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• Experts join forces for Sizewell piling works

  17-07-2026 16:42
  
  Three leading specialists have joined forces to deliver the geotechnical works needed for the new Sizewell C nuclear power station.
  Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering (BBGE), VSL Systems (UK) Ltd (VSL), and Bachy Soletanche (BSL) have united to deliver a range of works including piling, soil mixing, diaphragm walls and plastic cut-off walls.
  The trio have combined to form the Geotechnical Sub-Alliance (GSA).The GSA will create a stable and watertight platform capable of supporting the immense loa
  
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• Amey hires HS2 veteran to drive consulting growth

  17-07-2026 09:39
  
  Amey has recruited infrastructure heavyweight Jonathan Goring as executive advisor to help accelerate growth across its consulting business and target new markets at home and overseas.
  Goring brings more than three decades of experience leading major infrastructure and transformation programmes, having held senior roles at Capita, Morgan Sindall, PA Consulting, Mott MacDonald and Systra.He has also worked on flagship programmes including HS2 and Saudi Arabia’s NEOM development.He joins Ame
  
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• Board suspends Alumasc CEO after trading update

  17-07-2026 08:48
  
  Building products supplier Alumasc has suspended chief executive Pamela Bingham pending an investigation into matters relating to professional conduct.
  The board said Bingham, who took up the CEO role just four months ago, had been suspended while a full investigation, supported by professional advisers, is carried out. No further details of the allegations were disclosed.
  Non executive chair Vijay Thakrar has taken over as interim executive chair with immediate effect, supported by the group&rs
  
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• John F Hunt bags £20m enabling works deal at giant data centre

  17-07-2026 08:37
  John F Hunt Regeneration is understood to have landed a £20m enabling and remediation package from CyrusOne for its LON6 hyperscale data centre project in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire.
  The development will form the first phase of a wider campus planned to provide ten data halls.
  John F Hunt is expected to deliver a complex remediation programme involving preparation of the 41-acre site near the M25/M40 interchange through a fast-track 17-week programme, addressing the historic landfill and
  
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• Solihull backs 228-home Habiko mansion block build

  17-07-2026 08:31
  
  Affordable homes developer Habiko has secured planning approval for a 228-home mansion block-inspired scheme in Solihull, marking the partnership’s first development in the West Midlands.
  The affordable housing joint venture between Pension Insurance Corporation, Muse and Homes England will build 228 one and two-bedroom apartments for rent, with rents set at 20% below local market levels.
  The project forms phase two of the wider Holbeche Place masterplan, which will transform Solihull town
  
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• MOD maps out £26bn Project Royal Oak naval bases rebuild

  17-07-2026 08:30
  
  The Ministry of Defence has unveiled details of a £26bn programme to rebuild the UK’s three principal naval bases with a decade of marine civils, dockyard engineering and building work in the biggest naval infrastructure investment since the Cold War.
  The ten-year Project Royal Oak programme will deliver new docks, waterfront infrastructure, engineering facilities, accommodation and operational buildings at HMNB Clyde, HMNB Devonport and HMNB Portsmouth as part of the Government&rsqu
  
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• MOD maps out £26bn Project Royal Oak naval base rebuild

  17-07-2026 08:30
  The Ministry of Defence has unveiled details of a £26bn programme to rebuild the UK’s three principal naval bases with a decade of marine civils, dockyard engineering and building work in the biggest naval infrastructure investment since the Cold War.
  The ten-year Project Royal Oak programme will deliver new docks, waterfront infrastructure, engineering facilities, accommodation and operational buildings at HMNB Clyde, HMNB Devonport and HMNB Portsmouth as part of the Government&rsqu
  
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• Hill go-ahead for London New Era Estate rebuild

  17-07-2026 08:30
  
  Hill Group is set to start work next month on the long-awaited rebuild of Hackney’s New Era Estate after housing charity Dolphin Living secured planning approval for the 208-home regeneration scheme.
  The August start follows Hackney Council’s approval for the Allies & Morrison-designed redevelopment, which will replace the ageing 1930s private rented estate with buildings ranging from three to 13 storeys.
  The scheme will deliver 208 one, two and three-bedroom homes, more than dou
  
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