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• Wates starts £300m Gartree super prison job

  31-10-2024 15:13 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Wates has got the all-clear to start early works on a £300m new Category B super prison in Leicestershire.
  The project will deliver 1,700 prison places for the Ministry of Justice, with a focus on enabling rehabilitation of prisoners and delivering social value to the local community.
  Work is starting on land adjacent to the existing HMP Gartree, near Market Harborough.Wates will build seven four-storey house blocks, each containing around 245 prisoners, two big workshops and an educa
  
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• Major London offices to student rooms scheme approved

  31-10-2024 08:46 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Joint venture developers Dominus and Cheyne Capital have got the planning green light to convert offices in the Square Mile into a large student accommodation building containing over 850-beds.
  The underused office building at 65 Fleet Street, which were the former offices of law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringe, will be retrofitted and transformed to achieve a BREEAM rating of ‘Excellent’.
  The vast majority of the main structure will be reused and retained, while making the buildi
  
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• Skills card changes will mean fewer labourers

  31-10-2024 08:29 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Major changes to the CSCS skills card scheme will see fewer labourers on construction sites.
  The new regime will take effect from next February and will see the initial labourers card reduce from five years to two years.
  The move is designed to encourage new construction entrants to sign-up to the CSCS trainee red cards instead and continue their skills development rather than remain at labourer level.Garry Mortimer, Executive Director of Operations at CSCS Cards Limited said: “The compete
  
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• M Group Services buys MEICA contractor BGEN

  31-10-2024 01:45 via constructionenquirer.com
  M Group Services has bought £225m turnover engineering services contractor BGEN.
  The 1,500-staff-strong business headquartered in Warrington provides design, fabrication and installation of mechanical, electrical, HVAC and other building services.
  It was created from a management buyout from East Midlands Electricity in 1994 then named Boulting Group, and has steadily grown to operate from 14 locations across the UK, including regional offices and three off-site manufacturing facilities.
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