Skanska

Morgan Sindall Construction and Skanska UK have each won jobs in Cambridge from rail pension-fund manager Railpen. Skanska has picked up a £200m contract to build the 50,000 square metre Botanic Place office scheme on Hills Road, close to the university’s botanical gardens. Designed by architect AHMM, the scheme includes…

Skanska stalwart Steve Holbrook has left the firm with immediate effect after almost three decades of service. Holbrook joined the Swedish-owned construction firm in 1995, initially as a sponsored student midway through his undergraduate studies at Loughborough University. He rose through the ranks to become managing director of Skanska Building…

Skanska has topped October’s contractor league table with a single contract win – a £158m data-centre fit-out job. The firm will install electrical plant, air conditioning, ventilation, lifts and a roof gantry at Telehouse South in London’s Docklands for data-centre provider Telehouse. Skanska previously carried out an early works package…

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…

Skanska UK saw its profit and revenue increase in 2022, according to just-filed company accounts. The contractor's pre-tax profit rose to £55m, a 59 per cent increase on the previous year's £34.7m. Turnover increased to £1.4bn, a 17 per cent increase on the previous year's £1.2bn, with its pre-tax profit…

Royal Bam topped the monthly contractors’ league table in July for the first time since 2020, after it was chosen to build converter stations at each end of a £2bn undersea cable between Scotland and England. The firm was awarded £500m for its share of work on Eastern Green Link…

Skanska has been named as the preferred bidder on a £450m roads contract for the Lower Thames Crossing megaproject. It is the second of three major contracts to be awarded by National Highways for the planned road tunnel crossing the Thames Estuary between Kent and Essex. Covering almost four miles…

A joint venture (JV) between Skanska and Black & Veatch has landed a £219m design-and-build contract from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for a new building at RAF Molesworth in Cambridgeshire. The contract for the two-storey facility (pictured) was awarded by the MoD's Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) on behalf of…

The Skanska Costain Strabag joint venture (SCS JV) working on HS2 has been awarded an additional £305.3m by HS2 Ltd. The funds, awarded under the existing £3.8bn contract, will go towards works on Phase One of the new high-speed railway. They relate to planned and agreed changes to the scope…

Skanska UK has appointed Katy Dowding as its new president and chief executive, effective from 2 May, making her the only woman currently running a tier one contractor. Dowding (pictured), a 20-year veteran of the company, has been promoted from her current role as executive vice president, to which she…