December 2016 News

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Local authority procurement specialist LHC has launched the bid race for its most ambitious framework deal to date. The mega framework covering public works of varying sizes across England and Wales comes with an ambitious potential value of over £6bn. It supersedes a previous arrangement said to be worth £800m which signed up a panel of just 10 firms for England, Wales and Scotland. Firms on the panel include big names like Balfour Beatty, Morgan...

Construction health and safety fines have rocketed by 89 per cent after the introduction of the Health and Safety Executive’s prosecution guideline, data shared exclusively with Construction News has shown. The total value of fines imposed in the construction sector increased to £5.3m in the six months following the introduction of the guideline on 1 February 2016, compared with £2.8m for the same period in 2015, research by global law firm Clyde & Co revealed....

Grade II* listed Insole Court has been a property of great significance since its construction back in 1855, however, like many historic buildings, the Victorian mansion house had fell into disrepair due to the lack of funding to make such expensive improvements. That is until now… As part of a £2.25 million project, construction specialist Andrew Scott Ltd was tasked with the transformation of Insole Court in Llandaff, Cardiff, and after weeks of construction, the...

The name has been proposed by the school’s temporary governing body following suggestions made by children from Angle, Orielton and Stackpole schools. It reflects the fact that the new school will serve a wide area - ‘Penrhyn’ is Welsh for ‘peninsula’. The name will be formally determined by Pembrokeshire County Council’s cabinet at a future date. Construction work on the new school has recently started, and Clr. David Lloyd, cabinet member for education, said: “I’m...

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