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• Industry rebar supplies at risk from Chatham Docks scheme

  31-05-2024 09:18 via constructionenquirer.com
  Steel producer ArcelorMittal is warning that its rebar facility supplying 30% of UK needs may have to close as a result of a planned new business park at Chatham Docks.
  Developer Peel Waters last night gained planning consent from Medway council to transform the 18 acre waterfront industrial estate at Chatham Docks into a new high-spec business park.
  The Basin 3 employment and enterprise campus is hoped to bring thousands of new jobs to the area.
  Peel Water’s planned Basin3 waterfront busi
  
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• 18 win £600m North Wales construction framework

  31-05-2024 08:51 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Eighteen firms have secured spots on a £600m Welsh construction framework to be used for school buildings and public sector projects by six North Wales authorities.
  The North Wales Construction Partnership, led by Denbighshire County Council, is the third-generation North Wales Construction Framework.
  Five firms Read Construction, Wynne Construction, Kier, Morgan Sindall and Galliford Try have secured places on the major project lot covering projects worth more than £10m.The renewal
  
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• Manchester 37-storey student tower approved

  31-05-2024 08:50 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Plans to redevelop The Hotspur Press former Victorian mill building in Manchester to provide nearly 600 student bedrooms have got the planning green light from city planners.
  The scheme is London developer Manner’s first in Manchester and will preserve much of the old cotton mill’s existing brick exterior.
  Sprouting from the old mill building will rise a 37-storey brick-clad tower incorporating the student rooms. The lower floors of the mill will be occupied with commercial space.
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• Kier chalks up £23m Bradford school job

  31-05-2024 08:50 via constructionenquirer.com
  Kier has finalised the price for a complex rebuild and refurbishment of Trinity Academy school in the Queensberry area of Bradford.
  The firm was granted planning last month and is gearing up to start the project which will be delivered in three phases while the school remains open.
  The first phase will start with the demolition of an existing 1930s block which has already been closed because of disrepair and asbestos.This will be replaced by a new two-storey block containing the sports and main
  
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• Galliford Try wins £70m Oxford immigration centre

  31-05-2024 08:49 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Galliford Try has secured two big Government contracts for an immigration centre in Oxfordshire and the next phase expansion of the defence intelligence estate at RAF Wyton, together worth £101m.
  First, the group’s Building Southern business has reached financial close with the Home Office for a £70m project to reopen Campsfield House immigration removal centre in Kidlington, Oxfordshire.
  The project will see the construction of a 400-bedroom immigration removal centre for men
  
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• Subcontractors wanted across Glasgow

  31-05-2024 08:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Constructionline is bringing its Marketplace Live event to Glasgow on June 18 where big name contractors and clients will be looking to boost their supply chains.
  The event will be staged at DoubleTree by Hilton Glasgow Westerwood Spa & Golf Resort where buyers will be able to connect with regional suppliers and subcontractors and discuss new work.
  The event, previously known as ‘Constructionline Meet the Buyer’, features several of the UK’s top contractors, public sector a
  
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