Projects

McLaren starts main works at £26m shopping centre
Work at Whiteley Shopping Centre due for completion in spring 2013

B&K starts enabling works for £70m Bicester scheme
Bidding reaches final stages for main contract to start Sainsbury’s-anchored building complex

Essex housing specialist wins £72m Home Group contract
South east housing repairs contract to start in April under seven year deal

Volker Fitzpatrick wins £20m rail terminal
Third rail terminal to be built at Felixstowe to handle new 30-wagon trains for new deep water port

Bids invited for £22m London NHS intensive care unit
A contractor will be appointed in August to erect new building shell over an existing block

Go-ahead for 450-home Marco Polo House scheme
Famous London post-modern 80s offices to be demolished for big residential blocks

Carillion lands academies contracts worth £100m
Contractor set to start within weeks on school sites across the country

Galliford Try bags £40m haul of work
Water infrastructure work flows in for early year boost to orders

Herts Council hunts for highways resurfacing firm
Four-year resurfacing and civils packages could be worth up to £90m

Bids invited for £11m flyover support job
Highway Agency hunts for firm to replace and install large steelwork beams supporting A14 flyover in Huntingdon

Mace to start construction of £70m tower
Work to start this month on new home for Building magazine in Blackfriars

Cambridge Uni hunts for £48m biotech college builder
Works are expected to start on the University’s West Cambridge site in March 2013.

Big names dive in for £10m Butlins pool
Willmott Dixon, SDC, Vinci and Bowmer & Kirkland among bidders for water flumes

Southampton’s tallest building plan approved
Developer hopes to start work this summer on Admiral’s Quay development on waterfront.

Plans for £1bn Chelmsford rail and housing scheme
Social housing landlord London & Quadrant and Countryside Properties plan to build 1,200 affordable homes

55-storey Croydon tower block gets green light
Developers will start search for main contractor to build 198m tower scheme within 12 months

BAM wins £34m Somerset hospital contract
Work to start in March replacing old wards at Musgrove Park Hospital

Full winners list for £384m YORcivils framework
Procurement body confirms all winners for highways and civil engineering work

Vinci wins £27m Tesco distribution centre
Retail and interiors division to design and build 84,000 sq metre centre near Reading

£77m Wiltshire housing PFI gets the nod
Persimmon Homes can now start building 350 affordable homes in West Wiltshire

Mulalley signs £100m Enfield housing deal
Planning application to go in next month for 500 homes and 4,000 sq metres of commercial space

Phase one of £350m scheme in Swindon approved
Work to start this spring on car park and flats building

Willmott Dixon wins £15m wildlife headquarters
Contractor hopes to start this Easter on new home for WWF charity

Contractors wanted for £30m Derby sports arena
Tight tender race under way with construction set to start in May

Volker Fitzpatrick wins £9m east London library
Demolition work to prepare the library building site is due to start this month

Kier to start £45m London brain centre building
Site preparations to start for new brain research centre in London’s Fitzrovia

Carillion wins £16m Welsh rail viaduct job
Contractor will design and build a new Loughor viaduct to allow double-track running

Osborne wins Winchester £33m housing repairs deal
Osborne will maintain 5,400 council-owned homes and several council buildings, including the Grade II listed Guildhall over 15 years

Leadbitter wins first jobs from Welsh framework
Leadbitter will build homes for Newydd Housing Association under £120m new Integrate framework in Wales

Balfour Beatty bags three office jobs worth £100m
BIM used to cut waste on building services engineering packages for office jobs

Bouygues’ £600m Canning Town scheme approved
Work will start on the first phase homes and Morrisons supermarket towards the end of the year

Swansea hunts for highways maintenance contractor
New contract will start in August when Alun Griffiths/Hanson partnership term ends

Work to start on £695m Manchester “Airport City”
Infrastructure contracts up for grabs as five million square feet scheme set to start

Vinci to build Liverpool’s Queen’s Dock towers
Towers are first major residential projects to go-ahead on city’s waterfront since 2008

Race starts for £30m Bath University student halls
University seeks contractor for new build student accommodation of up to 850 beds

£200m Liverpool sewage works approved
Dredging the Wellington Dock has started to prepare way for the huge treatment works

Kier gets March start date for £23m Barrow school
Kier starts to mobilise for start on Furness Academy after 12-month delay

Amec/Babcock wins £650m power line upgrade
National Grid will invest £20bn in gas and electricity transmission infrastructure by 2021

Bam wins £20m Aintree University Hospital job
Application for planning permission for two-year job submitted to Liverpool City Council

Land Secs submits plans for 1000-home Harrow scheme
Developers rolls out plans to build huge mixed-use scheme over 10 years on Kodak site

May Gurney scoops £50m Harrow highways deal
Work will start in April on seven year term maintenance covering highways, resurfacing and street lights

Mears bags housing repairs worth £156m
Mears mobilses to start five contracts in April worth £50m a year

Plans go in for £500m Blackwall Reach rebuild
Developers Countryside and Swan Housing submit plans for 1,700 new homes at East London site

Balfour wins £50m Olympic Park legacy job
Balfour to maintain Olympic estate and run ArcelorMittal Orbit visitor attraction

Imperial College submits plan for huge campus
Plans go in for second phase redevelopment of the former BBC site in White City, west London

Two in hunt for £40m Aberystwyth student hall
Miller and Balfour Beatty left in talks for hall of residence DBFO job

Thames Water seeks firm for £270m sewage works job
Thames Water plans contractors’ day to launch ECI race of major sewage works in Enfield, north London

Watkins Jones £30m Chester scheme approved
Chester Gorse Stacks mixed-use office and residential blocks win planning approval

Kier wins shoot out for police firing range
Work is due to start in February on Gateshead firearms centre for Northumbria Police

Plans approved for Worcester City FC stadium
Secretary of State Eric Pickles will give final ruling on football stadium plan

Willmott Dixon wins Irish World Heritage Centre
Building materials will be sourced from Ireland to build the Manchester centre

Summer start for £20m Waitrose scheme
Store and housing to be built in disused quarry site in Chipping Sodbury

£500m Canning Town Centre set to gain planning
Bouygues and One Housing Group set for detailed approval for phase one of East London scheme

Costain to start £32m Thames road bridge
Work to start next week on first road bridge across Thames in 20 years

Willmott Dixon wins £33m Bath council offices job
Builder secures £33m Keynsham Regeneration project to build new library and council offices

Concrete giants battle for £1bn Berkeley job
Specialists slug it out for four 23-storey residential towers near City of London

Welsh Water selects water pipe repair teams
Seven firms will place on pressurised water pipe repairs framework

Esh wins £5.5m construction training centre
Work to start in spring on centre to train new recruits for the nuclear construction industry

Four bidders circle £65m Birmingham runway job
Work is expected to start this year with the runway finished for longer haul flights by the end of 2014

Mace submits plans for £50m Derby Arena
Council will advertise for a contractor to build the Arena this month for a Spring building start

Balfour signs £750m National Grid contract extension
Electricity Alliance East power line partnership extended for five years

Bids due in for three big Rolls Royce factories
Rotherham and Sunderland factory units expected to cost around £100m to build

Mace wins London office rebuild for Rockspring
Mace will start work on 80,000 sq ft Centurion House office scheme in next few weeks

Balfour Beatty bags second major waste plant
Balfour/Urbaser jv preferred bidders for £100m Essesx waste plant

Carillion wins £105m M6 managed motorway job
Advanced works to start later this month on M6 from junctions 5-8 around Birmingham

Funding deal to start 23-storey Canary Wharf tower
Canary Wharf Contractors to start 25 Churchill Place after £190m finance deal agreed

£100m bid race to rebuild Blackpool sea defences
Blackpool and Wyre councils search for major contractor to rebuild Fylde coast sea defences

Midas takes £8m Cornish student digs job
Five student block will be built at Glasney Student Village in Tremough, Penryn

Interserve beats Balfour to £100m police job
Cost of West Yorkshire PFI deal cut from £216m to £100m under efficiency drive

Miller to start on six Leicester schools
City’s BSF partner confirmed for next two school construction phases worth £44m

Jackson set for £10m Rye harbour wall rebuild
Work to start early next year on 1.5km rebuild of harbour wall

Balfour wins £65m London Bath House office job
Balfour Beatty Construction takes 200,000 sq ft office job at Holborn Viaduct

Vinci to start on £570m Nottingham tram extension
Advanced works and utility diversions from January with main construction work starting in March

Mace to start Broadgate tower in New Year
Contractor to continue on £340m City of London site after overseeing demolition work for last six months

Rowecord wins British Museum steelwork job
Rowecord will get on site in August to erect steelwork and precast concrete sections of World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre

Go-ahead for extra 21 major transport projects – list
Wear Bridge gets go-ahead in £845m package of major local transport schemes to win Government funding

Plans go in for £400m London twin tower scheme
Developer CLS plans to build two residential towers of 50 storeys at the Vauxhall Square site

Race on for £17m Northampton student digs
University of Northampton searches for builder for student accommodation block












