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EOM fined £30,000 FOR ILLEGAL TIPPING
EOM Construction has been fined a total of £30,000 and ordered to pay £797 costs by Burnley magistrates for illegally depositing, keeping and disposing of controlled waste on sites in Burnley and Colne in Lancashire. Magistrates heard that between February and July 1997, EOM had tipped 525 lorryloads of waste, equal to 7,830 tonnes, at a quarry in Colne that did not have a waste management licence. EOM paid £25,500 to the quarry owner and was said to have saved up to £180,000 by the illegal tipping operation.
MILLER IN BID TALKS
Miller is in discussions with City Site Estates with a view to making a bid for the Scottish property company. Based in Glasgow, it has a market capitalisation of £5.5 million. Miller says that if it decides to bid it will be at a 35 per cent premium to a counter offer already tabled by Woodvale Estates.
RUGBY SHEDS 400 JOBS
Rugby Group is to axe 400 jobs and close two of its joinery factories at Gloucester and Doncaster. The move is part of a rationalisation process that began after acquiring the Boulton and Paul joinery business in February. Rugby already owned window and door manufacturer John Carr. Joinery manufacturing will now be concentrated at a plant in Sheffield.
MARLEY WELCOMES ETEX MOVE
Marley, the building products group, staved off a £270 million all-share bid from John Mansfield, a small loss-making timber company, by welcoming a £365 million cash offer from Etex of Belgium. Privately owned, Marley's white knight has an annual turnover of £1.3 billion.
SHIMIZU WINS DAIRY CREST JOB
Shimizu (UK) has won a £15 million contract to design and build the new chilled distribution centre at Bermuda Park, Nuneaton for Dairy Crest. The 27,000m2 development will be feature a 30m-high, 8,600m2 bay storage area with maturation store. The remaining two-storey area comprises reception, despatch and offices.
SPRING START FOR £52M HOTEL
Marylebone Warwick Balfour Group has secured planning and listed building consent for the £52 million redevelopment of a Grade II listed building on Pall Mall in London into a luxury 189-bedroom hotel. MWB will undertake the redevelopment on a turnkey basis for French hotel group, Accor, which will run the future Sofitel hotel. Work is expected to start in late spring 1999.
£14.5 wessex water job GLEESON
MJ Gleeson Group has won a £14.5 million project to substantially upgrade Bristol Wastewater Treatment Works for Wessex Water. The works at Avonmouth will include construction of the biggest sequence batch reactor of its kind in the UK.
Kier scotland to build Virgin megaplex
Kier Scotland has been awarded a £9 million contract to design and build a Virgin Megaplex cinema on the site of the former Apollo/Greens Playhouse in Glasgow for E&J Glasgow Ltd. Eighteen screens will be built over nine levels with basement and ground floors accommodating a variety of food and bar outlets.
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Amec Tunnelling has secured a £7 million design and build contract from North West Water to provide a combined storage and transfer tunnel with associated works on Walney Island. The contract involves 1.5km of 2.85m internal diameter tunnel, two branch connections, a new pumping station and four major shafts.
Haden Young, Balfour Beatty's M&E arm, has won £26 million worth of contracts including a £7.6 million contract for Bristol and West Building Society's new headquarters in Bristol, a £7.8 million contract for the M&E services at the new Children's Hospital in Bristol and a £5 million
Biwater has won a £6.1 million contract for the design and construction of the new Woodmansterne water treatment works for Sutton & East Surrey Water.
Wates has won a £6 million project to build a new factory for Plastek UK in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. The 12,880m2 factory is due for completion in April 1999.
Cornerstone, an American subsidiary of Hanson, has acquired San Diego-based aggregates producer Nelson & Sloan for £23 million. Following the acquisition, Hanson will become the largest aggregates and ready-mix concrete supplier in the area.
Taylor Woodrow has sold its windfarm subsidiary First Windfarm Holdings for £5 million. Taywood will continue to focus on core competencies, said a spokesman. First Windfarm owns two sites in Wales and one in Cornwall. The three windfarms have a total capacity of 20 MW.
EOM Construction has been fined a total of £30,000 and ordered to pay £797 costs by Burnley magistrates for illegally depositing, keeping and disposing of controlled waste on sites in Burnley and Colne in Lancashire. Magistrates heard that between February and July 1997, EOM had tipped 525 lorryloads of waste, equal to 7,830 tonnes, at a quarry in Colne that did not have a waste management licence. EOM paid £25,500 to the quarry owner and was said to have saved up to £180,000 by the illegal tipping operation.
MILLER IN BID TALKS
Miller is in discussions with City Site Estates with a view to making a bid for the Scottish property company. Based in Glasgow, it has a market capitalisation of £5.5 million. Miller says that if it decides to bid it will be at a 35 per cent premium to a counter offer already tabled by Woodvale Estates.
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RUGBY SHEDS 400 JOBS
Rugby Group is to axe 400 jobs and close two of its joinery factories at Gloucester and Doncaster. The move is part of a rationalisation process that began after acquiring the Boulton and Paul joinery business in February. Rugby already owned window and door manufacturer John Carr. Joinery manufacturing will now be concentrated at a plant in Sheffield.
MARLEY WELCOMES ETEX MOVE
Marley, the building products group, staved off a £270 million all-share bid from John Mansfield, a small loss-making timber company, by welcoming a £365 million cash offer from Etex of Belgium. Privately owned, Marley's white knight has an annual turnover of £1.3 billion.
SHIMIZU WINS DAIRY CREST JOB
Shimizu (UK) has won a £15 million contract to design and build the new chilled distribution centre at Bermuda Park, Nuneaton for Dairy Crest. The 27,000m2 development will be feature a 30m-high, 8,600m2 bay storage area with maturation store. The remaining two-storey area comprises reception, despatch and offices.
SPRING START FOR £52M HOTEL
Marylebone Warwick Balfour Group has secured planning and listed building consent for the £52 million redevelopment of a Grade II listed building on Pall Mall in London into a luxury 189-bedroom hotel. MWB will undertake the redevelopment on a turnkey basis for French hotel group, Accor, which will run the future Sofitel hotel. Work is expected to start in late spring 1999.
£14.5 wessex water job GLEESON
MJ Gleeson Group has won a £14.5 million project to substantially upgrade Bristol Wastewater Treatment Works for Wessex Water. The works at Avonmouth will include construction of the biggest sequence batch reactor of its kind in the UK.
Kier scotland to build Virgin megaplex
Kier Scotland has been awarded a £9 million contract to design and build a Virgin Megaplex cinema on the site of the former Apollo/Greens Playhouse in Glasgow for E&J Glasgow Ltd. Eighteen screens will be built over nine levels with basement and ground floors accommodating a variety of food and bar outlets.
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Amec Tunnelling has secured a £7 million design and build contract from North West Water to provide a combined storage and transfer tunnel with associated works on Walney Island. The contract involves 1.5km of 2.85m internal diameter tunnel, two branch connections, a new pumping station and four major shafts.
Haden Young, Balfour Beatty's M&E arm, has won £26 million worth of contracts including a £7.6 million contract for Bristol and West Building Society's new headquarters in Bristol, a £7.8 million contract for the M&E services at the new Children's Hospital in Bristol and a £5 million
Biwater has won a £6.1 million contract for the design and construction of the new Woodmansterne water treatment works for Sutton & East Surrey Water.
Wates has won a £6 million project to build a new factory for Plastek UK in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. The 12,880m2 factory is due for completion in April 1999.
Cornerstone, an American subsidiary of Hanson, has acquired San Diego-based aggregates producer Nelson & Sloan for £23 million. Following the acquisition, Hanson will become the largest aggregates and ready-mix concrete supplier in the area.
Taylor Woodrow has sold its windfarm subsidiary First Windfarm Holdings for £5 million. Taywood will continue to focus on core competencies, said a spokesman. First Windfarm owns two sites in Wales and one in Cornwall. The three windfarms have a total capacity of 20 MW.
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