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• Competition concern about circular ducting in Midlands

  23-08-2024 09:31 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The merger last year between duct suppliers Lindab and Birmingham-based HAS-Vent has raised competition concerns for commercial and industrial projects around Nottingham and Stoke-on-Trent.
  An in-depth probe by the Competition and Markets Authority warns that in these areas the takeover of  Birmingham-based HAS-Vent by Swedish giant Landab could lead to reduced choice and higher prices in the construction, particularly for specialist installers of ventilation systems in those areas.
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• Graham clinches £286m Manchester student scheme

  16-02-2026 09:16 via constructionenquirer.com
  Contractor Graham has sealed the job to redevelop Cambridge Halls student campus for Manchester Metropolitan University.
  The £286m project to create over 2,300 new student bedrooms is being delivered through a joint venture between the University and Unite Students.
  The project includes the demolition of the existing 1990s-era accommodation and the construction of two new multi-storey buildings rising to 30 storey’s across two phases, providing a mix of cluster apartments and studios
  
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• Chippenham £50m town centre reset go-ahead

  16-02-2026 09:05 via constructionenquirer.com
  Developer Acorn Property Group has secured planning approval to redevelop Chippenham’s ageing Emery Gate Shopping Centre with a £50 mixed-use riverside quarter of 225 homes.
  The scheme, branded Chippenham Riverside and designed by HNW Architects, will strip out the inward-facing mall and replace it with a network of streets and public squares to reconnect the High Street to Island Park and the River Avon.
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  The approved masterplan will also deliver around 4,0
  
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• Green light for Italian plaster factory in Derbyshire

  16-02-2026 08:47 via constructionenquirer.com
  The planning green light has been given for an Italian materials giant to build a major factory near Ilkeston in Derbyshire.
  Erewash Borough Council has approved plans by Fassa Bortolo to house its new UK headquarters at the site of the old Stanton Ironworks.
  Fassa Bortolo specialises in pre-mix renders and plasters and its new plant will cover 170,000 square feet at the New Stanton Park.Erewash’s leader Cllr James Dawson said: “It’s about more than just construction &ndas
  
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• Contractors wanted for £75m coastal civils deal

  16-02-2026 08:28 via constructionenquirer.com
  Portsmouth City Council will this month start market engagement on a new £75m coastal and flood works framework spanning the south coast.
  The council is acting as host authority on behalf of the Southern Coastal Group and SCOPAC, consisting of a dozen south coast local authorities.
  The six-year framework deal worth around £75m is due to come into force in December 2026, and replace the current 2022–2026 Minor Works Framework.Four contractors will be appointed to a primary tier
  
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• MTX signs deal for health campus near Cardiff

  16-02-2026 08:26 via constructionenquirer.com
  Offsite specialist MTX Contracts Ltd has signed a Pre-Construction Services Agreement to deliver Phase 1 of a new healthcare campus for South East Wales in Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taf.
  The scheme will transform the former British Airways Avionics Engineering site near Cardiff into a state-of-the-art healthcare campus, delivering a c.17,300m² new build development across three buildings with supporting infrastructure to create a Community Diagnostics Hub and Treatment Centre.
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• HBC breaks ground on £24m Sheffield co-living scheme

  16-02-2026 08:08 via constructionenquirer.com
  Construction has begun on a £24m co-living development in Kelham Island set to become Sheffield’s largest purpose-built scheme of its kind in the city.
  Developer Grantside has appointed HBC Construction as main contractor, with EDGE acting as employer’s agent and project manager.
  Designed by Cartwright Pickard, with Arup as structural engineer and Hoare Lea on MEP, the scheme will deliver 100 studio flats and shared amenities including a gym, yoga studio, co-working hub and roo
  
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• Gateway 3 delays leave thousands of homes empty

  16-02-2026 00:04 via constructionenquirer.com
  Thousands of completed flats are still sitting empty as developers face continued delays at the final Gateway 3 stage of the building safety approval process.
  New FOI data obtained by legal firm Irwin Mitchell revealed 44 schemes remain undecided more than three months after submission, with the longest case waiting 550 days for approval.
  Across these delayed schemes, 5,594 completed units are currently unoccupied, despite being ready for residents.Under the building safety regime for higherR
  
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• Plans ramp-up for Wythenshawe £500m town centre revamp

  13-02-2026 09:14 via constructionenquirer.com
  Muse has submitted plans for a new food hall as the latest addition to its £500m transformation of Wythenshawe town centre.
  The new food hall is part of wider plans to regenerate Wythenshawe Civic shopping centre in Manchester.
  They include construction of a new £32m Culture Hub being built by Kier.Joel Chandler, senior development manager at Muse, said: “We’re moving at pace with our plans to give the town centre the regeneration it deserves.
  “The food hall will be
  
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• Cheshire M&E specialist Gilks files administration notice

  13-02-2026 09:03 via constructionenquirer.com
  Cheshire mechanical and electrical engineering contractor Gilks (Nantwich) has filed a notice of intention to appoint administrators.
  Established over 60 years ago, the firm employs around 60 staff and last year delivered revenue of around £11m, down from £15m in the prior year.
  Staff were first told the business was heading for administration on Monday but by Wednesday the said they were informed that the company would be liquidated and they would no longer have jobs.One insider sai
  
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• Jackson wins race for £22m East Sussex bridge

  13-02-2026 08:54 via constructionenquirer.com
  Jackson Civil Engineering Group has been confirmed winner of a three-way race to build the new £21.7m Exceat Bridge in East Sussex.
  The firm beat-off competition from rivals Costain and Volker and was confirmed main contractor by East Sussex County Council this work.
  Jackson will now finalise a construction timetable with the council and main works are expected to start later this year.Cllr Claire Dowling said: “With the bridge sitting in the middle of the South Downs National Park,
  
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• Kier set to bag £35m Bristol station car park job

  13-02-2026 08:10 via constructionenquirer.com
  Kier Construction is poised to seal a £35m deal to deliver a landmark seven-storey multi-storey car park and standalone cycle hub at Bristol Temple Meads.
  The contractor beat off competition from Vinci, GMI Construction, Goldbeck Construction and Huber Parking UK for the Southern Gateway scheme.
  Contract signature is expected at the end of the month following completion of the standstill period.The project is a critical enabling package within the Temple Quarter masterplan and will shift r
  
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• Leeds £1bn Eastgate Quarter vision moves up a gear

  12-02-2026 17:24 via constructionenquirer.com
  Leeds’ £1bn Eastgate Quarter has shifted up a gear after the developer JV appointed its consultant line-up to crack on with the city’s last big inner-core regeneration site.
  Leeds-based Khalbros and Torsion Group JV has appointed the professional team to shape the four-hectare mixed-use scheme stretching from Vicar Lane to Bridge Street and up to the A64(M).
  The long-neglected patch of surface car parks and tired plots is earmarked for a dense new neighbourhood of homes, worksp
  
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• Severfield facing strike action next week

  12-02-2026 16:24 via constructionenquirer.com
  More than 100 workers are set to strike next week at the UK’s largest structural steelwork contractor Severfield.
  Welders, platers and machine operators at the Lostock factory in Bolton will walk out after not being offered a pay rise by the firm which posted losses in its latest results.
  More than 90% of GMB members voted in favour of strike action after an overtime ban this week.Industrial action will start with one full day of strike action on Monday 16 February, followed by two full da
  
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• Construction grew 1.8% last year despite sharp Q4 fall

  12-02-2026 09:19 via constructionenquirer.com
  Construction firms ended 2025 in growth territory despite a poor final quarter that saw output fall sharply in the final months
  Latest data from the Office for National Statistics shows total construction output rose 1.8% in 2025 compared with 2024 — the fifth consecutive year of annual expansion.
  But momentum faded sharply in the final three months of the year, according to official figures published this morning.Total output fell 2.1% in Quarter 4 (October to December) compared with Quar
  
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• Firms fined after two killed when MEWP overturns

  12-02-2026 08:57 via constructionenquirer.com
  Two companies have been fined following an incident which resulted in the deaths of two workers in West Yorkshire.
  Lee Horton, 58, and Daron Pickstock, 43, were killed when an industrial warehouse racking system collapsed as it was being tested at Castefields Industrial Estate in Bingley on 29 October 2020.
  The racking was being tested at a site belonging to Space Productiv Ltd, of which Horton, from Ilkley, was the managing director. Pickstock, who was from Chorley, was self-employed and workin
  
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• Salford set for record £525m wastewater reset

  12-02-2026 08:48 via constructionenquirer.com
  Costain, Jacobs, Murphy, MWH, Mott MacDonald Bentley and VolkerStevin are gearing up to deliver the biggest ever overhaul of Salford’s sewer network under United Utilities’ new AMP8 enterprise model.
  The integrated team will spearhead a £525m programme to modernise wastewater assets across the city over the next five years – slashing storm overflows, boosting resilience and tightening environmental performance.
  At the heart of the push are two flagship treatment works upg
  
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• Morgan Sindall eyes bumper 2026 on record workload

  12-02-2026 08:46 via constructionenquirer.com
  Morgan Sindall has lined up another profit upgrade after its high-flying Fit Out arm roared into 2026 ahead of plan.
  The group said trading momentum has accelerated since the turn of the year, putting 2026 on course to beat previous expectations.
  A 17% jump in secured order book and preferred bidder work to £19.1bn has given the contractor its strongest ever opening position for a new financial year.In a trading update ahead of releasing 2025 full-year results due in a fortnight, the firm
  
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• Funding agreed for £220m Paddington overstation job

  12-02-2026 08:31 via constructionenquirer.com
  The joint venture between Helical and TfL’s property company Places for London has agreed a £220m development financing facility with PIMCO Prime Real Estate for the Paddington Over Station Development.
  The deal will allow main construction to start on the Grimshaw designed scheme which will see 235,000 sq ft new‑build office development positioned directly above the northern entrance to Paddington station overlooking the Grand Union Canal.
  Enabling works started last June
  
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• Hill bags £45m Kent high-rise flats job

  12-02-2026 08:25 via constructionenquirer.com
  Hill Partnerships has landed a £45m deal to build 103 flats for Maidstone Borough Council on the former Springfield Library site in the Kent town.
  The firm beat rival bids from Higgins and Lovell to secure the two-block scheme, which includes  a 10-storey tower.
  The contract runs from an anticipated start date of 6 March 2026 through to 1 December 2029.Approved plans comprise 43% one-bed flats, 47% two-beds and 11% three-beds. The development also includes 68 basement parking spaces a
  
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• Willmott Dixon gets start date for £43m Kent leisure job

  12-02-2026 08:09 via constructionenquirer.com
  Willmott Dixon will move on site this spring to start demolition works for Gravesend’s long-awaited new Cascades Leisure Centre.
  The £43m project will feature a 25m main pool, 17m learner pool, aqua play and flume, spectator seating, a six-court sports hall, multi-level soft play, party and community rooms and a café.
  Willmott Dixon was named construction partner last September under a direct award via the Pagabo framework, initially taking the scheme through pre-construction.
  
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• Barratt Redrow £1bn safety upgrade works shift up a gear

  11-02-2026 09:20 via constructionenquirer.com
  Barratt Redrow has stepped up remediation works across its building safety and concrete frame legacy portfolio, with more than £1bn of costs set to flow over the next four years.
  The house builder said this morning it is pressing ahead at pace, shifting decisively from investigation to delivery.
  Its building safety provision fell to £829m at the half year after £73m was spent on remediation in the six months to December. Crucially, no new issues emerged that required an uplift
  
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• Two arrested after 999 construction fly-tipping call

  11-02-2026 08:42 via constructionenquirer.com
  Two men have been arrested after construction waste was dumped in a field near Romford.
  Essex Police responded to a 999 call after waste was left on private land close to the M25’s junction with the M11, in the village of Stapleford Tawney.
  Officers swooped on the field on last week arresting a 55-year-old from Horley in Surrey, and a 25-year-old from Mullaghbawn in County Armagh.They were taken to a police station and questioned by officers on behalf of the Environment Agency, which is le
  
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• Green light for Liverpool Street Station revamp

  11-02-2026 08:39 via constructionenquirer.com
  The City of London Corporation has approved plans for a major redevelopment of Liverpool Street Station.
  The proposals will deliver a state-of-the-art, fully accessible station, alongside new commercial, cultural and public spaces.
  Policy Chairman of the City of London Corporation, Chris Hayward, said: “This redevelopment of Liverpool Street station is a major step forward for the Square Mile.“It will support the City’s dynamic business ecosystem with state-of-the-art infrastru
  
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• D-Day for £37bn NHS hospital framework

  11-02-2026 08:34 via constructionenquirer.com
  Contractors are expecting a decision shortly on the winners for the £37bn Hospital 2.0 Alliance framework.
  The deal will deliver the new hospital building programme over the next 12 years.
  The Enquirer understands that contractors are expecting a decision this month.One said: “A lot of people have been on tenterhooks over this since the start of the year but it looks like a decision is imminent.”
  The bid race opened 12 months ago and last summer a shortlist of 16 firms was anno
  
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• Severfield hires ex-ISG finance chief to steer turnaround

  11-02-2026 08:19 via constructionenquirer.com
  Severfield has appointed former ISG finance boss Andrew Page as chief financial officer and executive director in a key boardroom move as it pushes ahead with its transformation plan.
  Page joins the steelwork specialist next week, succeeding interim finance chief Jan Bramall, who has held the role since 1 November 2025.
  The board ran a full external search before landing on Page, who most recently served as interim chief financial officer at ISG.He brings heavyweight listed company experience, h
  
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• Barhale secures hat-trick of Thames Water sewer schemes

  10-02-2026 10:22 via constructionenquirer.com
  Barhale has landed a hat-trick of development-driven sewer upgrade scheme for Thames Water at Brent Cross, Basingstoke and Benson.
  The civils specialist has secured the trio of jobs under Thames Water’s £200m-plus AMP8 Major Projects framework for Developer Services and Infrastructure Programmes.
  The framework targets complex infrastructure needed to unlock development, covering diversions, requisitions and lateral drainage tied to third-party schemes.At Brent Cross, adjacent to the
  
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• Subcontractors wanted across the Midlands

  10-02-2026 09:09 via constructionenquirer.com
  Subcontractors and suppliers can find work opportunities across the Midlands at the latest event hosted by Constructionline.
  Its latest Marketplace Live will be held in Birmingham on Thursday 26 February at Villa Park.
  The regional networking event features several of the UK’s leading contractors, public-sector authorities and other organisations.Exhibitors will include Seddon Construction, United Infrastructure and Wates Construction.
  Registration for Marketplace Live is open to paid memb
  
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• Muse go-ahead for 1,600-home Solihull town centre reset

  10-02-2026 08:45 via constructionenquirer.com
  Muse has secured the planning green light for a wholesale remake of Mell Square in Solihull town centre, paving the way for a 10-year, 1,600-home regeneration anchored by new retail, leisure and public realm.
  The Solihull Council-approved scheme will be taken forward by Muse under a new name – Holbeche Place – marking the start of a full-scale reset for the ageing mid-20th-century shopping precinct.
  Alongside new homes spanning build-to-rent and affordable tenures, the plans include
  
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• JRL lands £68m North London housing tower job

  10-02-2026 08:44 via constructionenquirer.com
  JRL Group has landed a £68m contract to build a 30-storey housing block in North London after Clarion Housing Group stepped in to rescue a long-stalled development.
  A different tower project at the Argenta House site in Stonebridge Park was originally started by Henry Construction Projects. This ground to a halt during foundation works when the contractor fell into administration in June 2023, leaving the site dormant.
  Since then, Clarion Housing Group, through its Latimer development arm
  
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