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• Hunt for 10 firms to deliver £37bn new hospital plan

  17-02-2025 08:46 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  NHS England has started the search for 10 contractors to deliver the Labour Government’s revised new hospital building programme.
  Procurement chiefs are offering the prospect of sharing major hospital building works among all firms that secure spots on the £37bn Hospital 2.0 Alliance framework which will run for potentially 12 years.
  The tender invitation also pledges swiftly to award contracts for the first of the three waves of schemes in the new hospital programme.NHS England is s
  
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• Acheson Construction files administration notice

  17-02-2025 08:45 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Regional contractor Acheson Construction has filed a notice of intention to appoint an administrator.
  The £53m turnover firm has been in business since 1974 working across the South and South West of England.
  Acheson specialises in projects from £500k to £25m+ in many different sectors, including defence, public sector, education, health, leisure, commercial, industrial and residential.Its website adds: “Our experience also covers a variety of construction forms that incl
  
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• Springfield to build homes for army of green energy workers

  17-02-2025 08:44 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Scottish house builder Springfield has struck a deal to sell nearly 2,500 plots in central Scotland to Barratt Redrow for £64m.
  The cash for the six sites will be released over four years and will cut its debts.
  For Springfield, the deal also marks a change in strategy towards building homes in the north of Scotland for the army of construction workers expected to deliver major green infrastructure projects over the next 10 years.Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks are investing &po
  
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• BAM go-ahead for £56m Glasgow leisure centre

  17-02-2025 07:36 via constructionenquirer.com
  BAM has secured planning permission to build a leisure centre and theatre in Eastwood Park near Glasgow.
  The complex in Giffnock will provide an eight-lane swimming pool, fitness suite and a four-court games hall.
  The theatre will include a 364-seat auditorium and stage, a smaller studio theatre, dressing rooms and bar and lounge areas.Previous plans had been approved in 2022 but the council later decided to scale back the project after construction inflation pushed the price to £67m.
  The
  
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• Preferred bidder for Stoke city centre scheme

  17-02-2025 07:15 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Stoke-on-Trent City Council has named Genr8 Kajima Regeneration as preferred partner to redevelop the stalled Etruscan Square scheme in Hanley.
  The joint venture’s initial feasibility proposed a scheme of around 400 homes, along with a urban sports and e-sports facility.
  The development site, which is supported by £20m of Government funding, was once home to the old bus station and former East-West Precinct next to Hanley Bus Station.Surveys and investigations at the site will get un
  
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