The Viridis consortium of Equitix, Graham and Derwent FM has been selected as preferred bidder and delivery partner for the next phase of the University of Manchester’s Fallowfield Campus. The £400m deal will be developed under a Design, Build, Finance and Operate (DBFO) model. The University and Viridis will now work together to develop its
Morgan Sindall has been appointed to build a Newcastle leisure centre job which Willmott Dixon walked away from last year after failing to agree a final price amid rising construction costs. Willmott Dixon agreed to complete enabling works under the preconstruction agreement at the West Denton leisure centre while Newcastle City Council looked for a
Keltbray is understood to be in advanced talks to sell its infrastructure division. Industry sources told the Enquirer earlier this week: “It’s an open secret that a deal is being done and the firm is being broken up.” Keltbray declined to say any more than “we never comment on market speculation of this nature.” It
Student rooms developer Unite has bought a site in south London with planning already in place to fast-track a 444-bed scheme. The move swells Unite Students’ London development pipeline which now totals 3,200 beds for delivery over the next five years at a cost of over £800m. Unite said it would start demolition shortly to
HS2 contractors are using a specialist cantilever process for the first time in the UK to build viaduct spans at the scheme’s complex Delta junction in the West Midlands. The viaduct intersection is being built by Balfour Beatty VINCI, using a method initially developed by Campenon Bernard, now part of Vinci. The River Tame West
Nearly three quarters of construction firms want to scrap the training levy and the CITB according to a major new survey. The research was conducted by Survation and commissioned by payroll giant Hudson Contract who are embroiled in an on-going legal dispute with the CITB over levy payments. A total of 1,042 companies responded to
Staff at BAM Construction are facing a round of job cuts after the Dutch parent group revealed this morning that Manchester’s delayed Co-op arena job plunged the UK construction business £19.5m into the red in the first six months of the year. Royal BAM Group said it had suffered a ‘substantial loss’ on the project
A company that pioneered a way of building tunnels entirely with robots has gone into administration. HyperTunnel developed the automated construction method at its research facility in the North Hampshire Downs where it unveiled the world’s first entirely robot-constructed underground structure in 2022. It claimed to build tunnels more than 10 times faster and at
Wates Group has agreed a partnership deal with Guildford Borough Council to develop a site in the heart of the Surrey town The £86m Guildford Park Road development will transform a car park site into an urban neighbourhood of 248 homes with 40% affordable housing. The council is committing up to £40m from the Housing
Bury Council has approved plans for the £100m-plus transformation of the Longfield Centre site in Prestwich town centre. A joint venture between regeneration specialist Muse and Bury Council will deliver spaces for new local shops, public spaces, community facilities, and much-needed new homes at the site off Bury New Road. The plans involve building a
