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GMI wins £70m Thorpe Park expansion
Thorpe Park is growing Scarborough Group International (SGI) has secured planning consent from Leeds City Council for the development of a 133,118 sq ft headquarters building in addition to a nearby 60,000 sq ft building that was approved earlier this year. With site preparation now started at Thorpe Park, it has appointed GMI Construction to…
New owners for Wolseley UK
Parent company Ferguson plc said that it could make more money by leaving the UK and focusing on its North American operations. Ferguson was a US plumbing supplier acquired by Britain’s Wolseley in 1982. It proved so successful that the US operations became the major part of the business, to the extent that in 2017…
Keepmoat takes over Barratt share of Newcastle JV
Aerial shot of The Rise The deal paves the way for Keepmoat, the self-styled “busiest private house builder in Newcastle”, to support a further £120m investment by New Tyne West in the project over the next five years. Keepmoat said that it would double construction output, delivering at least 100 homes a year – around…
Builder crushed by plasterboard stack
Brighton Magistrates’ Court heard how builders were moving sheets of plasterboard weighing 32kg each from the ground floor to the second floor of a house undergoing refurbishment. As there was no staircase in place, they were stacking the plasterboard against an unsecured ladder and sliding them up to the floor above. During the process the…
Moda sticks with Sisk for second Birmingham scheme
CGI of the Great Charles Street apartments The redevelopment of the Ludgate Hill car park on Great Charles Street includes 722 apartments for private rent alongside a gym, roof terraces, communal lounges and workspace, as well as a new public realm and space for shops. The build-to-rent (BTR) development consists of blocks ranging in height…
National Infrastructure Strategy: Project Speed
The prime minister wants to speed up the planning and execution of construction projects Project Speed has reviewed the end-to-end delivery process working with experts and applying learnings across a number of case study projects to test and iterate a comprehensive package of reforms, the National Infrastructure Strategy document reveals. On some of these projects,…