Buildings

Morgan Sindall Construction has landed a £60m contract to upgrade six hospitals in Essex. The contractor was appointed by Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust to carry out the work under the ProCure23 framework. The improvement programme will see a new community diagnostic centre built in Pitsea, part of…

A London council has announced it will finish building a leisure centre after the original contractor collapsed last year. Work stopped on the Platinum Jubilee Leisure Centre (CGI pictured) in West Drayton, west London, when the £665m-turnover Buckingham Group entered administration. Hillingdon Council said it would now “directly manage the…

Contractors are being sought for a £155m road-dualling project in Scotland. Transport Scotland has formally advertised the job to work on the A9 between Tay Crossing and Ballinluig. The 8.2km section of road in central Scotland is being upgraded to a dual carriageway as part of a wider programme to…

MPs have called for a radical rethink of how facilities to tackle the risk of highly infectious diseases are delivered, after the cost of new labs soared by more than 500 per cent in under a decade. In a report released on Monday (27 May), parliament’s Public Accounts Committee says…

The £312m revamp of two Midlands hospitals by Vinci and Sir Robert McAlpine has been given the go-ahead. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust confirmed that the full business case for its transformation programme had been approved, allowing construction to begin. Integrated Health Projects (IHP), a joint venture of Vinci…

A leading construction body has urged the next government to provide financial incentives to encourage companies to invest in modern methods of construction. The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) made its views known in its manifesto for the forthcoming general election. Major contractors have already called for a clear focus…

The incoming government must beef up its Construction Playbook guidance to prevent its provisions from being “routinely ignored”, a leading trade body has said. The call was part of a Blueprint for Better Construction set out by the Finishes and Interiors Sector (FIS) ahead of the general election on 4…

Peabody has provisionally selected five contractors, including Wates and Kier, for £1bn worth of maintenance and repair contracts, as part of an overhaul aimed at reversing its underperformance in London. The housing association launched a tender last year in an effort to improve its maintenance services following repeated failures in…

HG Construction has been selected to build a £69m build-to-rent scheme on a former car park in Leeds. The contractor will deliver 375 homes for McLaren Living, McClaren Group’s build-to-rent development arm. Construction is expected to complete in early 2027. Designed by architects Carey Jones Chapman Tolcher, the BeckYard scheme…

The University of Cumbria has advertised a fresh deal to build its new campus in Carlisle city centre after Sir Robert McAlpine (SRM) walked away from the delayed scheme. The Hertfordshire-headquartered contractor said in March 2022 that it had been named as sole contractor on the £78m Citadels project (pictured)…