Project Insights
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Aberdeen councillors have approved masterplanning for Balnagask’s future redevelopment programme. Demolition planning and property acquisition are progressing as the council prepares the long-term replacement of homes affected by reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete.
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McLaughlin and Harvey has completed Braintree’s new Community Diagnostic Centre. NHS teams are completing equipment and operational commissioning before the facility begins treating patients in September.
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Plymouth Civic Centre is moving into its main enabling phase. Morgan Sindall is recommended for a £6.49m package covering scaffolding, cladding removal, surveys, asbestos work, and demolition.
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Jones Bros has secured the Carno III civil engineering contract. The £46.5m package covers foundations, grid reinforcement, underground cabling, access works, and highway upgrades for the 45MW Powys wind farm.
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HS2 has launched the first 170 metres of Duddeston viaduct. The 700-metre structure will cross six live railway lines on Birmingham’s approach to Curzon Street Station.
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Preparatory works have started at Eastbourne’s former magistrates’ court site. The council scheme will deliver 30 social-rented flats by autumn 2028.
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Nine Salford residential towers have completed major fire-safety remediation works. The programme replaced cladding and insulation while upgrading compartmentation, alarms, and sprinklers.
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Ainscough used twin heavy cranes to dismantle Sunderland’s telecom mast. Hidden underground chambers forced engineers to revise the planned outrigger positions and crane configuration within the confined former EE site.
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Akela has secured four Scottish housing groundworks packages worth £13.9m. The contracts support 268 private, affordable, and social homes, with works spanning earthworks, drainage, roads, foundations, pumping infrastructure, and flood management.
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Construction has started on Glasgow’s new Stockwell Street Avenue works. The phased scheme will renew roads and pavements, add drainage and landscaping, upgrade signals, and create segregated cycling infrastructure through late 2027.