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• McAlpine signs £500m Broadgate dual towers deal

  18-04-2024 12:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Sir Robert McAlpine has today signed the main building contract for a dual high-rise building at Broadgate in London.
  The vast 750,000 sq ft 2 Finsbury Avenue project consists of a large 12-storey podium supporting a 36-storey East Tower and 21-storey West Tower.
  Both buildings will be characterised by triangular patterns combining a solid and glazed sawtooth-shaped façade.
  They will be linked by the podium incorporating publicly accessible spaces green and leisure spaces, with a single-s
  
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• Trio of new products from Altrad RMD Kwikform

  01-05-2024 17:15 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Temporary works specialist Altrad RMD Kwikform (Altrad RMDK) has launched three new products to expand its equipment range and provide a wider choice of solutions for contractors.
  The newly introduced products include the XL Airodek Panel, Multiframe, and the 1950 x 1800mm Ultraguard Barrier & 1.9m Post.
  Airodek is Altrad RMDK’s low-weight, high productivity, simple slab formwork system, suitable for slabs up to 700mm thick. Its quick, safe, and simple assembly process currently enable
  
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• Expanding consultant Stantec swoops for rival Hydrock

  01-05-2024 16:43 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Expanding global engineering consultant Stantec has acquired UK engineering consultant Hydrock.
  The deal expands Stantec’s UK workforce by around a third as 950 staff join from Bristol-headquartered Hydrock.
  Founded in 1995 by Dr Brian McConnell, who now retires, Hydrock operates nationwide from 22 locations providing sustainable solutions for major projects across the public and private sectors.Hydrock brings capabilities in fire safety, energy and sustainability, civil and structural, ME
  
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• Expanding consultant Stantec swoops for Hydrock

  01-05-2024 16:43 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Canadian sustainable design and engineering consultant Stantec has acquired UK consultant Hydrock.
  The deal expands Stantec’s UK workforce by around a third as 950 staff join from Bristol-headquartered Hydrock.
  Founded in 1995 by Dr Brian McConnell, who now retires, Hydrock operates nationwide from 22 locations providing sustainable solutions for major projects across the public and private sectors.Hydrock brings capabilities in fire safety, energy and sustainability, civil and structural,
  
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• National Grid unveils winners for £9bn network upgrade

  01-05-2024 15:02 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  National Grid has confirmed the seven winners of its Accelerated Strategic Transmission Investment (ASTI) projects to connect offshore wind farms to the energy network.
  The firms forming the Great Grid Partnership are:
  Construction partners – Laing O’Rourke, Morgan Sindall Infrastructure, Morrison Energy Services, Murphy and Omexom/Taylor Woodrow
  Design and consenting service partners – AECOM Arup JV and WSPThe ASTI projects form a key part of the £9bn Great Grid Upgrade
  
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• Cumbrian civils firm clinches £40m Sellafield contract

  01-05-2024 09:32 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Workington-based civils and groundworks specialist Stobbarts is the latest local firm to join Sellafield’s Programme and Project Partners.
  Stobbarts has secured a 15-year framework deal, worth up to £40m, which will see the firm support key delivery partner Sir Robert McAlpine on groundworks and concrete.
  Because the work is long-term, Stobbarts can continue its ambitious growth strategy, recruiting more local people and investing in its apprenticeship programme.There are also plans
  
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• Designers named for London 2000-bed student rooms job

  01-05-2024 09:11 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  The London School of Economics and its development partner Bouygues UK have selected designs for a £400m landmark 2000-bed student accommodation scheme in London next to Tate Modern.
  Architects Carmody Groarke and Sheppard Robson’s winning design will see three clustered blocks of 650-students connected at the lower floors and via garden terraces.
  The LSE Bankside Residences Project will be located at the existing Bankside House student accommodation building located behind Tate Mode
  
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• Midgard set for Notting Hill office tower overhaul

  01-05-2024 08:41 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  JRL Group’s main contractor Midgard is in line to deliver the transformation of 1950s-build Newcombe House tower at Notting Hill Gate in London.
  Developer Beltane Asset Management has finally secured clearance from the London Mayor’s office for the local Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea to determine the planning.
  A hoped-for positive decision from the Borough Council would end a 10-year long saga to redevelop the landmark residential site in West London.
  The existing residenti
  
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• Chigwell Group looks at stock market listing

  01-05-2024 08:37 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Essex based contractor the Chigwell Group is considering a stock market float as it continues to expand.
  The Enquirer understands the new build, refurbishment and maintenance specialist is currently exploring a possible listing on the Main Market or AIM after registering as a Public Limited Company.
  Dean Floyd CEO of Chigwell Group said: “Currently we’re exploring our options regarding listing as a Public Limited Company  This step would allow us the flexibility to offer shares
  
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• A57 Mottram Bypass clears final legal challenge

  01-05-2024 08:08 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  National Highways has announced that work can now start on the delayed £170m A57 Mottram Bypass scheme after a series of legal challenges were finally exhausted in the courts.
  Judge Lady Justice Thornton who presided over the Judicial Review on the A57 Link Road scheme considered all the legal challenges and has now handed down her decision confirming that the case against the scheme is now closed.
  This means Balfour Beatty, which secured the £108m contract to deliver the scheme thre
  
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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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