Construction News
Willmott Dixon lands fourth energy refit contract
24 Jun 2015: Willmott Dixon has won a major refurbishment contract to make a London office building more energy efficient.
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Galliard launches £550m Canary Wharf scheme
24 Jun 2015: Galliard Homes has started construction of a £550m development in London’s Canary Wharf.
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Birmingham roads to get Toppesfield treatment
24 Jun 2015: Highways surfacing specialist Toppesfield has been awarded a contract by Amey to repair roads in Birmingham.
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Carillion's HS2 team officially launched
24 Jun 2015: Carillion, Eiffage and Kier have formally launched their HS2 joint venture, as revealed by Kier back in February.
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Alun Griffiths wins £25m Swansea lagoon contract
1 Jun 2015: Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay has named Welsh contractor Alun Griffiths as its preferred bidder for one of the main civil engineering and construction packages for the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon. more » http://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/alun-griffiths-wins-25m-swansea-lagoon-contract
Morgan Sindall wins £8.3m Port of Southampton contract
1 Jun 2015: Morgan Sindall has won an £8.3m contract to build new car storage and handling facilities at the Port of Southampton.
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Laing O’Rourke lands £200m civils package for Swansea Bay lagoon
26 May 2015: Laing O’Rourke has been named preferred bidder for the £200m contract for civil engineering works on the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon project.
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£500m Welsh framework winners listed
26 May 2015: A raft of contractors, including Kier, BAM, Willmott Dixon and Morgan Sindall, has been named for a £500m framework for local authority construction projects in Wales.
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Industry swift with advice for new government
11 May 2015: With the newly elected Conservative government starting work this week, there is no shortage of unsolicited advice coming its way from the construction industry and business lobbyists.
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Irish construction growth regains momentum
11 May 2015: Figures for April show signs of the Irish construction sector regaining growth momentum, with activity, new orders and employment all rising at sharper rates than in March.
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Skanska makes no impact with deep green offices
11 May 2015: Skanska says that its new office building in Yorkshire is its greenest-ever project in the UK.
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ISG signs for £10m Yate Scheme
28 Apr 2015: ISG has negotiated a £10m contract to build a shops and cinema complex in Yate, South Gloucestershire.
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Wates takes Old Marylebone Town Hall refurbishment
28 Apr 2015: Wates Construction has been selected to overhaul the Old Marylebone Town Hall for London Business School.
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Dunne scores £17m of orders
21 Apr 2015: Dunne has picked up a trio of new contracts in central Scotland together worth £17m.
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VolkerStevin to prepare Portsmouth jetty for new aircraft carriers
21 Apr 2015: VolkerStevin has won a £34m defence contract to upgrade a jetty in Portsmouth to make the naval base ready for the next generation of super-sized aircraft carriers
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Willmott Dixon lands Matrix office to hotel conversion
21 Apr 2015: Willmott Dixon has won a £14m contract for an office to hotel conversion job in the Aldgate district of London.
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C2V+ to build £43m Oswestry water works
21 Apr 2015: A joint venture of VolkerStevin and CH2M has been awarded a £43m design and build contract for a water treatment works scheme in Oswestry, Shropshire.
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Summer start for uni faculty despite contractor set-back
20 Apr 2015: Planning permission has been granted for the University of Huddersfield's new law school but a contractor has yet to be named following the collapse of the GB Group.
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McLaren secures trio of warehouse projects
17 Apr 2015: Logistics and warehouse developer IDI Gazeley has awarded McLaren Construction a trio of new projects with a combined value of £40m.
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Wates wins 50-home Coventry contract
17 Apr 2015: Whitefriars Housing has awarded Wates Living Space a contract for 50 new homes in Coventry.
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Interserve teams up with Chinese contractor to win £900m tower block
15 Apr 2015: An Anglo-Chinese contracting joint venture has been selected to build a £900m skyscraper in London.
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Billington lands steelwork deal for Next's £55m warehouse
15 Apr 2015: Bowmer & Kirkland has confirmed Billington Structures as its steelwork subcontractor on its £55m Next distribution warehouse in Doncaster.
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Another Docklands tower approved
15 Apr 2015: Planning permission has been granted for another tower block at London’s Canary Wharf development.
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Turner & Townsend to run Sheffield's £480m retail project
14 Apr 2015: Turner & Townsend has been signed up as project manager for the planned Sheffield Retail Quarter development.
more » http://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/turner-and-townsend-to-run-480m-sheffield-retail-scheme
UCL seeks contractor for £25m Bloomsbury project
14 Apr 2015: University College London has begun the search for a design and build contractor to build a new £25m student centre at its Bloomsbury campus in central London.
more » http://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/ucl-seeks-contractor-for-25m-bloomsbury-project
Record month for Clark Contracts
14 Apr 2015: Scottish construction, refurbishment and maintenance contractor Clark Contracts booked £11m of new orders in March, making it the most successful month ever in the company’s 37-year history.
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Harbur turns watch factory into housing
13 Apr 2015: Manchester-based Harbur Construction has started work on a multi-million pound extra care housing scheme in Prescot.
more » http://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/harbur-turns-prescot-watch-factory-into-housing
Summer start for £2bn New Covent Garden redevelopment
9 Apr 2015: Commercial contracts and planning agreements for the £2bn regeneration of the 57 acre New Covent Garden Market in London’s Nine Elms district have today gone unconditional.
more » http://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/summer-start-for-2bn-nine-elms-market-development
Trade suppliers called to Villa Park meeting
9 Apr 2015: Construction firms from the West Midlands are invited to a free Meet the Buyer event in Birmingham next week to find out about millions of pounds-worth of upcoming work opportunities.
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Barr chosen for £5m brewery expansion
9 Apr 2015: Barr Construction has won a £5m contract to extend the BrewDog brewery in Aberdeenshire.
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Laing O'Rourke tops record March league
2 Apr 2015: UK construction contract awards in the first quarter of 2015 were 47% up on the same period of 2014, according to Builders’ Conference data.
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Carillion hauls £80m trio for Select Property
2 Apr 2015: Select Property Group has selected Carillion for three building contracts together worth more than £80m.
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Social landlords select suppliers for £250m materials framework
2 Apr 2015: Twelve builders’ merchants have won places on a framework agreement to supply materials to a consortium of social housing companies.
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Fourth Crossrail station for Lakesmere
1 Apr 2015: Lakesmere Group has won a £6m contract from main contractor Laing O’Rourke to supply and install the platform edge screen system in the new Crossrail station at Tottenham Court Road.
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Regeneration role for Clark Contracts
1 Apr 2015: Falkirk Council has handed Clark Contracts a £4.7m construction contract for the first phase of the regeneration of Denny Town Centre.
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Shaylor to turn Cadbury HQ into flats
1 Apr 2015: Shaylor Group has been selected as principal contractor for the £16m refurbishment of former Cadbury headquarters Franklin House in Bournville.
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Balfour Beatty to build bridge over the M1 in Leicestershire
1 Apr 2015: Balfour Beatty has landed a £9.3m contract to build a new road bridge over the M1 for Leicestershire County Council.
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No contest for Debut's £31m MoD contract
31 Mar 2015: The Ministry of Defence has handed Debut Services a £31m contract to build new army barracks accommodation.
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Costain Vinci JV picks Arup and Atkins to support £750m Welsh M4 scheme
31 Mar 2015: The CVC contracting joint venture of Costain and Vinci has selected Arup and Atkins as consulting engineers for its £750m M4 Corridor project.
more » http://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/costain-vinci-jv-picks-arup-and-atkins-to-support-750m-welsh-m4-scheme
Amec Foster Wheeler wins EDF nuclear framework deal
31 Mar 2015: French power company EDF Energy has awarded Amec Foster Wheeler a contract to provide project management services to all of its UK nuclear power stations.
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Galliford Try secures £69m Wandsworth development
31 Mar 2015: Developer Frasers Property has appointed Galliford Try to construct the next three phases of the Riverside Quarter residential development in Wandsworth.
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Plans to redevelop former brewery site submitted
31 Mar 2015: Multi-million pound plans have been submitted to turn a former brewery in Wolverhampton into a hub for construction education.
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Balfour Beatty wins £80m Warwick Uni scheme
31 Mar 2015: Balfour Beatty has been awarded an £80m contract to construct the National Automotive Innovation Centre (NAIC) in Coventry for the University of Warwick.
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Vinci St Modwen wins MoD Ashchurch role
30/03/2015: The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) has appointed Vinci St Modwen joint venture as its development manager for MoD Ashchurch.
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Balfour Beatty to start on A21 upgrade after Easter
30/03/2015: Balfour Beatty has been given a mid-April start date for its £35m contract to upgrade the A21 between Tonbridge and Pembury in Kent.
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Danish contractor closes deal to build £190m Tilbury incinerator
30/03/2015: Danish power plant specialist Burmeister & Wain Scandinavian Contractor (BWSC) has closed the deal to build a £190m energy-generating waste incinerator in Tilbury docks.
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M+W to build £111m Levenseat incinerator
30/03/2015: Germany’s M+W Group has been appointed main contractor for a £111m waste incinerator in Lanarkshire.
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