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• Carbon capture concrete hits London sites

  04-11-2024 09:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  New technology went into operation today locking carbon dioxide into recycled concrete.
  Swiss based carbon removal specialist neustark is working with Aggregate Industries on its first UK site in Greenwich.
  Neustark’s innovative technology captures CO2 from biomass sites, liquefies it, then injects it into existing mineral waste streams such as demolished materials to be recycled and used in construction.This utilises a process of mineralisation that stores the CO2 in the aggregate, perman
  
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• Skanska signs £197m deal for Mayfair offices job

  04-11-2024 09:07 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Joint venture developers Grosvenor and Mitsui Fudosan UK have signed a £197m contract with Skanska to lead the delivery of its planned offices scheme at South Molton in London’s Mayfair district.
  The 267,000 sq ft scheme encompasses two new office buildings at 60 Brook Street and 56 Davies Street, restoration of the Running Horse Pub, together with ground floor retail, restaurants, cafés and a basement gym.
  The new office building will feature large modern floorplates, roof te
  
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• Six win £300m cladding retrofit deal

  04-11-2024 08:48 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  One of the country’s biggest housing associations has named the firms it will use to deliver a £300m programme of cladding retrofit projects.
  The Riverside Group has selected Kier Places; United Living (South); Guildmore; Breyer; Mulalley and VINCI Construction to deliver its fire safety retrofit programme, which is now expected to get into full swing.
  The housing association, which operates more than 75,000 homes across around 175 local authorities in England and Scotland, estimates
  
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• Scottish Water opens bidding on £800m framework

  04-11-2024 08:48 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Scottish Water is inviting tenders to deliver its planned programme of work using innovative ceramic membrane treatment to provide high quality, fresh drinking water.
  The water company is looking for several supplier capabilities to deliver the £500m-£800m programme, including MEICA, civil construction and ceramic membrane product suppliers.
  An appointed principal partner will need to have these capabilities or demonstrate it could acquire these skillsets.This principal supplier for
  
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• Cost of fixing unsafe cladding soars to over £16bn

  04-11-2024 08:47 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Independent spending watchdog, the National Audit Office, believes it will cost over £16bn to fix unsafe cladding on all buildings over 11m in the country.
  The huge cost of widening the scope of buildings needing to fix fire safety problems beyond 18m tall to lower rise building of 11m height was revealed in a new report from the spending watchdog.
  Between 9,000 and 12,000 buildings above this height are now estimated to need cladding retrofits.
  More than 7,200 of those buildings are yet t
  
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• Winchmore lands brickwork package on Graham £80m academy

  04-11-2024 08:17 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Winchmore Brickwork Group has landed a major package on an £80m primary and secondary school hub at Ebbsfleet Garden City in Kent where Graham has started work as main contractor.
  The £4m deal for the design and installation of bricks and blockwork at the new Alkerden Academy will see Winchmore start on site next Spring.
  Alkerden Academy will offer more than 2,200 pupil places, making it one of the largest educational facilities ever to be built in Kent, occupying an expansive 11.1-h
  
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