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VolkerFitzpatrick has been awarded an £82m design and build contract for new wind-turbine facilities in Hull. The contractor will deliver two facilities for Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, as well as repurposing an existing factory that it delivered for the client in 2016. The new buildings, which cover a footprint of…

Three bidders have been shortlisted to deliver the £370m Solihull Interchange station for HS2. The firms in the running are Laing O’Rourke, Skanska and Unity (a joint venture between Sir Robert McAlpine, VolkerFitzpatrick and WSP). The contract is set to be awarded next year. All three bidders have already landed…

Skanska has topped the March contract league table thanks to a half-billion-pound road job. The contractor landed the A428 upgrade between Milton Keynes and Cambridge last month. The single £507m job meant Skanska had the largest contract haul in March, according to data provided by construction intelligence provider Glenigan. It…

HS2 is set to deploy a robot arm to automate two risky tasks during tunnelling work on the rail megaproject. The robot, dubbed Krokodyl, has been developed by main works contractor Align, a joint venture between Bouygues, Sir Robert McAlpine and VolkerFitzpatrick. It will be deployed on a pair of…

Royal Bam topped September’s league table as total orders rose again. Big jobs in the leisure and entertainment sectors helped to propel the group to the top of the league with £469.7m of new work secured. The largest of these was a £230m contract to build a new studio for…

VolkerWessels UK achieved strong growth of almost 20 per cent in its accounts for the year ending 31 December 2019. The group broke through the billion-pound barrier to record revenue of £1.18bn, up 19.9 per cent on the £984m reported last summer. The company said the leap in revenue was…

Sir Robert McAlpine and Multiplex are the latest contractors to rule out claiming through the Jobs Retention Bonus scheme. Under the programme, firms are entitled to £1,000 for each employee brought back from furlough who remain in the firm’s employment until the end of January. The industry as a whole…

VolkerFitzpatrick must pay Blackpool Council more than £1m to fix its faulty tram depot. The High Court has ruled that elements of the building, which VolkerFitzpatrick delivered under an £18m design and build agreement between 2009 and 2011, are not fit for purpose. To cover the cost of replacements and…

Winvic has topped the March league table for contract wins, thanks to a massive logistics project in the East Midlands. Top 10 contractors, March 2020 Click here for the full top 50 Contractor No Total (£m) 1 Winvic 3 282.0 2 Royal Bam 9 252.3 3 ISG 7 200.3 4…

Sisk topped the contract league for January thanks to a high-rise hotel job near Canary Wharf, according to data compiled by construction intelligence provider Glenigan. Top 10 contractors, January 2020 Click here for the full top 50 Contractor No Total (£m) 1 John Sisk 1 151.0 2 VolkerWessels 4 149.9…