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UK Construction Week 3-5 May
3-5 May ExCel London: UK Construction Week returns this year with a focus on sustainable construction. Highlights include:
ZERO Hub: Demonstration combining low embodied-carbon materials with modern construction methods
● Engineering Hub: Day 1: Indoor Air Quality and Vent Hygiene; Day 2: Building and Fire Safety and Competence and Compliance; Day 3: Installing & Regulations around Heat Pumps, Boilers and F-Gas.
Barhale wins £9m Thames water project
Walsall contractor Barhale has won a £9m project from Thames Water to inspect & refurbish 35km of water tunnels in West and North London.
140m3 of Zebra Mussels are expected to be removed, an invasive species which arrived on the hulls of ships from Eastern Europe. They eat plankton which makes the water clear which allows it to be penetrated by sunlight which stimulates the growth of invasive weeds. Zebra Muss
Manchester £1.5bn framework winners announced
Manchester City Council has awarded 8 contractors to its high value framework for projects worth more than £8m with total framework value a massive £1.5bn.
Agency North West Construction Hub appointed 8 companies of 20 bidders over 2 lots, up to £25m and greater than £25m.
It comes into force later in January 2023. It’s the fourth reiteration of the framework.
Lot 1: Bowmer & Kirkland Ltd, Eric Wr
£305m construction framework announced
Procurement company Fusion21 is seeking SMEs and contractors to fulfil a capital works program for public sector organisations in housing, education and healthcare sectors.
The program includes refurbishment and improvement works as well as modular and new build projects.
The deadline to apply is 6 February 2023. View the tender and apply here.
Chelsea FC £1bn stadium expansion
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HS2 cuts carbon with basalt tunnel reinforcement
The London section of HS2 tunnels will use basalt and low carbon concrete instead of steel and conventional concrete. The replacement leads to a reduction in embodied carbon of 50%.
The system was designed by a Skanska Costain Strabag JV. Basalt is volcanic rock. It is 4.5 times lighter than steel and has 22% lower carbon footprint. It doesn’t spark when cut resulting in no hot work and doesn’t rust or c
Mental Health in construction
This week we posted about a senior employee at a large construction firm discussing health and safety in the FT. We shared that on our social channels and then we shared the legal perspective of his statements. The same firm a day before boasted about its massive spend on health and safety.
The facts are suicide is higher in construction than any other sector; two people die from suicide in the construction sector every da
Cement carbon capture
Cement company Hanson has announced a breakthrough in carbon capture research with 100kg of CO2 being bound in a tonne of RCP (recycle concrete paste).
The cement industry is the third largest source of industrial air pollution.
Carbon emissions are a by product of cement production and RCP is a secondary material that can then replace limestone in the production of new cement and concrete.
The trial was carried out at Ribbl
