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Social housing arm of BBC Brickies firm files admin notice

02-08-2024 08:17 via constructionenquirer.com

A construction firm featured in a BBC series about young bricklayers has filed a notice of intention to appoint an administrator at its social housing division.
BBC Three’s docuseries Brickies ran for two seasons from 2022/23 following the lives of young recruits at Hodgkinson Builders.
But now the Derby based contractor has filed an administration notice.
Hodgkinson Builders was founded in 1990 and began as a small family run bricklaying business specialising in commercial brickwork

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BBC bricklaying firm files administration notice

02-08-2024 08:17 via constructionenquirer.com

A construction firm featured in a BBC series about young bricklayers has filed a notice of intention to appoint an administrator.
BBC Three’s docuseries Brickies ran for two seasons from 2022/23 following the lives of young recruits at Hodgkinson Builders.
But now the Derby based contractor has filed an administration notice.
Hodgkinson Builders was founded in 1990 and began as a small family run bricklaying business specialising in commercial brickwork projects.The company has progr

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Square Mile office retrofits surge forward

02-08-2024 08:07 via constructionenquirer.com

The pace of major office retrofits in London’s Square Mile is ramping up after two more schemes were nodded through by City planners this week.
It means that four office schemes were approved in July as investors sought to exploit surging demand for top-class energy-efficient offices with outdoor spaces for staff.
The rise in carve-and-construct projects is also being driven by the City of London Corporation’s retrofit-first planning policy.
The biggest of the latest project to be ap

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Manchester skyscraper builder revenue hits record £229m

02-08-2024 08:01 via constructionenquirer.com

Manchester developer and builder Renaker Build delivered record revenue last year ahead nearly a third at £229m.
But inflationary cost pressure hit its high-rise residential projects causing pre-tax profit to slip to £5m from £6m in the prior year.
The firm, which was set up in 2006 by former Laing O’Rourke employee Daren Whitaker, boosted its headcount to 365 staff as it completed several projects and developed its pipeline of high-rise housing.Whitaker said: “The

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Morgan Sindall wins £65m Blackpool Multiversity

02-08-2024 07:58 via constructionenquirer.com

Blackpool Council has appointed Morgan Sindall Construction’s North West business as main contractor on a pre-contract services agreement to build a new £65m education campus in the town centre.
The Multiversity mixed-use educational development will bring up to 3,000 students and staff into Blackpool town centre and allow Blackpool and the Fylde College to relocate from out-of-town facilities into a world class campus off Cookson Street.
Land for the development is currently being a

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