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• Motts/Jacobs JV to design £2.5bn West Yorkshire Mass Transit

  13-11-2024 16:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Consultants Jacobs and Mott MacDonald have secured the job to design the £2.5bn West Yorkshire Mass Transit Programme.
  The Jacobs – Mott MacDonald consortium will support the West Yorkshire Combined Authority in further developing the mass transit programme’s first phases, which includes Light Rapid Transit.
  The government has allocated an initial £200m to develop the plans between now and 2027. This will cover design, consultation, environmental appraisal, consenting and
  
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• Bidders wanted for £800m building safety framework

  13-11-2024 15:51 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Fusion21 has started renewal of its national Building Safety and Compliance Framework which is worth up to £800m over four years from next April.
  Bids are now being invited from interested suppliers providing regional or national coverage.
  Winning firms will help landlords manage and maintain safe buildings and demonstrate compliance across the public sector.The framework is split into twelve lots:Lot 1 Asbestos Surveying and Consultancy
  Lot 2 Asbestos Abatement and Removal
  Lot 3 Legionell
  
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• Muse signs landmark deal to redevelop Sollihull shopping centre

  13-11-2024 09:09 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Morgan Sindall’s urban renewal arm Muse has signed a deal to regenerate Mell Square shopping centre in the heart of Solihull town centre.
  Plans for the wholesale redevelopment of the 6.4ha site will now be lodged in the New Year promising what is expected to be a 10-year-long building programme.
  Solihull Council chose Muse as the preferred development partner for this project last year and has now approved its ambitious plans to redevelop the site.The mixed-use scheme will include an impro
  
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• Muse signs landmark deal to redevelop Solihull shopping centre

  13-11-2024 09:09 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Morgan Sindall’s urban renewal arm Muse has signed a deal to regenerate Mell Square shopping centre in the heart of Solihull town centre.
  Plans for the wholesale redevelopment of the 6.4ha site will now be lodged in the New Year promising what is expected to be a 10-year-long building programme.
  Solihull Council chose Muse as the preferred development partner for this project last year and has now approved its ambitious plans to redevelop the site.The mixed-use scheme will include an impro
  
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• Utilities contractor turns to Africa for skilled workers

  13-11-2024 08:47 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Infrastructure contractor IES Utilities Group has been successfully recruiting staff from Africa due to the severe shortage of overhead lines personnel in the UK.
  The Manchester based specialist has welcomed its 100th linesman as part of the initiative which has initially focused on recruiting in South Africa and Zimbabwe.
  IES is looking to expand the scheme to unearth talent across the continent and is looking to take-on another 500 linesmen, jointers, fitters and engineers next year.The firm s
  
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• Balfour Beatty regional MD steps down

  13-11-2024 08:14 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  After leading Balfour Beatty’s Regional Buildings business, Lindsay McGibbon will be leaving the contractor at the end of the year.
  He is understood to be leaving for a fresh opportunity in the United States.
  Lindsay joined Balfour Beatty from Laing O’Rourke at the end of 2020 after 16 years with the business where he oversaw the firm’s central section Thames Super Sewer contract and its Quebec hospital job.
  At Balfour more recently he had responsibility for navigating and clos
  
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• Morgan Sindall aboard for £22m London station roof renewal

  13-11-2024 01:11 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Network Rail has awarded a £22m contract to Morgan Sindall Infrastructure to bring more light into London Liverpool Street by renewing the roof panels as well as improving the drainage system of station’s Victorian trainshed.
  The contract will deliver a package of work that will allow more natural light into the station and make the roof resilient to 1-in-10 year storms.
  The contract includes:replacement of the life-expired glass reinforced plastic panels at the northern end of the t
  
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