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• New resource hub for Musculoskeletal Disorders

  07-04-2025 21:37 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Health in Construction Leadership Group has launched a free Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) resource hub.
  The HSE recently reported that MSDs account for 52% of self-reported ill-health conditions in construction making it the most prominent health issue in the sector.
  The Health in Construction Leadership Group of volunteers has now collated a number of resources to help construction managers raise awareness and encourage best practice – with the objective of reducing work-induced Mu
  
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• Firm wanted for £35m Royal Observatory revamp

  07-04-2025 18:36 via constructionenquirer.com
  The National Maritime Museum is looking for a contractor to deliver a major redevelopment of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich.
  The project to upgrade the historic site, will be let as a two-phase job worth up to £35m.
  The revamp aims to boost visitor facilities while also protecting and restoring the Observatory’s listed buildings.Phase one is due to start in early 2026, covering the southern end of the site. The northern section will stay open until late 2026 before closing for ph
  
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• Firm wanted for £35m for Royal Observatory revamp

  07-04-2025 18:36 via constructionenquirer.com
  The National Maritime Museum is looking for a contractor to deliver a major redevelopment of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich.
  The project to upgrade the historic site, will be let as a two-phase job worth up to £35m.
  The revamp aims to boost visitor facilities while also protecting and restoring the Observatory’s listed buildings.Phase one is due to start in early 2026, covering the southern end of the site. The northern section will stay open until late 2026 before closing for ph
  
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• Five firms win £450m Scottish electricity network upgrade

  07-04-2025 17:02 via constructionenquirer.com
  Energy company SSEN Distribution has confirmed the winners of a £450m deal to improve the north of Scotland’s local electricity networks.
  Work will see the existing network of wooden poles and overhead lines renewed and reinforced, substations updated, and improvements made to the underground network.
  The five winning firms are:OCU Utility Services
  Clancy
  Freedom Group
  Macaulay Askernish
  Brush Group (which includes KUS Power Engineering and McGowan Group)
  SSEN’s Director of Lar
  
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• Cappagh Group founder passes away

  07-04-2025 15:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The founder of south London utility and infrastructure contractor Cappagh Group has died.
  Tom Ferncombe passed away last Friday at the age of 83.
  He travelled from Waterford, Ireland in 1963 in search of work opportunities and in 1973 he formed Cappagh Contractors which is now part of the Cappagh Group and has grown into a £200m turnover business.Michael Ferncombe, Group Managing Director and the eldest son of Tom said: “It is with great sadness that I have to inform you on behalf of
  
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• Wates wins £111m Victoria Tower restoration

  07-04-2025 08:58 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Wates has taken the iconic job to restore and carry out fire upgrade work to the Palace of Westminster’s grade I listed Victoria Tower.
  The firm secured the project through negotiated tender at a price of £110.6m, after no other competitive bids were submitted in an open re-tender for the historic building upgrade.
  The initial contest to restore Parliament’s tallest building got underway in March last year but had to be called off because of a procurement blunder.
  Originally Si
  
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• Wates beats McAlpine to £111m Victoria Tower restoration

  07-04-2025 08:58 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Wates has taken the iconic job to restore and carry out fire upgrade work to the Palace of Westminster’s grade I listed Victoria Tower.
  The firm beat rival Sir Robert McAlpine, which previously completed similar work to the Elizabeth Tower, with a bid of £110.6m.
  The initial contest to restore Parliaments tallest building got underway in March last year but had to be called off because of a procurement blunder.
  The retender attracted just two bids despite Lendlease and BAM oriinally
  
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• Lynch plant hire fined £800,000 over abnormal load

  07-04-2025 08:39 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  L Lynch Plant Hire and Haulage Ltd has been ordered to pay more than £800,000 after being found guilty of moving an abnormal load without proper notification.
  The hire firm was charged as part of Operation Nightstare by the West Midlands Police Commercial Vehicle Unit.
  In March 2024 at the NEC near the M42, officers stopped a heavy goods vehicle transporting a large excavator and associated plant equipment.A movement notification had been submitted by the plant hire operator, but the vehic
  
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• Police recover £100,000 stolen plant at Harwich port

  07-04-2025 08:27 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Essex police have recovered stolen construction machinery worth more than £100,000 just as it was about to be shipped out of the country last week at Harwich International Port.
  The haul of equipment is the latest success in a regulator crackdown at Harwich and Tilbury port to locate and recover stolen machinery being exported to Europe.
  A dumper, two mini-diggers and a telehandler were located in a trailer. They had all been reported stolen in the past fortnight from sites in South Yorksh
  
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• Police recover £100,000 of stolen plant at Harwich port

  07-04-2025 08:27 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Essex police have recovered stolen construction machinery worth more than £100,000 just as it was about to be shipped out of the country last week at Harwich International Port.
  The haul of equipment is the latest success in a regulator crackdown at Harwich and Tilbury port to locate and recover stolen machinery being exported to Europe.
  A dumper, two mini-diggers and a telehandler were located in a trailer. They had all been reported stolen in the past fortnight from sites in South Yorksh
  
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• Mace tops contracts league with Euston Tower win

  07-04-2025 08:26 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Mace soared above its rival contractors to secure the highest value of new work for the second month running in the March contracts league.
  It took pole position on the strength of a trio of big orders. These included a £600m contract for the Euston Tower overhaul in London for British Land, the £140m pier 6 extension at Gatwick Airport worth £140m and a £100m project for the Pandemic Science build at Oxford University.Top 10 contractors by work secured in March
   
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• Glasgow civils firm buys building refurb specialist

  07-04-2025 08:21 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Glasgow commercial landscape and groundworks specialist M Squared is targeting £25m turnover next year after buying Glasgow-based repairs and maintenance specialist EBS Construction.
  EBS specialises in structural repairs, stone masonry and building restoration works across Scotland.M Squared, which was founded 10 years ago and presently turns over £10m, invested more than a £1m in the deal.The deal is part of a strategy by M Squared to grow its team to over 125 staff through or
  
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