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• McLaren Property gets new Construction Director

  13-02-2025 23:38 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  McLaren Property has appointed Jon Mangham as Construction Director to oversee a growing number of developments across the North of England.
  Mangham joins from Equans, part of Bouygues, where he was Regional Director and had responsibility for setting up a Major Project Division within the Student Accommodation Sector.
  Prior to Equans, he was Regional Operations Manager at Wates Construction Ltd, with earlier experienced gained at Willmott Dixon, Shepherd and Costain.Matthew Cova, Managing Direc
  
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• Work on Labour’s new towns to start by 2029

  13-02-2025 23:30 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Work on the first of up to a dozen new towns will begin before the next general election Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook has pledged.
  Over 100 proposals have been advanced, reflecting local areas and house builders’ ambition to get on board to build the next generation of new towns.
  London, the south east, south west, and east of England received the largest number of submissions, but multiple proposals were received from every region of England.
  The majority of the sites submitted were
  
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• GRAHAM wins £100m deal after safety regulator approval

  13-02-2025 15:23 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  GRAHAM has been awarded a £100m contract on one of the first high-rise new build projects to receive Building Safety Act Gateway 2 approval.
  Clarion Housing Group’s development arm Latimer has appointed GRAHAM to deliver the first phase of its Dyecoats mixed-use development in Leeds.
  The appointment follows Latimer’s approval of its Building Safety Regulator Stage 2 sign off, marking a key milestone in the scheme.Jonathan Hall, Managing Director at GRAHAM, said: “This app
  
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• Housing orders surge offers hope after 5.2% new work fall last year

  13-02-2025 11:59 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The industry is hoping for a better year ahead after the latest official output figures for 2024 revealed new work fell by 5.2%.
  While a drop in infrastructure activity dampened new work activity, a strong year of private home and non-housing repair and maintenance work compensated for the contraction and lifted construction output overall by 0.4% in 2024.
  New orders in the fourth quarter of the year were also lacklustre slipping by 2.4% against the previous quarter.But there was positive news f
  
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• What information management really means: Nine principles

  13-02-2025 10:35 via justpractising.com
  
  Let’s cut to the chase.
  Many of the problems that the construction industry and the built environment sector is facing have their root in the processes we use for organising and managing data.Organising and analysing data to provide context makes it information.
  Information management is the process of collecting, storing and using information in a secure and efficient way.
  When the information management processes we are using fail, they create a crisis in confidence.
  One of the main purp
  
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• Balfour Beatty wins Trent arched bridge job

  13-02-2025 09:13 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Balfour Beatty has clinched the £12.6m delivery contract to build a new bridge over the River Trent in Nottingham.
  The 85m-long pedestrian and cycle bridge will be the first bridge built in the city since the 1950s.
  It will link the north side of the river where the new Trent Basin community of 350 homes continues to take shape, and the south side of the river with sports facilities and riverside walks.The bridge will be one of the longest single-spanning network arch bridges for pedestria
  
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• BAM Construction suffers £40m loss after Co-op Live setback

  13-02-2025 09:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  BAM Construction’s delayed Manchester Co-op Live arena job plunged the UK building business £40m into the red last year, according to latest results from the Dutch parent company.
  Royal BAM did not quantify the loss on the job as it blamed project delays and supply chain issues for the poor performance of the BAM Construction UK business.
  In a challenging year for the building business revenue also slipped by 13% to £755m.In stark contrast, the BAM Nuttall civils business conti
  
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• Galliford Try lands £63m RAF accommodation deal

  13-02-2025 09:02 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Galliford Try has won a £63m contract to build Single Living Accommodation (SLA) at RAF Digby in Lincolnshire.
  The deal awarded by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) will create four new Junior Ranks SLA buildings with associated ancillary facilities and car parking. Each new building will contain 69 individual bedrooms over three floors to accommodate personnel at the RAF Digby base near Scopwick.
  The buildings have been designed to be as carbon efficient as possible as part of
  
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• Extra cash found to speed-up safety regulator

  13-02-2025 08:53 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Government has announced an extra £2m of funding to speed-up Building Safety Regulator approvals for high rise building projects.
  The industry has become increasingly frustrated by delays in the system as the regulator confirmed around 122 schemes are stuck-in the system awaiting Gateway 2 approval.
  Prime Minister Kier Starmer briefly addressed the issue as part of a raft of new house building  announcements today.Among the round-up of new and existing initiatives Starmer pledged
  
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• Over 150 jobs axed as J S Wright goes under

  13-02-2025 08:15 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  More than 150 staff have been laid off at mechanical and electrical specialist J S Wright and its sister company Wright Maintenance after both businesses were placed into administration.
  Administrators from FRP Advisory have taken control of the former employee-owned West Midlands firm, which traces its history back to 1890.
  Raj Mittal, partner at FRP Advisory, said the companies entered into administration after recent challenging operating conditions, most notably a downturn in demand, along w
  
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