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• National Highways trials better management of road materials

  24-01-2025 15:29 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  National Highways has appointed Soil Link to trial new approaches in managing and reusing heavy construction materials across its network.
  Soil Link’s digital platform and expertise will be used to transform material sourcing and management practices across 4,500 miles of motorways and major A roads.
  The trial will aim to drive forward key initiatives in National Highways’ sustainability agenda:Environmentally Responsible Sourcing: Through Soil Link’s Material Exchange Pla
  
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• Low-carbon cement makes UK site debut

  24-01-2025 15:18 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A new low-carbon cement has been used on a UK construction site for the first time.
  Swedish green cement producer Cemvision’s product has been used during a concrete pour at a new STOREX Self Storage development in Sunbury, Surrey.
  Cemvision and STOREX are now planning to work together on other sites.
  London based Capital Concrete oversaw the pour to form foundational slabs using Cemvision’s Re-ment Massive to replace traditional Portland cement.
  Oscar Hållén, CEO of Cem
  
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• Nearly 40 solid wall insulation firms suspended

  24-01-2025 09:07 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Thirty-nine solid wall insulation specialists have been suspended from installing new insulation in people’s homes, after ministers were alerted to reports of poor-quality work.
  Routine checks carried out by quality watchdog TrustMark have uncovered widespread cases of botched solid wall insulation on homes.
  The Government has today launched a crackdown on companies that fitted insulation panels since 2022 under the Energy Company Obligation 4 and Great British Insulation Scheme.The Govern
  
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• Slow spending by Network Rail hits Renew profits

  24-01-2025 08:49 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Slower than expected spending by Network Rail in the current £45bn CP7 investment round has prompted a profit warning at infrastructure specialist Renew.
  In a trading update to the City today it said: “Trading within the rail sector has been impacted by the slow start to the Control Period (“CP7”), which commenced in April 2024.
  “This lower-than-expected level of activity has continued in recent weeks. Consequently, trading in the Group’s Rail sector is now be
  
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• Travis Perkins fined £2m after timber falls from lorry killing driver

  24-01-2025 08:22 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A court has fined builders’ merchant Travis Perkins £2m after part of a timber load fell off one of its lorries and into the windscreen of an oncoming car, killing the driver.
  The firm admitted three safety offences and sentence was passed at Hove Crown Court on Thursday.
  On May 13, 2020, father-of-three Jack Stevens, 28, who was driving a BMW, died when a strip of timber came loose from a Travis Perkins vehicle on the A26 after it left the company’s Newhaven depot.The court he
  
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• Manchester 18-storey top-heavy tower approved

  24-01-2025 08:13 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Developer Soller has got the planning thumbs up for a distinctive 18-storey tech office project in Manchester that incorporates several buildings at street level.
  Designs by architect Howells for the NXQ scheme retain and restore 19th-century buildings on the site while respecting the neighbouring grade II-listed Daily Express Building.
  The main tower will be cantilevered to allow the floorplate to widen as the building rises in height.NXQ will be accessed via a new publicly accessible courtyard
  
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• Plan approved for Oxford homes and life sciences quarter

  24-01-2025 08:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Plans for a major mixed-use scheme in Oxford on a 15-acre brownfield site have gained outline planning paving the way for a major package of enabling works.
  A joint venture between Nuffield College and Oxford City Council – OXWED – aims to transform Oxford’s West End with a new quarter next to Oxpens meadow.
  The plans include 234 flats, of which half will be affordable, 258 student rooms, a 250-bed hotel, 500,000 sq ft of offices and labs, and new public open spaces.Site will c
  
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