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• Morgan Sindall lands £20m Brunswick Wharf scheme in Bideford

  29-04-2025 17:55 via constructionenquirer.com
  Morgan Sindall Construction has bagged the job to build the Brunswick Wharf regeneration scheme in Bideford, Devon.
  The long-awaited £20m-plus development by Red Earth will breathe new life into a derelict part of the town’s historic quayside with more than 100 new flats, a restaurant, six retail units, and a pop-up café.
  The scheme will also deliver a riverside public square, green open space, and a new cycle and pedestrian route linking to the Tarka Trail. A surface-level ca
  
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• New BAM leisure centre pool springs a leak

  29-04-2025 15:02 via constructionenquirer.com
  Opening of the new BAM-built Blairgowrie Leisure Centre has been delayed after the swimming pool sprung a leak.
  Perth and Kinross Council is now investigating what has caused the issues at the £36m centre which was due to open earlier this year after construction began in June 2023.
  The new scheme will be Scotland’s first leisure centre built to environmentally-friendly Passivhaus standards, providing state-of-the-art, low-energy facilities for community and school use.It has a six-l
  
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• Green light for £250m West End office revamp

  29-04-2025 09:34 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Developers Edge and Mitsubishi Estate London have secured the green light for their £250m plan to overhaul the 125 Shaftesbury Avenue building in Central London.
  Camden Council’s planning committee unanimously approved the office-led scheme, which will see a 1980s block transformed into 250,000 sq ft of workspace with a new-look entrance on Charing Cross Road and rooftop terraces.
  The project, known as EDGE Shaftesbury, will retain around 75% of the existing structure to cut embodied
  
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• Green light for £150m West End office revamp

  29-04-2025 09:34 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Developers Edge and Mitsubishi Estate London have secured the green light for their £150m plan to overhaul the 125 Shaftesbury Avenue building in Central London.
  Camden Council’s planning committee unanimously approved the office-led scheme, which will see a 1980s block transformed into 250,000 sq ft of workspace with a new-look entrance on Charing Cross Road and rooftop terraces.
  The project, known as EDGE Shaftesbury, will retain around 75% of the existing structure to cut embodied
  
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• MCS Build lands Basingstoke warehouse scheme

  29-04-2025 08:55 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  MCS Build has won the deal for a a new urban logistics development on Chineham Industrial Park in Basingstoke.
  The contractor appointment comes after Tungsten Properties secured development forward funding of £26m from Leftfield for the scheme.
  The six-acre site will contain two industrial warehouses of 100,555 sq ft and 23,275 sq ft.Construction will start this month with practical completion due in January 2026.
  David Mole, development director, Tungsten Properties, said: “We are p
  
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• Lidl pumps £500m into store and logistics expansion

  29-04-2025 08:51 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Supermarket giant Lidl GB is accelerating its growth with a £500m investment to open more than 40 new stores this financial year.
  Construction of a new 54,000m2 regional hub in Leeds is also set to get underway later this year.
  Planned regional distribution centre at 38-acre site in Gildersome to start this year
  The discounter has just published its 2025 site requirements brochure, identifying hundreds of potential new locations across England, Scotland and Wales – including high str
  
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• Driverless digger to be used on Taylor Woodrow site

  29-04-2025 08:32 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Taylor Woodrow is set to use an autonomous digger at its Manchester Airport site.
  The move follows successful trials of the Yanmar machine at the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) in Sheffield.
  A dedicated demonstration site was set up so the contractor and its partners Gravis Robotics could put the intelligent machine through its paces.The driverless digger successfully passed a series of exercises including autonomous excavation to various depths in differing ground conditions, rea
  
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• JJ Rhatigan UK profit jumps as turnover tops £150m

  29-04-2025 08:27 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Irish contractor JJ Rhatigan’s UK business has nearly doubled profits after a record year that saw revenue surge to £154m.
  Latest results for the year to October, 2024, show pre-tax profit hitting £9.7m, up from £5.9m, as the contractor shrugged off a tougher market.
  Turnover jumped by £69m, while operating profit climbed to £9.5m from £5.9m.Directors described the performance as “satisfactory” in the face of ongoing uncertainties in the wide
  
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• Leeds United unveil stadium revamp design

  29-04-2025 00:38 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Leeds United have unveiled concept designs for the proposed redevelopment of Elland Road to increase stadium capacity from 37,645 to up to 56,500
  Work will focus on redeveloping the West and North Stands to elevate Elland Road to the seventh-largest ground in England.The club has not set a timeline for the staged stadium upgrade which is going out to public consultation in May.
  Specialist sports architect KSS has been signed up to design the project, alongside structural engineer Buro Happold.
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