Contracts

Mace and Arcadis have been named among the firms appointed to a £1bn Scape consultancy framework. Five winners were announced for the framework that will cover all types of construction consultancy for the public sector. The announcement was originally meant to be made earlier this year but was pushed back…

A build-to-rent (BTR) residential project in Birmingham being developed by Sir Robert McAlpine has secured £100m in funding. Project backers Legal & General has announced a funding agreement of £100m for the development site at Hockley Mills, located in Birmingham city centre’s Jewellery Quarter. The deal was done through L&G’s…

Subsidiaries of Kier, Morgan Sindall and Vinci are among the winners on a £47bn developer-led framework. A total of 29 firms have been selected by framework provider Pagabo, acting on behalf of Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, for the five-and-a-half-year public sector framework. Others named on the…

The government is looking to appoint a firm to take care of the Grenfell Tower under a £32m contract. The principal contractor will be responsible for securing the site and managing the propping and scaffolding on the fire-damaged building, which will include installing new props to supplement the ones installed…

There is significant scope for improving the visibility of contractor’s efforts to deliver social value to the communities where projects are based, research by framework provider Scape has found. Its report, called ‘Social Value: More Than Metrics’, reveals that 50 per cent of the 2,000 British adults it surveyed “couldn’t…

A Turkish construction firm has landed the £100m contract to build a mixed-use development in central London. The UK subsidiary of Istanbul-based Ant Yapi has been appointed on a design-and-build contract by developer Fenton Whelan for its Park Modern project. It is claimed the deal is one of the “largest…

Redrow has secured planning permission for two housing developments in West Sussex with a combined total of 240 homes. The housebuilder said the approval takes its total number of live developments in the region to six with a further two proposals “in the pipeline”. The first scheme will bring 145…

Liverpool Football Club will submit plans for a 7,000-seat expansion to Anfield stadium this week. The Premier League club paused the project in April due to the coronavirus lockdown and set a new deadline of summer 2023 for completion. Originally, Liverpool wanted to complete the work by summer 2022, using…

Robertson has been named preferred bidder to build a new £150m arena in Cardiff. Cardiff Council has picked a consortium led by international venue operator and promoter Live Nation to deliver the new 15,000-capacity arena. Robertson and US developer and investor Oak View Group are also part of the bid.­…

Kier and Wates are among the firms appointed on a new £620m framework for Camden Council. The four-year construction works framework is split across seven lots, covering new building work, upgrades and repairs. Wates, Mulalley and Engie each secured places on four lots. Vinci, Kier, Durkan and AD Construction all…