Projects

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McLaren starts main works at £26m shopping centre

Work at Whiteley Shopping Centre due for completion in spring 2013

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B&K starts enabling works for £70m Bicester scheme

Bidding reaches final stages for main contract to start Sainsbury’s-anchored building complex

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Essex housing specialist wins £72m Home Group contract

South east housing repairs contract to start in April under seven year deal

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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

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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

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BAM lands £20m school in Hampshire

Contractor seals first deal through £4.5bn IESE framework

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Go-ahead for 450-home Marco Polo House scheme

Famous London post-modern 80s offices to be demolished for big residential blocks

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Carillion lands academies contracts worth £100m

Contractor set to start within weeks on school sites across the country

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Galliford Try bags £40m haul of work

Water infrastructure work flows in for early year boost to orders

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Herts Council hunts for highways resurfacing firm

Four-year resurfacing and civils packages could be worth up to £90m

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Bids invited for £11m flyover support job

Highway Agency hunts for firm to replace and install large steelwork beams supporting A14 flyover in Huntingdon

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Mace to start construction of £70m tower

Work to start this month on new home for Building magazine in Blackfriars

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Cambridge Uni hunts for £48m biotech college builder

Works are expected to start on the University’s West Cambridge site in March 2013.

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Big names dive in for £10m Butlins pool

Willmott Dixon, SDC, Vinci and Bowmer & Kirkland among bidders for water flumes

Allied Development Southampton

Southampton’s tallest building plan approved

Developer hopes to start work this summer on Admiral’s Quay development on waterfront.

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Plans for £1bn Chelmsford rail and housing scheme

Social housing landlord London & Quadrant and Countryside Properties plan to build 1,200 affordable homes

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55-storey Croydon tower block gets green light

Developers will start search for main contractor to build 198m tower scheme within 12 months

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BAM wins £34m Somerset hospital contract

Work to start in March replacing old wards at Musgrove Park Hospital

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Full winners list for £384m YORcivils framework

Procurement body confirms all winners for highways and civil engineering work

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Vinci wins £27m Tesco distribution centre

Retail and interiors division to design and build 84,000 sq metre centre near Reading

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£77m Wiltshire housing PFI gets the nod

Persimmon Homes can now start building 350 affordable homes in West Wiltshire

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Mulalley signs £100m Enfield housing deal

Planning application to go in next month for 500 homes and 4,000 sq metres of commercial space

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Phase one of £350m scheme in Swindon approved

Work to start this spring on car park and flats building

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Willmott Dixon wins £15m wildlife headquarters

Contractor hopes to start this Easter on new home for WWF charity

Derby Arena

Contractors wanted for £30m Derby sports arena

Tight tender race under way with construction set to start in May

University of East London library

Volker Fitzpatrick wins £9m east London library

Demolition work to prepare the library building site is due to start this month

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Kier to start £45m London brain centre building

Site preparations to start for new brain research centre in London’s Fitzrovia

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Carillion wins £16m Welsh rail viaduct job

Contractor will design and build a new Loughor viaduct to allow double-track running

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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

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Leadbitter wins first jobs from Welsh framework

Leadbitter will build homes for Newydd Housing Association under £120m new Integrate framework in Wales

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Amec wins £10m Grangemouth revamp

120 construction jobs secured at BP’s Kinneil terminal

Bath House Holborn Viaduct

Balfour Beatty bags three office jobs worth £100m

BIM used to cut waste on building services engineering packages for office jobs

Canning town

Bouygues’ £600m Canning Town scheme approved

Work will start on the first phase homes and Morrisons supermarket towards the end of the year

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Swansea hunts for highways maintenance contractor

New contract will start in August when Alun Griffiths/Hanson partnership term ends

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Work to start on £695m Manchester “Airport City”

Infrastructure contracts up for grabs as five million square feet scheme set to start

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Vinci to build Liverpool’s Queen’s Dock towers

Towers are first major residential projects to go-ahead on city’s waterfront since 2008

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Race starts for £30m Bath University student halls

University seeks contractor for new build student accommodation of up to 850 beds

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£200m Liverpool sewage works approved

Dredging the Wellington Dock has started to prepare way for the huge treatment works

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Kier gets March start date for £23m Barrow school

Kier starts to mobilise for start on Furness Academy after 12-month delay

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Amec/Babcock wins £650m power line upgrade

National Grid will invest £20bn in gas and electricity transmission infrastructure by 2021

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Bam wins £20m Aintree University Hospital job

Application for planning permission for two-year job submitted to Liverpool City Council

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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

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May Gurney scoops £50m Harrow highways deal

Work will start in April on seven year term maintenance covering highways, resurfacing and street lights

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Mears bags housing repairs worth £156m

Mears mobilses to start five contracts in April worth £50m a year

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Plans go in for £500m Blackwall Reach rebuild

Developers Countryside and Swan Housing submit plans for 1,700 new homes at East London site

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Balfour wins £50m Olympic Park legacy job

Balfour to maintain Olympic estate and run ArcelorMittal Orbit visitor attraction

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Imperial College submits plan for huge campus

Plans go in for second phase redevelopment of the former BBC site in White City, west London

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Two in hunt for £40m Aberystwyth student hall

Miller and Balfour Beatty left in talks for hall of residence DBFO job

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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

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Watkins Jones £30m Chester scheme approved

Chester Gorse Stacks mixed-use office and residential blocks win planning approval

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Kier wins shoot out for police firing range

Work is due to start in February on Gateshead firearms centre for Northumbria Police

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Plans approved for Worcester City FC stadium

Secretary of State Eric Pickles will give final ruling on football stadium plan

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Willmott Dixon wins Irish World Heritage Centre

Building materials will be sourced from Ireland to build the Manchester centre

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Summer start for £20m Waitrose scheme

Store and housing to be built in disused quarry site in Chipping Sodbury

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£500m Canning Town Centre set to gain planning

Bouygues and One Housing Group set for detailed approval for phase one of East London scheme

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Costain to start £32m Thames road bridge

Work to start next week on first road bridge across Thames in 20 years

Bath Keynsham

Willmott Dixon wins £33m Bath council offices job

Builder secures £33m Keynsham Regeneration project to build new library and council offices

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Concrete giants battle for £1bn Berkeley job

Specialists slug it out for four 23-storey residential towers near City of London

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Welsh Water selects water pipe repair teams

Seven firms will place on pressurised water pipe repairs framework

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Esh wins £5.5m construction training centre

Work to start in spring on centre to train new recruits for the nuclear construction industry

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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

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Mace submits plans for £50m Derby Arena

Council will advertise for a contractor to build the Arena this month for a Spring building start

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Balfour signs £750m National Grid contract extension

Electricity Alliance East power line partnership extended for five years

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Bids due in for three big Rolls Royce factories

Rotherham and Sunderland factory units expected to cost around £100m to build

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Mace wins London office rebuild for Rockspring

Mace will start work on 80,000 sq ft Centurion House office scheme in next few weeks

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Balfour Beatty bags second major waste plant

Balfour/Urbaser jv preferred bidders for £100m Essesx waste plant

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Carillion wins £105m M6 managed motorway job

Advanced works to start later this month on M6 from junctions 5-8 around Birmingham

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Funding deal to start 23-storey Canary Wharf tower

Canary Wharf Contractors to start 25 Churchill Place after £190m finance deal agreed

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£100m bid race to rebuild Blackpool sea defences

Blackpool and Wyre councils search for major contractor to rebuild Fylde coast sea defences

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Midas takes £8m Cornish student digs job

Five student block will be built at Glasney Student Village in Tremough, Penryn

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Interserve beats Balfour to £100m police job

Cost of West Yorkshire PFI deal cut from £216m to £100m under efficiency drive

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Miller to start on six Leicester schools

City’s BSF partner confirmed for next two school construction phases worth £44m

Rye Harbour

Jackson set for £10m Rye harbour wall rebuild

Work to start early next year on 1.5km rebuild of harbour wall

Bath House Holborn Viaduct

Balfour wins £65m London Bath House office job

Balfour Beatty Construction takes 200,000 sq ft office job at Holborn Viaduct

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Vinci to start on £570m Nottingham tram extension

Advanced works and utility diversions from January with main construction work starting in March

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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

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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

Wear Bridge

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

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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

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Race on for £17m Northampton student digs

University of Northampton searches for builder for student accommodation block