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• Offsite Expo to showcase industry best practice

  09-08-2024 11:25 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Offsite Expo will be held at the Coventry Building Society Arena from 17–18 September to showcase international best practice in the sector.
  Playing host to home grown and international offsite manufacturers, component suppliers and digital innovators, the event features abroad spectrum of offsite systems and smart technologies.
  Offsite Expo will feature the most comprehensive display of 2D panelised, 3D volumetric modular and pod technologies, across the structural timber, light steel fra
  
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• £300m Thames wharf resi job to go to construction

  09-08-2024 09:07 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Developer Henley has found an investor to advance construction of a planned £300m residential and logistics development on the River Thames in Fulham.
  The new equity commitment from the undisclosed investor coincides with Henley completing on the acquisition of the land, which gives the green light for construction work to begin on the protected wharf development early next year.
  As a former industrial shipping site, Albert and Swedish Wharf, will be improved and retained with new logistic
  
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• Ductwork contractors losing out to cost-cutting rivals

  09-08-2024 08:51 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Thermal Insulation Contractors Association has raised the alarm over the continuing use of non-certified boards on ductwork.
  The Association said member firms are losing work due to competitors using cheaper Euroclass F, non-certified polyisocyanurate (PIR) board, on external ductwork.Chris Ridge, TICA Technical Director said: “There are several manufacturers of PIR board operating in the UK and TICA is aware of only one PIR product that is certified for specific use with externally lo
  
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• OHOB concrete frame arm drives group profits

  09-08-2024 08:50 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  South East concrete frame and building contractor O’Halloran & O’Brien Group edged profits up to £21m last year despite a 10% fall in revenue to £313m.
  The group’s main O’Halloran & O’Brien groundworks and concrete frame business delivered a substantial turnaround in profitability in a challenging market in the year to March 2024 with pre-tax profit up just over 50%  to £13m.
  Operating margin was restored to 4.4% from 3.2% previously a
  
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• HS2 to sell spare cabling capacity to broadband firms

  09-08-2024 08:36 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  HS2 is looking to sell spare fibreoptic cabling capacity to boost broadband speeds for rural residents along the route.
  Under the plans, HS2 would sell mobile and broadband providers access to spare capacity in the fibreoptic cabling and telecoms masts being built to support the railway’s signalling and telecoms.
  Because most of the cost of cabling is installation, this could dramatically reduce the cost of bringing direct fibre connections to less populated areas.The scale of the opportun
  
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• Morrisroe Group slips into red for second year

  09-08-2024 08:26 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Diversified concrete, demolition and piling contractor Morrisroe Group has run up losses for a second consecutive year.
  The firm managed to contain losses to £1.3m in the year to October 2023, improved from £11m in the prior year.
  Losses for the prior 2022 year were restated from a previously reported £6.9m after an ‘unforeseen matter’ on a concrete frame scheme which gave rise to an increase in cost not previously forecast.
  Following a review of all other legacy pr
  
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• Mace tops July contracts league with Mayfair job

  09-08-2024 07:21 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Mace was the most successful work winner in July, topping the contracts league with a £150m London Mayfair office job and a £60m listed Brutalist building overhaul for the University of East Anglia.
  The office job in London, known as Lansdowne House, and UEA’s 1960s grade II listed Lasdun Wall science building refurbishment topped a month of strong work winning for the top 50 contractors.
  Balfour Beatty just pipped Lendlease to second place following confirmation of the award o
  
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