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• Caddick to build £42m Schneider Electric factory

  09-09-2024 16:05 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Caddick Construction has been appointed to build a new £42m manufacturing facility in Scarborough, North Yorkshire for Schneider Electric.
  Caddick’s specialist division CCL Facades will deliver the curtain walling at the Scarborough Business Park site where Schneider Electric will be relocating to from its existing facility just 500m away.
  Scarborough is a long-established manufacturing base for Schneider Electric, currently employing 450 people.It specialises in the manufacture of l
  
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• Civils contractor Glenevin goes into administration

  09-09-2024 09:48 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Livingston based civils contractor Glenevin is in administration.
  Latest accounts filed for the company show a turnover of £38.2m for the year to August 31 2022 generating a pre-tax profit of 2.4m by the broadband infrastructure specialist which employed 120 people.
  The company confirmed the appointment of an administrator last week and broadband news service ISPreview reported the firm is now in the hands of RSM Restsructuring Advisory LLP.RSM said the firm’s demise was caused by &l
  
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• Barratt, Lloyds and Homes England form JV for large housing schemes

  09-09-2024 08:41 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Barratt Developments has formed a joint venture with Homes England and Lloyds Banking Group to bring forward large-scale schemes of up to 10,000 homes.
  The private-public joint venture vehicle called MADE Partnership is initially backed with a £150m and will act as a master developer.
  It aims to help bring about the step-increase in building activity needed to meet the Government’s target of 1.5m new homes over the next five years.MADE Partnership has been set up to act as master dev
  
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• National Grid fined £3.2m after pylon accident

  09-09-2024 08:22 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  National Grid has been fined more than £3m after a father-of-two was left with life-changing injuries from working on a pylon in South Wales.
  Justin Hollins was working replacing step bolts on the pylon at Treforest Industrial Estate in Pontypridd, when he received an electric shock of 33,000 volts.
  The 50-year-old sustained burns to 40% of his body, including to his arms and legs, and also lost part of his right buttock.Hollins, who had six operations in the space of his first 10 days in
  
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• Eric Wright Construction books best profit for 12 years

  09-09-2024 08:14 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Eric Wright Construction increased profit before tax to £2.3m last year from £0.8m previously, its strongest financial result for 12 years.
  The second year of consecutive profit draws to a close a rocky period for the construction arm which had previously struggled with maintaining profitability.
  Turnover at the construction business jumped by nearly half to £89m in the year to the end of December 2023.This strong rebound also lifted parent company, Eric Wright Group, which rec
  
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• Go-ahead for Salford 568 flat co-living scheme

  09-09-2024 01:37 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Manchester developer Progressive Living has gained planning for a 568 studio flats tower in Salford’s Greengate Regeneration Area.
  Designed by Building Design Partnership, the 42-storey building will be Progressive Living’s biggest scheme to date.
  The ground level of Enclave project on Gorton Street will provide active frontages to the public realm and to the riverside.
  This application supersedes a previous submission made by Progressive to Salford City Council in 2021, for a mixed
  
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• Fusion go-ahead for 700-bed Cardiff student scheme

  09-09-2024 01:26 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Student accommodation developer and operator Fusion Group has secured planning for an over 700-bed project in Cardiff city centre.
  Fusion’s Longcross Court development, located on Newport Road will be spread across 488 units in several linked blocks, the tallest rising to 18-floors.
  Designed by Corstorphine & Wright and M&E consultant Amber Management & Engineering Services, Fusion will seek to deliver a BREEAM Outstanding certification for the scheme and will install renewable
  
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