Contracts

VolkerFitzpatrick has been appointed to build a £174m film and TV production centre in East London. Eastbrook Studios in Dagenham will include 12 soundstages and three acres of backlot, as well as offices and ancillary space. Construction of the studios, which the firm said will be London’s largest, is due…

Wolverhampton City Council has appointed McLaughlin & Harvey as its preferred construction partner for a new 10,000-square metre educational hub in the city centre. Wolverhampton’s City Learning Quarter project, which the council has developed with City of Wolverhampton College, will create a purpose-built learning facility for young people and adults.…

Midgard has won a key role on the £8bn Brent Cross Town mega-development. The Hertfordshire-based contractor, part of the JRL group, has been appointed for the first chunk of the sprawling north-west London scheme. Developer Related Argent – a partnership between the US real estate giant Related and UK developer…

Erith Group has landed an early works package on the £700m Sunset Waltham Cross Studios scheme in Hertfordshire, Construction News can reveal. The Kent-based demolition and earthworks specialist is on site at the project carrying out site preparation ahead of main works starting next year. Developers Blackstone and Hudson Pacific…

Mace has been appointed to deliver the first part of a £100m expansion of research facilities at Oxford University. The contract, worth £60m, will see the company provide two buildings, covering a total of 135,000 square feet, at Begbroke Science Park in Kidlington. One building will become a new home…

Willmott Dixon has scooped a £50m contract to transform a 1990s office block near Tower Bridge into one of the UK’s most sustainable offices.  The contractor has been chosen by Fore Partnership to overhaul the 10,219-square-metre building next to Tower Bridge into the TBC.London workspace. The speculative development is underpinned…

Midgard has been chosen to build a “sustainable” office scheme in the City of London. The project, called Verdant, at 150 Aldersgate Street is located close to Farringdon Elizabeth Line Station and will be 135,000 square foot in size. Eighty per cent of the existing structure on site will be…

Oldham Council has kicked off the search for a development partner for a £550m plan to redevelop its town centre. A contract notice for a master development private-sector partner has been published for the mammoth scheme, which would begin next year and last until 2048. The council is looking to…

A joint venture involving Henry Boot’s development arm has been appointed to deliver the first phase of a £1bn campus for cyber and digital innovation in Gloucestershire. HBD X Factory, a joint venture between Henry Boot’s property investment and development business and Factory, a Germany-founded multinational, has been awarded the…

A £300m contract to redevelop the soon-to-be-former home of the Red Arrows is up for grabs. West Lindsey District Council said it was seeking a delivery partner and investors to regenerate RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, which has served as the base for RAF's elite display squad since 1996. The works…