Contracts

Leeds City Council and developer Downing have released plans to develop two new student accommodation blocks and an events facility in the city. The two blocks, which will rise to 38 and 17 storeys and contain 1,200 rooms, will be built next to the Leeds First Direct Arena in the…

A housing association is seeking firms for a £197m maintenance contract. Walsall Housing Group will appoint three contractors for new-building installation, roof refurbishment, environmental work, passive fire protection work and general maintenance work on its properties throughout the West Midlands borough. The initial contract is for seven years, but the…

Fast-growing contractor Glencar has landed two large industrial-unit jobs in Exeter and Chippenham. The firm will construct a 196,000-square foot manufacturing facility in Skypark Development, Exeter, for a stove and fireplace manufacturer called Stovax. Its contract includes external builds, as well as Cat A and Cat B fit-out. The second…

A Bowmer & Kirkland-backed developer has won approval for the £150m first phase of a mixed-use scheme in Sheffield. The developer Urbo (West Bar) – a joint venture between Urbo Regeneration and Peveril Securities, part of Bowmer and Kirkland – will deliver a mixed-use scheme including a 100,000 square foot…

Balfour Beatty has won the contract to construct a new campus for Fife College in Dunfermline, Scotland. Preparatory work is due to begin in September on a 58-acre site. The Scottish Government agreed in September 2019 to provide £90m in capital funding for the work, and the procurement process began…

Henry Boot’s property development business (HBD) has formed a joint venture alongside international tech campus developer Factory to focus on UK tech development. The JV – known as HBD X Factory – has been named preferred bidder to deliver the first phase of a £1bn scheme in Cheltenham called the…

Work will begin on the second phase of the £750m Station Hill project in central Reading on 9 August, with the start of demolition work to remove a multi-storey car park on the site. Planning permission for the second stage of the development, adjacent to the town’s mainline rail station,…

Contractors are on alert after the government started the procurement process for a new construction framework worth up to £30bn. The new agreement includes the NHS Procure23 framework and will be valid for all government departments, local authorities and devolved administrations. It will be divided into five separate lots, with…

Two building frameworks, available to Yorkshire, the North East and parts of the East of England and Midlands, are open for tender to a total value of £640m. Contractors are on call for a YORBuild West framework, worth £400m, serving Yorkshire, Leicestershire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. In the North East, Yorkshire…

Two new housing frameworks in England and Scotland, potentially worth a combined £1.5bn over four years, have been launched. Framework provider LHC is inviting contractors to join up, with work worth up to £1bn expected to be procured in England and £500m worth of work to be procured through the…