Muse to redevelop Durham County Hall HQ siteDurham County Council has picked Muse to steer the redevelopment of its County Hall site and the subsequent development of a £400m business park at Aykley Heads in Durham.
The first phase involves demolition of council buildings, including County Hall, at the 15-hectare site which already has outline planning consent for 440,000 sq ft of commercia…
Mace to transform Imperial College Great HallMace has been appointed to redevelop Imperial College London’s largest venue – The Great Hall in the Sherfield Building on its South Kensington campus.
Mace’s retrofit team will transform the 4,230 sq ft hall into a flexible, multipurpose space, that can be converted into three lecture theatres.
Designed by Burwell Architects, a key feature w…
£100m plan to regenerate former Digbeth ironworksDeveloper Hartwell has unveiled plans for a £100m mixed-use scheme at a former ironworks site in the heart of Digbeth, Birmingham.
The Phoenix Yard proposals will seek to transform an under-utilised 1ha brownfield site beside Coventry Street, Oxford Street and Digbeth High Street to deliver a new gateway to Digbeth.
Architects Allford Ha…
Legendre UK wins £21m London homes job for ClarionClarion Housing Group has signed a £21m contract with Legendre UK for main works construction of the Lemon Tree House redevelopment in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
Lemon Tree House, a 7-storey building with 49 homes, is being redeveloped due to building and fire safety issues.
In its place, the UK arm of French contractor Legendre, w…
Construction buyers report fastest downturn since 2020Construction buyers saw industry activity drop at its fastest rate for nearly five years in February.
The bellwether S&P Global UK Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index fell to 44.6 in February from 48.1 in January – the lowest mark since May 2020.
Residential building (index at 39.3) decreased for the fifth month in a row and was t…
Bidders day for £15bn schools alliance frameworkThe Department for Education is holding a bidders day at the start of next week ahead of inviting tenders to renew the mega framework for the sector.
The existing £7bn Construction Framework (CF21) of 23 firms is set to expire in November 2025.
This will be replaced with a new construction framework estimated to be worth over £15bn based on a…
MPs told safety regulator delays forcing industry job cutsThe head of the Construction Leadership Council has warned MPs that delays gaining building safety regulator approvals on projects are now one of three major blockages to delivering Government housing targets.
Mark Reynolds, co-chair of the CLC, was giving evidence to MPs on the Housing Committee investigating whether Government housing…
£600m delivery partner named for new hospital programmeA joint venture between Mace and Turner & Townsend has been picked as the Programme Delivery Partner for the £37bn New Hospital Programme.
The forecast value of the PDP contract for a six-year duration is up to £600m to April 3031. There is also an option to extend the deal for up to a further four years to April 2035.
The programme w…
Planning green light for £10bn Northumberland data centrePlanning permission has been granted for a £10bn data centre in Northumberland .
Plans from investment giant Blackstone-owned QTS will see construction of a 540,000 square metre data centre campus on the Cambois site which was originally going to be the home of the doomed Britishvolt battery plant.
The approval for the site in Cambois has…
Police arrest plant hire theft gangCheshire Police officers have arrested nine people in connection to the theft of high value construction plant and equipment from hire companies following a series of dawn raids in Lancashire on Wednesday morning.
Officers from Ellesmere Port CID, with the support of officers from The National Construction and Agriculture Theft Team (NCATT) and Lancashire Rura…