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• RAAC expert takes chief construction adviser role

  06-10-2026 15:59 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A leading engineer who helped tackle Britain’s RAAC crisis has landed the Government’s top construction advisory job.
  Professor Sergio Cavalaro has been handed a three-year brief as chief construction and scientific adviser to help sharpen building safety regulation and raise standards across the industry.
  The Loughborough University professor will join the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government full time.He takes over from interim chief construction adviser Thouria Is
  
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• Construction output falls at slowest rate since January

  06-10-2026 11:09 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Construction buyers have seen the slowest downturn in industry output for eight months.
  The bellwether S&P Global UK Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index recorded 46.1 in September – up from 44.3 in August but still below the 50 growth mark.
  Slower rates of contraction were seen in all the residential, commercial and civil engineering segments.
  Commercial construction (index at 48.5) saw the greatest resilience, with business activity falling only marginally and at the weakest
  
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• Kier to return to stalled £3bn Harlow health campus

  06-10-2026 08:58 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Kier is lined up to return to the high-containment laboratory project at Harlow’s £3bn UK Health Security Campus as officials revive procurement after years of reviews and delays.
  A fresh Government business case for the mega campus build sets out plans to reinstate Kier’s pre-construction services agreement for the specialist and technically complex H50 building.
  For the wider main campus build, the Government will now launch a fresh separate two-stage tender, expected in Nove
  
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• Court case begins after passer-by killed by falling bricks

  06-10-2026 08:27 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A trial began at the Old Bailey yesterday following the death of a woman killed by two tonnes of falling bricks from a crane on an east London construction site.
  Michaela Boor, 29, died after being struck by falling bricks as she walked on the pavement past a building site on the corner of Burdett Road in Bow, east London, on 27 March 2018.
  Higgins Homes has been charged with corporate manslaughter and a Health and Safety at Work Act offence.Site manager Thomas Anstis, 69, lifting  plan sup
  
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• Tier 1 tender rises cool but specialist trades costs hold firm

  06-10-2026 08:25 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Tender price inflation is losing steam as contractors sharpen bids to fill workloads, but bottlenecks in key trades are stopping clients reaping the full benefit.
  Cost consultant Gardiner + Theobald has trimmed its 2026 tender price inflation forecast to 3.25% from 3.5% in its Autumn Market Update.
  London’s forecast falls to 3.5% from 3.75%, with the South East, South West and East Anglia also seeing quarter-point cuts. Forecasts for the remaining regions are unchanged.G&T said the mar
  
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