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• TCC lands role on £85m Leeds apartment scheme

  17-04-2025 15:09 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A Midlands construction consultancy has been appointed to support one of the biggest residential schemes ever to be built in Leeds city centre.
  Birmingham-based The Construction Consultants (TCC) has been appointed to support the £85m Castleton Works scheme which will provide nearly 400 build-to-rent apartments. Detailed planning permission has been granted by Leeds City Council
  The development, on the regenerated west side of Leeds city centre near The Junction and Wellington Place, will
  
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• Phoenix Brickwork wins awards from Galliford Try and Torsion

  17-04-2025 14:47 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Specialist Phoenix Brickwork has landed two supplier awards from Galliford Try and Torsion Construction.
  Phoenix has been named Sub-Contractor of the Year by Galliford Try for Building East Midlands’ Orders Over £2m acknowledging the brickwork and scaffolding package delivered in Milton Keynes.
  The project created four blocks featuring over 300 apartments and used a range of Modern Methods of Construction to shorten the construction timescale.
  Phoenix was also recognised by Torsion C
  
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• A Reality Check: the construction industry is not modernising

  17-04-2025 09:12 via justpractising.com
  
  The Plain Language Group is hosting a new series of calls to talk about why the construction industry is not modernising and what we can do about it.Join us on Teams at lunchtime on Friday 2nd May.
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  Have you ever caught yourself feeling like you’ve been dreaming, and then you wake up?
  On the one hand is the dream: a vision of a built environment utopia. A perfectly constructed, digitised, net zero built environment where everything works, is safe and is used to its full
  
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• Aggregates firm Ashville went down owing more than £3m

  17-04-2025 08:16 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Administrators at Ashville Aggregates and Concrete have confirmed the company owed more than £3m when it ceased trading in February.
  An update posted at Companies House by administrator Leonard Curtis revealed the scale of debts at the firm.
  Administrators were sent in by Ashville’s main funder Cynergy Business Finance who are owed £950,000.Unsecured creditors were owed £2.5m including £1.5m owed to a string of suppliers and subcontractors with HMRC owed £566,
  
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• Driver escapes injury as scaffold collapses onto van

  17-04-2025 08:04 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A van driver miraculously escaped unhurt after a three-lift scaffold collapsed onto his vehicle during rush hour on a busy North London high street.
  The structure, erected by Beacon Scaffolding, came down at around 7.30am on Stoke Newington High Street.
  The scaffold had been erected around the local Grade II-listed library to support roof and fabric repairs.Emergency services were called to reports of a man trapped inside the van, but he managed to get out safely before fire crews arrived.An eye
  
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• Excavator knocked off lorry going under bridge

  17-04-2025 07:31 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  An eight-tonne excavator being driven on the back of a trailer by Carey London was knocked off while travelling under a bridge near East Putney Tube Station.
  An inquiry by the Traffic Commissioner for the East of England heard how the transporter lorry collided with a bridge on the A205 Upper Richmond Road in London last October.
  The collision resulted in the excavator being knocked off onto the adjacent footpath. No one was injured.The inquiry heard that the driver had measured the height of th
  
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• M Group seals biggest-ever deal with Telent takeover

  17-04-2025 01:41 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  M Group has made its largest acquisition to date with the takeover of digital infrastructure specialist Telent.
  The deal marks a major strategic leap for M Group as it moves deeper into the technology solutions market and pushes proforma group turnover to over £3bn.
  Telent turned over £460m last year, generating a £20m profit. It brings specialist expertise in operational technology, communications, network infrastructure and cyber security.Telent will now sit alongside M Group
  
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