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McAleer & Rushe plan Belfast student schemes
McAleer & Rushe has unveiled plans for two major student housing schemes delivering 1280 rooms in central Belfast. Planning applications have been submitted to develop an 804-room scheme in a 240,000 sq ft building on...
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Go-ahead for Ipswich medical centre
Local contractor Barnes Construction has been selected to build a new £6m medical centre in Ipswich. The Two Rivers Medical Centre is being built in northeast Ipswich and replaces two surgeries that are merging. The...
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New home registrations keep rising
The number of new homes registered with the National House-Building Council (NHBC) across the UK continues to run ahead of 2014 numbers. There were 12,459 new homes registered with the NHBC in April 2015 which...
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Tyneside housing work for Keepmoat
Housing contractor Keepmoat has secured contracts worth more than £5.8m in the northeast, including a £4.8m contract with South Tyneside Homes. Work will start on the South Tyneside Homes development in June 2015 and will...
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More Bell ADTs for AB2000
Scottish plant hire firm AB2000 has bought a further twelve Bell 30-tonne articulated dump trucks (ADTs). Bell Equipment sales manager Sandy Fairweather and AB2000 general manager Bill Marsh The investment follows on from AB2000’s decision...
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Wellington commits funding to runway extension
Councillors in the New Zealand city of Wellington have given the go-ahead for further work on the proposal to extend the airport runway. A majority of councillors approved the proposal to commit NZ$90m (£42.5m) towards the...
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Saudisation forces 130,000 contractors to close
More than 130,000 Saudi contractors have been forced to close down, with many of them citing targets under the government’s Nitaqat – or Saudisation – programme as the root cause of their demise. The programme...
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