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• Graham consortium wins £400m Manchester job

  26-07-2024 19:10 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Viridis consortium of Equitix, Graham and Derwent FM has been selected as preferred bidder and delivery partner for the next phase of the University of Manchester’s Fallowfield Campus.
  The £400m deal will be developed under a Design, Build, Finance and Operate (DBFO) model.
  The University and Viridis will now work together to develop its DBFO delivery plans with the aim of reaching financial close by summer 2025.On completion, the wider Fallowfield campus will offer up to 5,400 s
  
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• Morgan Sindall to build former Willmott Dixon leisure job

  26-07-2024 15:50 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Morgan Sindall has been appointed to build a Newcastle leisure centre job which Willmott Dixon walked away from last year after failing to agree a final price amid rising construction costs.
  Willmott Dixon agreed to complete enabling works under the preconstruction agreement at the West Denton leisure centre while Newcastle City Council looked for a new contractor.
  The council has now confirmed Morgan Sindall will complete the project with main construction set to start “within weeks&rdquo
  
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• Village centre approved for 6,000-home new town plan

  26-07-2024 09:14 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Plans to build a 6,000 home New Town in Hampshire look set to finally take-off after plans for a village centre at its core were given the thumbs up.
  Construction of Welborne Village Centre is now expected to start this autumn and will include a school GP surgery and pharmacy, a nursery, a pub/hotel, cafes, shops, and sports facilities.
  The Centre will be the initial hub of the Welborne community and will provide essential amenities to residents an from an early stage of the development.The Vill
  
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• Keltbray looking to sell infrastructure business

  26-07-2024 08:43 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Keltbray is understood to be in advanced talks to sell its infrastructure division.
  Industry sources told the Enquirer earlier this week: “It’s an open secret that a deal is being done and the firm is being broken up.”
  Keltbray declined to say any more than “we never comment on market speculation of this nature.”It is understood that the infrastructure arm will be sold and headed up by existing chief executive Darren James.
  Any deal would leave behind the building b
  
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• Unite buys London site to fast-track 444-bed student scheme

  26-07-2024 08:31 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Student rooms developer Unite has bought a site in south London with planning already in place to fast-track  a 444-bed scheme.
  The move swells Unite Students’ London development pipeline which now totals 3,200 beds for delivery over the next five years at a cost of over £800m.
  Unite said it would start demolition shortly to advance the latest Borough High Street scheme in Southwark, known as King’s Place.Thye site was formerly owned by Southwark Homes which brought in Se
  
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• CITB awards £2.5m of contracts to management consultant

  26-07-2024 08:24 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Industry training body CITB has awarded contracts worth £2.5m in the last year to a firm to provide “project leadership and management consultancy “.
  The contracts awarded to Matt Hamnett & Associates Limited (MH&A) include a £1.4m deal for Scotland to “deliver project leadership and management consultancy in Scotland and deliver the transformation programme agreed with CITB.”
  A similar £554,000 deal has been signed with MH&A in England along
  
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• £3m fine after cherry picker demolition death

  26-07-2024 08:20 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A recycling company has been fined £3m after a man died and another was seriously injured while decommissioning a North Sea gas rig.
  Stephen Picken, 62, and Mark Kumar were working for Veolia ES (UK) Limited at an onshore facility in Great Yarmouth.
  Both men were working as demolition operatives also known as “Top Men”, undertaking the decommissioning and dismantlement of offshore structures.On 17 October 2019, the two workers were removing an overhanging piece of metal pipewor
  
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• Innovative viaduct building method used for first time in UK

  26-07-2024 08:10 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  HS2 contractors are using a specialist cantilever process for the first time in the UK to build viaduct spans at the scheme’s complex Delta junction in the West Midlands.
  The viaduct intersection is being built by Balfour Beatty VINCI, using a method initially developed by Campenon Bernard, now part of Vinci.
  The River Tame West Viaducts presently under construction carry three rail tracks in total and form the northern tip of the planned Delta junction, which will require nine viaducts to
  
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