Morgan Sindall Construction is collaborating with the University of Oxford to deliver a medical research building as the university continues to expand its research facilities. The 50,000 sq ft Institute for Global Health will be built at the University’s Old Road Campus to accommodate 400 staff and 330 researchers over three floors. The £32m building
The Government has completed its Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete audit of the school estate and found 1% schools impacted. Today the Government committed to remove RAAC from all schools in England, retrofitting or rebuilding blocks at the 234 schools found to contain dangerous aerated concrete panels and beams within the building fabric. Just over half
Quest Waste Management has boosted its fleet of dirty water recycling tankers after a ‘try-before-you-buy’ offer from the manufacturer. The West Yorkshire based specialist had spent some time looking around for a suitable machine when one supplier was so confident in its kit it offered the firm a trial period. The 32-ton Cappellotto recycler, sold
Social housing clients are looking for a raft of traditional contractors to join a new £800m modern methods of construction framework. The Building Better alliance of housing associations and councils was set up to increase the use of MMC in social housing. It is now working with Procurement for Housing (PfH) to develop the £800m
An application by the boss of demolition contractor Brown & Mason to continue running the business despite a director disqualification has been refused. Former managing director Nicholas Brown agreed to a seven-year disqualification order last May as part of a Competition and Markets Authority probe into a demolition cartel which saw 10 firms fined nearly
Wernick Group is celebrating its 90th anniversary. The Wernick Group of companies has a history stretching back to 1934, growing from a humble maker of poultry crates to becoming Britain’s largest family-owned provider of portable and modular buildings, and off-grid power solutions. CEO Jonathan Wernick, said: “Samuel Wernick, my great-grandfather, started his working life as
West Sussex County Council has opted to retender its ambitious project to create a new ultra-low-carbon secondary school in Burgess Hill after failing to agree a final price with contractor Willmott Dixon.The firm secured the two-stage contract around a year ago to deliver the £57m Bedelands Academy secondary school for around 900 pupils. Work had
Around 800 jobs could be lost following Barratt’s £2.54bn deal to buy rival house builder Redrow. Detailed bid documents show the merged business will see a reduction in total employees of around 10%. Barratt currently employs 6,000 people and Redrow 2,300. The firms said: “This reduction is intended to come from employees and management, overlapping
The Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs has named Mace as its programme delivery partner for a major National Science Centre for Animal Health, near Weybridge in Surrey. The Government is investing around £2.8bn through its Science Capability in Animal Health (SCAH) Programme in a 12-15 year project to create a major new research
A man has plunged to his death from a crane at a construction site in Leeds, West Yorkshire. It is believed the man, who was not a worker at the site, had ‘fallen from height’ after entering the site late on Tuesday. The site on Central Road in Leeds city centre is believed to be
