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• Wates rejigs businesses as veteran leader retires

  06-06-2024 22:23 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Wates Construction managing director Paul Chandler is retiring at the end of this year, after a 42-year career in construction.
  The industry veteran joined Wates from Skanska in 2017 and grew the construction arm from around £700m to £1.3bn turnover, delivering profitable growth year on year.
  His decision to retire comes as Wates chief executive Eoghan O’Lionaird makes changes to realign parts of the business.Steff Battle, presently managing director in Wates’ constructio
  
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• Southern Water names consultants for AMP8

  06-06-2024 22:23 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Southern Water has picked a seven-strong consultant team to steer its £7.8bn investment programme for the AMP8 (2025-30) period.
  The professional services framework is one of three critical frameworks to be used for the programnme, with capital delivery and network services still to be decided.
  The framework, which runs for an initial five years with the option to extend by another three years, is broken down into three lots:
  Asset Management support services (£80m)
  Mott MacDonald; A
  
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• Construction buyers see momentum building

  06-06-2024 10:43 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Construction activity continued to rise in May with industry buyers reporting positive momentum across all sectors.
  The bellwether S&P Global UK Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index rose to 54.7 from 53.0 in April – the fastest rate growth rate in two years.
  For the first time since May 2022, all three monitored categories of house building, commercial and civil engineering saw activity increase.New business rose for the fourth consecutive month, and at a solid pace that was t
  
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• Bouygues bags £80m London NHS diagnostic centre job

  06-06-2024 09:32 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Bouygues UK has been appointed lead contractor to design and build an £80m ambulatory diagnostic centre at West Middlesex University Hospital.
  The facility for by Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust will provide vital diagnostic and treatment services in cancer, renal and imaging for local residents in Hounslow, Richmond and Ealing.
  The project includes five storeys of new build, a rooftop plant and a small terrace area. On the ground floor there will be a new single stor
  
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• London £3bn schools framework out to tender

  06-06-2024 09:20 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Tendering is starting to refresh the line-up of firms for a major London and Home Counties schools framework for new build and retrofit work.
  London’s Haringey Borough Council is handling the procurement of the £3bn framework, which has been reshaped to allocate places for small and medium-sized firms as well as bigger players in the market.
  The Framework Alliance Agreement will replace the current LCP Framework (Major Work 19) which is due to expire in October 2024.It has been set u
  
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• Openreach fined £1.34m after engineer drowns in river

  06-06-2024 08:44 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Broadband network builder Openreach Limited has been fined £1.34m after an engineer died while trying to repair a telephone line.
  Alun Owen,32, from Bethesda, died after he slipped and fell into the River Aber in Abergwyngregyn and was swept away on 6 October 2020.
  An investigation by the HSE and North Wales Police found that a number of Openreach engineers had been attempting to repair the telephone lines, which ran across the river, over a period of two months. They had been working both
  
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• Road sweeper firm Go Plant went down owing suppliers £4.3m

  06-06-2024 08:17 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Road Sweeper Hire specialist went into administration owing its supply chain £4.3m.
  The firm’s debts are detailed in an update from administrator Alvarez & Marsal filed at Companies House.
  Administrators took charge of the firm in May and sold parts of the business for £2m to waste management contract Sweeptech in a pre-pack deal.Go Plant had 330 employees when it went under with 116 jobs saved by Sweeptech.
  The majority of redundant staff are now pursuing a claim for the f
  
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• Glencar bags £30m Cambridge lab and office job

  06-06-2024 08:08 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Glencar is to build a £30m office and lab project at Chesterford Research Park near Cambridge.
  The 60,000 sq ft Sidney Sussex is designed by architect BCRI and will sit within the 250-acre parkland Cambridge life sciences cluster.
  Sustainability is at the core of the design, with renewable energy sources, efficient structural uses, and daylighting strategies to minimise carbon emissions.
  Construction work is just getting underway with project completion anticipated by October 2025.
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• Berkeley’s £270m Bath gas works scheme approved

  06-06-2024 08:08 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Berkeley Homes has got the go-ahead to build over 600 homes at a former gas works site in Bath next to the River Avon.
  The firm is bringing forward the £270m scheme on Windsor Bridge Road in Twerton.
  Works will start with demolition and extensive remediation of the site, including works to the existing river wall, infrastructure and gasholder voids.
  The extensive remediation and enabling works as well as main build costs are expected to be around £200m.Architect Grimshaw designed the
  
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