Buildings

Ardmore has landed a £75m main works contract at the Hackney Yards development in East London. The job, awarded by Notting Hill Genesis, will see the contractor design and build four residential and commercial blocks around Hackney Wick station. The eight-storey brick-clad blocks, split across three sites, will provide 190…

A Welsh transport body is seeking contractors for £100m of highways jobs. The North and Mid Wales Trunk Road Agent launched procurement of its Civil Engineering Construction Works Framework Contract 2024, with an official notice published by Gwynedd Council giving firms until 16 February to express an interest in the…

Farrans is to build a £45m retirement community in South Oxfordshire for developer Inspired Villages. In the first phase of the Widmore Park development at Sonning Common (pictured), Belfast-based Farrans will deliver 73 homes for people aged over 65, as well as a wellness suite with a swimming pool and…

A pair of local authorities are looking for a developer to build £500m of housing in the southern tip of Wales. Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan councils this week published a contract notice for their New Housing Partnership. The successful firm will develop a number of sites across the region…

The Environment Agency has awarded £87.4m of flood defence asset management work to three contractors. ECS Engineering Services was appointed to deliver maintenance and repair work across the body’s central region in a deal estimated at £28.5m. The Nottinghamshire firm also won the £18.4m South East lot and a £7.7m…

Galliford Try has won an £87m contract to deliver 286 build-to-rent homes as part of a mammoth regeneration scheme in north London. The homes will form part of Brent Cross Town, an £8bn mixed-use neighbourhood covering 180 acres. The three new blocks, containing a mix of market-rent and discount-market-rent homes,…

Vistry has pre-sold almost 3,000 homes across 70 sites as it continues to reduce its interest in private housebuilding. The Kent-based company struck a deal that will see private rental sector operator Leaf Living acquire 1,522 residences and registered social landlord Sage Homes buy 1,393 affordable units. Vistry recently set…

A £250m framework covering new-builds in Scotland and Northern Ireland has failed to appoint a single firm after a two-month procurement process. An opportunity notice was published in August for the framework, which was intended to be used mainly for residential developments, including construction and design-and-build work. The tender included…

Mace has been appointed as the preferred contractor on a new headquarters for the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). The firm signed a preconstruction services agreement (PCSA) to lead on the procurement of the design for the new headquarters, which will be situated at the University of Reading’s…

McLaughlin & Harvey has been appointed as the main contractor on a “game-changing” learning quarter in Wolverhampton city centre. The £41m main build contract will include creating a new main campus for the City of Wolverhampton College within a group of Victorian and early Edwardian buildings in the city centre.…