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• Go-ahead for £750m East London data centre

  16-10-2024 18:54 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Plans to build a £750m urban hyperscale data centre on a site next to the River Lea and A13 in East London have got the go-ahead from the London Borough of Newham.
  The Bidder Street data centre project is being developed by Legal & General, digital infrastructure investor Goldacre, and data centre development partner sineQN.
  It is expected to cost around £500m to build over a six-year construction and fit-out period. The project includes three connected buildings: a data centre,
  
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• Keltbray Infrastructure Services buys Linbrooke rail arm

  16-10-2024 15:34 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Keltbray Infrastructure Services Limited has acquired Linbrooke Services’ rail business.
  It is the first acquisition since Keltbray Infrastructure Services was sold by its parent company to private equity firm EMK Capital in August.
  Linbrooke’s rail business is an approved Network Rail tier-one Principal Contractor, delivering end-to-end ‘design and build’ signalling, telecommunications and associated power solutions across the UK Rail infrastructure since 2003.The move s
  
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• SRL gains compliance for latest portable traffic signals

  16-10-2024 15:13 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  SRL Traffic Systems has become one of the first manufacturers to achieve TOPAS 2540A compliance for its next generation of portable traffic signals.
  UltraLight is its first compliant signal and the product forms the basis of REMOS, another new launch and one of the first scalable remotely operated temporary signal solutions to enable off-site operation at multiple locations, including those in rural areas.
  Since its launch in June 2023, TOPAS 2540A compliance is increasingly stipulated in intell
  
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• Trio wins £170m westcountry new build housing deal

  16-10-2024 08:53 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Bath-based housing association Curo Places has named its three partner contractors to deliver a £170m house building programme over the next four years.
  EG Carter, Speller Metcalfe Malvern and its in-house builder Curo Enterprise secured spots on the new framework deal.
  They will help to deliver Curo’s programme to build between 250 and 300 new social homes every year over the next five years and deliver between 100 and 200 private market sales annually.
  Curo manages close to 14,000
  
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• Trio wins £170m West Country new build housing deal

  16-10-2024 08:53 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Bath-based housing association Curo Places has named its three partner contractors to deliver a £170m house building programme over the next four years.
  EG Carter, Speller Metcalfe Malvern and its in-house builder Curo Enterprise secured spots on the new framework deal.
  They will help to deliver Curo’s programme to build between 250 and 300 new social homes every year over the next five years and deliver between 100 and 200 private market sales annually.
  Curo manages close to 14,000
  
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• Roofer dies in fall from potato box on forklift

  16-10-2024 08:52 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A Cheshire farm owner has been fined after a roofer fell to his death from a forklift truck while attempting repairs on a packing shed at his premises in Tarporley.
  Denis Thornhill and his company D.S. Thornhill (Rushton) Limited were fined a combined £16,000 after 64-year-old Mark Young was killed at Moss Hall Farm on 1 February 2021.
  Earlier this year, Thornhill and the company been found guilty of breaching health and safety legislation following a six-week trial at Chester Crown Court.
  
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• Clancy bolsters senior management team

  16-10-2024 08:27 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Clancy has made three new appointments to its senior leadership team as the business gears up to grow energy, water and major civil engineering projects.
  Former Skanska project director Jon Arnold joins the business as operations director to support Clancy’s clients in the energy sector after nearly 13 years with the UK contracting arm of the Swedish construction giant.
  At the same time long-serving directors, Martin McGovern and Bryan Curtayne have been promoted to Clancy’s executiv
  
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• Yorkshire and Lincolnshire builders’ merchant goes under

  16-10-2024 08:24 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Lincolnshire’s largest independent timber and building supplies supplier has crashed into administration with the loss of 26 jobs.
  Founded in 1928, the Builders Merchant Company traded from outlets in Rotherham, Hull, Goole and Scunthorpe.
  The merchant, which was headquartered in Scunthorpe, was the subject of a winding up petition last month from Close Invoice Finance.
  Administrators were appointed after attempts to sell Builders’ Merchant Company through the accelerated mergers and
  
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• M Group joins top seven as revenue jumps to £2.2bn

  16-10-2024 08:23 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Private equity-owned infrastructure services specialist M Group has joined the ranks of the industry’s top seven contractors after raising revenue 22% to £2.2bn.
  The firm, which was originally spun out of Anglian Water for £135m in 2008 as Morrison Utility Services, delivered strong growth in its target water, energy, highways and telecoms sectors.
  It now boasts a client list in prized regulated markets for Thames Water, Yorkshire Water, Welsh Water, National Grid, Network Rail
  
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• BlackRock to take control of Lanes Group

  16-10-2024 00:04 via constructionenquirer.com
  Asset manager BlackRock is set to take a majority stake in water and wastewater contractor Lanes Group.
  The deal is expected to close by the end of this month and accelerate growth at the £500m turnover business which employs 4,000 staff on drainage and utility infrastructure jobs.
  Wayne Earnshaw, CEO of Lanes Group, said: “This marks a pivotal moment for Lanes Group as we continue our journey of growth and innovation.“While this investment will unlock new opportunities for us
  
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