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• CITB survives another review

  30-01-2025 17:45 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The CITB training body has survived yet another review into whether it is fit-for-purpose.
  Consultant Mark Farmer started his analysis of the effectiveness of the Construction Industry Training Board and its sister body the Engineering Construction Industry Training Board nearly two years ago.
  He has now recommended that the two bodies should be merged amid the need for a “fundamental reset” of training but that the industry levy should continue.The government immediately dismissed t
  
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• Plan for film studios switched to data centre cluster

  30-01-2025 17:43 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Outline plans have been submitted to build a cluster of six data centres at Wycombe Air Park in Buckinghamshire.
  The plans replace a previously approved scheme to build a film studio complex which hit the buffers when the promoter collapsed.
  Under the new plan, the data centres will be built on a 13ha site in the south corner of Wycombe Air Park.Nexus Planning put together the application for the data centre halls, substation and a gatehouse totalling around 580,000 sq ft.Planning documents esti
  
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• Sisk starts work on £300m Children’s Cancer Centre

  30-01-2025 08:54 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Sisk has started on site to deliver the £300m Children’s Cancer Centre (CCC) at Great Ormond Street Hospital in central London.
  The project will deliver a new 19,000 sq metre clinical building as well as a new front entrance and welcome area for entire hospital.
  During the construction phase Sisk will employ over 500 people on site hiring 37 apprentices and creating over 20 work placements for local students.Sisk has digitally built the project in 4D before beginning on site and the
  
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• Over 800 high-rise resi jobs stalled by safety regulator

  30-01-2025 08:54 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Construction starts on more than 800 high-rise residential new-build and upgrade projects are being blocked by Building Safety Regulator design checks.
  Frustrated developers warn the logjam in sign-offs to start building is now threatening to undermine the Government’s housing delivery and growth drive.According to latest figures obtained from a Freedom of Information request from consultant Project4 over 90 major new-build projects are stuck in a bottleneck awaiting Gateway 2 design appro
  
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• McGee starts demolition for £500m South Bank scheme

  30-01-2025 08:51 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Demolition contractor McGee has begun initial works on the £500m redevelopment of the former ITV studios on London’s iconic South Bank.
  The works will pave the way for main contractor Multiplex to start work on the 2.5-acre site to create a ‘commercially led’ mixed-use development.
  Designed by Make Architects, the major project will involve a 25-storey office tower connected to two buildings of 14 and 6 storeys.
  The design also features external terraces and bal
  
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• Caddick kicks off Digbeth regen plan with £43m flats job

  30-01-2025 07:18 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Caddick has secured the first phase of developer Cole Waterhouse’s £260m regeneration project in Digbeth.
  The 180,000 sq ft residential project kicks off a wider regeneration of Upper Trinity Street and will comprise 211 flats delivered in three blocks, the tallest of which is 10 storeys high.
  Construction will commence imminently following demolition and enabling works.
  The scheme’s Pump House Park is designed around the historic lock keepers cottage which is to be retained an
  
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