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• Delancey submits £400m King’s Cross lab plans

  17-04-2024 17:20 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Developer Delancey has submitted plans to build 200,000 sq ft of research and laboratory space overflying railway tunnels close to the surface on a brownfield site near London’s King’s Cross station.
  Situated in the growing Knowledge Quarter and Innovation District, the constrained site is located next to the disused York Road underground station,
  The innovative design for 176-178 York Way was drawn up by architect Kohn Pedersen Fox with structural engineer Arup to avoid loads on thr
  
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• 100 jobs axed as Geoffrey Osborne confirms administration

  30-04-2024 14:51 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The board of contractor Geoffrey Osborne lost their long fight to save the business today calling in administrators.
  Insolvency specialists from RSM laid off 100 staff immediately, keeping on a handful to help with talks to sell parts of the business to the trade.
  All staff have been paid until the end of April and consultations with people being made redundant have been carried out in recent days.Today’s announcement follows an 18-month battle to save the firm which saw much of the origi
  
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• £117m-turnover contractor files administration notice

  30-04-2024 09:16 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Hertfordshire based contractor ARJ Construction has filed a notice of intention to appoint an administrator.
  The Stevenage based firm has been in business since 1991 and specialises in projects from £10m to £60m across the South East in the residential, healthcare, education and commercial sectors.
  Latest results for the year to April 30 2023 show a turnover of £117m generating a pre-tax profit of £2.8m while the company employed 136 staff during the period.The firm&rsquo
  
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• Fortem extends homes repair deal across Birmingham

  30-04-2024 09:01 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Fortem has extended its long-term partnership with Birmingham City Council (BCC) with a new two-year homes repair contract worth £170m.
  The latest deal will extend Fortem’s relationship with the council to 18 years after it was first appointed to deliver these services back in 2008.
  The Willmott Dixon owned firm operates a ‘one stop shop’ for the council’s property repair needs to over 20,000 properties. It also carries out planned installations such as new kitchens
  
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• Green light for 34-storey Digbeth apartments tower

  30-04-2024 08:41 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The development arm of Clarion Housing has got the planning green light for a £100m high-rise homes scheme in Digbeth, Birmingham.
  Latimer plans to deliver 480 flats in a part 34 and part 10-floor scheme bounded by Clyde Street and the High Street and is now looking for a contractor to deliver the scheme, which is presently in planning.
  High-rise will be built on Digbeth High StreetThe site is home to a former Safestore industrial facility and surrounding hard-standing car parking.Regenera
  
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• £1bn London Blackfriars tower blocks approved

  30-04-2024 08:31 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A US-Korean development consortium has got the planning green light for a trio of towers at the southern end of Blackfriars Bridge in London.
  The landmark £1bn scheme of around 1m sq ft involves building two residential towers of 40 and 22 storeys and an office building reaching 45 storeys and topping out at nearly 200m.
  Developer Hines, alongside the National Pension Service of Korea, bought the 18 Blackfriars Road site for £208m in 2021.The approval, which was secured working with
  
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• Council decides to end Balfour deal after 13 years

  30-04-2024 08:24 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Herefordshire Council has decided to part ways with Balfour Beatty Living Places (BBLP) on a long running highways and maintenance deal across the county.
  Balfour has been maintaining roads and open spaces for the council since 2013 when it signed a ten-year deal worth £200m employing 150 staff.
  Last December it was awarded a £54m two-year extension to the Herefordshire Public Realm contract.But the council has now decided the deal will end in 2026 “because the current contract
  
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• Six civils clients to switch to low carbon concrete and steel

  29-04-2024 15:49 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Six big infrastructure clients have pledged to switch to lowest carbon-sourced concrete and steel on their projects.
  Anglian Water, Heathrow, The Lower Thames Crossing, National Highways, Northumbrian Water and Sellafield have committed to scale-back use of the biggest contributors to CO₂ emissions – diesel, steel, and concrete.
  They are the first clients to sign up for the Construction Leadership Council’s “Five Client Carbon Commitments” designed to help the indus
  
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• Big civils clients to switch to low-carbon steel and concrete

  29-04-2024 15:49 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Six big infrastructure clients have pledged to switch to lowest carbon-sourced concrete and steel on their projects.
  Anglian Water, Heathrow, The Lower Thames Crossing, National Highways, Northumbrian Water and Sellafield have committed to scale-back use of the biggest contributors to CO₂ emissions – diesel, steel, and concrete.
  They are the first clients to sign up for the Construction Leadership Council’s “Five Client Carbon Commitments” designed to help the indus
  
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• Kier wins £118m civil service Darlington hub

  29-04-2024 12:55 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The Government Property Agency has signed Kier to deliver its civil service office hub at the Darlington Economic Campus.
  Kier has signed a pre-construction deal in readiness to deliver the project, earmarked for Brunswick Street, after the planning application was lodged with Darlington Borough Council last month.
  The Hub building would be home to 1,450 civil servants and represents a £118m investment into the town.Construction of the building is scheduled to begin ar the end of this year
  
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• Olympian Homes gets go-ahead for Bristol’s tallest building

  29-04-2024 08:50 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Developer Olympian Homes, working closely with Whitbread, has got the thumbs up from planners for what will be Bristol’s tallest building.
  The project, designed by architect Hodder+Partners, will redevelop a 20-storey aging Premier Inn at St James Barton roundabout, in the centre of the city.
  Olympian Homes proposes to transform the site – to be renamed St James Square – with an 18-storey co-living homes project and a 28-storey student rooms building.
  20-storey Premier Inn buil
  
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• ISG gets nod to start £20m Glamorgan school job

  29-04-2024 08:43 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  ISG has finally got the all-clear to start work on a £20m special needs school expansion project for Vale of Glamorgan Council.
  The proposal to expand Ysgol y Deri at Cosmeston, near Penarth. It will create an additional 150 places on a split-site provision.
  Kevin McElroy, Operations Director at ISG, said that indoor spaces for the school would been arranged over two storeys, allowing for the most efficient building shape, while maintaining a compact footprint and as much external space as
  
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• Banned building boss jailed for fraud

  29-04-2024 08:39 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A Cumbrian building boss who pleaded guilty to fraud, disregarding a director disqualification and breaching a bankruptcy order has been jailed.
  Adam Kirkbride was sentenced to four years in prison when he appeared at Newcastle Crown Court.
  Kirkbride, of Keswick, was also further banned as a director until April 2036.The 32-year-old abused his position while acting in the management of a company by siphoning off £60,000 that had been invested by a pensioner into his residential housing dev
  
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• Walker Modular lands £5m bathroom pod contract

  29-04-2024 08:29 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Walker Modular has clinched a £5m contract to supply all the Build-to-Rent steel-framed bathroom pods for the prestigious Loft Lines project in Belfast.
  The latest major win for Walker in its key bathroom pods market will see the specialist work with Graham and Watkin Jones on the Loft Lines project which is due for completion in 2026,
  Shane Walker, Managing Director of Walker Modular, said: “We are thrilled to be selected as the preferred supplier for the Loft Lines project. Our col
  
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• Green light for £500m Newcastle health complex

  29-04-2024 08:17 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Newcastle University and partner Genr8 Kajima Regeneration have secured planning consent for a £500m Health Innovation Neighbourhood masterplan.
  Construction will transform a former 29-acre general hospital site into a new neighbourhood combining housing alongside modern healthcare, education and community facilities.
  Specialist ageing research will develop advanced infrastructure to support housing solutions that promote longer, healthier lives.The masterplan includes 350,000 sq ft of res
  
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• LHC starts race for major retrofit and decarb framework

  29-04-2024 08:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Local authority procurement specialist LHC has fired the starting gun on bidding for a new framework to support the retrofit and decarbonisation of the UK’s 6.1m social homes and public sector buildings.
  It is consultants consultants and specialists contractors in energy efficiency, heating and ventilation, renewables, electric vehicles and solar PV.
  Launching in Autumn 2024, the Retrofit and Decarbonisation (N9) framework is designed to plug into government and energy company schemes incl
  
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• Windows giant Everest crashes into administration

  29-04-2024 08:10 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  One of Britain’s biggest windows and doors suppliers Everest has crashed into administration putting around 350 jobs at risk
  Administrators from ReSolve were appointed on Friday to handle the Everest 2020 Ltd business and will try to find a buyer to salvage all or parts of the operation.
  The specialist double glazing company was acquired by British venture capitalist Jon Moulton’s investment firm Better Capital over a decade ago after it then required a restructuring.Later the Covid-
  
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• Robertson to deliver £45m Newcastle NHS Trust works

  26-04-2024 09:14 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Robertson Construction North East has clinched a deal to deliver a three-year capital works programme for The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
  The £45m programme of capital projects will predominantly take place at the  and the Royal Victoria Infirmary sites.
  Projects include theatre and ward refurbishment programmes, clinical improvements, public facing refurbishments and critical infrastructure/backlog maintenance upgrades.Neil Kennedy, commercial director, Robert
  
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• Osborne staff start looking for new jobs

  26-04-2024 09:09 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Staff at Osborne have started looking for new jobs.
  Workers at the stricken contractor have taken to LinkedIn looking for new roles following events at the firm.
  Main business Geoffrey Osborne filed a notice of intention to appoint an administrator last week with other group companies following suit shortly afterwards.Osborne said it is currently in talks with interested parties “with the ambition that aspects of the business will be sold and will continue to trade.”
  But yesterday gr
  
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• Tide gets go-ahead for London 412 student flats scheme

  26-04-2024 08:53 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Volumetric developer Tide has secured a resolution to grant planning permission for a 412 student rooms scheme in West Ealing, London.
  The Hastings Road scheme will transform the underutilised retail site into a mixed-use development with student rooms, communal and commercial spaces.
  The project will be delivered using Tide’s precision-manufacturing volumetric units, which help to reduce construction programmes by up to 50% while also cutting embodied carbon.The volumetric units are built
  
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• Green light for £75m Friar Gate Goods Yard in Derby

  26-04-2024 08:35 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Derby City Council approved plans yesterday for Wavensmere Homes and Clowes Developments’ £75m redevelopment of the city’s historic Friar Gate Goods Yard.
  Construction is now scheduled to start this summer to transform two landmark Grade II listed buildings into over 110,000 sq ft of commercial space alongside 276 new build homes.
  Restoration of the 19th Century Bonded Warehouse and Engine House will deliver a total of 111,275 sq ft of flexible offices, health and fitness space
  
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• Ventilation deal could hike product prices for contractors

  26-04-2024 08:22 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Officials at the Competition and Markets Authority are warning that contractors could face price rises for ventilation products.
  The watchdog has completed an initial Phase 1 investigation after Lindab International AB’s purchase last October of HAS-Vent Holdings Limited raised competition concerns in relation to the supply of circular ducts and fittings.
  Lindab is a ventilation company primarily active in the UK through subsidiaries Lindab Limited and Ductmann Limited which both manufactu
  
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• Winners named for £2bn Healthy Homes framework

  26-04-2024 08:14 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Midlands and southern housing procurement group, Central Housing Investment Consortium, has named the consultant and contractors to have secured places on its £2bn retrofit and building safety works framework for social homes.
  The Healthy Homes Framework is intended to help deliver net zero and building safety targets for the sector.
  It will provide the social housing sector with consultancy services, fabric first measures, ventilation systems, renewable energy and heat systems, house refu
  
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• Plan rejected for 42-storey tower above historic building

  26-04-2024 08:13 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Councillors in Birmingham have unanimously rejected plans to build a 42-storey skyscraper on top of a Grade-II listed former hospital.
  The proposal for the city centre site involved building 300 flats directly above the Grade II-listed former Royal Orthopaedic Hospital building in 80 Broad Street.
  At a planning committee meeting yesterday Conservative councillor Gareth Moore branded the scheme as ludicrous.He said: “This is utterly bonkers. The idea you can stick a 42-storey tower blo
  
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• Plan lodged for tallest skyscraper outside London

  25-04-2024 09:20 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Developer Salboy has lodged plans for a dominating residential skyscraper in central Manchester that would be the tallest outside of London.
  The next phase of its Viadux scheme off Great Bridgewater Street will now see construction of two residential towers of 76 and 23 storeys containing a total of 915 apartments.
  Architect simpsonhaugh supported by M&E consultant Ridge and structural engineer Renaissance have designed the scheme.
  The distinctive tower facade has been profiled to reduce win
  
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• Curo starts £170m race for new homes framework

  25-04-2024 09:19 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Bath-based housing association Curo is on the hunt for contractors to deliver an estimated £170m house building programme over the next four years.
  Curo manages close to 14,000 homes for more than 25,000 people across the West of England.
  It plans to build between 250 and 300 new social homes every year over the next five years and deliver between 100 and 200 private market sales annually.The housing association is planing to set up a panel of preferred contractors and developers to call o
  
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• Adrian Bloor targets 1,000 homes-a-year

  25-04-2024 08:59 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  HarperCrewe – a UK challenger housebuilder led by experienced industry operator Adrian Bloor –is targeting construction of 1,000 homes a year after receiving an investment boost.
  The firm has confirmed a significant strategic investment from funders TPG Angelo Gordon and Ridgeback Group who have previously acquired nine UK build-to-rent assets worth £800.
  HarperCrewe was founded by Adrian Bloor – former CEO of the largest privately-owned housebuilder in the UK, Bloor Home
  
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• Gove approves major Cambridge North mixed-use scheme

  25-04-2024 08:56 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Housing and levelling up secretary Michael Gove has overruled local planners to give the go-ahead to build 425 flats along with five commercial buildings near Cambridge North station.
  The decision to call in the scheme followed South Cambridgeshire District Council’s rejection of Chesterton Partnership’s plan for the mixed-use development on the 17-hectare former railway sidings site.
  The development partnership, involving Network Rail, DB Cargo and Brookgate, used architects Acme an
  
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• Gove approves controversial Cambridge North mixed-use scheme

  25-04-2024 08:56 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Homes and levelling up secretary Michael Gove has overruled local planners to give the go-ahead for plans to build 425 flats along with five commercial buildings for life sciences and tech labs and offices near Cambridge North station.
  The decision to call in the scheme followed South Cambridgeshire District Council’s rejection of Chesterton Partnership’s plan for the mixed-use development on the 17-hectare former railway sidings site.
  The development partnership, involving Network R
  
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• Pontins holiday park to house Sizewell C builders

  25-04-2024 08:43 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  A Pontins holiday park has been earmarked for transformation into accommodation for 500 construction workers building the Sizewell C nuclear power station.
  Plans have been agreed between Sizewell C and Pontins Pakefield near Lowestoft, Suffolk as preparations continue to start the £20bn power project.
  A company spokesperson told the BBC: “At peak construction, Sizewell C will require a workforce of 7,900 people with at least a third coming from the local area.“Those workers liv
  
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