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• One of Wales’ oldest contractors delivers record profit

  17-01-2025 13:00 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  One of Wales’ oldest building and civils contractors has delivered record profitability and growth.
  Family-owned contractor Andrew Scott delivered 15% revenue growth to £84m generating a big profit uplift to £5.2m from £1.7m in the prior year.
  The improvement was driven by long-term contracts and frameworks supported by strong risk management.
  Andrew Hoppé, chairman, said: “The resilience afforded by our strategic approach, and our aim to ensure that we do no
  
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• Former Balfour regional MD dies before taking up new role

  17-01-2025 12:26 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Former Balfour Beatty Regional Building boss Lindsay McGibbon has died just weeks after leaving the business.
  The contractor announced McGibbon would be stepping down in November.
  The Enquirer understands he had lined-up a new role in Saudi Arabia to work on a skyscraper at the £40bn Murabba project.But he fell ill just before Christmas after being diagnosed with cancer and died earlier this month.
  A stunned friend said: “We had worked together before and he was set to come out here
  
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• Robertson and Balfour win £333m schools deal

  17-01-2025 09:05 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Robertson and Balfour Beatty have landed the £333m North Schools Programme in Scotland.
  The contractors will build five new schools for development partner hub North Scotland and local authorities taking part in the initiative.
  Robertson will work on the new Hazelhead Campus and the refurbished and extended St Peters Roman Catholic School for Aberdeen City Council, the new Brae Campus for Shetland Islands Council and the new Mull 2-18 Campus for Argyll and Bute Council.Balfour Beatty will
  
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• Go-ahead for £125m Ealing leisure centre and homes scheme

  17-01-2025 08:48 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  West London’s Ealing council is on the hunt for a contractor after giving the planning green light to a major new leisure centre and 300 homes development.
  The planning committee’s decision to approve the £125m Gurnell leisure centre and residential scheme will now go to the Greater London Authority for stage 2 approval.
  Once this is received, the council will seek to appoint a contractor with the aim of starting on site as soon as possible.Demolition is projected to begin in s
  
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• Worker loses three fingers at timber frame factory

  17-01-2025 08:43 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A timber frame company has been fined after an employee had three fingers severed by a panel saw at work.
  David Broadway, 36, had been working at construction supplier Pemberton Timber Frame Limited at its site in Ramsgate on the morning of 4 January 2023.
  He was operating a panel saw and asked to cut down the thickness of a length of timber – known as a rip cut. This process involved passing a length of timber through the panel saw multiple times as the timber exceeded the depth the blade
  
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• Warning after scammers pose as plant hire bosses

  17-01-2025 08:17 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Plant hire giant Flannery has issued a fraud warning after scammers posed as company directors in a bid to swindle cash out of customers.
  The fraudsters have been sending out bogus emails from similar sounding addresses to the company’s official domain requesting payments.
  Some customers have also received “vulgar” phone calls from scammers pretending to be directors of Flannery.The company warned: “We have observed several instances where electronic means have been used
  
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• State of Englands local roads a ‘national embarrassment’

  17-01-2025 08:15 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The condition of England’s local roads is declining as the repair backlog grows each year, according to an inquiry by Public Accounts Committee.
  The Government’s current funding approach has come under scrutiny with MPs warning it is incentivising councils towards short-term repairs rather than focusing on prevention efforts.
  Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, chair of the committee, expressed deep concern over the deteriorating state of England’s local roads, calling it a “nati
  
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