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Deeley lands work for Warwick researchers
Deeley Construction has won work worth more than £6m to develop research facilities at the University of Warwick. Deeley is working on a £2.8m contract to extend Warwick Medical School’s Mechanochemical Cell Biology Building (MCBB)....
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FMB survey highlights skills gap fears
SME building firms are continuing to see rising workloads but problems with skills shortages and recruitment are just getting worse. The latest workload survey of members of the Federation of Master Builders (FMB), which seeks...
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Drake & Scull wins Kuwait school contract
Drake & Scull International (DSI) has won the mechanical, electrical and plumbing contract for work at a major educational institution in Kuwait. The AED218m (£38m) brings up DSI’s total project awards this year to AED1.57bn. The...
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Persimmon chief gets PM’s ear
Persimmon chief executive Jeff Fairburn has emerged as the construction industry’s most influential lobbyist after being given a place on the prime minister’s business advisory group. Mr Fairburn is one of 19 captains of industry that...
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Damac awards $90m Esclusvia deal to Saudi Binladin
Real estate developer, DAMAC Properties, has announced it has awarded a SAR336m ($89.5m) main construction contract in its Riyadh project DAMAC Esclusiva Luxury Serviced Apartments to Haramain Gate for Construction, a subsidiary of Saudi Binladin group ...
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Tunnel breakthrough on Milan high-speed rail line
The breakthrough took place yesterday for the first tunnel of the new Genoa - Milan high-speed railway in Italy. The Cociv Consortium, led by Salini Impregilo, is responsible for the design and construction of the...
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Home planning permissions top 200,000
Planning permissions for 52,167 homes were granted in England during the first quarter of this year, a 19% increase on the 43,926 permissions in the corresponding quarter last year. This means that the moving annual...
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