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• Five firms land £1bn Guinness maintenance deal

  20-03-2026 16:21 via constructionenquirer.com
  Five firms have been confirmed as long-term housing maintenance partners for The Guinness Partnership under a 15-year deal worth more than £1bn.
  The winning contractors and regions they will cover are:Axis Europe Ltd – Greater London & South East and Coast
  Fortem Solutions Limited – Yorkshire, Humberside & East Midlands
  Morgan Sindall Property Services Limited – Home Counties
  Novus Property Solutions Limited – South West.
  UI Social Infrastruct
  
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• Government steel strategy set to drive up construction costs

  20-03-2026 09:21 via constructionenquirer.com
  Contractors are bracing for a fresh wave of cost inflation after the Government unveiled a hardline steel strategy designed to curb imports and boost domestic production.
  Ministers have set out plans to cut steel import quotas by 60% from July and impose a 50% tariff on material brought in above those limits — a move aimed at shielding UK producers but set to ripple through the construction supply chain.
  The strategy also sets a target for UK steel to meet up to 50% of domestic demand, up
  
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• Teenage labourer dies in ventilation shaft fall

  20-03-2026 09:19 via constructionenquirer.com
  A construction firm has been fined £40,200 after a teenage labourer died after falling down a ventilation shaft on a London building site.
  Renols Lleshi, 19, was helping to dismantle scaffolding on the 12th floor roof garden of a block of flats being built at the Ark Soane Academy site, Mill Hill Road, London W3 on 5 July 2023. As he stepped onto a ventilation shaft the covering gave way, and he fell six floors to his death.
  His father said “My family and I are devastated by the loss
  
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• Hill seals London Woolwich social homes deal with Clarion

  20-03-2026 09:04 via constructionenquirer.com
  Clarion Housing Group has struck a deal with The Hill Group to deliver 188 social rent homes as part of the wider Woolwich Leisure Centre redevelopment in south-east London.
  The homes will sit within a 557-home mixed-tenure scheme being brought forward by Hill in partnership with the Royal Borough of Greenwich, alongside a new leisure centre.
  Clarion has acquired the affordable element through a Section 106 deal, securing the social rent homes in Blocks D and E of the development.The scheme will
  
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• Former Battersea Power Station boss launches tribunal claim

  20-03-2026 08:54 via constructionenquirer.com
  Former CEO Don O’Sullivan is bringing a claim for unfair dismissal and whistleblowing detriment against Battersea Power Station Development Company and four senior Malaysian executives.
  O’Sullivan joined Battersea in June 2024 after 21 years at Galliard Homes.
  He was dismissed in May 2025 amid claims he raised whistleblowing concerns about his employer, a Malaysian-owned development company.He alleges that he was dismissed following charges of gross misconduct after raising concerns
  
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• Gobion lands £52m DP World London Gateway yard job

  20-03-2026 08:53 via constructionenquirer.com
  Gobion Construction has secured a £52m contract to deliver a major container storage yard expansion at London Gateway Port in Thurrock.
  The job, awarded by London Gateway Port, will see the SME contractor build out a new automated container yard at Berth 5 as the port ramps up capacity.
  The one-year programme is due to start at the end of March following the standstill period, with completion targeted by March 2027.Works will deliver 10 automated stacking crane modules alongside heavy-duty
  
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• American student builder gets Birmingham green light

  20-03-2026 08:47 via constructionenquirer.com
  America’s largest student accommodation developer Landmark Properties has been given the green light for a scheme at 120 Suffolk Street in the centre of Birmingham.
  The purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) community will also include high quality communal and outdoor spaces next to New Street Station.
  The job will be completed in 2029 and reinforces Landmark Properties’ plans to implement four to six PBSA and residential schemes per year.The firm entered the UK market in 2024,
  
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• Winners named for £1bn North West contractor framework

  20-03-2026 08:42 via constructionenquirer.com
  Procure Partnerships has unveiled the winners of its £1bn framework covering construction, infrastructure and demolition works across the North West.
  The four-year deal is open to public sector clients across the region and is split into six construction lots, six infrastructure lots and a single demolition lot.
  Up to 10 contractors have been appointed to each lot, with heavyweights including Kier, Morgan Sindall, BAM, Galliford Try, Vinci, Wates and Willmott Dixon dominating the top-value
  
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