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• £250m race for Sanctuary housing upkeep framework

  27-08-2024 09:14 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Social housing giant Sanctuary Housing is seeking to appoint firms to deliver a £250m programme of responsive repairs and planned maintenance over the next four years.
  The spend of around £50m a year will be spread around appointed firms in several geographical lots on an estate that includes 105,000 homes, over 100 residential care homes and more than 10,000 student rooms.
  Ahead of a formal invitation to tender for places on the new dynamic purchasing system panel, Sanctuary is hold
  
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• WIllmott Dixon lands latest Doncaster homes deal

  27-08-2024 08:51 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Willmott Dixon has landed a contract from City of Doncaster Council to build 83 homes across four sites.
  The deal was procured through the YORBuild framework and will see Willmott Dixon complete all construction work by early 2026 on the first ‘gas free’ homes in the city.
  Willmott Dixon has previously built numerous affordable homes across various sites for City of Doncaster Council, delivering a mix of one, two, three and four bedroomed family homes and bungalows.Deputy Mayor and C
  
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• BAM gains planning for £30m Coventry secondary school

  27-08-2024 08:36 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  BAM Construction has gained planning to demolish and replace buildings at a secondary school in Coventry.
  The revamp of Cardinal Newman Catholic School and Community College at the existing site will involve building a two-storey teaching block, sports hall and sixth form centre, as well as additional sports facilities.
  The project in the Keresley area of the city could cost around £30m, subject to final price negotiations with the Department for Education.BAM will carry-out the work, whil
  
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• BAM gains palnning for £30m Coventry secondary school

  27-08-2024 08:36 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  BAM Construction has gained planning to demolish and replace buildings at a secondary school in Coventry.
  The revamp of Cardinal Newman Catholic School and Community College at the existing site will involve building a two-storey teaching block, sports hall and sixth form centre, as well as additional sports facilities.
  The project in the Keresley area of the city could cost around £30m, subject to final price negotiations with the Department for Education.BAM will carry-out the work, whil
  
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• Groundworks specialist M&J Evans suffers £21m loss

  27-08-2024 08:34 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Midlands groundworks and civil engineering specialist M&J Evans plunged to a loss last year as it grappled with the slowdown in house building.
  Revenue reported by the housing groundworks specialist’s holding group fell by around quarter to £334m.
  This fall in sales led to operational inefficiencies, which together with high market inflation, contributed to trading losses for the year to December 2023 of £2.7m, compared with an operating profit of £22.6m in the prior
  
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• Facade contractor M Price files administration notice

  27-08-2024 08:18 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Leading facade specialist M Price Group has filed a notice of intention to appoint an administrator.
  Latest accounts for the Enfield based contractor for the year to April 30 2021 show  turnover of £29m generating a pre-tax loss of £1.2m.
  M Price specialised in complex facade installations to high rise and commercial developments with contract sizes between £2m and £20m.M Price Limited went into administration in September 2023 and M Price Contracting went into volun
  
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