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• SRL appoints Mark Eburne as CEO

  07-05-2024 22:48 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Traffic management specialist SRL Traffic Systems has appointed Mark Eburne as chief executive officer.
  The seasoned CEO has 25 years’ senior leadership experience and has worked extensively throughout the utilities, hire and construction sectors. He will bring considerable commercial expertise, which will be beneficial to SRL as it continues its growth journey.
  Eburne joins SRL from tool, fixings and building supplies retailer, FFX Group, where he was CEO.
  He said: “I am joining SRL
  
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• Conquip BulkX makes site excavations easier

  07-05-2024 13:04 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Conquip has developed a new excavation method that significantly enhances the efficiency and safety of construction projects.
  Conquip BulkX can handle large volumes of material, discharging into muck bays or directly into muck away trucks, rapidly and safely.
  The Smart-Release BulkX is the latest addition that Conquip launched this year.
  Fully-electric and remote-operated, this versatile system reduces plant-people interface and can be discharged in muck bays, barges, trucks or stockpiles.
  The d
  
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• Construction buyers see fastest growth for 14 months

  07-05-2024 11:47 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Construction buyers reported another rise in business activity in April with commercial building work leading the way.
  The bellwether S&P Global UK Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index posted 53.0 in April, up from 50.2 in March.
  The index was in positive territory for the second month running and signalled the strongest pace of expansion since February 2023.Commercial building (index at 53.9) increased for the first time since August 2023 and was the fastest-growing area of constru
  
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• Trio of builders win King’s Award for sustainability

  07-05-2024 09:19 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Three construction contractors have been recognised in the King’s Award for Enterprise for their efforts in promoting sustainable development.
  Northern Ireland’s Henry Brothers, privately-owned building contractor Willmott Dixon and offsite specialist ZED Pods all won recognition in the Sustainable Development category.
  Willmott Dixon has been recognised in the prestigious business accolade for the second successive year after last year winning an award in the category of Promoting O
  
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• Go Modular Technologies files administration notice

  07-05-2024 08:58 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Southampton offsite specialist Go Modular Technologies UK has filed a notice of intention to appoint an administrator.
  The firm specialises in bespoke modular construction from rooftop extensions to existing buildings to multi-storey new build flats.
  According to latest accounts for 2023, the volumetric timber frame producer employed around 60 staff from its South Hampshire Industrial Park base in Southampton.
  The business was set up six years ago operates across the south from Bristol to L
  
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• Kent police seize huge haul of stolen site tools

  07-05-2024 08:52 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Kent police have unearthed a haul of more than 1,000 stolen site tools.
  Officers from Kent Police’s Rural Task Force made seven arrests after seizing the stolen items in Cranbrook.
  Five local men, aged between 18 and 44, were arrested alongside a 19-year-old woman and 17-year-old boy on suspicion of multiple offences relating to theft. They have since been bailed pending further investigations.The haul was discovered following a search for a power drill fitted with a tracking device after
  
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• Cladding firm went down owing supply chain £7.7m

  07-05-2024 08:26 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Cladding specialist Alucraft Systems Ltd crashed into administration owing more than £7.7m to suppliers and subcontractors.
  The Staffordshire based contractor called in administrators from PwC in March who have now posted an update at Companies House on the firm’s finances.
  It reveals that the supply chain is owed £7.7m with little chance of unsecured creditors getting a penny for their unpaid invoices.Alucraft started its highest-profile project to date last May to deliver the
  
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• Rydon dogged by legacy fire safety remediation costs

  07-05-2024 08:21 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Legacy fire safety work continues to be a drag on Rydon Group’s financial performance.
  Revenue across the parent group fell by nearly a third last year to £64m with the group managing to generate a £560,000 pre-tax profit following a £11m contribution from Rydon Homes.
  Rydon Construction, which has been wound down with the exception of working through existing legacy contracts, suffered a £9.7m loss (2022:  £3.9m loss) from £0.6m revenue in the year
  
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• Robertson names new Northern construction chiefs

  07-05-2024 08:16 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Robertson Construction has promoted Ian Phillips to regional managing director of its Northern business in Scotland.
  His appointment to the business comes six years after joining as operations director and follows the retirement of Frank Reid after 43 years of service.
  In another appointment Morgans Sindall’s Ricky Brown has joined the business to fill the operational vacancy created by Phillips’s promotion.
  Elliot Robertson, chief executive officer at Robertson Group, said: “W
  
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