Willmott Dixon

Wates, Wilmott Dixon and Bouygues UK have won spots on a £2.5bn framework to build 7,000 new houses across London. The framework, tendered by housing association Notting Hill Genesis, will run for four years until June 2026, with the option to extend for a further two years. A total of…

Kier and Willmott Dixon are among a host of big-time contractors that have nabbed spots on a £240m framework covering the north of England. Tilbury Douglas, Henry Boot, Morgan Sindall and Galliford Try were also named on the YORbuild3 framework, which will last for four years. Specifically, the work will…

Willmott Dixon has partnered with materials manufacturer Etex to upskill prisoners at HMP Cardiff. The training programme will give HMP Cardiff inmates the chance to learn how to install plasterboard. The course is designed to provide learners with the most up-to-date industry knowledge and best practices, and is an update…

The City of London Corporation has established a new Skills for a Sustainable Skyline Taskforce, which will look at defining and addressing skills gaps around the construction, retrofit and maintenance of low-carbon commercial buildings in Central London boroughs. Among those chosen to sit on the taskforce are Mace chief of…

Wates has made a commitment to appoint more women to senior roles, as a condition attached to a £90m loan. The contractor secured a three-year sustainability-linked loan, facilitated by a syndicate led by Lloyds Bank along with HSBC and AIB, which each put in £30m. The terms of the loan…

Willmott Dixon has been chosen to deliver a £65m mixed-use scheme in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. The project, located in Northminster, includes 315 apartments in 10 storeys, 37 townhouses, and leisure and commercial units on the ground floor. It will be built next to a cathedral on the site of a former…

Durkan has named a former Willmott Dixon managing director as its new head of construction. Tim Carpenter joined the Hertfordshire-based developer and contractor as new business director last year and has now been promoted to managing director of construction. He succeeds Jim Briggs, who is retiring after 44 years at…

Morgan Sindall, Kier and Galliford Try are among firms on a new £1.8bn framework covering the North West. The framework has been split between building and infrastructure works and contains different value lots. The highest value band is for projects worth more than £30m. The projects covered include construction work…

Fast-growing GMI Construction has poached Willmott Dixon’s regional operations director for Yorkshire. Andrew Hurcomb (pictured) has joined Leeds-based GMI as managing director for Yorkshire. He takes the position recently vacated by Lee Powell who stepped up to chief executive of GMI. Powell said of Hurcomb’s appointment: “His knowledge and experience…

Willmott Dixon, Robertson and Farrans have been selected for a £4.2 bn major-projects framework. Procurement Hub, part of the developer and property management company Places for People, confirmed the three would deliver projects on the second generation of the Major Projects framework, which includes local government, housing, health, transport and…