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• SRL makes life easier for drivers on Kier road job

  09-01-2025 22:35 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  SRL Traffic Systems, in collaboration with National Highways and Kier, has introduced variable message signs (VMS) to clearly communicate changes to the layout during roadworks.
  New signs were installed in a contraflow section of the A417 Missing Link project as part of the broader Electronic Boards for Roadworks review, which has significantly increased understanding of the changes due to roadworks.
  Industry research has shown that messages which can be read within four seconds are better for d
  
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• Prep work starts for vast HS2 box slide under A46

  09-01-2025 16:34 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Balfour Beatty Vinci joint venture has complete construction of a 14,500-tonne box structure designed to allow HS2 trains beneath the A46 Kenilworth Bypass in Warwickshire.
  Engineers worked around the clock successfully lifted into place 120 gigantic beams forming its top of the box structure in just 14 days.
  The milestone paves the way for the vast box to be jacked 64m under the dual carriageway using a system designed by French contractor Fressynet.The box will jacked across on a guiding raft
  
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• Morgan Sindall wins Canary Wharf office-to-labs job

  09-01-2025 14:55 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Morgan Sindall has been confirmed for a £65m life sciences development in Canary Wharf.
  Work for clients Oaktree Capital Management and LS Estates will see the existing office building at 17 Columbus Courtyard (17CC)  transformed into a new state-of-the-art life science and technology hub.
  Construction will start on site this month with completion scheduled for late 2026.Richard Dobson, Morgan Sindall Construction’s Area Director for London, said: “17CC will exemplify how
  
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• Management buyout at Midlands contractor

  09-01-2025 09:08 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Midlands commercial contractor GI Sykes has been bought by its management.
  The third-generation family business based in Stourbridge employs 40 permanent staff as well as dozens of independent contractors.
  The buy-out gives control of the business to the existing management team led by Richard Downs, who becomes Managing Director, and includes fourth-generation family member James Sykes (Operations Director), Anthony Bennett (Contracts Director) and Dan Westbury (Commercial Director).The deal pr
  
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• Five contractors win £550m airfield framework deal

  09-01-2025 09:05 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Manchester Airports Group has revealed its line-up of firms to deliver airfield infrastructure work for the next five to eight years.
  The selected partners for the £550m Airfield Infrastructure Framework includes two design consultants and five contractors.MAG partners and work pipeline value
  Arup – Design – value £51m
  Jacobs – Design – £51m
  Volker Fitzpatrick – Pavement quality concrete – £187m
  Lagan Aviation & Infrastructure &ndas
  
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• Galldris bounces back to strong profits

  09-01-2025 09:04 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  North London civils contractor Galldris has delivered strong profits reaping rewards from a selective bidding regime and cost-plus contracts.
  Despite a challenging market, the firm managed to more than double operating margins last year on steady revenue at £125m.
  According to latest account for the year to March 2024, the firm generated a strong pre-tax profit of £21m up from £880,000 in the prior year.Trading margin for the main Galdris Services business, which employs around
  
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• Building safety act adding six months to delivery times

  09-01-2025 08:59 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Student accommodation developer Unite today warned the Building Safety Act will slow development pipelines by around six months.
  Unite chief executive Joe Lister said the business had now factored in another six months on its various project timelines to take account of the new approval gateways required by the Act.
  In a trading update to the City this morning, Unite remained upbeat about demand for student accommodation on the back of 2% growth in the larger population of 18-year-olds and impro
  
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• Taylor Woodrow wins Wolverhampton city centre revamp

  09-01-2025 08:42 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Taylor Woodrow has won a £19m scheme to transform Wolverhampton city centre with work to start later this month.
  The contract is the third and final phase of City of Wolverhampton Council’s city centre improvements programme and will be carried out in stages with the work expected to last for two-and-a-half years.
  The improvements planned for Lichfield Street, Queen Square and Darlington Street will deliver wider, brighter, safer streets; vibrant public events spaces; more trees, gre
  
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• Resi developer Sheen Lane heading for administration

  09-01-2025 08:35 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Residential specialist Sheen Lane Developments is set to go into administration.
  The Richmond based firm is listed for an administration application hearing at Leeds Crown Court on Friday.
  The move follows a number of winding-up petitions against the company which has been in business since 2013.Since then the developer has delivered over 2,600 residential units and 120,000 sq ft of commercial floorspace across 48 residential schemes in London and the south east with a combined Gross Development
  
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