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• Scottish Water names preferred firms for £9bn upgrade

  18-12-2025 17:00 via constructionenquirer.com
  Scottish Water has named its preferred bidders for a £9bn capital investment drive stretching across the next two regulatory periods.
  In what will become one of the UK’s biggest long-term delivery alliances, the utility giant will form a new enterprise partnership to upgrade water and wastewater assets from 2027 to 2033, with an option to extend to 2039.The enterprise model will handle around a third of SR27 spend and is designed to integrate designers, contractors and Scottish Water
  
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• HG Construction hits 8th Gateway 2 win as approvals accelerate

  18-12-2025 16:19 via constructionenquirer.com
  HG Construction has secured its eighth Gateway 2 approval of 2025 after regulators signed off a 24 storey student tower in London.
  The project for Alumno in Elephant and Castle signals that Building Safety Regulator decisions are now starting to move more quickly through the system.
  The Maccreanor Lavington designed scheme will deliver 244 student rooms on a tight brownfield plot beside the railway arches on Rockingham and Tiverton Street. HG is expected to break ground on the brick clad tower i
  
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• Colas sells Allied Infrastructure to DJ Civils

  18-12-2025 16:13 via constructionenquirer.com
  Kent based contractor DJ Civils has acquired Allied Infrastructure from Colas.
  Allied Infrastructure specialises in work on UK airfields and local highways maintenance jobs and has been part of Colas since 2017.
  A Colas statement said: “Colas Ltd has reached agreement to sell Allied Infrastructure to DJ Civils Ltd, a civil engineering contractor based in Kent.“This is consistent with our strategy to focus our business on road construction and maintenance and bituminous binders manufa
  
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• Graham lands £59m Loughborough student halls job

  18-12-2025 11:32 via constructionenquirer.com
  Contractor Graham has clinched a £59m deal to build a major student halls scheme at Loughborough University after the project cleared planning at Charnwood Borough Council.
  The contractor will deliver 552 bed spaces across five blocks rising up to six storeys in the campus’s Central Park zone, close to the Edward Herbert Building.The new Hall of Residence will plug rising demand for modern, en-suite, self-catered rooms and includes shared study lounges, social space, sub-warden accom
  
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• Partnerships powers Higgins into £1.1bn workload

  18-12-2025 10:40 via constructionenquirer.com
  Higgins Group has delivered a major growth spurt on the back of a strong year for its Partnerships arm, pushing turnover up 51% to £315m and swelling its secured order book to more than £1.1bn.
  Partnerships again proved the engine of the London and Home Counties business, generating £303m revenue and a near-£9m pre-tax profit as the contractor steered through a tough housing market with a healthy mix of regeneration, remediation and new build work.
  The division spent much
  
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• Leeds iconic Tetley brewery building revamp approved

  18-12-2025 09:23 via constructionenquirer.com
  Developer Vastint UK has secured planning to revamp the iconic Tetley building in Leeds.
  Work will now get underway next year on the full restoration of the 92-year-old brewery HQ as the historic centrepiece of the emerging Aire Park district.
  The two-year refurbishment project will create public market hall and around 13,000 sq ft of office space.Designs by Supervene and Enjoy Design retain the building’s distinctive art deco façade while reworking the internal layout.
  The basement
  
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• Thirty arrests after immigration raid on Swindon site

  18-12-2025 09:08 via constructionenquirer.com
  Thirty construction workers have been arrested for immigration-related offences following a raid on a major warehouse site.
  Immigration officers carried out the raid at Panattoni Park, the former home to Honda in Swindon, alongside Wiltshire Police.
  Supt Mike Vass, Swindon hub commander, told the BBC: “This was a significant operation with our colleagues in Immigration targeting illegal working and safeguarding vulnerable individuals who may be being exploited.”He added: “
  
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• 33 firms win £300m SEC fire safety framework

  18-12-2025 08:59 via constructionenquirer.com
  South East Consortium has unveiled a heavyweight line-up of 33 separate firms on its new £300m Fire Safety Works Framework, covering fire doors, passive fire protection and active systems across London and the South East.
  The four-year deal – split into five lots – mixes specialist manufacturers with major housing maintenance contractors as demand for compliant fire safety upgrades continues to surge across the sector.
  Competition was fiercest on the contractor-led fire door lo
  
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• Panattoni buys Northampton site for £75m logistics scheme

  18-12-2025 08:51 via constructionenquirer.com
  Developer Panattoni has acquired a 15-acre logistics site at Brackmills Industrial Estate, Northampton with plans for a £75m speculative scheme.
  A planning application is due to be submitted early next year with construction scheduled to start in 2028 on a single warehouse unit of 340,000 sq ft.
  Gregg Titley, Head of Development, East and West Midlands at Panattoni, said: “Panattoni Brackmills represents a rare opportunity to bring forward a prime, high-quality logistics facility in
  
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• City of London planning applications hit 10-year high

  18-12-2025 08:33 via constructionenquirer.com
  The City of London Corporation has clocked its busiest year for planning applications in a decade as developers race to deliver more premium office space in the Square Mile.
  Fresh data from the Corporation shows 2025 delivered the highest volume of applications in ten years. Major schemes over 100,000 sq m were up 36% on 2024 suggesting growing investor confidence in tall, sustainable office buildings.
  More than half a million square metres of new office floorspace was approved in 2025, the stro
  
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