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• Kilkern wins drainage deal at £480m green energy plant

  23-05-2024 23:30 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Kilkern has been appointed to carry out the installation of all underground services at the Lostock Sustainable Energy Plant (LSEP) project in Cheshire.
  LSEP, a joint venture between Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) and FCC Environment, awarded the contract to the Bolton-based civil engineering and infrastructure specialist which will install drainage and ducting to meet the needs of the Energy-from-Waste facility.
  Black & Veatch is the engineering, procurement and construction manag
  
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• Motorist dies after collision with road paver

  23-05-2024 17:42 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A motorist has died after his car crashed into a stationary Volvo paver machine near Glenluce in Wigtownshire, Scotland.
  Police Scotland have named the victim as 49-year-old Kevin Bodle who died after the collision on the A75 on Tuesday morning.
  Sergeant Lloyd Caven said: “Our thoughts remain with Kevin’s family and friends at this terrible time, as they try to come to terms with their loss.“We continue to appeal for anyone with information on the crash, any witnesses, or motor
  
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• McLaren Living appoints HG Construction for £69m scheme

  23-05-2024 13:53 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  HG Construction has been appointed as the main contractor on a £69m Build to Rent scheme in Leeds for McLaren Living and funding partner Heim Global Investor.
  The new BeckYard development is located in the South Bank Regeneration area of the city centre and will transform a vacant former car park site
  Designed by Carey Jones Chapman Tolcher (CJCT), the BtR scheme deliver 375 new homes comprising a mix of apartments. Amenities include residents’ lounges, shared workspaces, gym and eve
  
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• McAlpine pulls out of £55m Carlisle Citadels project

  23-05-2024 12:53 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  University of Cumbria is on the hunt for a building contractor to deliver its Citadels project in Carlisle city centre after Sir Robert McAlpine decided to step aside and focus its efforts on other projects.
  McAlpine has been working with the university for the past two years in preparation for the project.
  But after recently winning tenders for two large new infrastructure projects it has now decided to focus resources on these.A contract notice has now been issued by the University inviting ex
  
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• National Grid raises £7bn for big infrastructure upgrade

  23-05-2024 09:25 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The National Grid has announced a £7bn capital raise as it seeks to double its capital spending over the next five years.
  Over the next five years, National Grid plans to invest approximately £60bn in networks, with over £30bn earmarked for the UK.
  This investment, more than double what National Grid has spent in the UK over the last five years, will support an additional 60,000 jobs in the UK by the end of the decade.John Pettigrew, National Grid’s chief executive,
  
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• Hunt starts for nuclear fusion plant construction partner

  23-05-2024 09:04 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The UK Atomic Energy Authority has formally opened bidding for separate engineering and construction partners to build the country’s first big fusion energy plant.
  The commercial protype plant will be built at the former West Burton coal-fired power station site in Nottinghamshire, and aims to demonstrate net energy from fusion in the 2040s.
  Fusion is based on the same physical reactions that power the sun and stars, combining two hydrogen atoms to release large amounts of energy.Important
  
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• Galliford Try to re-enter affordable homes market

  23-05-2024 08:59 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Galliford Try is staging a return to the affordable housing market as part of a bid to boost group margin in a new five-year growth plan.
  The firm was excluded from the growth sector when it sold its Linden Homes and partnerships businesses to Vistry for £1.1bn four years ago.
  But now that agreement has lapsed allowing Galliford Try to build up a new business stream in a sector that typically commands margins of 4-5%.
  Announcing his new five-year plan, chief executive Bill Hocking, said: &
  
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• Former Sellar chief to lead civils contractor Kilnbridge

  23-05-2024 08:54 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Civil and structural engineering contractor Kilnbridge has appointed former Sellar chief operating officer Owen Dannatt as its new CEO.
  The move follows the decision by Kilnbridge founder and CEO Dermot McDermott to take up the role of Chairman after 33 years at the helm.
  Dannatt is a chartered civil engineer who spent his early career with Taylor Woodrow before joining the real estate world culminating in his senior role at Shard developer Sellar.McDermott said, “Assuming the role of Chai
  
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• Squibb liquidator probes £2m of “missing” plant

  23-05-2024 08:33 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Liquidators handling the fallout from the collapse of demolition specialist Squibb Group have discovered more than £2m of plant and equipment is missing from the firm’s sites.
  Before Squibb went under late last year it tried to strike a Company Voluntary Arrangement with its creditors.
  In the CVA proposal it was estimated the company owned outright plant and equipment worth £2.5m plus cars worth £264,000 and £200,000 of scrap metal.But auctioneers sent in by the liq
  
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