Author Archives: Caroline Wadham

Highways England will split a £330m scheme to repair and replace around 1,000 km of concrete road networks into three smaller frameworks. Last year the body sought industry feedback on the project after highlighting “critical failures” and safety concerns on roads across the organisation’s strategic network, with the resurfacing of around 4…

Scape has announced a delay to tendering for two of its major frameworks, as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The public sector procurement firm has extended its £7bn national construction framework, which has been running since May 2017 and was due to expire on 31 May 2021. Its current contractors…

Mayors across the country have pledged to ensure that safety-related re-cladding work will continue during the coronavirus crisis. The mayors of Greater Manchester, Sheffield City Region, London, Liverpool City Region and the West Midlands made the commitment alongside housing secretary Robert Jenrick. Their declaration affirms that re-cladding work launched in the…

Aecom has been appointed to provide engineering, consultancy and project management services at Glasgow’s temporary field hospital, which has been set up to treat coronavirus patients. Up to 40 Aecom consultants are supporting the transformation of the city’s Scottish Event Campus into the NHS Louisa Jordan hospital. Due to open…

HS2’s Notice to Proceed will help to reboot the economy following the coronavirus crisis, several figures have said. This morning, the contractual go-ahead for the project’s first phase of civils work was issued following approval from the Department of Transport. West Midlands metro mayor Andy Street, a former panellist on…

A stated £12bn value of HS2’s phase one construction contracts does not include a risk contingency, it has emerged. This morning, HS2’s Notice to Proceed, the contractual go-ahead for the project’s civils work, was issued. The notice formally allows the four main works civils contractors working on the project to…

The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) will halve its staffing levels due to the coronavirus crisis. The industry training body said the cut will be made by furloughing staff and reducing the working hours of other employees. Its executive team has also taken a voluntary pay cut and an all-staff…

Demolition work is set to resume on HS2’s Euston site next week. Last month HS2 announced it has paused works on the majority of its sites, apart from in the West Midlands. Contractors have been tasked with deciding what work can continue on a case-by-case basis, based on the government’s…

Schemes include blighted former Carillion builds, a proton-beam therapy unit and a hospital set for an early opening in response to the COVID-19 outbreak

In London, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Harrogate and Bristol, contractors are helping the NHS turn existing buildings into field hospitals to boost the nation's capacity to treat coronavirus…

Kier has been revealed as the contractor tasked with delivering the Bristol NHS Nightingale Hospital. The contractor will convert a conference centre at the University of the West of England into a temporary NHS Hospital to treat coronavirus patients. The field hospital is set to be operational later this month…