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• 145 firms win places on £800m building safety framework

  13-05-2025 16:53 via constructionenquirer.com
  Fusion21 has confirmed the suppliers successfully appointed to its national Building Safety and Compliance Framework worth up to £800m over four years.
  A total of 145 specialist firms – 81% being SMEs – have secured a place on the framework designed to support members to manage and maintain safe buildings and demonstrate building compliance.
  Peter Francis, Group Executive Director (Operations) at Fusion21 said: “Our members continue to invest heavily to ensure the bu
  
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• London new home starts plunge 38% as Building Safety Act bites

  13-05-2025 12:52 via constructionenquirer.com
  New home registrations in London have slumped 38% as the capital becomes the only UK region to record a sharp fall in new housing starts.
  The figures from warranty provider NHBC highlight how the new building safety regime is stalling high-rise projects in the capital, with developers facing delays under the new Gateway 2 approval process run by the Building Safety Regulator.
  While the rest of the country saw strong growth, London starts dived as tighter rules and slow approvals hit confidence i
  
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• Pension giants pledge £25bn for infrastructure push

  13-05-2025 09:19 via constructionenquirer.com
  Britain’s biggest pension funds have signed up to a new Mansion House Accord that could unleash up to £50bn of investment into UK infrastructure and businesses.
  Seventeen pension providers, managing around 90% of active workplace savers’ defined contribution pots, are backing the deal which doubles last year’s investment target and ringfences a minimum £25bn for UK projects by 2030.
  The move aims to channel billions into clean energy, science, tech and infrastructur
  
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• Safety row over London tower ducking fire regs by 30cm

  13-05-2025 08:47 via constructionenquirer.com
  Firefighters and housing campaigners have called on London Mayor Sadiq Khan to block construction of a residential tower development in Penge town centre that they claim ducks new fire safety rules by just 30cm.
  Bromley Council has approved the scheme despite strong objections from the London Fire Brigade, which said the decision to lower a residential block to 17.7m – just under the 18m threshold for requiring a second staircase – was ‘not ethically justified’.
  Joint ven
  
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• Countdown starts for £1bn Birmingham highways bid race

  13-05-2025 08:41 via constructionenquirer.com
  Birmingham City Council has kicked off early market engagement for a major new highways and infrastructure framework worth around £1bn over eight years.
  The new framework for maintenance and upgrade work will be split across five lots covering a broad scope of works from minor road improvements to major capital civil engineering schemes across the West Midlands.
  It will be open to other local public bodies and include delivery routes such as construct-only, design and build, and early cont
  
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• Acciona wins £400m Thames waterworks upgrade

  13-05-2025 08:37 via constructionenquirer.com
  Spanish contractor Acciona has bagged a £400m job to overhaul Thames Water’s Coppermills treatment works in north-east London.
  The project covers a huge package of civils and MEICA works to boost supply resilience and modernise ageing assets at the busy operational site in the Lea Valley.
  Key elements include a new 700 Ml/day high lift pumping station, recirculation and run-to-waste systems for 32 slow sand filters, and upgrades to contact tanks and the existing power supply and dist
  
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• Operator spots cracked mast on Hinkley tower crane

  13-05-2025 08:36 via constructionenquirer.com
  Serious structural defects in a tower crane at Hinkley Point C have prompted nuclear safety regulators to issue a formal improvement notice to the project’s main contractor.
  The faults were uncovered in February when a crane operator spotted a failed connecting pin and visible cracks in a mast section during routine pre-use checks on the Somerset site.
  The incident, reported under RIDDOR, did not lead to any injuries or collapse, but the discovery raised red flags over equipment safety man
  
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