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• New HS2 boss Mark Wild starts amid prep for final TBM drives

  02-12-2024 16:36 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  New HS2 boss Mark Wild marked his first day on the project with a site visit to oversee tunnel boring machine assembly works for the final drive on the project to Euston.
  As new chief executive, Wild will oversee the project’s transition from a major construction programme to a working railway, with a renewed focus on controlling costs.
  Formerly chief executive at Crossrail, he was widely credited, after joining the project late in delivery, for dragging it back on track and through the co
  
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• Bouygues UK boss to step down

  02-12-2024 15:46 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Bouygues UK Chair and CEO Fabienne Viala is stepping down after eight years leading the business “to embark on the next chapter of her career.”
  She will be replaced in the role by Bouygues veteran Philippe Bernard who has 30 years experience at the company.
  Viala was appointed Chair in 2016 and took on the additional CEO role last year when Rob Bradley retired from the business as part of a restructure.Pierre-Eric Saint-André, Bouygues Construction’s Deputy Chief Executi
  
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• Graham lands first deal on Liverpool’s largest brownfield site

  02-12-2024 15:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Developer Peel Waters has appointed GRAHAM to deliver the first phase of its Central Docks scheme.
  The 10.5-hectare Central Docks is the largest brownfield site in Liverpool and will become the largest of the five planned neighbourhoods within the wider Liverpool Waters district.
  GRAHAM has been appointed to produce the final designs, along with the associated site investigations for the Central Docks infrastructure and Central Park.The contractor will engage a dedicated supply chain team, integ
  
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• Thames Water picks 10 consultants for major upgrade plans

  02-12-2024 13:19 via constructionenquirer.com
  Thames Water has named a fresh line-up of consultants to support its infrastructure upgrades over the next five years.
  The Asset, Capital and Engineering Professional Services framework will be worth £400m to the selected consultants which include Costain alongside big-name multidisciplinary firms.
  • AECOM• Arcadis• AtkinsRéalis• Binnies• Costain• CPC Project Services cadis, atkinrealis, Binnies,• Jacobs• Mott MacDonald• Stantec• Tur
  
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• Ten consultants land Thames Water major upgrade places

  02-12-2024 13:19 via constructionenquirer.com
  Thames Water has named a fresh line-up of consultants to support its infrastructure upgrades over the next five years.
  The Asset, Capital and Engineering Professional Services framework will be worth £400m to the selected consultants which include Costain alongside big-name multidisciplinary firms.
  • AECOM• Arcadis• AtkinsRéalis• Binnies• Costain• CPC Project Services cadis, atkinrealis, Binnies,• Jacobs• Mott MacDonald• Stantec• Tur
  
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• Rayner ultimatum to fix all unsafe tall buildings by 2029

  02-12-2024 12:34 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner has set out the Government acceleration plan to rid the country of unsafe buildings seven years after the Grenfell disaster.
  Owners of unsafe 18m+ residential buildings are being ordered to start recladding works by 2027 to meet a fresh target to make all the country’s at risk high-rise blocks safe by 2029.
  Also under the new Remediation Acceleration Plan, owners of the thousands of 11m+ building with unsafe cladding will need to have completed or a
  
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• Barratt sets start date for High Barnet station scheme

  02-12-2024 09:01 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Barratt London and Places for London have set a construction start date for a major site in High Barnet.
  Work will get underway in 2026 to deliver 300 new homes alongside small-scale commercial uses at the High Barnet station site.
  It is the latest scheme to be unlocked by the West London Partnership, which was established in June 2024 with a target of developing £1.9bn of schemes.Craig Carson, Managing Director at Barratt West London, said: “We are proud to be appointed by Places fo
  
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• Skanska UK shakes-up boardroom team

  02-12-2024 08:59 via constructionenquirer.com
  Skanska has promoted four directors to the main UK group board as two others step down in the reshuffle.
  The top-level promotions strengthen the leadership team as board vice presidents Thomas Faulkner and Swati Paul step down and leave Skanska.
  Faulkner was responsible for Cementation Skanska, HS2 and infrastructure, while Paul had responsibility for legal, procurement and risk.
  New UK board VP roles (l-r): Muckian, English, Mortensen and McDonald
  Under the top level restructure, former managin
  
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• Ultra rich clamour for Mace super prime resi scheme

  02-12-2024 08:45 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Luxury developer Caudwell has topped out its landmark 1 Mayfair scheme in west London with a waiting list of 600 centi-millionaires and billionaires registered as potential buyers
  Mace is main contractor on the £2bn scheme where prices for the 24 “principal residences” start at £35m.
  Construction began in 2020 with full completion anticipated in Spring 2026. The team has included PJ Carey who have been responsible for the creation of the basement substructure and superstr
  
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• ISG administrator finds just £35m to pay down £1.1bn debt

  02-12-2024 08:21 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  ISG administrators have warned they will only recover £35m from cash and assets out of the rubble left behind from the collapse of the £2.2bn turnover contractor.
  It means there will be no cash for trade contractors owed at least £308m.
  The group is now confirmed to have sunk with total debts of £1.1bn, much of this from complex intercompany debt, cash owed to trade creditors and more than £100m owed in tax.
  A new report from administrator EY reveals the firm was ab
  
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• Redesign needed on Colas “bridge to nowhere”

  02-12-2024 08:09 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Technical issues on the delayed A46 Stoneleigh Junction have forced a design change to try and get the job finished.
  Main contractor Colas-Siac joint venture was awarded the £38m scheme in 202o by Warwickshire County Council in 2020 with an original completion date of Summer 2022.
  But the job has been hit by problems leaving the “bridge to nowhere” across the A46 still unconnected at each end as costs continue to escalate with no finish date in sight.In its latest update the co
  
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• Watkin Jones wins £48m St Helen’s affordable homes deal

  02-12-2024 08:02 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Student and build to rent specialist Watkin Jones has struck a deal to build 295 new homes on behalf of the North West’s biggest affordable housing provider Torus.
  The new partnerships scheme will result in the regeneration of an existing Moss Nook brownfield site, forming part of an overall masterplan to regenerate a former industrial site in St Helens, with the initial phases already under construction by Taylor Wimpey.
  This next phase of the scheme will see Watkin Jones deliver a mix of
  
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