Sir Robert McAlpine

Eight firms, including some of the industry’s biggest names, have won places on a £1.5bn framework covering public-sector projects across the North West of England. Kier, Sir Robert McAlpine, ISG, Vinci and Morgan Sindall are among those named on the four-year framework, which kicks off this month. The work includes…

McLaren Construction has replaced Sir Robert McAlpine to complete the £200m expansion of the ExCeL Centre in London's Docklands. The scheme will see the existing conference, exhibition and catering facilities extended by a quarter to cover an area of 125,000 square metres. McLaren will take over from Sir Robert McAlpine,…

Contractors have been alerted to a £616m building and consultancy framework for NHS projects in Wales. The second-generation framework will replace an existing one that started in 2018 and is due to run out in April 2024. It will be managed by the NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership – an…

Several of the UK’s top contractors will limit work or completely shut sites during the Queen’s funeral next week. Earlier this week, the Construction Leadership Council told firms that there was no obligation on them to suspend business during the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, as per government guidance. It…

Planning permission for a new £77.5m University of Cumbria campus, led by Sir Robert McAlpine, has been granted. Plans for the Carlisle Citadel project, which will include work to retain two Grade I-listed citadel rotundas, along with other heritage structures, such as the Woolworths and Burton’s buildings, were approved by…

Sir Robert McAlpine has appointed Andrew Hunter as its new director of engineering. Hunter joined the construction and civil engineering firm in 2018, as a technical director, having previously held senior leadership positions at Skanska. He succeeds Alison Cox, who left the position in August 2021, to take on the…

Sir Robert McAlpine has seen profit pick up, following a year of loss. The construction and civil engineering firm reported a profit of £9.18m for the year 2020-21. This does not include the £0.2m cost after the firm decided to exit construction for energy from waste facilities. The recovery in…

A joint venture between Vinci Construction UK and Sir Robert McAlpine has been selected as the main contractor to build a new NHS clinical rehabilitation facility, valued between £50m to £100m. The specialist alliance called Integrated Health Projects will deliver the National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) as part of the government’s…

Sir Robert McAlpine has begun work on a 'world first' airport for drones and vertical take-off vehicles in Coventry. The project called Air One has been developed by Urban-Air Port (UAP), a start-up that plans to build hubs for drones and other small vertical take-off vehicles. Construction will include a…

The production of precast-concrete segments for the HS2 Colne Valley Viaduct has begun. The Align JV will produce 1,000 segments in a factory that will make up the deck of the viaduct, just outside of north-west London. The joint venture between Bouygues, Sir Robert McAlpine and VolkerFitzpatrick has been working…