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• Robertson to deliver £45m Newcastle NHS Trust works

  26-04-2024 09:14 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Robertson Construction North East has clinched a deal to deliver a three-year capital works programme for The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
  The £45m programme of capital projects will predominantly take place at the  and the Royal Victoria Infirmary sites.
  Projects include theatre and ward refurbishment programmes, clinical improvements, public facing refurbishments and critical infrastructure/backlog maintenance upgrades.Neil Kennedy, commercial director, Robert
  
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• Osborne staff start looking for new jobs

  26-04-2024 09:09 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Staff at Osborne have started looking for new jobs.
  Workers at the stricken contractor have taken to LinkedIn looking for new roles following events at the firm.
  Main business Geoffrey Osborne filed a notice of intention to appoint an administrator last week with other group companies following suit shortly afterwards.Osborne said it is currently in talks with interested parties “with the ambition that aspects of the business will be sold and will continue to trade.”
  But yesterday gr
  
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• Tide gets go-ahead for London 412 student flats scheme

  26-04-2024 08:53 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Volumetric developer Tide has secured a resolution to grant planning permission for a 412 student rooms scheme in West Ealing, London.
  The Hastings Road scheme will transform the underutilised retail site into a mixed-use development with student rooms, communal and commercial spaces.
  The project will be delivered using Tide’s precision-manufacturing volumetric units, which help to reduce construction programmes by up to 50% while also cutting embodied carbon.The volumetric units are built
  
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• Green light for £75m Friar Gate Goods Yard in Derby

  26-04-2024 08:35 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Derby City Council approved plans yesterday for Wavensmere Homes and Clowes Developments’ £75m redevelopment of the city’s historic Friar Gate Goods Yard.
  Construction is now scheduled to start this summer to transform two landmark Grade II listed buildings into over 110,000 sq ft of commercial space alongside 276 new build homes.
  Restoration of the 19th Century Bonded Warehouse and Engine House will deliver a total of 111,275 sq ft of flexible offices, health and fitness space
  
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• Ventilation deal could hike product prices for contractors

  26-04-2024 08:22 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Officials at the Competition and Markets Authority are warning that contractors could face price rises for ventilation products.
  The watchdog has completed an initial Phase 1 investigation after Lindab International AB’s purchase last October of HAS-Vent Holdings Limited raised competition concerns in relation to the supply of circular ducts and fittings.
  Lindab is a ventilation company primarily active in the UK through subsidiaries Lindab Limited and Ductmann Limited which both manufactu
  
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• Winners named for £2bn Healthy Homes framework

  26-04-2024 08:14 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Midlands and southern housing procurement group, Central Housing Investment Consortium, has named the consultant and contractors to have secured places on its £2bn retrofit and building safety works framework for social homes.
  The Healthy Homes Framework is intended to help deliver net zero and building safety targets for the sector.
  It will provide the social housing sector with consultancy services, fabric first measures, ventilation systems, renewable energy and heat systems, house refu
  
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• Plan rejected for 42-storey tower above historic building

  26-04-2024 08:13 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Councillors in Birmingham have unanimously rejected plans to build a 42-storey skyscraper on top of a Grade-II listed former hospital.
  The proposal for the city centre site involved building 300 flats directly above the Grade II-listed former Royal Orthopaedic Hospital building in 80 Broad Street.
  At a planning committee meeting yesterday Conservative councillor Gareth Moore branded the scheme as ludicrous.He said: “This is utterly bonkers. The idea you can stick a 42-storey tower blo
  
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