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• “Scrap CITB” say three quarters of construction firms

  25-07-2024 09:21 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Nearly three quarters of construction firms want to scrap the training levy and the CITB according to a major new survey.
  The research was conducted by Survation and commissioned by payroll giant Hudson Contract who are embroiled in an on-going legal dispute with the CITB over levy payments.
  A total of 1,042 companies responded to the survey with 74% of those currently paying wanting to scrap the levy and the CITB.The results come ahead of the CITB’s levy-raising powers expiring when it wi
  
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• BAM plans wave of job cuts at UK Construction arm

  25-07-2024 09:15 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Staff at BAM Construction are facing a round of job cuts after the Dutch parent group revealed this morning that Manchester’s delayed Co-op arena job plunged the UK construction business £19.5m into the red in the first six months of the year.
  Royal BAM Group said it had suffered a ‘substantial loss’ on the project in its latest reported group results for the first half of 2024.
  Conversel,y BAM Nuttall, the UK civil engineering business delivered strong profits more than
  
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• Father and son sentenced over covid construction loan fraud

  25-07-2024 08:20 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A Bristol builder who overstated the income from his construction companies to secure two Covid Bounce Back Loans totalling £100,000 has been handed a suspended jaul sentence.
  James Leslie, 45, of Dundry, was sentenced to two years in prison, suspended for 18 months, when he appeared at Bristol Crown Court this week.
  His father William Leslie, 74, and of the same address, pleaded guilty to one count of fraud in June after making a second Bounce Back Loan application for the Logan Housing L
  
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• Robot tunnel builder goes into administration

  25-07-2024 08:14 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A company that pioneered a way of building tunnels entirely with robots has gone into administration.
  HyperTunnel developed the automated construction method at its research facility in the North Hampshire Downs where it unveiled the world’s first entirely robot-constructed underground structure in 2022.
  It claimed to build tunnels more than 10 times faster and at half the cost of conventional techniques using a fleet of ‘hyperBot’ robots.The system was adopted last year by con
  
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• Wates to build £86m Guildford Council housing scheme

  25-07-2024 08:09 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Wates Group has agreed a partnership deal with Guildford Borough Council to develop a site in the heart of the Surrey town
  The £86m Guildford Park Road development will transform a car park site into an urban neighbourhood of 248 homes with 40% affordable housing.
  The council is committing up to £40m from the Housing Revenue Account to buy the affordable housing, adding to the 5,000 council homes it already owns and manages.
  The initial proposals include 98 new affordable rent and sh
  
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• Carbon negative asphalt trialled on M11

  25-07-2024 07:45 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Skanska and Tarmac are trialling on the M11 a promising aggregate incorporated into asphalt that permanently takes carbon out of the atmosphere.
  The replacement carbon-negative aggregate has the potential to significantly lower the carbon footprint of asphalt by making it C02 absorbing.
  This ‘next generation’ construction material is being tested on the northbound carriageway of the M11 in Essex during essential resurfacing and maintenance work between junctions 7 and 8.Here it will
  
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