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• Digital Product Passports: A Call to Arms

  06-09-2024 16:48 via justpractising.com
  
  Could digital product passports be the motivation the manufacturing sector needs?
  We’re writing this post in the week the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 2 Report was published, but we’ve been writing about Grenfell and its implications for construction product information for six years now. Has anything changed, and might there be an opportunity to enable the change we need?
  Where it began
  When Dame Judith Hackitt published her interim report on the building safety regime in December 2
  
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• Balfour Beatty lands £27m Highlands flood defence scheme

  06-09-2024 09:21
  
  Balfour Beatty has been awarded a £27m contract to deliver the Comrie flood protection scheme in Scotland for Perth and Kinross Council.
  Work will see Balfour Beatty construct 2.8 kms of river walls and embankments in Comrie along the Ruchill River, River Earn and River Lednock which are known for significant flooding.
  The flood defences will protect nearly 200 local homes and business, having been designed to meet a ‘1 in 200 year flood’ standard of protection, ensuring they c
  
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• John Lewis submits plan for £80m Reading rental flats scheme

  06-09-2024 09:04
  
  The John Lewis Partnership has submitted plans to transform a former delivery depot in central Reading into a 215-rental flats scheme.
  More than £80m will be invested to create energy-efficient homes, as well as 6,000 sq ft of internal amenity space at the site located next to the A329 and opposite the Oracle shopping centre.
  Designed by London practice Carey Jones Chapman Tolcher, the homes will be highly sustainable, using high performance materials with renewable energy resources.The Re
  
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• Green light for major London city fringe office retrofit

  06-09-2024 08:44
  
  Munich Re investment manager MEAG has gained planning for a 140,000 office retrofit at 30 Finsbury Square on the edge of the City in London.
  The major overhaul designed by architect Fletcher Priest will see another floor added to the building to create a nine-storey commercial office.
  This extra level will provide additional office space, a winter garden and a large green roof terrace.The scope of the retrofit includes a double-height lobby, a new secondary entrance, an upgraded façade an
  
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• HS2 Align JV completes Britain’s longest rail bridge – video

  06-09-2024 00:25
  
  Engineers building a new viaduct for HS2 made history yesterday as they lowered into place its final deck segment in an operation that crowns it as Britain’s new longest rail bridge.The gently curved 3.4km-long viaduct will carry high-speed trains up to 10m above land and water across the Colne Valley between HS2’s London tunnels in Hillingdon to the Chiltern tunnels.
  The viaduct’s completion means that the 3.3km Tay Bridge linking Fife and Dundee has finally ceded the crown of
  
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