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• Pipeline systems specialist SHJ strengthens team

  17-03-2025 17:02 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  SHJ Medical & Lab Gas Specialists, a leading supplier of medical and lab gas pipeline systems and services has made a raft of senior appointments to its Install and Service Departments:
  Roger Hardwick has joined as Northern Installations Director, Graham Evans has joined as Northern Service Manager and Carl Goodman has joined as Senior Estimator
  SHJ has also enhanced its National Service Team with the addition of seven further engineers who will strengthen overall UK coverage.
  SHJ’s Ma
  
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• AFI Rentals launches first AI-assistant to pick right kit

  17-03-2025 16:47 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  AFI-Rentals has launched an AI-powered assistant designed to help users identify the right powered access rental equipment for construction sites.
  The innovative tool allows users to upload an image of their site, with the AI assistant automatically analysing the environment and recommending the most suitable access machines for the job. The AI assistant is also available for free use by other businesses in the construction and hire sectors. It can be easily integrated into websites, helping sup
  
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• Trimble offers easy capture for 360º site photos

  17-03-2025 16:39 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Construction software company Trimble has launched 360 Photos for Viewpoint Field View, expanding site capture capabilities within the field management solution.
  This latest innovation allows site teams to easily capture and integrate 360º photos into their documentation workflows, without uploading them manually or using third-party software – simplifying onsite progress tracking, reporting and traceability.
  Traditionally, capturing 360º imagery would have required a separate de
  
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• Green light for 2,100 homes at old East London gasworks

  17-03-2025 16:29 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Berkeley Group’s St William division has finally secured full planning to restore the UK’s largest surviving cluster of Victorian gas holders to create 2,100 new homes within the heritage site.
  The developer can progress the Bromley-by-Bow Gasworks scheme in East London after completing a Section 106 legal agreement with the London Borough of Newham.Architect RSHP drew up plans to incorporate many of the new homes within the cast iron structures
  The developer has worked closely with
  
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• House builders call for rethink on Building Safety Levy

  17-03-2025 14:39 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  More than 100 house builders have signed a letter calling on the Chancellor to reconsider plans for the new Building Safety Levy.
  The levy is due to come into force later this year raising £3.4bn from developers forced to pay a fee on new homes.
  The letter organised by the Home Builders Federation warns that the “nakedly anti-development new tax” will threaten the Government’s plans to boost house building.It notes that no formal impact assessment has been conducted to es
  
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• Lifting regs review bagged up with ‘bat and newt’ red tape purge

  17-03-2025 12:54 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Government called in key regulators today to firm up plans to speed up water projects, ease environmental red tape slowing house building and reform the industry LOLER lifting regulations.
  Details of the measure will now be worked up but regulators were handed a set of clear instructions to lift barriers to economic growth.
  The radical shake-up will boost infrastructure building by simplifying guidance to protect bat habitats that blocks vital new homes and infrastructure.A streamlined proce
  
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• Costain raids Balfour Beatty for new head of rail

  17-03-2025 11:56 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Costain has hired Balfour Beatty rail operations director Alistair Geddes to become its rail sector director.
  At Balfour Beatty, Geddes looked after a number of manufacturing facilities, frameworks and projects for clients including Network Rail, Transport for Wales, Transport for London and others in the private sector.
  He has also held leading roles for several significant infrastructure programmes including Crossrail, Hinkley Point C Marine Works and the Olympic Stadium transformation in a lo
  
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• Plans in for nearly 900 homes at Manchester Mayfield

  17-03-2025 09:07 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Landsec has filed plans for the first phase of housing at its £1.4bn Mayfield regeneration scheme in Manchester.
  Designed jointly by architects Studio Egret West and shedkm, the first 879 homes will be built over four blocks around a new park square, near Manchester Piccadilly Station
  If approved, the flats will complete the first built phase of the Mayfield district, which also includes 325,000 sq ft of office space across two buildings, and a multi-modal transport hub featuring the
  
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• National Grid names key suppliers for £59bn HVDC deal

  17-03-2025 08:36 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  National Grid has named the first two tranches of strategic suppliers it will use for its High Voltage Direct Current infrastructure programme.
  Six HVDC cable suppliers will share £21.3bn, while and four other suppliers have secured spots on the HVDC Converter station framework, worth £24.6bn. Both Frameworks cover both confirmed and anticipated projects.
  Partners for the key third part of the framework, worth £12.8bn, covering civils and major project contractors for onshore i
  
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• Problem contracts send Robertson into the red

  17-03-2025 08:33 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Robertson Construction Group has posted a loss in its latest accounts after being hit by a trio of problem contracts.
  Latest numbers for the year to June 30 2024 show a pre-tax loss of £12.6m compared to a £16m profit last time as turnover rose to £627m from £493m.
  Robertson blamed the numbers on two loss-making contracts and a third where margins “experienced a considerable deterioration.”The loss has sparked a review of all Robertson projects and procedures
  
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• Pellikaan wins £25m Wiltshire leisure centre job

  17-03-2025 08:15 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The UK arm of Dutch contractor Pellikaan Group has secured the job to deliver a £25m leisure centre in Trowbridge, Wiltshire.
  Pellikaan is expected to breakground new month on the project, which includes a six-lane 25m swimming pool, a learner pool and a gym with 120 exercise studios.
  Roberts Limbrick Architects has led the design process for the project, with a strong industrial look to reflect the heritage of Trowbridge.To make the leisure centre as sustainable and energy efficient as po
  
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• Muse hires London Crown Estate MD

  17-03-2025 08:14 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Muse has beefed-up its senior leadership team hiring Crown Estate London chief Simon Harding-Roots as managing director at its South office.Harding-Roots will lead Muse’s southern business when he joins at the end of the month, driving growth and expanding partnerships with ECF and Habiko across the region.At the Crown Estate, as managing director for London, he oversaw a 10m sq ft, £8bn portfolio, including a £2.5bn programme of major projects.Before that he was also executive
  
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• Contractors wanted for £215m care home framework

  17-03-2025 08:09 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Backers of plans for £215m of new care homes in the South West are looking for contractors to join their building framework.
  Consultants Consensio and Avison Young are working with the ST Woodrow Care Group to set-up the 10-year deal.
  The Enquirer understands work will involve the construction of 550 mixed care units, with an additional 400 residential units across six sites.ST Woodrow Care said: “Our proposals have been well received by the local authority and we are excited to be p
  
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