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• TCC lands role at new £5.8m Porsche dealership

  24-03-2025 23:43 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Birmingham-based The Construction Consultants (TCC) has been appointed to provide quantity surveying and employers agent services to the creation of a £5.8m new Porsche dealership in Exeter.
  The development, in Matford Park Road, includes the demolition of an existing dealership, a new large vehicle showroom, new high quality workshop areas, servicing and testing bays and a wet and dry valeting building . The development also includes drainage and civils installation, landscaping and exten
  
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• Building safety levy rate set at up to £10,000 a home in London

  24-03-2025 15:49 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Developers will be forced to pay up to £10,000 a unit for new homes they build in upmarket London Boroughs like Chelsea.
  The Government has announced the new Building Safety Levy rates it intends to charge as a tax on new homes and student accommodation projects across the country.
  As a small reprieve, ministers have put back the planned introduction from Autumn this year to Autumn 2026, giving the house building industry more time to adapt.Rates will vary across local authorities in Engla
  
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• Councils will lose cash if they fail to fix potholes

  24-03-2025 08:36 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Local authorities will have to prove they are fixing potholes or face losing their highways maintenance funding.
  From mid April councils will start to receive their share of the government’s £1.6bn highway maintenance funding, including an extra £500m – enough to fill 7 million potholes a year.
  But to get the full amount, all councils in England must from today publish annual progress reports on their pothole filling.Local authorities who fail to meet these strict conditi
  
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• BAM wins £100m revamp of Broadgate Tower in London

  24-03-2025 08:29 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Developer British Land has picked BAM to deliver a major revamp the 34-storey Broadgate Tower in the city of London.
  The project win is a major coup for BAM in the Square Mile, which beat rival bids from Wates and McLaren to take major revamp of the 2008-built tower building.
  British Land aims to bring the building up to the highest sustainability standards and will also add a 3-storey extension at the front of the landmark building at the Broadgate Campus.This building will be constructed of re
  
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• Utilities specialist Ipsum buys second power contractor

  24-03-2025 08:02 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Utility services contractor Ipsum has acquired Wootton & Wootton, a Shrewsbury-based specialist in transmission and distribution engineering.
  This acquisition enhances Ipsum’s capabilities in electrical cable systems, which extend up to 275kV.
  The location of Wootton & Wootton in Shropshire will allow Ipsum to better serve clients in the Midlands and Wales.Earlier this month, Ipsum also purchased Middlesbrough-based cable contractor Matrix Power to strengthen its presence in the no
  
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