hub for Southwark and central London.
  It will be the first of British Land’s pipeline of urban logistics projects in Greater London with a development value of £1.3bn.
  The 140,000 sq ft building on a 0.78 hectare site on Mandela Way will stack logistics space over multiple floors allowing the building to be subdivided, multi-tenanted and adaptable to future trends and climates.The ground floor
  
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• Big social housing schemes at risk over funding uncertainty

  22-04-2024 08:29 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  JV North is warning house building will slow unless funding certainty is given beyond the current Affordable Homes Programme end date.
  With less than two years left of the 2021/26 Affordable Homes Programme, JV North says developments of over 50 homes or those that take longer than 12 months are now at risk.
  Usually government-funded programmes overlap with the last two running from 2018 to 2021 and then 2021 to 2026 allowing housebuilding to carry on unabated.
  With no announcement made in last
  
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• More Osborne companies file administration notices

  22-04-2024 08:13 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Another three divisions of the Osborne group have filed notices of intention to appoint an administrator.
  The Enquirer broke the news last week that main business Geoffrey Osborne had filed an administration notice after an 18-month restructuring programme and attempts to secure new funding.
  Now a further three divisions – Osborne Construction Ltd, Osborne Group Holdings and Osborne Homes Ltd – have followed suit.Osborne said it is currently in talks with interested parties “wi
  
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