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• Road worker dies after crash on A30

  25-11-2024 14:52 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A road maintenance workers has died following a serious collision on the A30 at Launceston in Cornwall.
  Police were called to the Pennygillam off slip on Sunday morning following a collision involving two highways maintenance vehicles and a Heavy Goods Vehicle.
  A man in his 50s, from one of the highway maintenance vehicles, sustained life-threatening injuries and was taken to hospital but died later that evening.Another occupant of the highway maintenance vehicles sustained non-life-threatening
  
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• Arup restructures board to create new CEO role

  25-11-2024 09:32 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Arup has announced a new board structure that sees current group chair Jerome Frost step into a newly-created CEO role from April 2025.
  Hilde Tonne, former CEO of Norway’s transmission system operator Statnett SF, will join as non-executive chair of the firm’s new Arup Group Limited Board.
  She brings a wealth of experience, having previously served as executive director at Telenor Group and chief innovation officer at Ramboll.Since its trust-owned structure was first established in t
  
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• Balfour and Flannery hit training milestone

  25-11-2024 09:14 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A partnership between Balfour Beatty and Flannery Plant Hire has trained its 1,000th student at its Operator Skills Hub.
  Balfour Beatty Flannery’s Operator Skills Hub was established in 2021 and supported by the UK Government’s Skills Bootcamp initiative.
  The purpose-built facility in Birmingham offers innovative training and apprenticeship schemes in plant operation and aims to attract new talent to the sector while upskilling existing operators.Balfour Beatty Flannery’s 1,000
  
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• 95 secure spots on major consultants framework

  25-11-2024 09:07 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Procure Partnerships Framework has named 95 consultants awarded places on its second-generation national professional services framework, with around 80% being small and medium-sized enterprises.
  During the past five years the framework has supported over 600 public sector projects. The fresh framework deal promises an estimated £800m pipeline.
  Selected consultants will provide services across four key disciplines: project management, quantity surveying, architectural design, and building
  
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• 95 consultants secure spots on £800m framework

  25-11-2024 09:07 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Procure Partnerships Framework has named 95 consultants awarded places on its second-generation national professional services framework, with around 80% being small and medium-sized enterprises.
  During the past five years the framework has supported over 600 public sector projects. The fresh framework deal promises an estimated £800m pipeline.
  Selected consultants will provide services across four key disciplines: project management, quantity surveying, architectural design, and building
  
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• Kier and Bam star in two Welsh frameworks worth £1.4bn

  25-11-2024 09:01 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Kier and BAM Construction have secured major project places across two big Welsh building frameworks put up for renewal.
  The firm’s pulled off double awards securing major project slots on both the £600m NHS Building for Wales 2 and £800m South West Wales Regional Contractors Framework.
  A total of five bidders secured spots on the second generation four-year NHS framework, which has been divided into two value lots covering projects over £20m and projects from £7m t
  
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• Developer GPE targets 40% of reused building materials

  25-11-2024 08:35 via constructionenquirer.com
  Great Portland Estates is vowing to use at least 40% of reused materials on new construction sites and major refurbishments.
  The developer will start measuring the percentage of reused materials on jobs from next April using its newly developed ‘Circularity Score’.
  The target will then rise to 50% for jobs starting after 1 April 2030 and 60% circularity on all new schemes by 2040.GPE has been pioneering circularity on schemes like 30 Duke Street, St. James’s where 1,700 tonnes
  
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