Contracts

The Environment Agency has awarded £87.4m of flood defence asset management work to three contractors. ECS Engineering Services was appointed to deliver maintenance and repair work across the body’s central region in a deal estimated at £28.5m. The Nottinghamshire firm also won the £18.4m South East lot and a £7.7m…

A £250m framework covering new-builds in Scotland and Northern Ireland has failed to appoint a single firm after a two-month procurement process. An opportunity notice was published in August for the framework, which was intended to be used mainly for residential developments, including construction and design-and-build work. The tender included…

Birmingham City Council’s political leadership has claimed the government is set to “pull the plug” on £600m of funding for a highways contract. Kier and Canadian firm SNC-Lavalin were last year invited to tender for the city’s restructured highways PFI contract, covering capital works and maintenance along more than 2,500km…

North East Lincolnshire Council is seeking contractors for a four-year capital works framework worth £50m. The work will include internal and external construction, including repairs, maintenance and refurbishment, as well as work on new capital projects. In addtion, it covers extensions to council-owned assets such as leisure centres, schools and…

Murphy has landed a £93.4m contract to build the new Cambridge South station. The firm, which is already carrying out preparatory work on the site, has been chosen by National Rail to deliver the station through to completion, which is expected to be in 2025. The two-storey, four-platform facility will…

GMI Construction is to deliver a purpose-built student accommodation scheme in York worth £50m. The four-storey building will provide 275 beds, along with a gym, yoga studio, games room, cinema, co-working space and communal dining areas. The 7,400 square metre scheme will be known as the Rialto, paying homage to…

McLaren is set to start work on a £400m refurbishment of the 29-floor Portland House tower in Victoria, London. Developer Landsec said the revamp of the 1960s block will create a “contemporary office-led destination” in response to a growing demand for high-quality office space in the area. The project will…

Skanska has landed one of its largest fit-out jobs, winning a £158m contract for a data centre in London’s Docklands. The work will form part of an upgrade of global data centre provider Telehouse’s largest facility. The 10-storey Telehouse South, in Blackwall Yard, is one of five data centres the…

Eight groundworks firms that were last week appointed on a framework for preliminary works on the HS2 line from Birmingham to the North West look to have been left without any work to do after today's decision to scrap the leg. HS2 awarded £300m of ground investigation work for HS2…

Newcastle City Council is looking for a new contractor for a leisure centre that was due to be built by Willmott Dixon. In February, Willmott Dixon announced it had been appointed to develop the “state-of-the-art” Outer West Leisure Centre in West Denton, then costed at £26m. Willmott Dixon has carried…