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• Data Hub helps Morrissroe manage concrete info

  12-07-2024 18:34
  
  Construction technology specialist Converge is helping Morrisroe Group with its Data Hub concrete data management technology.
  Data Hub automatically captures, centralises, and analyses all concrete data — including concrete delivery tickets, batch records, compliance cube analysis, volumetric data, mix designs, QA data and non-conformance reports, and EPDs and carbon content .
  It saves hundreds of person-hours on manual data entry and reduces human error, setting a new standard in quality
  
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• Gallagher turns to Groundforce for storage tank

  12-07-2024 17:16
  
  Gallagher Group has called in Groundforce Shorco to help with the installation of a robust water management system for a Maritime Academy.
   As many as 19 heavy-duty Premier Trench Boxes from Groundforce Shorco have been used in the construction of a groundwater storage tank on the site in Kent.
  Specialist contractor Gallagher Group is carrying out the groundworks for the new Medway Maritime Academy, a new secondary school in Strood, for Medway Council. Main contractor on the project is Bowm
  
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• Tilbury Douglas site manager saves schoolboy’s life

  12-07-2024 15:51
  
  A quick-thinking Tilbury Douglas site manager saved the life of a collapsed schoolboy after scooping him up and running to the emergency department of a hospital he had helped build.
  Ten-year-old Brooklyn Alwill Foster had gone into a diabetic emergency after becoming unwell a few days’ previously.
  His family had no idea that he had developed diabetes and took him to Walsall Manor Hospital.As they were walking into the hospital Brooklyn collapsed and site manager Adam Bednall sprung into a
  
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• Historic facade contractor goes into administration

  12-07-2024 15:03
  
  Leading Scottish façade specialist Charles Henshaw & Sons Ltd has fallen into administration.
  The Edinburgh based firm was founded in 1904 and employs 72 people offering full design, fabrication, supply and installation of building façades across various sectors, including commercial, residential, and public buildings.
  The company has recently experienced financial pressures from additional costs in relation to legacy contracts, and significant main contractor delays on start d
  
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• Van Elle and M&J Evans team-up for housing works

  12-07-2024 09:11
  
  Piling specialist Van Elle has signed a strategic collaboration deal with leading groundworks contractor M&J Evans to deliver a combined service to house builders nationally.
  The first new scheme under the arrangement will be Keepmoat’s £102m regeneration project at the former Boot site in Nottingham where the developer aims to build over 600 homes.
  Van Elle announced it had signed a £3m deal to deliver foundations across several phases of the scheme, making it the largest
  
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• Spencer lands civils package on £300m energy plant

  12-07-2024 08:47
  
  Spencer Group has been awarded a £23m contract to design the site layout and deliver the enabling works and civils for the UK’s first commercial scale liquid air long duration energy storage facility.
  The £300m development by Highview Power at Trafford Energy Park in Carrington, Manchester will store surplus electricity generated from wind and solar and will be the first commercial-scale plant in the UK deploying pioneering liquid air energy storage technology.
  The technology e
  
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• Muse JV closes Wolverhampton City Centre West quarter deal

  12-07-2024 08:14
  
  Wolverhampton City Council has signed off a development deal with Muse-led English Cities Fund to bring forward its City Centre West regeneration scheme.The council hopes the transformation of the west side of the city centre could ultimately see the development of around 1,000 new homes and an improved leisure, food and beverage, and retail offer, connected by new public spaces.
  It will be the first opportunity to be delivered by the public-private partnership in the Midlands.The City Centre W
  
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• Domis founder Lee McCarren steps down

  12-07-2024 06:10
  
  Salboy-owned contractor Domis has announced the retirement of co-founder and managing director Lee McCarren after seven years.
  Kingsley Thornton, currently director at £150m turnover Domis takes over his role with immediate effect.
  McCarren, aged 54, set up Domis in 2017 after leaving now defunct building contractor Forrest where he was then chief executive.To date, Domis has delivered over 5,000 new homes across dozens of schemes mainly in the North West.
  McCarren said: “It has been
  
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