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• Huge fire hits Staines resi towers site

  26-06-2024 18:05
  
  Surrey Fire and Rescue Service battled a major blaze at a residential tower under construction in Staines, Surrey on Wednesday.
  Huge plumes of smoke were spotted pouring from the top floor of a new apartment complex being built in the town centre.
  The fire was bought under control within a few hours but road closures were still in place throughout the afternoon.Three site workers were treated for smoke inhalation at the scene while one builder was taken to hospital.Huge fire broken out in Staine
  
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• Third contractor appointed to finish Wokingham apartments

  26-06-2024 14:45
  
  Wokingham Borough Council has appointed a third contractor to finish the Carnival Place residential development after the first two went bust.
  Original contractor Mid Group went into administration in 2022 while building the 55-apartment scheme.
  The council then appointed Geoffrey Osborne to finish the job but they also went under in April.Now Newbury based Feltham Construction has been drafted-in to finally finish the job.
  The apartments sit opposite the Carnival Hub in which opened in the summ
  
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• Sunderland film studio enabling works out to bid

  26-06-2024 08:59
  
  Sunderland City Council will invite bids next month for the £15m enabling works package to prepare the former Crown Works shipyard site for a major film and TV studio scheme.
  FulwellCain Studios, a joint venture between global entertainment company Fulwell 73 and Cain International, aims to build the £475m Crown Works Studios on land stretching up from Pallion Shipyard on the banks of the river Wear.
  It gained planning back in the spring and now the council will make the site shovel
  
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• Invisible Connections acquired by concrete giant Terwa

  26-06-2024 08:57
  
  Oxfordshire based Invisible Connections has become part of the global Terwa Construction Group.
  Invisible Connections supplies the concrete construction industry with ‘unseen’ telescopic connection systems for precast stairs and landings, beams, and columns.
  Terwa is a leader in developing, producing and distributing a comprehensive range of products for the construction and precast concrete industry.Edwin Scheeve, CEO of Terwa, said: “The addition of Invisible Connections to t
  
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• J Coffey passes £200m turnover milestone

  26-06-2024 08:37
  
  Harrow-based contractor J Coffey Construction delivered record revenue last year up by just over a quarter top £218m helped by a major data centre job.
  Proftaibility also improved with pre-tax profit rising to £6.5m in the year to September 2023 from £4.6m previously.
  But while margins edged up to 3.4%, it remained below the pre-pandemic average performance of around 7%.The business, which mainly specialises in substructure, superstructure and structural alterations, underwent
  
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• Red wins £50m Westminster office job

  26-06-2024 08:28
  
  Developer Tellon Capital has picked RED Construction to deliver a £200m office scheme in the heart of Westminster.
  The £50m building project, known as 40 Broadway, will rise to 8 storeys and span more than 130,000 sq ft with rooftop views across St James’s Park, Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament.
  The front of the building will feature a natural stone façade on the Broadway elevation with projecting full-length feature windows.
  Rooftop terrace on top of the t
  
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• Costain JV wins £65m brace of water treatment upgrades

  26-06-2024 08:27
  
  Southern Water has awarded Costain’s joint venture with MWH Treatment a £65m bundle of sewage and water treatment works upgrades.
  The work will run until late 2025 and will see the CMDP joint venture improve the resilience of the local water supply and upgrade wastewater treatment works at Testwood near Southampton, and Burham in Kent.
  Both sites will see major renovation, refurbishment and expansion of existing assets to cope with rising demand for drinking water and increasing volu
  
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