Procurement body Pagabo is inviting tenders for a new £814m FM framework targeting the needs of public sector clients in the healthcare, blue light, infrastructure, education and leisure sectors. The Total Facilities Management Framework will run for four years and offering hard, soft or combined facilities management services. Hard facilities management will cover the provision
Balfour Beatty is making human recognition cameras compulsory on large plant and machinery across all of its UK operations. Balfour claimed it is the first tier one firm to make the move and said it will be rolled out across its supply chain from next year. This latest technology is designed to proactively cover “Blind
Bouygues UK sunk even deeper into the red last year after making additional building safety provisions and suffering further contract losses due to inflation and subcontractors going to the wall. The French-owned contractor suffered pretax losses of £62m in the year to December 2023, worse than the £42m loss reported in the prior year. Bouygues
Chancellor Rachel Reeves is today expected to announce plans to cancel flagship road tunnel projects and pause the already delayed hospital building programme in an attempt to plug a £20bn black hole in public finances. Exact details of which projects are to be axed will be revealed later today but the multi-billion pound Stonehenge Tunnel
Student room developer Watkin Jones has forward sold a planned near 400-bed student scheme with workspace and commercial units in Stratford, East London. Housing Growth Partnership, a social impact investor and part of Lloyds Banking Group, will take a 75% stake in the joint venture development with Watkin Jones taking the remaining 25%. Under this
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
