Buildings

Liverpool City Council has put contractors on alert for £850m in planned highways work. The authority has launched a pre-market engagement exercise to glean feedback on its proposed framework. The framework is expected to be in place from late January 2025 and run for up to four years. A maximum…

CN100 contractors Equans, Morgan Sindall, Seddon and Wates have joined a swathe of smaller firms to land places on a £2bn public sector housing framework. A total of 66 contractors were appointed to the four-year Communities & Housing Investment Consortium (CHIC) framework, which is designed to help local authorities and…

Tier one contractors Kier, Morgan Sindall and Tilbury Douglas have gained places on a major decarbonisation framework. The four-year agreement from Pagabo will cover decarbonisation works across all sectors in the UK except the healthcare sector, which was covered in a separate Pagabo framework announced earlier this month. Work will…

Vinci Building is carrying out the expansion and renovation of the Belfry Hotel and Resort in the West Midlands. Construction News understands the deal is worth approximately £40m to the contractor. Work is underway on the project that will see the Warwickshire resort, best known for having hosted the Ryder Cup…

Both client-side bodies running the programme to repair the Palace of Westminster are losing their chief executives simultaneously, Construction News has learnt. David Goldstone, chief executive of the UK Parliament Restoration and Renewal (R&R) Delivery Authority, submitted his resignation at the end of March, although a leaving date has not…

Work to repair parliament’s tallest structure, the Victoria Tower, faces a year’s delay due to a botched procurement process, Construction News can reveal. Last May, parliamentary authorities launched a tender for a £95m job to repair the tower’s crumbling masonry, windows, cast-iron roof, rainwater drainage and flagpole. However, bidders for…

Bowmer & Kirkland, GMI and Vinci are among 20 companies to have secured places on a £260m construction works framework with the University of Manchester. The firms were chosen under a four-year deal to carry out works across the university’s estate, include demolition, new-build, refurbishment and decoration, as well as…

Sir Robert McAlpine has been appointed to deliver a dual-tower high rise in the City of London in a deal reported as being worth £500m. The tier one contractor today announced it had won the job at 2 Finsbury Avenue from client Broadgate, a joint venture between British Land and…

Countryside Partnerships has been named as the replacement contractor on a 215-home development in Cheshire. Lane End Developments, which went into administration in April 2023 after takeover talks failed, was due to deliver the circa £41m Pavilion Park scheme in Helsby for housing association Onward Homes. Onward Homes announced this…

Keltbray has landed the piling work package for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club’s new 29-storey hotel. The engineering specialist confirmed that it had started on site, making preparations for the foundations. The facility was initially approved as part of the permission granted for the £1bn Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in 2016, but…