Willmott Dixon

Mace, Morgan Sindall and Willmott Dixon have signed a letter sent to the construction minister, urging him to make carbon assessments mandatory for public sector jobs. The letter to Lee Rowley (see bottom of article), sent by framework provider Scape and and signed by 16 contractors and consultants, called for…

Morgan Sindall, Wates, and Willmott Dixon are among the firms appointed to the £5.16bn Southern Construction Framework (SCF). The residential framework will run for four years and give the firms access to residential work in London, the South East and South West. Projects awarded could include traditional design-and-build contracts, end-to-end…

Bam Construct, Kier and Willmott Dixon are among the five contractors to scoop places on both high-value lots of the Department for Education’s (DfE) mammoth £7bn building framework. A total of 26 contractors have been picked on the 22 separate lots on the four-year framework, which is split into regional…

Multiplex is offering staff the option of four-day working weeks in a new flexible-working initiative that it hopes will improve the gender balance in the company. Its ‘Multiplex Flex’ initiative will provide staff with different options for flexible working. It includes early finishes on Fridays, four-day weeks, remote working and…

Mace and Willmott Dixon have formed an alliance to bid on new healthcare jobs. The contractors said working together would allow them to deliver a wider scope of new-build and refurbishment projects than they could achieve individually. The two will now bid together for contracts under an FAC-1 framework alliance…

Willmott Dixon will deliver a regeneration project for Rochdale Borough Council in Greater Manchester. The £60m job will include building 242 new apartments and a Hampton by Hilton hotel on a brownfield site in the town centre. Known as Upperbanks, the scheme was designed by architect Leach Rhodes Walker and…

Willmott Dixon has appointed former Kier senior management team member Hugh Raven to its board. The lawyer will become general counsel of the contractor, a newly created position with overall responsibility for legal and regulatory affairs. A statement from Willmott Dixon said Raven will be supported by company secretary Wendy…

Contractors are on notice for a new £4.2bn major projects framework to which just three organisations will be appointed. The agreement is set to run for an initial four-year period, with the option for it to be extended for a further two years. The framework has been broken down into…

Seven contractors have been named on two new Scape construction frameworks worth a combined £14bn. Kier, Morgan Sindall, Graham, Willmott Dixon, McLaughlin & Harvey, John Sisk & Son and Mace have been appointed to the Scape Construction framework for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, worth up to £12bn. Meanwhile Morgan…

McLaren topped the contract wins league table in July thanks to a new residential focus scheme in London. The construction group has signed up to deliver British Land’s 136,000 square foot Aldgate Place phase two scheme in Tower Hamlets for £72m (pictured). The build contract, which will include the construction…