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Barratt legacy building costs jump an extra £180m

Volume house builder Barratt has today revealed a further £180m will be needed on top of previous estimates to cope with fire safety and legacy building costs. The firm, which in 2022 set aside £412m to cover remediation costs, has now upped the estimates after completing its review of reinforced concrete frame buildings and finalising

Green light for Canary Wharf office-to-labs job

Development manager LS Estates has got the green light to repurpose an office building in London’s Canary Wharf for life sciences and technology tenants. The 17 Columbus Courtyard project designed by architect Scott Brownrigg  will see the building expanded to provide 250,000 square feet of flexible laboratory and office space spanning nine upper floors. Anticipated

8 Creative Uses for Steel

Steel possesses a remarkable balance of strength, durability, and versatility, making it one of the most commonly used building materials in the modern age. Though we often associate steel with construction and manufacturing, there are plenty of other practical applications of steel in our world that you may not even know about. To showcase the…

Brazilian Steel Producer Grants PAC for Modernization of Welding Machine

Brazilian steel producer Usiminas has recently granted the provisional acceptance certificate (PAC) to Primetals Technologies for the modernization of a welding machine at a steel plant in the city of Ipatinga, in the southeastern part of Brazil. Usiminas was founded in 1956 and produced thick plates, hot strip, cold rolled, electro-galvanized, and hot dip galvanized
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HS2 boss Mark Thurston to step down

Mark Thurston has announced he will be quitting as CEO of HS2 in September after six and a half years  in the job. Thurston will step down from his £620,000-a-year role as the project approaches peak construction. He said: “The next 18-24 months will see the project move into an exciting new stage. I have

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