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• Alun Griffiths set to rescue firm he sold for £36m

  16-05-2025 09:02 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The founder of Welsh civil engineering contractor Alun Griffiths (Contractors) is understood to have bought back the firm he sold for £36m to Tarmac eight years ago.
  Alun Griffiths, now 84, has teamed up with former directors Tim James and Simon Dunn to rescue the Abergavenny-based business after a troubled spell under CRH-owned Tarmac’s ownership.
  The deal is expected to be officially announced shortly, with the new leadership team aiming to rebuild the £260m turnover business
  
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• Landsec to pump £2bn into new house building drive

  16-05-2025 08:56 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Developer Landsec is ramping up plans to establish a £2bn residential platform by 2030 as it shifts investment focus away from London offices and into large-scale housing schemes in the capital and Manchester.
  The property giant is preparing to start on site from late 2026 across a trio of major residential-led projects that will deliver more than 6,000 homes.
  At Finchley Road in north London, enabling works and demolition have already been completed for the first phase of a consented 1,80
  
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• Vital Energi lands £250m Gatwick decarbonisation deal

  16-05-2025 08:42 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  London Gatwick has joined forces with specialist renewable energy provider Vital Energi to advance its £250m decarbonisation programme.
  Work over the next five years will see the airport switch to zero carbon heating and improve energy efficiency.
  Vital Energi will now work on transforming infrastructure across the airport to deliver zero carbon solutions like heat pumps and move away from gas.Work will focus on 50 airport buildings, including the North and South terminals, engineering fac
  
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• Severfield to start steel on McAlpine car battery site

  16-05-2025 08:20 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Severfield is set to start on site with steelwork next month at Sir Robert McAlpine’s flagship £4bn Agratas gigafactory site in Somerset.
  The order for the full structural steel package for the first phase of the mega-job has been signed with production now underway at Severfield’s Dalton site.
  The firm will be supplying and fabricating structural steel, supplying decking and applying intumescent paint coatings.Sir Robert McAlpine has been overseeing site preparation work for T
  
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