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Winners named on £360m EN framework

Construction procurement group Efficiency North has awarded contracts to 57 contractors over 50 lots on its new EN Procure Installers framework. The framework has an estimated demand pipeline of £360m over its four-year lifetime.  Initially...

Crossrail tunnelling is now complete

Contractors on the £14.8bn Crossrail project have now finished all tunnelling work under London. Over the past three years Crossrail’s eight tunnel boring machines have excavated six million tonnes of earth, created 42km of running...

New chairman for Ladder Association

“It’s time to bang the drum for the humble ladder,” says the new chairman of the Ladder Association. Martin Brooke, sales director at Nottingham-based Bratts Ladders, is the new chairman of the Ladder Association. He...

Miller gets £1m breaker order from Hewden

Plant hire firm Hewden has placed a £1m order for more than 180 Miller breaker attachments. The Miller breakers are for use with excavators from 1.5-tonne to 22-tonnes and telehandlers up to 17-metre reach. Deliveries...

Traffic commissioner suspends scaffolding firm

Wallsend-based Construction Access (NE) Ltd will not be able to run any of its vehicles until 13th June, following a ruling by the deputy traffic commissioner Miles Dorrington. The transport industry regulator also warned the...

Balfour, O’Rourke and McAlpine share £1bn university campus deal

Balfour Beatty, Laing O’Rourke and Sir Robert McAlpine have been chosen by the University of Manchester for a £1bn capital works framework. The University of Manchester’s campus masterplan is one of the largest in the higher...

Costain Skanska wins £600m A14 contract

Highways England has awarded the first contracts for its £1.5bn scheme to upgrade 25 miles of the A14 between Cambridge and Huntingdon.   Due to the size of the project, it has been broken down into...

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