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• Robertson to deliver Aberdeen hydrogen hub project

  28-08-2024 22:08 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Robertson Civil Engineering will begin work later this year building a hydrogen hub for bp in joint venture with Aberdeen City Council.
  The planned hub will feature a hydrogen production, storage and distribution facility, located at Hareness Road, Aberdeen, which will be powered by electricity generated at a solar farm to be installed on the former Ness landfill site.
  RCE will deliver the civils works and structural infrastructure, targeting production from 2026.Once operational the hub wi
  
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• Tycoon’s £1bn Docklands flats scheme approved at third attempt

  28-08-2024 22:04 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Newspaper tycoon Richard Desmond has gained planning at the third attempt to redevelop his former Isle of Dogs printworks site in London with a vast luxury flats scheme.
  The 1,360-home Millwall outer dock waterfront plan will see the comprehensive redevelopment of the 6.15 hectare brownfield site, formerly occupied by his Northern & Shell publishing company’s Westferry Printworks.
  Latest plans for the mixed-development have been scaled down slightly while around a third of the homes wi
  
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• London’s largest estate £1bn rebuild rebooted

  28-08-2024 09:40 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The London Borough of Newham has appointed the professional team to advance the first major new-build phase of the £1bn Carpenter Estate regeneration.
  Populo Living, Newham’s wholly owned housing company, has appointed architect Hawkins\Brown for Phase 2 of the Carpenters Estate Regeneration, known as the Lund Quarter.
  The Lund Quarter is the first new-build section of the 15-year masterplan. It will provide up to 500 new homes, including the renovation of the existing Lund Point tow
  
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• Firms put on alert for £3bn flood and coastal framework

  28-08-2024 09:15 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Environment Agency is seeking expressions of interest and pre-market engagement with contractors for its next-generation £3bn flood and coastal management delivery framework
  Tenders for Collaborative Delivery Framework 2 are planned to be invited in March 2025.
  The framework will provide both technical consultancy services and construction works that support the EA’s asset management, maintenance, refurbishment and construction programmes of work.Existing framework contractor par
  
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• Bid race for £23m Rugby road to unlock 5,000 homes plan

  28-08-2024 09:13 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Homes England has started the hunt for a civils contractor to deliver a road scheme outside of Rugby to pave the way for a new community of 5,000 homes.
  The housing agency aims to shortlist five firms to bid for the Homestead Link Road, which will consist of a 2km long all-traffic single carriageway connecting the A426 (Rugby Road) with the B4429 (Coventry Road).
  The road is required to unlock the South West Rugby development, set to deliver 5,000 new homes, primary and secondary schools, a new
  
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• £300m plan for Manchester civil service office hub

  28-08-2024 08:45 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Manchester City Council and the Government Property Agency have opened public consultation on ambitious plans to redevelop the former Central Retail Park site in Manchester.
  The Government agency aims to create a major office hub for 7,000 civil servants at the site, along with a new city park.
  The two major civil service buildings totally 800,000 sq ft will be built in phase one with up to four buildings following in phase 2.Construction of the Manchester Digital Campus, is pencilled to begin i
  
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• FEC deal to build 750 homes at former Manchester police HQ

  28-08-2024 08:44 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Trafford Council and the Greater Manchester Combined Authority have signed a joint venture deal with Far East Consortium to build 750 homes at site of the former HQ of Greater Manchester Police in Stretford.
  The agreement will now see FEC work with the authorities to redevelop the 9.5-acre site to create new homes and a range of other uses.
  In addition to new housing, 25% of which will be affordable, the site will provide a hotel, leisure uses, new shops, offices and community facilities.
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• Fit-out contractor went under owing supply chain £10m+

  28-08-2024 08:19 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Cardiff-based office fit-out and interiors specialist Paramount D&B went into administration owing more than £10m to subcontractors and suppliers.
  An update from administrator Begbies Traynor reveals the scale of the specialist’s debt after it went down last month.
  Documents filed at Companies House show 481 firms were left holding unpaid invoices totalling £10.4m which are now worthless.The report revealed a disastrous expansion into new build following a series of managem
  
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