Contracts

Caddick is to take over the £11m refurbishment and fit-out of the Grade II-listed India Buildings in Liverpool. The prominent building, located at the city’s Water Street, is due to become a base for HMRC staff next year. Styles & Wood had originally been carrying out the work and a…

McLaren has won a £190m contract for a luxury residential development in central London. The project in Fitzrovia will consist of 88 luxury apartments, 15 affordable housing units and 35,000 sq ft of commercial space. McLaren was appointed on the project by a joint venture of developers Art-Invest Real Estate…

RG Carter has won the contract to build a £65m aviation research centre at Cranfield University. The new Digital Aviation Research and Technology Centre (DARTeC) at the Bedfordshire education facility has been designed to look like a fighter plane from above. The building features a two-storey atrium and will contain…

Kier has won a contract to build the £35m School of Digital Arts (SODA) for Manchester Metropolitan University. The five-storey, 5,200 sq m building will contain teaching facilities for the university's creative, digital, technology and business students. The building will feature a distinctive LED light wall on its exterior to…

Procurement specialist Pagabo has announced two new frameworks that will go out for tender this month, worth a combined £10.5bn. The public sector framework body is predicting it will “more than treble” the number of projects being developed through the second terms of its National Framework for Professional Services in…

Liverpool-based contractor Legacie is set to take over a resi development that had been stalled since the collapse of original contractor Forrest, Construction News can reveal. Bolton-based Forrest was delivering The Eight, on Grenville Street in the city’s Ropewalks area close to Chinatown, until it went under in December last…

Retail developer Hammerson has released plans for a 14-storey hotel located in Leeds city centre. If approved, the 1,670 sq m Victoria Gate Hotel will include 205 bedrooms, a gym, conferencing facilities and a bar and restaurant. The site is currently a temporary car park, adjacent to Victoria Gate, a…

Irish builder JJ Rhatigan has won the main contract on phase one of a £280m mixed-use scheme in Luton. The first phase of developer Strawberry Star Homes's ‘Lu2on’ development will comprise 400 apartments, built on the former site of a Vauxhall Motors factory. Site preparation works are now under way,…

VolkerFitzpatrick has been awarded a £75m contract to resurface the runway and airfield operating surfaces at RAF Lossiemouth, in Scotland. The contract was awarded by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation to prepare its Moray base in northern Scotland for the arrival of nine new marine patrol aircraft in 2020. The work…

Vinci has been awarded a facilities management services contract for Transport for London’s commercial estate. The contract will run for three years, with the option to extend it for another two, and covers the retail, industrial and some residential units owned by the operator. The work to be delivered for…