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• Tilbury Douglas chief Paul Gandy to step down

  02-09-2024 11:56
  
  Tilbury Douglas Chief Executive Officer Paul Gandy will be stepping down from November as he prepares to take up his new role as the latest President of the Chartered Institute of Building.
  He will hand over to Craig Tatton as the new Tilbury Douglas CEO.
  Tatton joined the company in 2017 from Bouygues, leading the Regional Building businesses before taking on wider responsibilities for Fitout, Engineering and Infrastructure and, in 2022, stepping up to the role of Group Chief Operating Officer
  
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• Local pressure unblocks £240m Oxford sewage works upgrade

  02-09-2024 09:18
  
  Thames Water is finally advancing long-overdue plans for a major £240m upgrade of Oxford sewage treatment works after the local council blamed the water company for holding up thousands of new homes.
  The water company has revealed it plans to invite tenders for the long-awaited capacity upgrade next month. Ahead of this, it will hold an online bidders briefing on 10 September to set out its plans to improve the quality of effluent released at the works and increase the site’s ca
  
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• Knights Brown bags last phase of £86m Portsmouth flood defence job

  02-09-2024 09:17
  
  Portsmouth City Council has appointed Knights Brown to carry out the fifth and final phase of its £86m North Portsea Coastal Scheme.
  Knights Brown will start work immediately on the last stage works which will take place along Ports Creek in North Portsea and will include 1.9 km of flood defences.
  The design consists of a sloped earth embankment, which provides the required flood defence level, with a rock armour toe to dissipate wave energy.Knights Brown previously constructed the second
  
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• World’s strongest land-based crane launched

  02-09-2024 09:03
  Lifting specialist Mammoet has launched what it claims to be the world’s strongest land-based crane.
  The SK6000 is designed to be used on large energy and infrastructure projects where ever-bigger modular pieces need to be installed.
  The SK6000 can lift 3,000 tonnes to a height of 220m and has a maximum capacity of 6,000 tonnes.The crane design uses containerization techniques for ease of deployment, and can be transported using shipping containers to any location worldwide.
  It also offers
  
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• Bidding starts for £1bn housing decarbonising framework

  02-09-2024 08:56
  
  Social housing procurement specialist Prosper has started the bidding for its next-generation £1bn nationwide energy efficiency retrofit framework.
  Around 15 firms will be fighting to retain their places on the framework renewal which is used by around a dozen social housing landlords, including Home Group, Thirteen and Gentoo Homes.
  The multi-supplier framework will be used to provide energy efficiency retrofit measures in accordance with PAS 2035, and traditional investment and refurbish
  
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• Big Yellow gets go-ahead for largest London site

  02-09-2024 08:43
  
  Big Yellow has been granted planning for a total of 307,000 sq ft at two of its London sites.
  At Kensington Olympia planning consent has been granted at appeal for a 176,000 sq ft scheme adjacent to the £1.3 billion events centre currently under construction.
  The new storage site will open in 2027 and is Big Yellow’s largest secured planning consent.At Staples Corner a resolution to grant planning has been secured for a 131,000 sq ft replacement of the existing leasehold store.
   
  
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• Worker dies after being buried by trench collapse

  02-09-2024 08:06
  
  A groundworks contractor has been fined after a man died while working inside an excavation at a construction site in Glasgow.
  Derek Caddie lost his life when part of the excavation wall collapsed on 25 November 2019.
  This led to the 44-year-old being trapped in soil from the neck down before being rescued by the emergency services. He died from his injuries in hospital three days later on 28 November.Caddie had entered the excavation with a colleague to repair damaged and leaking pipewor. The c
  
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