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Galliford Try wins £98m trio of infrastructure contracts

Charlotte Banks — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 16:50:15 +0000

Galliford Try has announced three civils contract wins worth a total £98m. The contractor’s environment business has won two contracts for Thames Water under its AMP7 framework, worth £64m in total. Galliford Try Environment will build a £33m pipeline in Thames Water’s Riverside Flow Monitoring…

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Wates and Equans on £3.2bn social-housing framework

Joshua Stein — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 11:57:47 +0000

Wates and Equans are among 100 contractors named on a bumper framework focusing on social-housing repairs. Wates’ property arm, Wates Property Services, and Equans Regeneration scooped spots along with Seddon Construction, Mitie’s property services business and Lovell Partnerships on the £3.2bn framework, which is run…

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McLaren confirmed on £132m Oxford Street revamp

Charlotte Banks — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 12:29:35 +0000

McLaren Construction has been selected to refurbish and extend the former House of Fraser department store on Oxford Street, central London. McLaren had already started work on the project almost two years ago for client Publica Properties Establishment under a preconstruction services agreement. Erith is…

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Galliford Try and Seddon scoop places on CHIC mega-framework

Joshua Stein — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 10:39:31 +0000

Major contractors including Galliford Try, Equans and Seddon have scooped multiple spots on a new housing framework worth more than £3bn. The eight-year development framework covers new-build, retrofit and refurbishment projects across the UK. The Communities and Housing Investment Consortium (CHIC), which runs the framework,…

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Willmott Dixon wins £55m police HQ

Charlotte Banks — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 12:06:55 +0000

Willmott Dixon has won a £55m contract to rebuild a police headquarters in Hertfordshire. The firm was appointed to demolish 11 buildings from the 1960s that are reaching the end of their design life, and replace them with an office complex for Hertfordshire Constabulary in…

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Council retenders low-carbon school originally awarded to Willmott Dixon

Ian Weinfass — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 07:00:46 +0000

A council is retendering a £57m ultra-low-carbon school job won by Willmott Dixon last year. West Sussex County Council has opened bidding for a single-stage design-and-build contract for the Bedelands Academy (pictured), a new 900-pupil secondary school for those living in a new Homes England-led…

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Resi specialist nets first league-table win

Charlotte Banks — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 11:27:50 +0000

United Living beat the January blues by topping the monthly league table for the first time, winning £184.3m of work. Two contract wins took the housing specialist to first place. The largest was a £160m contract to refurbish Huguenot House, a 1960s-built housing block near…

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Parliament puts firms on notice for £1.2bn of work

Ian Weinfass — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 12:42:55 +0000

Parliament’s strategic estates team has alerted contractors to a £1.2bn maintenance framework due to open for tenders next month. The Parliamentary Construction Partnership Framework, set to run into the 2030s, will see companies work to stop the Grade I-listed Houses of Parliament from deteriorating. A…

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Graham lands £70m student digs deal

Greg Pitcher — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 12:10:02 +0000

Graham is set to build a 661-bed student accommodation block in Nottingham. The contractor has secured a £70m design-and-build deal from developer Bricks Group for the redevelopment of the Bendigo Building in the East Midlands city. The project will see Graham construct a V-shaped block…

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Kier picked for £60m mental health hospital

Greg Pitcher — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 16:05:07 +0000

Kier is to build a £60m mental health hospital in the South East. The contractor was appointed by the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to deliver the 54-bed acute inpatient and outpatient facility in Bexhill. The 5,200 square metre facility will provide services for adults,…

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