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• Steelwork specialist JDP margin hits 12%

  05-08-2024 09:17 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Scotland’s biggestg constructional steelwork contractor J&D Pierce (Contracts) saw margins enter double figures despite a sharp fall in revenue last year.
  The Ayshire firm, which was bought by Sweden’s Storskogen Group two years ago,  saw pre-tax profit hold firm at £10.5m as revenue slipped to £104m from £138m, adjusted to a pro-rata basis from in the previous 17-month year.
  Operating margins rose to 12% in the year to December 2023 from 10% before.Derek P
  
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• Giant £3bn Humber AI data centre campus approved

  05-08-2024 09:06 via constructionenquirer.com
  Outline plans for a 3m sq ft data centre campus at South Killingholme near Grimsby in Lincolnshire have been nodded through by the local council.
  Developer Humber Tech Park said the ambitious plan would create one of the largest AI data centre campuses in Europe and represented an opportunity to secure a £2.2bn to £3bn investment in the area.
  The plan includes three large buildings, offices and a 300,000 sq ft horticultural glass house with possible district heating system.
  A new ele
  
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• Eleven seal £400m Essex construction framework

  05-08-2024 09:04 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Essex County Council has pared down its partner firms from 18 to 11 for its third-generation construction framework.
  Newcomer Cadman Construction and previous partners Kier, Morgan Sindall and R G Carter secured places on the major project lot for building and maintenance jobs valued over £4m.
  BAM, Graham and Willmott Dixon, which have spots on the second-generation deal, have dropped out of the new line-up.Essex framework winners£4m-plus projects (total value: £190m)
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• Mace wins £88m University of East Anglia revamp

  05-08-2024 09:03 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Mace has secured the job to upgrade and expand the University of East Anglia’s celebrated brutalist grade II-listed Lasdun building at its Norwich campus.
  The firm has secured the first phase of prestigious revamp with an £88m bid, beating rival Vinci.
  Built in the 1960s, the teaching and science building, later called the ‘Lasdun Wall’, comprises four buildings constructed to appear as one – Building 3, Building 4, Building 5 and Building 6.
  Architect Shepheard Eps
  
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• PfH seeks firms for £300m housing fire safety works

  05-08-2024 08:33 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  National procurement consortium Procurement for Housing is the latest body to seek to appoint a panel of contractors to deliver essential fire safety upgrade works.
  The framework will be divided into seven lots with regions and value bands. A separate framework has recently been procured for fire safety consultancy services.PfH Fire safety works framework
  Lot 1: Active works  – total value £50m(fire protection systems including but not limited to fire and smoke alarms, extinguis
  
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• Luxury fit out contractor files administration notice

  05-08-2024 08:28 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Up-market fit out and refurbishment contractor Fileturn has filed an notice of intention to appoint an administrator.
  The Surrey based specialist has been in business for more than 25 years.
  Its website states: “We provide Principal Contractor services across the UK market place, in the most demanding of sectors such as hospitality, leisure, banking and retail.“Fileturn has a strong track record in dealing with work ranging from bespoke projects through to major works, managing multi
  
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