Major Projects
All | Bids invited | Awarded01 Student accommodation | Salford | £30m
Stage: Bidding
Details: To build 2,000 bedrooms on the Peel Park campus over two phases.Phase one will comprises 1,300 bedrooms to replace existing accommodation at Castle Irwell. Construction of the next phase has been left open as it is interlinked with the proposed development of new sports facilities.
Client: Salford University
02 Refurb college | Cambridge | £35m
Stage: bidding
Details: Project manager needed to oversee refurbishment of the Arup Building in the centre of the city. Due to start in 2013.
Client: Cambridge University. Grahame Jenkins on tel:01223765633
03 Highways maintenance | London, Merton | £70m
Stage: Bidding
Details: Work is due to start in September 2012. The contract covers non-exclusive provision of highway construction and maintenance, including reactive maintenance, emergency highway services and implementation of traffic calming and permanent traffic management schemes.
Client: London Borough of Merton
04 College building | Bradford | £40m
Stage: Bidding
Details: Construction work is pencilled to start in April on phased redevelopment of city centre campus.
Client: Bradford College. Andy Welsh Tel: 01274433011
05 Multi-trade contractor framework | Barnsley | £384m
Stage: Awarded
Details: YORcivils framework (South and West). Civils contracts above £1m: Carillion, Esh Group, Henry Boot, Jackson Civil Engineering, J N Bentley, Kier, North Midland Construction and Whitehouse Construction
Client: Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council
06 Magnox building framework | Countrywide | £250m
Stage: Bidding
Details: Ten firms are bidding for a place on a framework to cover construction work on the 10 Magnox sites dotted around the country. Bidders:Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering, Bam Nuttall, Black & Veatch, Costain, Galliford Try, Interserve, J Murphy & Sons, Kier Construction, Mace, Vinci Construction
Client: Magnox
07 Prison | Peterhead | £140m
Stage: Contract awarded
Details: Design and construction of a new HMP Grampian prison near to the existing HMP Peterhead site. The works will include the construction of the full range of prison buildings incorportaing a design to RIBA Stage D that will be included with the invitation to tender to be published Spring 2011.
Client: Scottish Prison Service Calton House, 5 Redheughs Rigg PPSD Bronwyn Bainbridge EH12 9HWEdinburgh UNITED KINGDOM +44 1312448655 bronwyn.bainbridge@sps.pnn.gov.uk +44 1312445705
Winner: Skanska Construction
08 College campus | Glasgow | £200m
Stage: Bidding
Details: Build, own and operate a new super campus at Cathedral Street, Glasgow. Construction is due to begin in the summer of 2013.
Client: Client agent James Darrie at Turner and Townsend tel: 01313473400
09 Water treatment works | Enfield, London | £270m
Stage: Bidding
Details: Deephams works will be rebuilt, and even possibly relocated, to improve water quality in the River Lee by March 2017. Expected to be ECI contract. PQQs are available from procurement.support.centre@thameswater.co.uk until 16 February.
Client: Thames Water
10 Road | Doncaster | £50m
Stage: Bidding
Details: Doncaster Country Council aims to start on 4.4km Finningley and Rossington Regeneration Route Scheme, or FARRRS as it is otherwise known, after securing funding earlier in the year. Contractors have until 6 February to submit PQQs, which are available at the procurement site: https://scms.alito.co.uk
Client: Doncaster Country Council
11 Offices | Hammersmith, London | £230m
Stage: contract award imminent
Details: Mixed office and retail scheme, will be built speculatively as two office buildings, as well as restaurants, cafes and new public realm.
Client: Land Securities Tel: (0) 20 7413 9000
12 Highways repairs | Swindon | £50m
Stage: Bidding
Details: Four-year highways maintenance and repairs contract due to start in August 2012. Tenders due to be submitted in April
Client: Swansea City and County Council
13 Hospital wards | Taunton | £34m
Stage: Contract awarded
Details: March start on building to replace old wards at Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton
Client: Musgrove Park Hospital
Winner: BAM Western
14 Flats and car park | Swindon | £25m
Stage: Plans approved
Details: 850-space car park and a block of 45 flats as first phase of 350m pounds regeneration of Swindon Town Centre
Client: Muse, regeneration arm of Morgan Sindall
15 Housing blocks | London, Greenwich | £350m
Stage: Outline planning
Details: Autumn start planned on next phase of Greenwich Peninsular to build 1350 new homes by the end of 2015.
Client: Greenwich Peninsula Regeneration Ltd - Lend Lease Tel: 020 3430 9000; Quintain Estates Tel: 020 7495 8968
16 High-rise building | Croydon | £350m
Stage: Plans approved
Details: Piers Gough designed building will range across three heights of 12, 16 and 55 storeys, and include a 217-bedroom four star hotel and 397 flats. It would also feature 160,000 sq ft of office space, a brasserie, coffee shop, branded restaurant and health club.
Client: Guildhouse UK tel: 020 7881 1900
17 Hospital | East Cramlington, Northumbria | £75m
Stage: Bidding
Details: New hospital will contain A&E, paediatric and maternity care departments. More details claire.povey@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk, tel: 0191 203 1533.
Client: Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Tel:0191 203 1533
18 Housing packages | Tower Hamlets, London | £200m
Stage: Bidding
Details: Four-year framework covers a host of jobs from straightforward building work to asbestos removal, electrical wiring and lift installation. It has been divided up into 14 individual panels, larger contractors turning over more than 10m pounds will be able to bid for the biggest package of work.
Client: London Borough of Tower Hamlets
19 New housing | South Wales | £160m
Stage: Bids invited
Details: A panel of eight contractors to carry out housing new build and refurbishment work in South Wales, worth up to 100m pounds. Another framework will cover schools and other non-residential building work in the region, through which 60m pounds could be spent over the period.
Client: Carmarthen County Council
20 Car parks | Bath | £45m
Stage: Bidding
Details: Three design and build park and ride schemes: Odd Down Park and Ride: 230 spaces. Landsdown Park and Ride: 390 spaces. Newbridge Park and Ride: 250 spaces
Client: Bath City Council
21 Guided busway | Manchester | £30m
Stage: Bidding
Details: 5-mile section of Leigh Guided Busway busway will run through a disused rail corridor between Leigh town centre and Newearth Road, Ellenbrook close to the A580.
Client: Transport for Greater Manchester
22 Runway and road | Birmingham | £65m
Stage: Bidding
Details: Job to divert the A45 dual carriageway between Birmingham and Coventry, and deliver 400m main runway extension at Birmingham International. January 2012: Balfour Beatty, Lagan, Morgan Sindall, Volker Fitzpatrick bidding.
Client: Birmingham City Council
23 College building | Inverness | £40m
Stage: Bidding
Details: Design, build and run new campus site under the Scottish non-profit distribution model. Building work is planned to commence in mid 2012 with the new facility set to open its doors to students in 2014.
Client: Client agent: Gardiner and Theobald. Karen Gorman tel: 01415687333
24 Care homes | Shropshire | £27m
Stage: Contract awarded
Details: Development company and partner Vinci Construction to build healthcare facilities at the Ludlow Eco Park
Client: Shropshire County Primary Care Trust William Farr House, Mytton Oak Road Alex Hackett SY3 8XLShrewsbury UNITED KINGDOM +44 1743277500-2130 alex.hackett@hcs.nhs.uk
Winner: Amber Infrastructure Group/Vinci








