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3 weeks ago | 
constructionnews.co.uk | Charlotte Banks
The NASC’s inaugural event featured talks on opportunity, pricing and technology in scaffoldingWalking around Belfast, you won’t see much scaffolding on the buildings. Construction started on only five major buildings in 2024, and many of the city’s grand, ageing edifices have been left to fester. But for one day last November, a city’s worth of access equipment could be found on the inside of Waterfront Hall.
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1 month ago | 
constructionnews.co.uk | Charlotte Banks
The £9bn Lower Thames Crossing road project has been greenlit after two and a half years in limbo. Transport secretary Heidi Alexander today (25 March) granted development consent to the UK’s largest ever road tunnel, which will connect Kent and Essex. The decision was originally due last June but had been pushed back twice.
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1 month ago | 
constructionnews.co.uk | Charlotte Banks
With the government set to announce details on a generation of new towns, CN visits the UK’s only 21st-century ‘garden city’A former police station in north Kent is the best spot to contemplate the most successful new settlement the UK has delivered this century. From their converted office at the top of Castle Hill, those working at the development corporation overseeing Ebbsfleet Garden City have prime views of their handiwork.
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1 month ago | 
constructionnews.co.uk | Charlotte Banks
The government has proposed harsh penalties for manufacturers and distributors of unsafe construction products, including prison time and unlimited fines. Under plans set out yesterday (26 February), it would become a criminal offence for companies or online marketplaces to provide inaccurate production information or fail to comply with an enforcement action.
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1 month ago | 
constructionnews.co.uk | Charlotte Banks
Client: Oldham Council Contract type: JCT 2016 Design & Build, procured through Partnerships Framework Contract value: £67m (£23.5m phase one, £36.4m phase two, £7m phase three) Architect: AEW Structural engineer: JPS Piling: Van Elle Facade: Longworth M&E: Dalkia Ceilings and partitioning: RapidFix Start date: November 2022 Expected completion date: May 2025 Not disturbing the shoppers is just one of the challenges facing Willmott Dixon as it turns the 30-year-old Spindles mall into a...
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2 months ago | 
constructionnews.co.uk | Charlotte Banks
Fewer construction firms entered administration in January than in any month in three-and-a-half years, according to the latest data from Creditsafe. Only 10 firms went under in the first month of 2025. The monthly toll has not dropped so low since June 2021, when seven companies went bust. At the time, Covid support such as the furlough scheme and a moratorium on winding-up petitions was helping keep struggling businesses afloat.
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2 months ago | 
architectsjournal.co.uk | Charlotte Banks |Richard Waite
A Freedom of Information (FOI) request by safety consultancy Project Four revealed that the BSR has approved 11 applications out of 130 since it started assessing schemes in October 2023. But the Health and Safety Executive, which oversees the BSR, later confirmed that nine of those projects approved were ‘in flight’ schemes submitted before the new regime came into force.
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2 months ago | 
constructionnews.co.uk | Charlotte Banks
The Building Safety Regulator (BSR) has revealed it has allowed construction to start on only two out of 130 higher risk building schemes submitted by developers since the start of the new gateway regime. A Freedom of Information (FOI) request by safety consultancy Project Four has revealed that the BSR has approved 11 applications out of 130 since it started assessing schemes in October 2023.
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2 months ago | 
constructionnews.co.uk | Charlotte Banks
Doubt hangs over cladding remediation work on more than 60 buildings after a fire safety consultancy was suspended as an assessor last week by housing quango Homes England. Last week, Homes England suspended Tri Fire from its panel of firms approved to conduct fire risk appraisals of external walls (FRAEWs) for applicants to its cladding remediation fund for medium-rise buildings, the Cladding Safety Scheme (CSS).
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2 months ago | 
constructionnews.co.uk | Charlotte Banks
A senior executive at Atlas Holdings reveals the reason behind the purchase and the future plans for the contractorA greyscale photo of papermaking machinery hangs on the wall of Atlas Holdings’ UK office in the heart of Mayfair. It illustrates the private equity firm’s beginnings – its 2002 purchase of a small paper mill in Indiana, in the Midwestern United States.
