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• Mott MacDonald Bentley to host recruitment event

  10-06-2026 23:05 via constructionenquirer.com
  Mott MacDonald Bentley (MMB) is continuing its expansion across the South West following its first long-term framework award with Wessex Water – strengthening its project design and delivery capability and inviting prospective candidates to a recruitment event in Poole this month.
  As a capital delivery partner on two multi-million-pound lots, MMB will help deliver part of a £3.7bn AMP8 investment programme across the South West of England. The work supports improvements in wastewater
  
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• G&H lands deals with Wates and Tilbury Douglas

  10-06-2026 22:51 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  G&H has been appointed to deliver two school mechanical, electrical and public health (MEP) design and build contracts worth £7.8m, including its first project in collaboration with Wates.
  Following competitive tender processes, G&H will support Wates, to deliver the new Joseph Norton Academy on behalf of Kirklees Council. It will also collaborate with Tilbury Douglas on Brunswick Community Primary School for the Department of Education.
  Based in Huddersfield, the Joseph Norton Aca
  
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• CCTV captures scaffolder’s skylight roof plunge

  10-06-2026 15:36 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Two construction companies have been fined £79,300 after a scaffolder broke his arm, leg and suffered head lacerations after falling through a roof skylight while installing temporary edge protection at a warehouse in Yorkshire.
  James Cranswick, 26, was installing temporary scaffolding edge protection for Clover Access Systems Limited at a warehouse at Acre Mills in Keighley, West Yorkshire, when the incident took place. CCTV footage shows Cranswick falling onto a pallet truck before landi
  
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• Motorway concrete barrier safety drive hits the hard shoulder

  10-06-2026 08:59 via constructionenquirer.com
  Government road safety chiefs have been accused of dragging their heels on plans to replace ageing motorway steel barriers with safer concrete systems.
  Parliamentary answers have revealed National Highways has replaced just 53km of life-expired steel central reserve barrier with concrete between 2020 and 2025.
  That is despite its own 2022 improvement plan identifying around 1,620km of steel barrier needing replacement across the network.
  The Department for Transport mandated in 2005 that stronge
  
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• Sellafield site pay dispute sparks new week-long strike

  10-06-2026 08:27 via constructionenquirer.com
  Construction workers at Sellafield are set to stage a fresh week-long strike after talks over a nuclear site allowance failed to make progress.
  Nearly 2,000 trades workers will walk out from 15-21 June in an escalating dispute over demands for a site-specific payment recognising the specialist skills and hazards involved in working at the UK’s largest nuclear complex.
  Trades planning to take action include electricians, joiners, pipe-fitters, riggers, welders and groundworkers working for
  
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• Portsmouth lines up £120m tower block safety blitz

  10-06-2026 08:22 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Portsmouth City Council has launched a £120m framework to accelerate fire safety and building remediation works across its high-rise housing stock, with up to six contractors set to share a six-year programme.
  The framework will cover several higher-risk residential towers alongside selected medium and low-rise blocks, with the council aiming to appoint contractors by October.
  The programme is valued between £60m and £120m over the maximum six-year term.A distinctive feature of
  
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• McAlpine/Vinci £1.3bn Crewe hospital gets green light

  10-06-2026 08:22 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Plans for the £1.3bn redevelopment of Leighton Hospital in Crewe have gained planning consent, paving the way for one of the first projects in the Government’s New Hospital Programme to move into delivery.
  The hybrid planning application from Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust covers the replacement of the ageing Crewe hospital with a 1.2m sq ft super hospital built largely to the north of the existing estate.
  The scheme was accelerated after reinforced autoclaved aerated co
  
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• Quartet of care home wins for Kori

  10-06-2026 08:07 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Kori Construction has landed four new care home jobs worth a combined £47m.
  Kori will be delivering two schemes each for repeat clients Care UK and Barchester Healthcare.
  Construction set to start this summer on the sites in Burnham, Weybridge, Liss and Crowthorne.The four developments are scheduled for completion from late 2027 and throughout 2028.
  Jordan Connachie, Managing Director at Kori Construction, said: “Securing four new projects with two of the UK’s leading care
  
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