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• Luton airport £2.4bn expansion decision delayed

  13-09-2024 09:19 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Government has delayed its decision on whether Luton Airport can go-ahead with major expansion plans.
  The planned £2.4bn airport expansion would raise capacity from 18m to 32m passengers per year and be a much-needed economic boost to the region.
  Luton Rising, the Luton Council company that owns the airport, is seeking development consent to build a new terminal, a major programme of earthworks to create an extension to the current airfield platform and new airside and landside facilit
  
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• Winchmore wins £10m brickwork package with Lovell

  13-09-2024 09:02 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Winchmore Brickwork Group has landed a £10m package for Lovell Partnerships at Southmere Village Phase 2 in Thamesmead , south east London.
  The specialist will start on the brickwork package next month with work lasting through to 2026.
  Lovell, and joint venture partner Peabody will work with Winchmore to deliver 329 new homes alongside 1,000m2 of commercial space.Winchmore will be laying nearly one million (16,000m2) of handset bricks on the development which is running alongside a range
  
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• Green light for £125m Camden student scheme

  13-09-2024 08:34 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Regal’s plans for the £125m redevelopment of 100 Chalk Farm Road have been unanimously approved by Camden Council.
  The Purpose Built Student Accommodation will contain 264 student bedrooms, 30 affordable homes, nearly 11,000 sq ft ground floor commercial space and new public realm enhancements located next to the famous Grade II-listed Roundhouse live performance venue.
  The overall design will enhance the setting of the Roundhouse and listed building works will repair its original fa
  
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• BAM, Arup and Amey win £800m Network Rail contract

  13-09-2024 08:25 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A collaborative construction consortium has been appointed to deliver the next phase of the Transpennine Route Upgrade West project – which at £800m is the largest single contract by value awarded by Network Rail.
  Working together the TRUWest Alliance of BAM, Arup, Amey, and Network Rail will deliver the next phase of the TRUWest project over three and a half years completing in 2028.
  It will cover a range of multi-disciplinary railway upgrades between Huddersfield and Leeds, transfo
  
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• BAM, Arup and Amey win £2bn Network Rail contract

  13-09-2024 08:25 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A collaborative construction consortium has been appointed to deliver the next phase of the Transpennine Route Upgrade West project – which at £2bn is the largest single contract by value awarded by Network Rail.
  Working together the TRUWest Alliance of BAM, Arup, Amey, and Network Rail will deliver the next phase of the TRUWest project over three and a half years completing in 2028.
  BAM and Amey will share £800m each with the remainder to Arup on design related work.
  It will c
  
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• Balfour Beatty wins £363m Suffolk/Essex electricity grid upgrade

  13-09-2024 08:21 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  National Grid has awarded Balfour Beatty a £363m contract to deliver the Bramford to Twinstead high voltage electricity network reinforcement project in Suffolk and Essex.
  Main construction is expected to commence in the first half of 2025 with completion expected in 2028.
  At peak construction, Balfour Beatty will employ over 200 people including 10 apprenticeship and graduate positions.
  The big power project will see Balfour replace the existing high voltage electricity network betwe
  
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• Balfour Beatty wins £363m electricity grid upgrade job

  13-09-2024 08:21 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  National Grid has awarded Balfour Beatty a £363m contract to deliver the Bramford to Twinstead high voltage electricity network reinforcement project in Suffolk and Essex.
  Main construction is expected to commence in the first half of 2025 with completion expected in 2028.
  At peak construction, Balfour Beatty will employ over 200 people including 10 apprenticeship and graduate positions.
  The big power project will see Balfour replace the existing high voltage electricity network betwe
  
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• Plan in for 2m sq ft Hertfordshire data centre campus

  13-09-2024 07:53 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Plans have been lodged to build a 2 m sq ft of data centre campus consisting of three buildings in Hertsmere, Hertfordshire.
  Developer DC01UK said the campus will involved a £3.75bn investment sustaining 500 jobs over the course of the construction programme.
  It is the latest firm to advance plans for a major data centre complex following Google, Amazon and Microsoft.
  DC01UK said the latest campus will be built at an 85-acre site adjacent to the A1 and M25, just east of South Mimms Service
  
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