Project Reports

Sustainability is front of mind on a Silicon Roundabout-located scheme that seeks to retain as much concrete as possible from the existing structure

Project: Hylo Value: £130m Client: CIT Main contractor: Mace Structural engineer: AKT II Cost consultant: Arcadis MEP consultant: RHB Partnership Demolition/Excavation/Concrete/Groundworks: J Coffey Soft strip: Tower Demolition…

Project: Springfield campus – School of Architecture and Built Environment Client: University of Wolverhampton Contractor: ISG Contract value: £26m Contract type: Pagabo Framework Architect: Associated Architects Start date: October 2018 Completion: May 2020 At an old brewery site in Wolverhampton, an excavator chugs across the rubble, raising its bucket to…

Seeing is believing at the contractor’s mixed-use London scheme, where cutting-edge augmented and virtual reality is integral to works planning

Project The Broadway Contract value £400m Client Northacre Design and build contractor Multiplex Architect Squire & Partners Start date November 2016 Completion date December 2021 In September last year, Construction…

A mixture of cross-laminated and glulam timber is helping transform a north-west London site with a musical history into a six-storey office

Project The Gramophone Works Client Resolution Property Contractor Graham Contract value £25m Contract type Design and build Start date February 2019 Completion date Q1 2021 The site…

Charged with finishing the second of two office towers inherited from Carillion in Manchester, the firm is overcoming a host of legacy issues

Project: 100 Embankment Client: Ask Real Estate Main contractor: Bam Contract value: £40m Contract type: Design and build Architect: Flanagan Lawrence Facade: Prater Structures and civils consultant:…

A client keen to ‘crack on’, unorthodox funding and a hybrid modular offsite system are combining to deliver a hospital build remarkably quickly

Project: Ward extension, NNUH Phase one project value: £10m Main contractor: MTX Contract type: Design and build Piling subcontractor: G M Piling M&E consultant: DSSR Structural engineer:…

Wates set out to eliminate the need for scaffolding or mast climbers on the 33-storey Anthology Hale in north London – and saved on costs by doing so

Project: Anthology Hale Client: Anthology Contractor: Wates Contract value: £83m Contract type: JCT design and build Architect: A&Q Structural engineer: PTA MEP…

Ballymore's west London scheme has been 15 years in the making, but the Irish developer is now pressing ahead and looking to place the development at the heart of the local community.

Project: The Brentford Project Client/contractor: Ballymore Contract type: Construction management Concrete frame subcontractor: Oliver Connell & Son Project…

In the West Midlands, contractors are helping spruce up the gateway to one of its major cities

Scheme: Wolverhampton Interchange – New Station Building Client: Ion Developments Main contractor: Galliford Try Contract value: £21m Contract type: JCT design and build Contract start: October 2017 Completion: October 2020 Like many UK…

Nevada contractor Penta races against the clock to complete the world’s two largest pillar-less ballrooms for Caesars Entertainment in time for the NFL draft next April

Project: Caesars Forum Client: Caesars Entertainment Construction cost: $375m (£280m) Contract type: Design and build Main contractor: Penta Steelwork: SME Steel Architect: KGA Start…