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• Balfour leadership rejig to focus on three key growth sectors

  10-02-2025 22:10 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Balfour Beatty has restructured the responsibilities of its three key operational division leaders to focus on the firm’s core growth sectors: Energy, Defence, and Transportation.
  Steve Tarr, currently the divisional CEO of Power Transmission & Distribution, Rail, and Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick, will additionally serve as Group Sector Lead for UK Energy.
  In this role, he will guide Balfour Beatty’s efforts in the UK energy market, which includes hydrogen, carbon capture, new nucle
  
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• AFI-Rentals boosts delivery fleet with Scania investment.

  10-02-2025 14:38 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  AFI-Rentals has enhanced its logistics capabilities by adding eight new Scania delivery trucks to its fleet.
  The investment into six Scania P420 32-tonne and two Scania P320 26-tonne trucks is the latest in a series of delivery fleet upgrades, bringing the company’s total spending on Scania products to over £5m.
  The new trucks are equipped with state-of-the-art bodies from vehicle body builders PPS Commercials, offering the latest access specifications to meet the evolving needs of A
  
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• Government opens bidding for new AI Growth Zones

  10-02-2025 09:10 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Government has fired the starting gun on plans to create AI Growth Zones to power regional growth and attract major private investment.
  These growth zones will speed up planning permission to rapidly build AI infrastructure including data centres and give them the energy connections needed to power AI innovations in areas like healthcare.
  Local and regional authorities across the country are being called on to put their communities forward to become dedicated hotbeds for AI in
  
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• Green light for £250m Salford data centre

  10-02-2025 08:39 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Salford City Council has approved plans for a £250m data centre at Peel Waters’ Halo West site, in Greater Manchester.
  Peel Waters has been working on plans for the six-acre industrial site with data centre specialist Digital Land & Development.
  The approved scheme features 12,000 sq ft of offices, a 56,000 sq ft data hall and 63,500 sq ft of plant.The £250m investment from Digital Land & Development will act as a significant catalyst within ‘City Gateway’ w
  
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• Vistry strikes deal for phase 3 of £1.2bn London estate rebuild

  10-02-2025 08:38 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Housing association Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing has agreed multiple deals with Vistry to pave the way to build 323 homes at the £1.2bn Clapham Park regeneration scheme in South London.
  The JV has secured the land from MTVH allowing construction to begin on Phase 3 of the major estate rebuild.
  It also signed an agreement for the forward sale of 128 affordable homes to the association and 122 homes to Thriving Investments, the socially conscious fund manager, and Gresham House, t
  
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• Two in race for £269m HS2 people mover deal

  10-02-2025 08:21 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Two bidders have been invited to tender by HS2 for the contract to supply, operate and maintain its £269m elevated transit system at Solihull’s Interchange Station.
  The race for a contractor to supply, operate and maintain HS2’s Automated People Mover (APM) sees POMA S.A.S and Doppelmayr Cable Car UK Ltd called to submit tenders.
  HS2 Ltd will award two contracts to the successful contractor worth a total of around £269m. The winning form will be tasked with the design, su
  
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• Regulator pledges to clear 122 project backlog by April

  10-02-2025 08:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Building Safety Regulator has pledged to clear by April the backlog of projects awaiting clearance to start construction.
  The regulator’s accepted backlog for Gateway 2 approval includes around 122 projects. For the first time, the regulator has confirmed to the Enquirer that 31 are new-build high-rise projects.
  Philip White, director of building safety, said the regulator had now stepped up its procedures and was confident it would clear schemes by the end of the financial year.H
  
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