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• Winners revealed as NHS plans to spend £500m on decarbonisation

  13-01-2025 15:25 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Winners have been confirmed for a £500m framework to help the NHS decarbonise its buildings.
  The NHS is aiming to become the “world’s first net zero national health service”, reaching net zero by 2040 for emissions the NHS controls directly.
  Work covered under the four-year agreement includes internal and external wall insulation, ground source and air source heat pumps, electric heating solutions, photovoltaic systems, ventilation systems and lighting works as well as tr
  
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• Seven scoop £850m Yorkshire Water complex projects deal

  13-01-2025 13:27 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Yorkshire Water has picked seven partners for an £850m framework delivering complex non-infrastructure works.
  Barhale, Galliford Try, Glanua, Kier, Mott MacDonald Bentley, Tilbury Douglas, and Ward & Burke will deliver on the utility’s increased investment in non-infrastructure clean and wastewater assets over the next five years.
  This framework forms part of Yorkshire Water’s AMP8 investment programme, its largest-ever environmental initiative, which has been approved by r
  
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• L&G submits plan for £350m Bristol Temple Island

  13-01-2025 09:25 via constructionenquirer.com
  Legal & General has submitted a planning application for Bristol Temple Island, a £350m regeneration project that will transform the derelict, former diesel depot site into a new urban quarter.The development masterplanned by architects Zaha Hadid aims to deliver 520 homes, two new office buildings, retail space, flexible workspace, and a new hotel with conference facilities.
  L&G’s will work in partnership with Bristol City Council to ensure 40% of housing is for social and a
  
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• London Embankment scheme rebooted as student rooms

  13-01-2025 09:14 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Plans to redevelop a major site on London’s Albert Embankment have been brought back to life with proposals for a 770-bed student scheme over two towers.
  It is the third incarnation of plans for the 36-46 Albert Embankment site in Vauxhall, which received planning for a 900-bed hotel across similar proposed towers two years ago.
  Before this plan, the site occupied by a Jet petrol station and owned by engineering firm Hotchkiss, had started out in the early 2000s as a planned flats scheme.U
  
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• £22m Leicester station revamp rethink after one bid

  13-01-2025 08:51 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Leicester City Council is to retender the £22m project to restore the city’s historic railway station after just one firm submitted a bid after a call for tenders last summer.
  The city council, Network Rail and East Midlands Railway are now expected to rebid the project which secured nearly £18m in levelling up funding early this year.
  City mayor Sir Peter Soulsby confirmed that only one company bid for the contract so no agreement was signed.Under the revised plan the council
  
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• Hercules tops £100m turnover but suffers £1.7m loss

  13-01-2025 08:44 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Labour supply specialist Hercules Site Services has topped £100m turnover for the first time, just three years after floating on the Aim market.
  But the firm, which saw a 35% rise in people deployed to 1,150 operatives, reported an overall £1.7m pre-tax loss down to its suction excavator business.
  Brusk Korkmaz, chief executive officer, said that Hercules now aimed to offload the £5m turnover suction excavator business to focus on core services, and booked a £3.3m loss fo
  
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• Watchdog extends competition probe into house builders

  13-01-2025 08:42 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Government’s competition watchdog is extending its investigation into suspected breaches of competition law by seven major house builders.
  The Competition and Markets Authority launched a probe last February after uncovering evidence during a far-reaching study into housing market delivery that indicated some house builders may be sharing commercially sensitive information with their competitors.
  The original investigation period finished in December but has now been extended to May 20
  
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• Precast worker loses leg after 800kg pallet drop

  13-01-2025 08:06 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A precast concrete manufacturer has been fined after a steel pallet landed on an employee leaving him permanently disabled.
  The 800kg load crushed Wayne Hatton’s legs during a night shift at Amber Precast Ltd’s factory on 14 January 2021.
  Hatton, from Doncaster, had his right lower leg amputated with two toes on his left foot also being removed following the incident at Davy Business Park.The pallet was being removed from a reinforced concrete cast when it fell onto the father-of-two
  
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