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• East London last mile logistics hub approved

  23-10-2024 19:51 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Network Rail Property has gained outline planning to regenerate over 30 acres of brownfield land next to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park into a rail freight campus and last mile logistics hub.
  The Bow Goods Yard site is the final parcel of legacy land to be unlocked and is Network Rail Property’s first independent planning submission.
  The site will host up to 3 m sq ft of floorspace within a new Network Rail Hub that brings together their offices and maintenance and delivery units, and wi
  
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• McAlpine confirms M&E team at £4bn gigafactory

  23-10-2024 16:27 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  NG Bailey and TClarke have been confirmed as the two MEP partners for the delivery of the new £4bn Agratas gigafactory in Somerset which will make car batteries for Jaguar Land Rover,
  Sir Robert McAlpine is building the first of three major units at the UK’s biggest planned EV battery factory at Bridgwater for Tata-owned Agratas
  NG Bailey will provide a full range of mechanical, electrical and plumbing services for the new battery-cell manufacturing facility alongside TClarke with ME
  
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• OCU Group buys directional drilling specialist

  23-10-2024 14:29 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Energy and utilities infrastructure services company OCU Group has acquired directional drilling specialist Peter McCormack & Sons Limited.
  Northern Ireland based McCormack Drilling has over a five-decade history of delivering trenchless technology solutions and major horizontal directional drilling projects across the UK and Ireland.
  OCU said: “With today’s acquisition and the addition of the McCormack Drilling team’s wealth of technical expertise and operational experienc
  
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• Former ISG sustainability chief joins Permasteelisa

  23-10-2024 14:19 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Former ISG Head of Sustainability Anna Foden has taken up the same newly-created role at façade specialist Permasteelisa Group.
  She will report directly to Group Innovation Director Kim Palmen-Koop, leading the company’s drive towards a net zero future.
  Permasteelisa Group’s Chief Technical Innovation Officer, Jalal Fitoury, said: “We are delighted that Anna has agreed to take up this new role. She is an experienced senior sustainability professional with a background in
  
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• Developer told to stop building in affordable housing row

  23-10-2024 09:21 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A High Court judge has served an interim injunction on a developer stopping them from building or selling more homes on a major site in a row over affordable housing.
  Bolsover District Council took Arba Ground Trading Company to court over a disputed development in a Derbyshire village.
  The Hawthorne Meadows scheme in Barlborough was granted planning permission in March 2011 with the s106 condition that 10% of the homes on the site be affordable housing.The council claimed 126 houses have curren
  
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• Barratt Redrow starts hunt for supply chain savings

  23-10-2024 09:03 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Newly-formed house building giant Barratt Redrow is looking for big savings as it seeks to consolidate its enlarged supply chain.
  Following formal clearance of the Barratt takeover of Redrow at the start of this month, chief executive David Thomas confirmed plans to find £90m in cost savings.
  A review of procurement and consolidation of the supply chain is expected to squeeze £34m or 38% of the targetted efficiencies.
  He said cost saving efforts would be centred on optimising procure
  
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• Green light for 130-bed Coventry student scheme

  23-10-2024 09:00 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Birmingham-based developer Sama Investment Group has got the planning thumbs up for its 130-bed student scheme on the edge of Coventry city centre.
  The development, known as Charter House, will see an industrial site on Charterhouse Road transformed to deliver a student accommodation scheme across four and six storey buildings.
  This will be accompanied with amenities like study areas, lounges, and a gym.Charter House has been designed to achieve an ‘Excellent’ rating by BREEAM.Bilal
  
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• Marshalls workers voting in strike ballot

  23-10-2024 08:48 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Around 300 workers employed by construction materials manufacturer Marshalls at sites across England are being balloted for strike action after rejecting a “derisory” pay offer.
  The Unite union said ballots for strike action at five of Marshall’s sites opened this week and will close on 11 November.
  Staff at sites in Halifax in West Yorkshire, Stockton-on-Tees in Cleveland, Sandy in Bedfordshire, St Ives in Cambridgeshire and Ramsbottom in Lancashire have rejected a pay offer o
  
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• Mace datacentre chief is latest construction departure

  23-10-2024 08:34 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Mace datacentre chief Jon McElroy is the latest big name to leave the construction division of the business.
  Mace CEO for Construction Andrew Jackson left the company for personal reasons earlier this month after just three months in the role.
  Other directors to have left in the last 12 months include public sector MD Terry Spraggett, major projects MD Andy Jones and Jackson’s predecessor Gareth Lewis.McElroy is understood to have left the business this summer and has been replaced by Alis
  
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• Genr8 Kajima JV wins £500m Sutton town centre revamp

  23-10-2024 08:02 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  London’s Sutton Council has picked Genr8 Kajima Regeneration as its preferred development partner to deliver a £500m town centre regeneration plan.
  The council has earmarked four key town centre sites that are ripe for redevelopment in its ambitious Sutton Civic and Town Centre Regeneration plan.
  These include the St Nicholas Shopping Centre, acquired by the council in August 2021, Sutton Civic Centre, Gibson Road car park and the vacant Secombe Theatre.The joint venture between Genr
  
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