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• Housing giants to build bird nests and hedgehog highways

  28-06-2024 09:18 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The country’s biggest house builders have signed up to a major new initiative to support wildlife on their new developments.The Homes for Nature commitment will see a bird-nesting brick or box installed for every new home built, as well as hedgehog highways created as standard on every new development taken through planning from September 2024.Twenty house builders, who build more than 90,000 homes a year, have signed up to the voluntary commitment.In addition to integrated nest bricks, bo
  
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• Birmingham 450 inner-city flats scheme approved

  28-06-2024 09:04 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Plans for seven residential blocks in an inner city area of Birmingham have gained outline planning approval.
  Developer Rochda Group is leading the plan to the revitalise a derelict 7.1-acre site of former railway sidings at Winson Green with just over 450 flats.
  Designed by Whittam Cox Architects, the development will provide a mix of private and affordable housing and green public spaces.Buildings ranging between five and nine storeys high with many of the ground floor apartments having privat
  
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• Microsoft to build ‘hyperscale’ datacentre near Leeds

  28-06-2024 08:42 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Tech giant Microsoft has bought a 48-acre site at the former Skelton Grange power station site near Leeds to build another hyperscale datacentre as it ramps up investment in the UK.
  Over the next three years, Microsoft plans to spend £2.5bn on expanding its next-generation AI datacenter infrastructure, bringing more than 20,000 of the most advanced graphics processing units (GPUs) to the UK by 2026.
  This represents the single largest investment in its 40-year history in the UK. Its other s
  
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• United Living seals two strategic energy retrofit takeovers

  28-06-2024 08:36 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Utilities and affordable housing contractor United Living Group has agreed two strategic acquisitions to strengthen its place in the energy retrofit sector.
  At the skills level, it has bought a majority stake in training specialist GTEC. The training provider is focused on closing industry skills gaps and providing formal qualifications and retrofit training in the net zero space across the UK and further afield.
  GTEC’s training courses cover heat pump, solar PV, battery storage, solar the
  
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• Mace names new datacentre and pharma MDs

  28-06-2024 08:35 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Mace has made two strategic senior leadership promotions to head its fastest growing sectors within the construction business.
  Rob Lemming is promoted to managing director for Public Sector & Life Sciences while Alister Grey takes on the new role of managing director for Technology and Manufacturing.
  Gareth Lewis, chief executive officer of Construction, said: “For over 30 years Mace has been delivering some of the world’s most challenging construction projects – amongst th
  
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