http://www.cnplus.co.uk/rss/north_east_rss.xml All the latest stories on North East. en-uk Plans approved http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/contractleads/2008/07/north_shields_200m_residential__commercial.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/contractleads/2008/07/north_shields_200m_residential__commercial.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 24 July 2008 11:57 Plans approved http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/contractleads/2008/07/whitley_bay_203m_education.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/contractleads/2008/07/whitley_bay_203m_education.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 23 July 2008 12:46 Early planning http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/contractleads/2008/07/redcar_80m_education.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/contractleads/2008/07/redcar_80m_education.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 22 July 2008 12:38 Early Planning http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/contractleads/2008/07/newcastleupontyne_150m_commercial__residential.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/contractleads/2008/07/newcastleupontyne_150m_commercial__residential.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 21 July 2008 16:08 Plans to deliver almost 130,000 news homes and increase infrastructure spend in the North-east have been outlined today by communities minister Baroness Andrews. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/07/northeast_development_plan_unveiled.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/07/northeast_development_plan_unveiled.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 Rhiannon Hoyle 15 July 2008 11:55 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/plans_resized_70_tcm18-209260.jpg Morgan Ashurst has won a £14 million contract to build a sports centre at Bede Sixth Form at Billingham, County Durham. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/07/morgan_ashurst_wins_14m_college_revamp.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/07/morgan_ashurst_wins_14m_college_revamp.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 Andrea Klettner 14 July 2008 13:40 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/641179_11673610_resized_70_tcm18-342485.jpg Capital project consultant HPR has been appointed lead designer on the £260 million New Tyne Crossing project. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/infrastructure/news/2008/06/hpr_win_contract_on_260m_new_tyne_crossing.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/infrastructure/news/2008/06/hpr_win_contract_on_260m_new_tyne_crossing.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 Rhiannon Hoyle 27 June 2008 11:09 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/new_tyne_crossing_resized_70_tcm18-1654801.jpg Atkins has been appointed by One NorthEast to critically review and develop improved programme management procedures for transport schemes in the North East’s Regional Funding Allocation. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/06/atkins_to_review_rfa_spending.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/06/atkins_to_review_rfa_spending.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 Andrea Klettner 26 June 2008 12:33 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/northeast_resized_70_tcm18-196150.jpg A quarter of refurbishment sites blitzed by the Health and Safety Executive in Newscastle last week were served enforcements notices. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/06/hse_serves_notices_to_quarter_of_newcastle_blitz.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/06/hse_serves_notices_to_quarter_of_newcastle_blitz.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 Rhiannon Hoyle 24 June 2008 11:08 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/northwest_resized_70_tcm18-691651.jpg The Government has provisionally accepted £150 million proposals to transform secondary school education in Stockton. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/06/stockton_schools_for_150m_revamp.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/06/stockton_schools_for_150m_revamp.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 Andrea Klettner 19 June 2008 15:22 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/northeast_resized_70_tcm18-196150.jpg Construction firms carrying out refurbishment projects in the north-east are being targeted by the Health and Safety Executive over the next fortnight in a crack down on dangerous working practices. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/06/hse_to_blitz_northeast_sites.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/06/hse_to_blitz_northeast_sites.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 Rhiannon Hoyle 19 June 2008 11:49 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/hse_resized_70_tcm18-1570827.jpg A Darlington building firm has been fined £15,000 after a worker suffered serious injuries from a 5m fall onto a concrete floor at residential building site in West Park in March 2007. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/06/house_builder_fined_15k_over_employee_fall.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/06/house_builder_fined_15k_over_employee_fall.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 Rhiannon Hoyle 17 June 2008 15:19 Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council is looking for contractors to bid for a £13.5 million to revamp Billingham Forum Leisure Centre. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/06/billingham_leisure_revamp_advertised.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/06/billingham_leisure_revamp_advertised.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 James McLachlan 10 June 2008 09:39 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/northeast_resized_70_tcm18-196150.jpg Transport minister Rosie Winterton has announced £12 million of funding for improvements for North Middlesbrough’s transport infrastructure. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/06/middlesbrough_roads_to_get_135m_boost.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/06/middlesbrough_roads_to_get_135m_boost.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 Andrea Klettner 03 June 2008 10:28 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/2007-11_154409_G_N_279_Rosie_Winterton%5B1%5D_resized_70_tcm18-295218.JPG A new wave of regional construction frameworks will come up for bidding as councils around the country prepare to collaborate on procurement. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/05/regional_frameworks_set_for_boom.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/05/regional_frameworks_set_for_boom.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 Alasdair Reisner 28 May 2008 14:44 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/859267_56039269_resized_70_tcm18-1434721.jpg Volker Stevin wants to add another 20 per cent in turnover this year on the back of a jump in revenues in 2007. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/05/volker_plots_more_growth.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/05/volker_plots_more_growth.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 David Rogers 23 May 2008 13:07 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/875590_77673725_resized_70_tcm18-331788.jpg Police have arrested 34 people and recovered a quarter of a tonne of metal in an operation to crack down on lead theft in Northumberland. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/05/police_crackdown_on_lead_theft.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/05/police_crackdown_on_lead_theft.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 Myles Burke 21 May 2008 09:43 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/109906_7077cropped_resized_70_tcm18-266944.jpg Faithful & Gould has strengthened its northern division with three new staff appointments. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/05/faithfulgould_boost_northern_division.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/05/faithfulgould_boost_northern_division.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 James McLachlan 19 May 2008 11:53 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/northeast_resized_70_tcm18-196150.jpg The New and Renewable Energy Centre is inviting bids to build a £10 million test facility on its existing site in Blyth, Northumberland. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/05/test_facility_contract_up_for_grabs.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/05/test_facility_contract_up_for_grabs.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 James McLachlan 15 May 2008 09:51 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/northeast_resized_70_tcm18-196150.jpg Sunderland building firm Murray Construction and Development was fined £10,000 at South Tyneside Magistrates’ Court after an employee was injured when he fell 2.8m onto a concrete floor. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/05/building_firm_fined_10k_after_workers_fall.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/05/building_firm_fined_10k_after_workers_fall.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 Myles Burke 12 May 2008 09:09 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/m20_safety_resized_70_tcm18-960487.jpg Two men have been charged after thieves took a dump truck from a Durham building site, police have said http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/05/pair_charged_with_truck_theft.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/05/pair_charged_with_truck_theft.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 Andrea Klettner 06 May 2008 15:42 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/19sept_dust%20truck%20plant_TB_resized_70_tcm18-526135.jpg South Tyneside College is inviting bids for a £60 million redevelopment and construction of a new college on its Westoe and Hebburn sites. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/04/college_redevelopment_out_to_tender.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/04/college_redevelopment_out_to_tender.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 James McLachlan 30 April 2008 10:06 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/641179_11673610_resized_70_tcm18-342485.jpg W&M Thompson Quarries and foreman Alan Armstrong have been fined after an incident last year which left one of firm’s workers hospitalised. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/04/firm_and_foreman_fined_for_worker_injury.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/04/firm_and_foreman_fined_for_worker_injury.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 Rhiannon Hoyle 24 April 2008 17:04 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/law_wig_generic_lg_resized_70_tcm18-143632.jpg Construction News has teamed up with ConstructionSkills to showcase young talent working in Britain’s building industry. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/04/skillbuilds_quest_for_young_construction_excellence.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/04/skillbuilds_quest_for_young_construction_excellence.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 Myles Burke 15 April 2008 12:27 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/spotlightpic5_resized_70_tcm18-735679.jpg Social housing maintenance and repair provider Mears has secured £57 million in new contracts with housing associations across England. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/04/three_new_contracts_total_57m_for_mears.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/04/three_new_contracts_total_57m_for_mears.html;jsessionid=291CE39C0DEEF30CB5EDAF74FB6CFB20 Rhiannon Hoyle 15 April 2008 12:11 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/london_resized_70_tcm18-195955.jpg