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• Mace signs ex-ISG director to lead Euro health and tech push

  25-04-2025 09:38 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Mace has drafted in former ISG director Gary Sweeney to head up its healthcare, life sciences and technology consultancy arm across Europe.
  The shake-up brings three key growth sectors under one leadership structure as Mace looks to boost collaboration and sharpen delivery.
  Sweeney joins with more than 30 years of experience in manufacturing and engineering, having held senior roles at Turner & Townsend and ISG.He was most recently interim director for advanced manufacturing at T&T, cove
  
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• Ealing backs final phase of £1.3bn estate rebuild

  25-04-2025 09:18 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The final phase of the £1.3bn Friary Park estate rebuild in Acton, west London has been given the go-ahead by Ealing Council.
  Developer Mount Anvil and housing association Peabody are behind the 1,345-home regeneration, which will now move into its last stage with another 693 homes set to be built.
  The full scheme replaces the old Friary Park estate with a mix of private and affordable flats, improved public space and a raft of community facilities.Around 470 of the new homes will be affor
  
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• Green light for scaled-down Nottingham student tower

  25-04-2025 08:58 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A new student housing scheme in the heart of Nottingham has been given the go-ahead by the city council’s planning committee.
  A joint venture between Peveril Securities and PMI Developments will deliver 247 student rooms on Glasshouse Street in the city’s Eastside area.
  Designed by Nottingham-based CPMG Architects, the purpose-built accommodation will feature 37 shared cluster flats and 50 studios in buildings ranging from three to nine storeys.The scheme, first proposed in spring 20
  
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• Comment: Gateway is acting like a barricade

  25-04-2025 08:56 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Billions of pounds worth of desperately-needed new homes are being delayed by the Building Safety Regulator displaying a classic case of good intentions but bad execution.
  The Grenfell tragedy rightly saw demands for better, safer buildings.
  But the resulting new regime for high rise buildings has been drawn-up with no practical consideration for how construction actually works.
  That’s hardly a surprise when rules are written by civil servants who only talk to trade bodies rather than real
  
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