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• Winners revealed for £3.7bn Southern Water frameworks

  16-08-2024 11:16 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Southern Water has awarded contracts to eight companies across two new Capital Delivery Frameworks worth £3.7bn.
  The winners will now carry out work under the ‘Strategic Delivery Partner’ or ‘Infrastructure Low Complexity Delivery Route’ frameworks. 
  Strategic Delivery Partners will be responsible for major infrastructure projects like constructing new pipelines and pumping stations, or non-infrastructure schemes like upgrades to water supply works or wastewate
  
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• Poor response sinks contractor project defects ranking plan

  16-08-2024 08:56 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Ambitious plans to score contractors on project defects in an attempt to phase out the use of cash retentions have hit the buffers.
  Researchers with the backing of the Construction Leadership Council had hoped to create a new industry quality score for firms as a viable alternative to the withholding of cash retentions as a form of insurance against defects.
  The plan was to follow a similar data recording approach to that used to change behaviours for health and safety and payment practices.The
  
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• Site acquired for £275m Brent Cross Town student scheme

  16-08-2024 08:22 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Developer Fusion Group and global alternative investment manager Cheyne Capital have jointly acquired a second site for a £275m purpose-built student accommodation in Brent Cross Town.
  The 180-acre Brent Cross Towon scheme is an £8bn mixed-use development in north London being delivered by Related Argent and Barnet Council which, when complete, will comprise 6,700 new homes, workspace for 25,000 people, schools, a high street, leisure spaces and over 50 acres of parks and playing fie
  
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• Legacy jobs plunge John Sisk & Son £9.7m into the red

  16-08-2024 08:07 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  John Sisk & Son, the UK operation of the Sisk Group, fell into the red last year after the business continued to count the cost of a small number of legacy jobs.
  The latest reported £9.7m loss follows a smaller £2.5m loss in 2022 tarnishing an otherwise “strong underlying performance” from large-scale residential and commercial projects that lifted revenue 25% to £475m.
  Paul Brown, CEO of John Sisk & Son, said: “Our underlying businesses performed very
  
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• Graham completes Clyde swing bridge test – video

  16-08-2024 07:58 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Contractor Graham has successfully achieved the first operational closing of its major swing bridge construction project on the River Clyde.
  First testing of the Renfrew Bridge, which is the first opening road bridge across the River Clyde, marks a significant milestone on the project as the firm continues commissioning works ahead of the official opening later this year.Jim Armour, project director said: “It was great to see the bridge closing for the first time in such a smooth, controll
  
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• TopHat heads off winding up petition

  16-08-2024 07:32 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The High Court has dismissed two winding-up petitions issued to TopHat after the volumetric offsite house builder settled with a developer out of court.
  District Judge Shepherd this week dismissed both petitions issued in July by land regeneration specialist Harworth at the Business and Property Courts in Leeds.
  Harworth Estates Residential Development has issued petitions against both Derby-based TopHat Communities and Jersey-based parent company TopHat Enterprises.TopHat Communities, a subsidi
  
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