Construction news

• Plan to convert 1960s multi-storey car park into 100 flats

  27-09-2024 09:06
  
  Radical plans to transform a 1960s brutalist multi-storey car park into over 100 flats have been lodged with Newcastle-Under-Lyme Borough Council.
  Developer Capital&Centric aim to transform Midway car park into one-to-three bed flats with social hub, gym, mini-cine and lounge space.
  Developer aims to give brutalist concrete structures in prime town centre spots a new lease of life while saving embodied carbon within them
  The proposed neighbourhood is the first of three sites being brought fo
  
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• Bid race starts for £2.6bn NHS modular buildings framework

  27-09-2024 08:47
  
  Twenty modular specialists face a fight to retain places on the Government’s next-generation modular building framework for schools and healthcare jobs.
  NHS Shared Business Services has today invited bids for the new framework due to come into force next summer.
  Since the existing framework was launched 9 firms have dropped out or collapsed from the original 29 companies selected.The rebooted framework has been expanded to cover new sectors, raising by £1bn the expected workload over
  
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• Trio land £540m Southern Water sewer deal

  27-09-2024 08:33
  
  Southern Water has awarded contracts worth up to £540m to three companies to boost its wastewater network performance.
  The winning contractors will be responsible for delivering essential frontline sewer services from responding to emergency calls to rehabilitating existing sewers.
  Work will be carried out across four lots.Maintenance and manholes workstreams will be the responsibility of Lanes Group, while Cappagh Browne will deliver on sewer rehabilitation projects, and McAllister Bros o
  
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• GMI promotes from within to replace departed chief

  27-09-2024 08:18
  
  GMI Construction Group has promoted Gareth Jones to Group Managing Director.
  The move follows the imminent departure of former chief executive Lee Powell to Henry Boot Construction where he takes-up his new role in January.
  Jones has been promoted from Divisional Managing Director for the Midlands, where he has played a fundamental role in the establishment of GMI’s presence in the region.He will be transitioning into the group role during the last quarter of this year and will lead the bu
  
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• William Hare returns to profit as revenue tops £300m

  27-09-2024 07:53
  
  The country’s second biggest constructional steelwork contractor William Hare has returned to profit after revenue jumped 27% to £316m.
  The uplift in work helped to generate a £5.8m pre-tax profit in the year to December 2023 recovering from a £850,000 loss in the prior year.
  The improvement, which saw EBITDA rise to £9.8m (2022: £3.4m), saw average group margin double to 3.1%.Hare, which also operates in the United Arab Emirates, India and Europe, employs ove
  
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