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• Investors lose £26m after M&E contractor goes under

  29-11-2024 09:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Administrators to air-conditioning specialist Gallant Building Services have unearthed a mountain of debts following the collapse of the Mansfield-based contractor.
  Now it has emerged that 78 investors in the business have lost £26m, after being encouraged to back the £29m turnover contractor on the strength of directors claiming a long-term exclusive air-conditioning deal with hotel giant Travelodge.
  The hotel contractor’s trail of debts so far total an estimated £56m, i
  
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• Willmott Dixon wins £24m Leeds council housing scheme

  29-11-2024 09:11 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Leeds City Council is going ahead with plans to build a council housing estate of 82 homes on the site of a former school.
  Willmott Dixon is understood to have secured the contract to build the council houses with a £24m bid.
  The former Hough Side High School site at Hough Top in Swinnow, near Pudsey will be developed with 55 houses and 27 flats in a single block.Main works are expected to start next month for scheme completion in late 2026.
  The proposed two-storey brick houses will be a m
  
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• Transport Secretary quits Cabinet

  29-11-2024 08:58 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Transport Secretary Louise Haigh has resigned following revelations over a stolen mobile phone.
  It emerged yesterday that Haigh pleaded guilty to an offence related to incorrectly telling police that a work mobile phone was stolen in 2013.
  In her resignation letter to the Prime Minister today Haigh said: “I appreciate that whatever the facts of the matter, this issue will inevitably be a distraction from delivering on the work of this government and the policies to which we are both commit
  
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• Kier bags £23m Cheadle Eco Business park job

  29-11-2024 08:45 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Kier Construction has beaten Galliford Try to take a contract to deliver an Eco Business Park in Cheadle.
  The Stockport council-owned site is to be redeveloped into an exemplar, carbon efficient 110,000 sq ft industrial development.
  The 7-acre site lies close to the M60 between Stockport and Cheadle and currently comprises hard standing and older, inefficient industrial buildings.Kier will deliver six light industrial units, from 10,000 to 40,000 sq ft at the Bird Hall Lane site. Architect AEW h
  
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• NHS modular specialist looks to strike deal with creditors

  29-11-2024 08:41 via constructionenquirer.com
  Health modular specialist Catfoss is looking to strike a deal with its creditors via a Company Voluntary Arrangement.
  The east Yorkshire based business is a modern methods of construction specialist providing off-site buildings to the NHS.
  Latest accounts for the company for the year to June 30 2023 show a turnover of £8.4m generating a pre-tax profit of £857,000 following a £1m loss the previous year.During the period Catfoss employed 21 staff.Data and credit checking speciali
  
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