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• Competition concern about circular ducting in Midlands

  23-08-2024 09:31 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The merger last year between duct suppliers Lindab and Birmingham-based HAS-Vent has raised competition concerns for commercial and industrial projects around Nottingham and Stoke-on-Trent.
  An in-depth probe by the Competition and Markets Authority warns that in these areas the takeover of  Birmingham-based HAS-Vent by Swedish giant Landab could lead to reduced choice and higher prices in the construction, particularly for specialist installers of ventilation systems in those areas.
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• Historic facade contractor owed suppliers £2.3m

  23-08-2024 09:05 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Trade creditors hit by the collapse of leading Scottish façade specialist Charles Henshaw & Sons have been left holding unpaid bills of £2.3m.
  The Edinburgh based firm was founded in 1904 but went into administration last month.
  The full scale of its debts were revealed in an update from administrator Henderson Loggie posted at Companies House.More than 100 suppliers and subcontractor have been hit by the demise of the firm which was working for main contractors including BAM, B
  
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• Ultra-low carbon cement factory production to start this autumn

  23-08-2024 08:57 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A Teesside-based operation to mass produce ultra-low carbon cement is to go into first factory production in Wrexham this October.
  The move will make Government-funded Material Evolution the biggest producer of low carbon cement in the UK.
  Its new factory in Wrexham will produce 150,000 tonnes annually of a product that emits up to 85% less embodied CO2 than traditional Ordinary Portland Cement, with no reduction in quality and workability.The Middlesbrough firm’s innovative process manufa
  
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• ISG takes plunge at historic Brum baths restoration

  23-08-2024 08:28 via constructionenquirer.com
  ISG has taken the £33m first phase restoration of Birmingham’s oldest public swimming baths.
  The 116-year-old grade II-listed Moseley Road Baths swimming baths are undergoing a major long-term rejuvenation.
  This first phase of the project begins with crucial roof and façade works, which will see scaffolding erected during September.
  It will also see a café added to the Second-Class Slipper Baths, reconfiguration of visitors spaces and installation of the first of three
  
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• Site secured for nuclear research “super cluster”

  23-08-2024 08:16 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The 40-acre Gloucestershire Science and Technology Park in Berkeley has been sold to developer Chiltern Vital Berkeley Ltd (CVB) who plan to create the UK’s first low carbon “super cluster” for nuclear research, education and AI.
  The Berkeley site was formerly home to one of the first civil nuclear power stations in the world and its adjoining research laboratory was key to developing the UK’s nuclear fuel programme.
  More recently it has has been owned by South Gloucester
  
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