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• Brookfield gets green light for latest City office scheme

  19-05-2025 16:35
  
  Brookfield Properties has secured planning permission for a 300,000 sq ft office scheme at 1 Moor Lane in the City of London.
  Architect Allford Hall Monaghan Morris designed the redevelopment of the building formerly known as Milton Gate where a retrofit-first approach will retain 70% of the original structure.
  Dan Scanlon, President of Brookfield Properties, UK, said: “We appreciate the support and positive feedback from the City of London and neighbouring occupiers which have shaped our
  
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• Knauf commits £170m to build Deeside insulation plant

  19-05-2025 12:23
  
  Knauf Insulation has confirmed plans to build a major new rock mineral wool factory in Shotton, North Wales.
  The £170m plant will be built on land acquired from Tata Steel’s Deeside operations, just two miles from Knauf’s existing Queensferry facility.
  It will use UK-first submerged arc furnace electric melting technology to slash embodied carbon.The factory will have a capacity of over 100,000 tonnes a year, helping meet growing demand for non-combustible, recyclable insulatio
  
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• Construction trade bodies vote to keep training levy

  19-05-2025 12:22
  
  Block votes from the construction trade bodies helped swing the consensus ballot for the CITB to collect the industry training levy for another three years.
  The board won industry support with an overall 62.7% agreeing with a continuation of the levy while 32.8% voted it down.
  Among real firms the vote was much tighter with 40.3% of the smallest construction companies opposing the levy.But the trade bodies weighed-in on the CITB’s side with an 89.3% yes vote with only the National Federati
  
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• Ex-Lendlease boss seals £24bn Crown Estate mega sites JV

  19-05-2025 10:45
  The Crown Estate has signed a £24bn joint venture with Lendlease to unlock tens of thousands of homes and millions of square feet of commercial space across six major sites in London and Birmingham.
  The deal was struck by Crown Estate chief executive Dan Labbad – the former global head of Lendlease Construction – and his old firm’s current group CEO Tony Lombardo.
  Lendlease will continue as development manager across the sites, while The Crown Estate brings new financial
  
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• McLaren to build 2,400-bed worker campus at Sizewell C

  19-05-2025 09:14
  McLaren Construction will deliver the huge accommodation campus for workers building the Sizewell C nuclear power station.
  Under a construction management agreement, McLaren will deliver the 2,400-bed campus for site workers, hailed as setting new standards in site accommodation.
  The scheme will see 16 residential blocks of three and four storeys built to house the incoming workforce.Each building will be laid out in an east-west orientation and contain single-occupancy living units, each with i
  
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• Soaring costs and work drought sunk historic scaffolding firm

  19-05-2025 09:11
  Soaring costs and a lack of work have been blamed for sending under a scaffolding contractor that has been in business for more than 125 years.
  Hertfordshire based Rodells has been trading since 1898 when it was founded by Leonard Rodell as a steeple-jacking company.
  But the business fell into administration in March when all 37 staff were made redundant.Administrators from FRP Advisory said “the pipeline had dramatically reduced on the scaffolding side of the business while the cost of ma
  
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• Early market talks on £2.5bn Yorkshire mass transit plan

  19-05-2025 09:07
  West Yorkshire Combined Authority is planning to kick off early market talks with major firms for its £2.5bn mass transit system linking Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield, Huddersfield and Halifax.
  A virtual market engagement event will be held on 15 July to brief major suppliers on the first phase of the programme and gather early input on shaping commercial and procurement strategies.
  The ambitious scheme aims to deliver a high-capacity public transport network using buses, trams or tram-train-
  
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• Robertson starts Redcar town centre revamp

  19-05-2025 08:40
  Robertson Construction North East has broken ground on a major new cultural and leisure venue in Redcar as part of the town’s wider regeneration drive.
  The £12m project includes a reimagined library, indoor family attractions, and new public space linking the high street to the seafront.
  It is one of the flagship projects under the £25m Redcar Town Deal aimed at reviving the struggling coastal town.The former M&S and Goodwins buildings have already been demolished to clear
  
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• Clarion set to tender £79m Kirkstall Road Phase 2

  19-05-2025 08:29
  Clarion Housing Group is gearing up to bid the next major phase of its flagship Kirkstall Road scheme in Leeds, with a £79m design and build job going out to tender next month.
  The development arm Latimer is looking for a principal contractor to deliver 372 homes across Blocks 1 and 3 of the Dyecoats Phase 2 scheme.
  A preliminary market engagement is under way, with expressions of interest due by 29 May ahead of a full tender launch on 2 June.The new contract will run from September 2025.
  
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• TfL seeks firms for £700m civils and station framework

  19-05-2025 08:16
  Transport for London is gearing up to launch a £700m infrastructure framework for civils, M&E, and major station upgrades across the capital.
  The new multi-discipline deal will use early contractor involvement and multi-stage contracting to fast-track key schemes including the £80m South Kensington and £60m Elephant & Castle station upgrades, alongside £200m worth of Step Free Access packages.
  Four firms will be selected under the two-stage framework, which will r
  
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