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• Winvic clocks up 100m sq ft of shed space with latest order

  22-08-2024 17:48 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Winvic Construction has taken an order that sees the business hit a historic milestone of building 100m sq ft of shed space since being set up 23 years ago.
  The latest deal for a speculative industrial facility totalling 761,000 sq ft at Magna Park in Lutterworth is the largest yet to be brought forward by the a partnership between the logistics park developer GLP and Winvic.
  MPN 761 will be the sixty-fourth industrial building that Winvic has been contracted to deliver with Net Zero Carbon requ
  
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• Vistry seals £60m deal to build 270 homes in Ordsall

  22-08-2024 17:48 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Salford City Council has selected Vistry-owned Countryside Partnerships as its preferred bidder to deliver a mix of 274 flats and houses in Ordsall.
  The first phase starts with a £3m enabling works contract for the £60m project to transform 10 acres of brownfield land off Robert Hall Street and West Park Street.
  Countryside Partnerships will deliver the main building project once it has received full planning approval.The collaboration will see the delivery of 137 homes and 137 apart
  
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• Scottish Water puts firms on alert for £6.3bn framework

  22-08-2024 07:08 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Scottish Water has set out plans to invite tenders in November for places on a framework to deliver a £6.3bn investment plan over 13 years.
  The water company is looking for both civils infrastructure and MEICA asset delivery partners to deliver its control period SR27 and SR33 programme of capital and operational works.
  Works will include new assets, renewals, modifications, maintenance, refurbishments and enhancements to existing assets.Successful bidders will be announced before April 20
  
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• Leisure centre builder Pellikaan revenue almost halves

  22-08-2024 05:56 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The UK arm of Dutch contractor Pellikaan Group saw revenue almost halve last year to £24m from £43m previously.
  This ended a five-year run of steady growth in the UK for the leisure centre specialist.
  Despite the fall in sales, pre-tax profit at Pellikaan Construction remained stable at just under £200,000 in the year to December 2023.Director Gert-Jan Peeters said the outlook now looked promising after the firm started four new projects last year, including branching out to se
  
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• Waitrose back to building with bold £1bn store plan

  22-08-2024 05:16 via constructionenquirer.com
  Grocer Waitrose is re-entering to the building market after a six-year long break with a £1bn ‘big bang’ store investment plan over the next three years.
  Its bold expansion plan will see the food retailer open 100 new convenience stores and four large supermarkets.
  The plan to revitalise the premium grocer’s retail footprint will also fund modernising 150 existing stores, nearly half of the company’s entire portfolio.
  The first new Waitrose store since 2018 will ope
  
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• Octavius seals deal for £27m Essex road job

  22-08-2024 05:15 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Octavius has clinched the deal to build the first phase of the new A1331 near Colchester to the east of the University of Essex.The project will provide a 1.8km dual carriageway road between a new roundabout on the A133 (pictured) and the new ‘Allen’s Farm Roundabout’ to the north.It provides the initial infrastructure for the planned 9,000-home Colchester Border Garden Community.
  In an earlier ECI stage, Octavius carried out the detailed design work for the scheme, which will
  
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