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• Beard breaks company record with latest results

  20-03-2025 15:01 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Family-owned construction firm Beard has enjoyed the most successful trading period in its 133-year history.
  Latest results for the year to 31 December 2024 show turnover up to £198m from £179m last time as pre-tax profit ticked-up to £5.2m from £4.3m
  The strong performance was underpinned by the completion of 43 projects from its offices in Bristol, Guildford, Oxford, Southampton and Swindon.Beard’s newest office in Southampton, which opened in January 2024, succes
  
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• Plan for world’s tallest energy-positive tower in Birmingham

  20-03-2025 09:09 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Plans to build the world’s tallest energy-positive high-rise building – generating more energy than it consumes – in Birmingham have been lodged for planning.
  The £60m groundbreaking building will be clad in solar panels and would rise to 29-storeys containing nearly 250 co-living apartments.
  Local developer and investor GNM Developments is proposing to redevelop a canalside site in the Gas Street Basin with the slender tower to be known as ‘The Narrowhouse’.D
  
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• Pickstock to build Stratford resi tower

  20-03-2025 08:48 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Pickstock Group has secured a resolution to grant planning from the London Borough of Newham for a 355-unit residential tower on Stratford High Street in east London.
  The scheme will deliver 272 apartments alongside 83 affordable homes, and will have roof top amenities for residents with views to Canary Wharf and  the Olympic Park.
  The riverside development will include a community café and performance venue as well as a new public park with playground.The Pickstock Group will de
  
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• Costain to lead on UK’s first advanced nuclear fuel facility

  20-03-2025 08:20 via constructionenquirer.com
  Costain has been chosen as programme delivery partner by Urenco to deliver new and upgraded infrastructure at its site in  Cheshire.
  The UK is to invest £196m into creating Europe’s first ever advanced nuclear fuel facility in Capenhurst.
  The framework is expected to see contracts awarded to Costain over a minimum of three years and will see Costain lead and deliver an integrated programme for Urenco’s infrastructure investment activities.Urenco’s Capenhurst site pro
  
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• Costain to lead on nuclear fuel site upgrade

  20-03-2025 08:20 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Costain has been chosen as programme delivery partner by Urenco to deliver new and upgraded infrastructure at its site in  Cheshire.
  The framework is expected to see contracts awarded to Costain over a minimum of three years and will see Costain lead and deliver an integrated programme for Urenco’s infrastructure investment activities.Urenco’s Capenhurst site provides uranium enrichment services to produce fuel for civil nuclear power stations in the UK and around the world to g
  
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• Fraud warning over bogus site supplies orders

  20-03-2025 08:18 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A site temporary protection specialist is raising the alarm for the wider industry after being targeted by sophisticated fraudsters.
  Hereford based Beck narrowly avoided being conned out of hundreds of thousands of pounds thanks to the diligence of its staff.
  The Enquirer has seen legitimate looking orders for more than £300,000 of Beck’s Proguard temporary site protection from fraudsters posing as major contractors and local house builders.The orders use genuine company details and
  
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• Willmott Dixon wins £32m Doncaster digital tech hub

  20-03-2025 08:16 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Willmott Dixon has landed Doncaster’s Gateway One development to build a new 52,000 sq ft office building on Trafford Way which is set to become the city’s new digital tech hub.
  Work on the £32m development will start next month with completion expected in early 2027.
  The specialist digital tech hub and the businesses located there will focus on digital technology with global AI firm Automatic Analytics among the founding firms set to take up residence.
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• United Living buys street lighting contractor

  20-03-2025 07:18 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  United Living Group has acquired family-owned power distribution and street lighting contractor Jones.
  Based in the North West of England, Jones is a specialist independent connection provider and also offers a full range of street lighting services for distribution network operators and local authorities.  
  This acquisition strengthens United Living’s existing activities in the power market, which have been growing since it achieved National Electrical Registration Scheme (NERS) accr
  
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