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• Green light for 44-storey Manchester resi tower

  10-04-2025 18:26 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Developer Glenbrook has secured detailed planning consent for a 44-storey residential tower in Manchester city centre.
  Manchester City Council approved the landmark Whitworth Street West scheme, which will deliver 364 flats and over 7,700 sq ft of internal and external amenity space across the lower three floors.
  The development also includes new green public realm and improved pedestrian links connecting to Knott Mill and Deansgate.Daniel Roberts, development director at Glenbrook, said that ma
  
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• Ten win £670m Network Rail eastern region small works deal

  10-04-2025 17:45 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Network Rail has picked 10 contractors to carry out reactive and small schemes across its Eastern region.
  Under the five-year deal, with options to extend by a further two years, the firms will share a total spend of around £670m.
  Framework awards are split across building and civil asset works in both the Anglia and North & East routes.Eastern Region – Reactive & Small Schemes FrameworkLot 1 – Civil Assets (North & East, East Coast, East Midlands)Total value: &poun
  
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• Water win sees Mott MacDonald Bentley hunt for new staff

  10-04-2025 14:24 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Mott MacDonald Bentley is hosting a  recruitment event this month for new roles across the South of England after winning a major contract with Wessex Water.
  The engineering and construction company secured its first ever framework win with Wessex Water late last year among AMP8 announcements across the UK water sector.
  The win has created additional employment opportunities spanning design, commercial, and engineering disciplines, with construction jobs expected to ramp up in the next 18 m
  
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• Mears aims to dominate in compliance and housing upkeep

  10-04-2025 11:35 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Mears has set its sights on becoming the country’s leading provider of compliance and housing improvement services after a year of strong financial performance and 100% success on contract renewals.
  The contractor has launched a new five-year strategy aimed at ramping up housing maintenance work after admitting it had previously been “too risk averse” in tendering.
  Plans also include expanding specialist expertise in compliance, building safety and asset quality to meet rising
  
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• Mears aims to dominate compliance and housing upkeep

  10-04-2025 11:35 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Mears has set its sights on becoming the country’s leading provider of compliance and housing improvement services after a year of strong financial performance and 100% success on contract renewals.
  The contractor has launched a new five-year strategy aimed at ramping up housing maintenance work after admitting it had previously been “too risk averse” in tendering.
  Plans also include expanding specialist expertise in compliance, building safety and asset quality to meet rising
  
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• Phoenix ME rides out ISG collapse with record 74% turnover surge

  10-04-2025 09:00 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  London M&E specialist Phoenix ME has bounced back strongly after being caught in the collapse of main contractor ISG, posting a 74% jump in turnover to £295m last year.
  Despite the collapse of one of its biggest contractor clients mid-project, the firm successfully re-engaged with end clients and replacement main contractors to safeguard work across affected sites.
  Pre-tax profits rose to £10.7m, up from £7.4m the previous year while operating margin held steady at 3.6%.Pho
  
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• UK Power Networks fined for unsafe street works

  10-04-2025 08:47 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  UK Power Networks has been fined £40,000 for carrying-out unguarded work on excavations in west London.
  The prosecution was bought by Kensington and Chelsea Council after officials visited sites in the area.
  Council officers visited Adam and Eve Mews and Queen’s Gate Mews last year in May to inspect works being carried out by UK Power Networks.During the inspections officers found operatives working on site with an open excavation and a mini digger and works on a large excavation wit
  
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• Plans in for Bristol Brabazon over-station office block

  10-04-2025 08:44 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  YTL Developments has submitted plans for an eight-storey office building at its Brabazon regeneration scheme at the former Filton Airfield in North Bristol.
  The planned 120,000 sq ft office will sit directly above the ticket office for a new Brabazon train station, which BAM has just started building.
  Designed by AHR Architects, the offices will meet top sustainability and connectivity benchmarks, including EPC A, BREEAM Outstanding, NABERS 5*, and WiredScore Platinum.
  Subject to planning approv
  
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• £200m Viking onshore pipeline project approved

  10-04-2025 08:33 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Viking onshore pipeline project has got the Government green light clearing the way for a major piece of carbon capture infrastructure to break ground later this year.
  The £200m project, led by Harbour Energy and backed by BP, will see a 55km underground pipeline built from Immingham to the old Theddlethorpe Gas Terminal.
  From there, captured CO₂ will be piped offshore to the Viking gas fields in the North Sea for permanent storage.This project forms part of a wider CCS scheme ex
  
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• Mace confirmed for £200m London City office retrofit

  10-04-2025 08:29 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  JP Morgan Asset Management has signed off a deal with Mace to deliver one of the largest building reuse projects in the City of London.
  The project to overhaul 65 Gresham Street, adding four extra lightweight rooftop floors, comes after a major pre-let deal this week with a city investment firm to take all 400,000 sq ft of space.
  The £200m-plus building overhaul will see the building raised in height to 12 storeys, adding external terraces and inset balconies will provide outdoor space on
  
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• Labour master VAT fraudsters target subcontractors

  10-04-2025 08:28 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Rogue payroll companies are targeting subcontractors in a VAT fraud which is now facing a clampdown by the tax authorities.
  Construction firms are being approached by a new breed of “labour masters” offering to take on their self-employed workers with inducements like cash kickbacks for the subbies.
  They get paid including VAT by contractors for labour but delay payments to HMRC before folding the business and disappearing with the VAT money.
  One specialist said: “We get approa
  
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