Buildings

The cost of a major cancer centre in Cardiff has ballooned by £300m in the 18 months it took to confirm the appointment of a special purpose vehicle. The contract to design, build, finance and maintain the project was initially priced at £562m when it went to tender in 2021.…

Bouygues has been picked to build a health facility in west London to speed up the diagnosis of cancer and other illnesses. The UK arm of the French firm was named as lead contractor for the design and build of the Ambulatory Diagnostic Centre at West Middlesex University Hospital. Chelsea…

Glencar has taken over the construction of a life sciences building near Cambridge from collapsed contractor Readie. Readie was appointed last November to build the Sidney Sussex building in Chesterford Research Park, but went into administration three months later. Glencar will now finish the 5,500 square metre building, having restarted…

Bam has started constructing the first non-residential building in the £8bn regeneration of Brent Cross, west London. Related Argent and Barnet Council appointed Bam to build the 14-storey office block, known as 3 Copper Square. Bam and Related Argent have not revealed the construction value of the project. The scheme…

Seven people have been taken to hospital after a fire broke out on a Bouygues UK construction site in east London. Emergency crews were called at around 8.30am on Tuesday to the Hallsville Quarter regeneration site in Canning Town, where a ground floor commercial unit was on fire. Ten fire…

JRL has submitted plans for a new residential block in Manchester city centre. The firm’s contracting arm, Midgard, will build the housing block if it receives planning approval. The scheme would provide 359 homes in total across a part-10-storey, part-28-storey building in Sparkle Street, near Manchester Piccadilly Station. JRL has…

An Irish government official has accused Bam of backtracking on a promise to complete a new national children’s hospital in Dublin this year. Eamonn Quinn, head of major capital projects in the country’s Department of Health, said the contractor should “meet its commitments” on the troubled project. Bam was appointed…

Delays to a leisure centre development in London have been blamed on rules around election-time funding. Kingston Council said that “strict rules around the use of council resources” in the weeks running up to an election meant it was unable to push forward with plans to replace the old Kingfisher…

Welsh firm Andrew Scott has been appointed to finish one of collapsed contractor Buckingham Group’s remaining schemes. Andrew Scott will finish a multistorey car park and commercial site in the centre of Swansea, after the project stalled following Buckingham’s descent into administration. Buckingham had been delivering the Copr Bay scheme,…

Kier has landed a job to build an accommodation block and workshop at HMP Bullingdon, Construction News can reveal. The contractor scooped the design-and-build contract to construct a seventh houseblock at the category B prison, which will increase its capacity by 247 to more than 1,300. The four-storey block will…