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• JCT latest contracts release date revealed

  12-08-2024 21:02 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  JCT has announced that the 2024 Edition of the Standard Building Contract family will be released on 21 August 2024.
  The documents that will be included as part of the release are:Standard Building Contract With Quantities 2024 (SBC/Q 2024)
  Standard Building Contract Without Quantities 2024 (SBC/XQ 2024)
  Standard Building Contract With Approximate Quantities 2024 (SBC/AQ 2024)
  Standard Building Contract Guide 2024 (SBC/G 2024)
  Standard Building Contract With Quantities 2024 Tracked Change Docume
  
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• Bouygues lands £60m Stanmore College rebuild

  12-08-2024 15:00 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Bouygues UK has been appointed by the Department for Education for the £60m rebuild contract at Stanmore College in north London.
  The job under the CF21 Framework will be funded by the DfE’s Further Education Improvement Programme.
  Bouygues will be reconfiguring the college’s existing site by replacing four buildings with four new builds, to be completed in summer 2027 with work starting imminently.Phillippa Prongué, MD for London and the South East at Bouygues UK said,
  
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• Road worker run over while urinating under lorry

  12-08-2024 14:54 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A coroner has issued a safety warning after a road worker was run over while urinating between the axles of a grab lorry on a resurfacing job.
  Dorset coroner Brendan Allen has written to the Health and Safety Executive following an inquest into the death of Thomas Joseph McAuley.
  McAuley was part of a six-person crew working for Kiley Brothers on a road repair job in Ferndown, Dorset in July 2022.He needed to urinate during the morning and stood between the third and fourth axles of a four axle
  
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• Soaring costs at London incinerator job force M&E rethink

  12-08-2024 09:13 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Spanish contractor Acciona’s massive incinerator project in North London has been hit by spiraling costs and delays.
  The Energy Recovery Facility forms part of the wider North London Heat and Power Project in Edmonton where costs have soared from £1.2bn to £1.5bn, due to construction material and wage inflation.
  The EFR project is now at a critical stage with steelworks due to start shortly and main M&E works to follow.
  But supply chain problems have forced Acciona to rethi
  
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• Hyde to renew £2bn new-build housing deal

  12-08-2024 08:59 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Leading housing association the Hyde Group is renewing its main contractor framework previously valued at £2bn over five years.
  With ambitious plans to build about 1,500 homes a year over the next five years, Hyde is seeking partners to help deliver high quality, safe and sustainable new homes for its customers.
  Present incumbents facing a fight to renew their spots on the framework include Bouygues, Engie, Graham, Higgins, Hill, Kier, McAleer & Rushe, McLaren, Migard, Vistry, and Wate
  
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• Giant modular school set for B+K Sutton site

  12-08-2024 08:59 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Offsite specialist Premier Modular is working on the largest temporary education project in its 70-year history.
  The firm is set to supply 186 modules to Greenshaw High School in Sutton, south London where Bowmer + Kirkland is building a new school.
  During the main rebuild pupils will be taught in temporary buildings consisting of 186 modules rising to three floors.Premier Modular currently is currently manufacturing the modules at its 37-acre factory in Yorkshire ahead of installation starting
  
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• Go-ahead for 37-storey Moda tower in Birmingham

  12-08-2024 08:58 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Moda Living and Calthorpe Estates have gained planning to build more than 460 flats in a 37-storey block in Birmingham.
  Bowmer + Kirkland is tipped to take the job, which will form the second phase of the 11-acre New Garden Square masterplan, which will feature over 2,000 homes and £6m of public realm.
  A vacant office building, No. 1 Duchess Place, will be demolished to make way for the building, which is set to be the tallest in the Hagley Road neighbourhood in Edgbaston.The latest block
  
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• Industrial shed builder TSL margin hits 3.3% after sales drop a third

  12-08-2024 08:56 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Logistics, industrial and data centre builder TSL has doubled operating margins after deciding to be more selective in its bidding during a challenging year for the shed market.
  A more cautious approach to risk saw revenue fall by just over a third to £297m in the year to December 2023.
  But operating margin rose to 3.3% from 1.5% previously as pre-tax profit jumped by almost half to £9.9m.
  Headcount at the the Gerrards Cross-headquartered business remained stable at around 200 staff.
  
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• Marshalls pins recovery hope on concrete bricks

  12-08-2024 08:30 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Building products giant Marshalls is shaking-up its strategy to take advantage of an accelerating construction market through to 2029.
  The firm will reveal full details of its new approach in November with markets for concrete bricks, solar panels and civils and drainage products expected to grow sharply.
  Chief executive Matt Pullen said: “We are undertaking a review of the Group’s strategy and have identified a number of opportunities to deliver outperformance over the medium term.&
  
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