Seven scoop £850m Yorkshire Water complex projects dealYorkshire Water has picked seven partners for an £850m framework delivering complex non-infrastructure works.
Barhale, Galliford Try, Glanua, Kier, Mott MacDonald Bentley, Tilbury Douglas, and Ward & Burke will deliver on the utility’s increased investment in non-infrastructure clean and wastewater assets over the next five years.
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London Embankment scheme rebooted as student roomsPlans to redevelop a major site on London’s Albert Embankment have been brought back to life with proposals for a 770-bed student scheme over two towers.
It is the third incarnation of plans for the 36-46 Albert Embankment site in Vauxhall, which received planning for a 900-bed hotel across similar proposed towers two years ago.
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L&G submits plan for £350m Bristol Temple IslandLegal & General has submitted a planning application for Bristol Temple Island, a £350m regeneration project that will transform the derelict, former diesel depot site into a new urban quarter.
The development masterplanned by architects Zaha Hadid aims to deliver 520 homes, two new office buildings, retail space, flexible workspace, and a new…
Hercules tops £100m turnover but suffers £1.7m lossLabour supply specialist Hercules Site Services has topped £100m turnover for the first time, just three years after floating on the Aim market.
But the firm, which saw a 35% rise in people deployed to 1,150 operatives, reported an overall £1.7m pre-tax loss down to its suction excavator business.
Brusk Korkmaz, chief executive officer, said…
£22m Leicester station revamp rethink after one bidLeicester City Council is to retender the £22m project to restore the city’s historic railway station after just one firm submitted a bid after a call for tenders last summer.
The city council, Network Rail and East Midlands Railway are now expected to rebid the project which secured nearly £18m in levelling up funding early this year.
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Watchdog extends competition probe into house buildersThe Government’s competition watchdog is extending its investigation into suspected breaches of competition law by seven major house builders.
The Competition and Markets Authority launched a probe last February after uncovering evidence during a far-reaching study into housing market delivery that indicated some house builders may b…
Universal Civils and Build picks-up another ISG jobNottingham based contractor Universal Civils and Build has won another job to restart a leisure centre stalled by the collapse of ISG.
Hyndburn Borough Council has confirmed that Universal will restart construction at Wilson Sports Village in Clayton-le-Moors later this month.
Work on the £12m scheme was about 45% complete when ISG went into…
Prep work starts for vast HS2 box slide under A46Balfour Beatty Vinci joint venture has completed construction of a 14,500-tonne box structure designed to allow HS2 trains beneath the A46 Kenilworth Bypass in Warwickshire.
Engineers worked around the clock to place 120 long beams to form the top of the box in just 14 days.
The lifting milestone paves the way for the vast box to be jacked 64m…
Morgan Sindall wins Canary Wharf office-to-labs jobMorgan Sindall has been confirmed for a £65m life sciences development in Canary Wharf.
Work for clients Oaktree Capital Management and LS Estates will see the existing office building at 17 Columbus Courtyard (17CC) transformed into a new state-of-the-art life science and technology hub.
Construction will start on site this month wit…
Resi developer Sheen Lane heading for administrationResidential specialist Sheen Lane Developments is set to go into administration.
The Richmond based firm is listed for an administration application hearing at Leeds Crown Court on Friday.
The move follows a number of winding-up petitions against the company which has been in business since 2013.
Since then the developer has delivered over…