10. How do we make modular buildings safer? More than eight months after fire-service leaders published a five-page document outlining a litany of concerns about modular buildings, and more than a year-and-a-half after safety body Cross-UK highlighted the potential for concealed spread of fire inside extensive cavities within such structures,…
Winner: Willmott Dixon – The Pears Building, Immunity & Transplantation Research Facility The Pears Building provides a new home for the UCL Institute of Immunity and Transplantation (IIT), allowing researchers to collaborate with clinicians at the neighbouring Royal Free Hospital. Willmott Dixon’s client for the design-and-build contract, the Royal Free…
Winner: Willmott Dixon – Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Building, University of Warwick The University of Warwick’s new Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Building (IBRB) is a six-storey, 7,000 square-metre facility for up to 300 biomedical researchers. It comprises five floors of labs, plus social and collaborative spaces and a 400-seat lecture theatre. It…
Demand for flexible working has grown in the wake of the pandemic, but does flexibility fit with construction, and can it ease the sector’s gender balance and skills issues? Lem Bingley reports from a recent CN roundtable
On the panel Kevin Bowsher, equality, diversity and inclusion lead at Mace Gillian…
Since Carillion’s demise two-and-a-half years ago, most large contractors have hammered home the message that they are focused on two things: cash and profitability. Revenue growth was almost looked upon with disdain in some quarters, as quality trumped any desire for quantity. This falling revenue trend has taken on a…
Schemes include blighted former Carillion builds, a proton-beam therapy unit and a hospital set for an early opening in response to the COVID-19 outbreak
In London, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Harrogate and Bristol, contractors are helping the NHS turn existing buildings into field hospitals to boost the nation's capacity to treat coronavirus…
What plagues construction? Willmott Dixon boss Rick Willmott sits down with editor Lem Bingley to discuss Brexit, a global pandemic, reverse VAT and why government is still misunderstanding the sector
Rick Willmott is a calm, measured and thoughtful character. He presides over a large contractor (ranked 13 in our latest CN100)…
Our industry has come a long way since I first joined as a young building technician in 1993. Back then terms such as ‘diversity’ or ‘gender balanced teams’ did not figure much on construction sites or in management vocabulary. How far we have come. Fast forward 26 years and it…
Winner: Willmott Dixon Willmott Dixon’s commitment to the environment through what it says is a “purpose beyond profit” made it a unanimous choice for Environmental Contractor of the Year with our judges. Judges hailed the contractor for its “unbelievably comprehensive” presentation on an environmental ethos that was “embedded within the…
The contractor is giving voice to a council-backed redevelopment of the South Wales Valley town, in the shape of £40m multi-use scheme.
Project: Taff Vale redevelopment, PontypriddClient: Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough CouncilContract value: £40mMain contractor: Willmott DixonContract type: JCT Design & BuildStart date: March 2018Completion date: Spring 2020 The small…
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