Graham has secured a £70m contract to design and build a purpose-built student accommodation project in Nottingham. Property developer Bricks Group is behind the plan to redevelop the former Royal Mail Bendigo Building site with a 660-bed scheme. The ‘True Nottingham’ scheme will offer a variety of living options including studios and four, five and
The Government has granted development consent for Drax to build the world’s largest carbon capture facility at its North Yorkshire power station. But whether the £2bn project to install plant to capture carbon dioxide emissions from two existing biomass units will be built hangs in the balance over Government funding. The Bioenergy with Carbon Capture
Neil Dalton has been appointed Balfour Beatty’s new Defence Work Winning Director after joining the group from Amey. He will lead the firm’s strategy to identify and pursue new business opportunities in the defence sector. Dalton brings with him a wealth of military and business experience having spent 32 years in the Army Air Corps,
Hertfordshire design and build contractor HG Construction has set up a new operational board after a strong period of expansion to exceed £400m turnover. The management shake-up brings several promotions across its construction, pre-construction and commercial teams. Bryan Haynes, Carl Murrells and Declan Martin will join HG’s operational board in their new roles as construction
Joint developer SFGE Properties and Oppidan Life has gained planning approval to build a 40-storey residential block in Sheffield city centre. It plans to redevelop the site of the former Primark store in the Castlegate area to create just over 430 co-living flats. Designed by architect Hodder + Partners, the £40m Kings Tower scheme involves
ISG is tipped to take a major office tower fit-out project in the City of London near Finsbury Circus for ‘magic circle’ legal giant Linklaters. The 300,000 sq ft fit-out project at the new 20 Ropemakers Street office tower built by Skanska will become the London HQ for the legal firm. Mace and Overbury have
Integrated Health Projects (IHP) has been confirmed as design and construction partner by The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust for its £312m Hospitals Transformation Programme. IHP – a Joint Venture between VINCI Building and Sir Robert McAlpine – will support the Trust as it prepares to take the plans through the final stage of
Construction of the 3.2GW Sizewell C nuclear plant in Suffolk has moved a step closer after a Development Consent Order was officially triggered. The £20bn project was granted permission to build in July 2022, allowing some preparatory works to subsequently begin. But the government also set out several obligations that needed to be satisfied before
SRL Traffic Systems has established an exclusive hire partnership with security gates specialist CLD Physical Security Systems to give traffic managers of longer-term projects access to a pioneering haul route solution that promotes the safe and efficient plant crossing of public highways. SRL is now the exclusive supplier of a new integrated solution incorporating CLD’s
Developer and contractor Torsion Group has joined forces with funder Zenzic Capital to launch a new purpose-built student accommodation joint venture with the acquisition of five major schemes worth £147m Two of these schemes, which are located in Leeds (Trapezium, Leeds – 91 beds) and Nottingham (One Hockley, Nottingham – 131+6 beds), are newly built
