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Premier Forest to reopen Croespenmaen site

Premier Forest Products is to restart operations at its Croespenmaen site, after SDL Sawmills closed. A number of SDL employees will join the company.

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Heidelberg gets Somerset OK for quarry reopening

Seeking to secure limestone supplies, Heidelberg Materials UK has agreed planning conditions with Somerset Council to reopen the 160m tonne Westdown quarry, near Frome.

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Arada's £2.5bn plan for Thameside

Sharing its plans for Thameside West, and a new DLR station, Arada has announced the appointment of Arup, Gensler and Planit to work on the project.

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Rodgers to lead Expanded's geotechnical business

Laing O'Rourke has appointed Clare Rodgers to lead the geotechnical business of its Expanded subsidiary. Rodgers moves to the role from Select, where she was lifting solutions leader.

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Ground engineering trio for Sizewell C

Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering, VSL Systems (UK) Ltd , and Bachy Soletanche will team up to deliver geotechnical works for Sizewell C, including piling, soil mixing, diaphragm walls, and plastic cut-off walls.

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£200m Holborn Circus office ready for redevelopment

Evans Randall Investors has received all needed consents for the £200m WilkinsonEyre-designed redevelopment of Thavies Inn House at Holborn Circus, London, ready for demolition contractor Erith and lead contractor McLaughlin & Harvey to start work.

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Severn Trent to launch £25bn framework pre-engagement

Severn Trent Water is preparing to initiate early engagement with the supply chain for a new generation of capital delivery frameworks, representing up to £25bn of investment over the next 8–15 years across the Midlands.

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Bristol and Bath wins for Red Group

Red South West, part of Red Group, will deliver the Buckley Gray Yeoman-designed Portwall Place, Bristol, for BlackRock and LS Estates, worth more than £34m, as well as Buro Happold's £8m new headquarters at Pinesgate West, in Bath, for WPV Developments,...

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Consent for Smithfield offices

Railpen, the Railways Pension Scheme, has secured planning consent for 12 Smithfield, part of the Museum of London-anchored transformation of the City's former meat market.