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• Ring road builder wanted at £4bn Somerset gigafactory

  05-02-2025 15:19 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Tata-owned Agratas has started the hunt for a contractor to build a £60m ring-road around its EV battery factory site at Bridgwater in Somerset.
  The new road will make access easier to the site which is planned to be home to a £4bn gigafactory.
  Agratas published a Prior information Notice for the road job this week with plans for a market engagement day later this month to discuss plans.To register for a place email [email protected].
  Sir Robert McAlpine is currently overse
  
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• Name change at construction’s largest access provider

  05-02-2025 14:48 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Access and scaffolding specialist Lyndon SGB by BrandSafway has rebranded to Brand Access Solutions by BrandSafway.
  The new name better aligns with BrandSafway´s global family of businesses and streamline its offerings under a unified message and vision.
  The change affects all Lyndon SGB branches in the UK, including locations in England, Scotland and Wales.
  Brand Access Solutions remains the largest provider of temporary construction access in the UK, offering tube and fitting and modular
  
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• Kier seals HMP Glasgow super prison job at £684m

  05-02-2025 13:43 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Scottish Government has signed a £684m contract with Kier to build a new super-prison to replace Scotland’s most notorious prison, HMP Barlinnie.
  Kier started remediation and enabling works back in October 2023 at the new site for the 1,344-capacity replacement prison to be called HMP Glasgow.
  But rampant construction inflation saw the original £400m budget for land and construction soar halting progress to full construction.The delayed project is now expected to cost &poun
  
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• All change on £800m Eastern Highways Alliance

  05-02-2025 08:57 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Local authorities across the East of England have rung the changes on the line-up of firms delivering road work under the Eastern Highways Alliance framework.
  The refresh of the £800m fourth-generation framework sees just Octavius and Jackson renew their places. BAM Nuttall, Sisk and Galliford Try are among the big names dropping out.
  Under the new set-up Octavius and Winvic swept the board earning places on all three value lots, with eight other firms sharing on spots on the lots.Eastern
  
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• Flood defence spend rises to record £2.65bn over two-years

  05-02-2025 08:56 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Government today announced its was injecting a further £250m into flood defence projects taking its two-year spend to £2.65bn.
  Around 52,000 properties will benefit from new defences by March 2026 as the Government committed to fund up to 1000 projects around the countty.
  The money will be spent on projects ranging from tidal barriers and flood walls to nature-based solutions that slow water flow.Key projects getting funding
  £43m for Bridgwater Tidal Barrier Flood Defence S
  
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• Fraudsters jailed after £22m construction tax scam

  05-02-2025 08:13 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Seven construction scammers been sentenced for their key role in a £22m fraud against the taxpayer.
  The defendants were involved in setting up bogus payroll companies which pocketed VAT and Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) contributions rather than pass them on to HMRC
  Daniel Newton, 38,  Philip Bailey, 36, Sean Dean, 41, Lee Hudson, 56, Sarah Gillard, 41, Bradley Mortimer, 39, and Kevin Ratcliffe, 43, were sentenced to nine years and four months imprisonment, six years and three mo
  
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