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• Modular specialist TopHat faces winding up petition

  06-08-2024 21:19 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Volumetric housing specialist TopHat is facing a winding up petition from stock market listed developer Harworth.
  Harworth Estates Residential Development has issued petitions against both Derby-based TopHat Communities and Jersey-based parent company TopHat Enterprises.
  TopHat Communities, a subsidiary of TopHat Enterprises, is responsible for the deployment of modules on customer sites, where groundworks are required.The legal action is the latest setback for TopHat, which has laid off staff t
  
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• Digitisation, Digitalisation, Digital Transformation: What’s the difference?

  06-08-2024 11:57 via justpractising.com
  
  This article looks at the differences between these terms in the context of construction product data, what is preventing each of them and what this means with the emergence of new initiatives such as Digital Product Passports (DPPs).
  Summary of Definitions
  Digitisation is turning your analogue and disconnected data into connected, digital form. It’s about connecting your sources of information so they can work for your business more efficiently and effectively.
  Digitalisation is making th
  
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• Construction buyers see activity grow at fastest pace for two years

  06-08-2024 11:47 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Construction buyers reported a surge in activity and new orders in July.
  The bellwether S&P Global UK Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index rose at its fastest rate for 26 months to 55.3 in July from 52.2 in June.
  All three categories of construction saw activity increase in July as work on housing projects returned to growth.Commercial activity increased solidly, but the fastest expansion was seen in civil engineering activity, where the rate of growth quickened to the sharpest in a
  
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• Dry lining sales slump sends SIG into the red

  06-08-2024 08:36 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Insulation and building products supplier SIG has posted a pre-tax loss of £11.3m from a turnover of £1.32bn for the six months to June 30 2024.
  The results compare to a pre-tax profit of £12.2m from a turnover of £1.4bn in the same period last year.
  SIG said it was hit by challenging market conditions across Europe with revenue down 9% in the UK at £553m with the interiors division hardest hit with a 14% drop in sales to £250m.The company said: “Growth
  
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• B+K gets go-ahead for £41m Oxford school

  06-08-2024 08:33 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Bowmer +Kirkland has got the go-ahead to deliver a 800-pupil secondary school to the north of Oxford.
  Work is expected to get underway shortly on the £41m contract to deliver the new Gosford Hill School in Kidlington on the Oxford Road site.
  The school is designed by Stride Treglown with RPS as mechanical and electrical engineers.
  A new three-storey L-shaped school will be built next to existing buildings which will be demolished in several phases to allow the school to remain open ahead o
  
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• B&K gets go-ahead for £41m Oxford school

  06-08-2024 08:33 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Bowmer & Kirkland has got the go-ahead to deliver a 800-pupil secondary school to the north of Oxford.
  Work is expected to get underway shortly on the £41m contract to deliver the new Gosford Hill School in Kidlington on the Oxford Road site.
  The school is designed by Stride Treglown with RPS as mechanical and electrical engineers.
  A new three-storey L-shaped school will be built next to existing buildings which will be demolished in several phases to allow the school to remain open ah
  
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• Three sewage dumping water companies to be fined £168m

  06-08-2024 08:31 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Water regular Ofwat plans to fine Thames, Yorkshire and Northumbrian Water £168m for failing to manage their wastewater treatment works and networks, in record penalties from its biggest-ever investigation.
  In addition to the proposed sewage dumping fines, Ofwat plans to impose enforcement orders to require each company to rectify immediately the problems it has identified, promising a wave of fast-tracked sewage treatment works investment.
  Ofwat said the companies would not be able to rec
  
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• McLaren launches new Construction Management division

  06-08-2024 08:01 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  McLaren has launched a new Construction Management and Specialist Projects division to target large scale real estate and public sector projects.
  Former Sir Robert McAlpine deputy managing director for London Vince Lydon has joined McLaren to head the new division.
  Lydon spent nine years at McAlpine after working for Balfour Beatty, Bovis and Lendlease, where he oversaw the delivery of major projects for leading clients including BAA, Stanhope, Grosvenor, Land Securities, Soho Estates and The Cr
  
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• Network Rail names £1.4bn southern minor works partners

  06-08-2024 08:00 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Fifteen firms have secured places on Network Rail’s  £1.4bn Southern Region minor works, buildings and civils partnership framework.
  The firms will deliver reactive and planned maintenance of buildings assets, as well as small renewals projects, across Kent, Sussex and Wessex Routes for control period 7 and 8.
  It rationalises seven current frameworks into one and will award work directly rather than via mini tendering competitions.
  Just over half of the framework spend will be a
  
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• Willmott Dixon breaks ground on £20m Bristol clinic

  06-08-2024 07:14 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Willmott Dixon has started work on a £20m mental health unit in Bristol for people with a learning disability or autism.
  The job was procured under the P23 framework, and Willmott Dixon is working with Ryder Architecture, Edmond Shipway & Partners and Hydrock Consultants as part of its wider team.  
  The new Bristol unit will be run by Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust and complements another similar facility currently under construction in Devon.
  It will be ab
  
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