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• Green light for five new Manchester skyscrapers

  30-08-2024 09:25 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Skyscraper developer Renaker has secured planning for its £1bn next-generation of high rise buildings at the Great Jackson Street site in Manchester.
  Planners waved through the five tower projects, one of which will become Manchester’s tallest building. Together they will provide nearly 2,400 flats with a development value of around £1bn.
  The tallest at 71 storeys, already nicknamed the ‘Lighthouse’ because of its distinctive lantern-style glazing on the upper five
  
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• Housing starts slump by a third to just 30,000 in first quarter

  30-08-2024 09:11 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Housing starts across the UK slumped 34% to just 29,820 in the first quarter of the year underlining the scale of challenge the Government faces in hitting its 300,000 homes annual target.
  The number of new dwellings completed in the first quarter of 2024 was down 17% year on year to 38,400 units.
  This ranked as the worst quarterly delivery performance for completions since the start of 2016 setting a trajectory of just 153,000 new homes likely be completed in 2024 – half of the previous a
  
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• HSE team probing Dagenham cladding fire

  30-08-2024 09:04 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Inspectors from the HSE’s Investigations and Building Safety divisions visited Spectrum House in Dagenham yesterday where a fire tore through the building earlier this week during cladding removal work.
  The HSE is working alongside London Fire Brigade investigators to determine what caused the blaze on Monday morning at the six-storey building.
  The building was shrouded in scaffolding to allow remedial work to the top two floors where non-compliant cladding was being replaced.
  As the inves
  
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• Go-ahead for net zero carbon £78m hotel tower

  30-08-2024 08:52 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Planning permission has been granted for the £78m room2 Hometel project to build the UK’s first net zero carbon tower.
  Work will transform the 12-16 Piccadilly in Manchester to feature a 34-storey tower and the sensitive conversion of an adjacent Grade II listed building by developer, Lamington Group.
  Alongside 251 aparthotel rooms, the scheme will include a net zero lifestyle museum and exhibition hall, a bar and restaurant on the upper floors of the tower and a planted rooftop terr
  
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• M&E subcontractors prices rising faster than other trades

  30-08-2024 08:33 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Specialisy M&E subcontractor prices are rising faster than all other trades despite a slowdown in overall construction activity.
  A new survey of over 150 subcontractors released by Southern Construction Framework reveals that build costs for the M&E sector rose 7% in the second quarter compared to the previous year.
  M&E packages, which account on average for around 20% of project construction costs, continue to face challenges such as high-profile insolvencies, a shortage of skilled
  
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• £50m turnover facade contractor goes into administration

  30-08-2024 08:15 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Cladding specialist Skonto Plan UK Ltd has gone into administration.
  The £50m-turnover business is now in the hands of administrators from Evelyn Partners LLP.
  Skonto Plan UK has been in business since 2009 and is a member of the Latvian based Skonto Group which has a turnover of £140m and employs 1,500 people.Latest accounts for Skonto Plan UK for the year to December 31 2022 show a turnover of £50.4m generating a pre-tax loss of £205,000 while the company employed 40 st
  
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