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• Dominus wins go-ahead for 173-bed Glasgow scheme

  22-04-2025 16:45 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Developer Dominus has secured planning for a 173-bed student accommodation scheme in Glasgow city centre.
  Glasgow City Council has approved the 13-storey, tp bennett-designed scheme for a brownfield site at the corner of Old Wynd Street and Osborne Street, near the University of Strathclyde and Glasgow Caledonian University.
  The development is expected to cost around £25m to build and will deliver 173 studio rooms along with a cinema, games room, karaoke space, rooftop lounge and terrace.T
  
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• Acheson Construction collapse costs suppliers £8.5m

  22-04-2025 16:24 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Dorset based contractor Acheson Construction owed £8.5m to suppliers and subcontractors when it fell into administration in February.
  Documents filed at Companies House reveal the scale of debts with 564 unsecured creditors left holding unpaid invoices.
  One angry supplier took the law into its own hands by seizing a telehandler from the failed contractor’s fleet.Administrators from Grant Thornton is planning to sell the company fleet of seven telehandlers but said “the retrieva
  
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• Safety Regulator misses deadline to clear Gateway 2 backlog

  22-04-2025 09:16 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Building Safety Regulator has missed its target to clear the backlog of Gateway 2 approvals by April, stalling the start of dozens of high-rise residential projects across the country.
  Latest figures reveal that over two-thirds of Gateway 2 applications transferred to the BSR last autumn remain unapproved, despite earlier assurances from officials that the logjam would be resolved by now.
  The delays are beginning to impact project financing, with banks pulling back from the high-risk buildin
  
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• Two share £220m Scottish rail repairs and minor works deal

  22-04-2025 08:26 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Network Rail has handed out a pair of key framework deals worth a combined £220m to cover reactive and minor works across Scotland’s rail network.
  AmcoGiffen has taken the lead on the Civils Reactive and Minor Works Framework, securing a deal estimated at £150m over the next four years.
  The contract will see AmcoGiffen deliver a wide range of urgent and planned infrastructure works – including drainage, embankment repairs, bridge strengthening and tunnel maintenance.Meanw
  
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• Contractor confirmed for business park expansion

  22-04-2025 08:21 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Construction work to expand the Stud Brook Business Park in Castle Donington can now begin after Clowes Developments secured planning consent from North West Leicestershire District Council.
  Roe Developments has been confirmed as the lead contractor to deliver five industrial units ranging from 3,229s sq ft to 4,606 sq ft during a 30-week build programme.
  IMA Architects has been working with Clowes Developments to deliver the mixed-use development at Stud Brook and overcome  a number of cha
  
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• Builder wanted for £60m London leisure and flats job

  22-04-2025 08:20 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  East London’s Tower Hamlets Council is opening early market discussions with contractors ahead of a £60m redevelopment of the St George’s Leisure Centre in Shadwell.
  The £60m job will involve demolition of the existing building and construction of a modern leisure centre along with an eight-storey block of flats delivering 29 homes.
  Both the leisure facilities and residential accommodation will be owned and managed by the council.
  Planned housing block at site
  The council
  
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• £500m road surfacing framework market call

  22-04-2025 08:08 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A major £500m surfacing framework covering roads across the North East is out for early market consultation.
  The Association of North East Councils, through procurement body NEPO, is laying the groundwork for its next-generation NEPO210 Highway Surfacing Works Framework, which will span up to eight years from November 2025.
  The deal will cover both planned and emergency surfacing to principal and minor roads, footways, and even off-highway sites such as car parks. Works will include resurf
  
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• CITB still sitting on £95m cash pile

  22-04-2025 08:02 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Construction training body CITB is still sitting on a £95.2m cash pile despite the industry’s ongoing skills crisis.
  The £95.2m of cash in the bank is revealed in the CITB’s latest set of accounts for the year to March 31 2024 which were published recently.
  The training body is funded mainly be levy income from contractors which hit £202m last year as the organisation handed back £128.6m in grants.CITB said its cash reserves were down from £102.7m last t
  
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