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• Buyers more bullish about prospects for year ahead

  07-05-2025 11:01 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Construction activity decreased for the fourth consecutive month in April but business optimism among buyers hit its highest level since December 2024.
  The bellwether S&P Global UK Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index recorded 46.6 in April – up slightly from 46.4 in March but below the 50.0 no-change value for the fourth consecutive month.
  It signalled the slowest decline in output levels for three months.Looking ahead, construction firms are optimistic on balance about their
  
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• Hinkley Point C hits peak build with 26,000 jobs

  07-05-2025 09:18 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The number of workers building Hinkley Point C has surged to 26,000 as the nuclear power project hits peak construction.
  Around 18,000 people are working directly for the project in Britain.
  Around 12,000 are working on the site itself, with 3,000 more expected in the next 12 months.
  With the fit-out phase accelerating, an additional 8,000 people are supporting the project as part of the supply chain, including factories in Bristol, Somerset, Wales and right across the country.The project is sen
  
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• Winners revealed for £1.5bn decarbonisation deal

  07-05-2025 09:03 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Fusion21 has confirmed the suppliers successfully appointed to its national Decarbonisation Framework worth up to £1.5bn over the next four years.
  A total of 40 specialist firms – 42% being SMEs – have secured a place on the framework, designed to help deliver zero carbon goals, reduce emissions, maximise cost savings, achieve social value targets and support domestic and non-domestic retrofit measures.
  The framework gives members across the public sector access to qualified an
  
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• Early call-out for Ebbsfleet Garden City infrastructure

  07-05-2025 08:55 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Early works contractors are being called up to register interest in a major enabling works package for the key central phase of the planned Ebbsfleet Garden City in North Kent.
  Ebbsfleet Development Corporation is now gearing up to deliver its landmark Ebbsfleet Central project that will create a central commercial heart for the garden city scheme.
  The first phase of works will unlock infrastructure for the new commercial heart of the Garden City, with early market engagement set to start for pa
  
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• Council backs first Brutalist car park-to-flats scheme

  07-05-2025 08:42 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A radical plan to transform a crumbling 1960s multi-storey car park into more than 110 flats has got the green light from planners in Newcastle-under-Lyme.In a UK first, social impact developer Capital&Centric will retain large parts of the old Midway car park structure and rework it into design-led flats as part of a wider town centre regeneration.
  The bold reuse is one of a trio of projects given the thumbs-up by Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council, delivering 328 new homes, new green spa
  
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• Over 40 firms win Wessex Water M&E minor works deal

  07-05-2025 08:40 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Wessex Water has finalised a sweeping M&E minor works framework with over 40 specialist firms lined up to deliver projects across the South West.
  The five-year deal, with an option to extend by three more, supports the water company’s AMP8 programme and is split across three lots covering M&E, small electrical, and small mechanical works.
  Firms winning spots on the flagship Lot 1 M&E works band include Bridges Electrical Engineers, C&P Engineering, Integrated Water Services
  
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• Cladding firm fined £225,000 after fatal fall

  07-05-2025 08:21 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A cladding company and its director have been fined following the death of a worker who fell through a fragile roof whilst replacing panels.
  The 61-year-old was working for Camclad Contractors Limited, replacing cladding panels on a former abattoir that had been damaged in a storm, when the incident took place at Gaerwen Industrial Estate, Anglesey, on 24 January 2018.
  An HSE investigation found that the work had only been planned from photographs and that no site visit had taken place before st
  
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