Contracts

Kier and McLaughlin & Harvey have been appointed to Scape’s latest £3bn Utilities Works and Services Framework for England, Wales and Northern Ireland. McLaughlin & Harvey has also been appointed to lead the £1bn Scottish version of the framework, alongside RJ McLeod. The frameworks are designed to provide clients with…

Countryside Partnerships is set to build more than 700 homes in north London after striking a deal with mayor Sadiq Khan. The housebuilder, part of the Vistry Group, was selected by the Greater London Authority to deliver the £276m scheme in Colindale, Barnet. Under the agreement, Countryside will build 427…

Laing O’Rourke will use modern methods of construction to create a training hub for the Army in Surrey. The contractor will deliver facilities for a non-infantry centre of excellence at Alexander Barracks in Pirbright. Laing O’Rourke is one of seven firms on the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) Strategic Alliance framework,…

Health chiefs have appointed a joint venture of Vinci and Sir Robert McAlpine to deliver a £312m overhaul of two hospitals near the Welsh border. Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust appointed Integrated Health Projects (IHP) as design and construction partner for its estate-transformation programme. The joint venture will rejig…

Five firms have secured work retrofitting energy-efficiency measures across Scotland and Northern Ireland. Bell Group, PHS Home Solutions and Procast Building Contractors were named to carry out refurbishment and installation tasks across both countries. The trio are joined on the Scotland-specific lot of the framework by Paisley business Clark Contracts…

Northumbrian Water has appointed seven firms to its largest-ever package of framework agreements, which will deliver the company’s £3.6bn five-year investment programme. Costain, Bam Nutall, Esh-Stantec, Farrans Construction, Mott MacDonald Bentley, Avove Ltd and MWH Treatment have joined the water company’s Living Water Enterprise (LWE), a 12-year partnership that will…

HG Construction has landed a £75m student scheme in Bristol. The high-rise specialist contractor will deliver a 706-room development comprised of four blocks ranging from five to 15 storeys. The project, for client Studio Hive, is on Silverthorne Lane, at the centre of Bristol’s Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone, which is…

An embattled regeneration scheme in Southampton has stalled again after the contractor pulled out. Drew Smith, now known as Countryside Partnerships, signed a contract with Southampton City Council in 2021 to build three plots containing 273 homes as part of the £100m Townhill Park regeneration scheme. Countryside Partnerships is part…

Somerset Council has signed three contracts worth a combined £140m for road maintenance and improvement works in the county. Kiely Group will deliver surface-treatment services, including road surface dressing, footway crack sealing, ironwork strengthening and support, preparatory drainage, patching and cleaning, and post-surfacing road markings, studs and high-friction surfacing. Heidelberg…

Bam Construct’s preconstruction services agreement (PCSA) for a new £50.4m ‘super school’ in Northumberland has been extended by the county council. The council cabinet agreed on Tuesday (12 December) to issue an early works instruction “as an extension of the current PCSA up to the value of £1.4m to prevent…