Hertfordshire County Council has invited bids for a highway services contractor offering the promise of a £1.95bn deal that could stretch to 21 years. Incumbent contractor Ringway’s term is due to expire in September 2025, ending a 12-year relationship with the council which is understood to have been worth over £600m. Under the next arrangement,
ISG has landed the second phase of work at one of the UK’s largest datacentre hubs in Slough. The contractor is working on the initial 30MW phase which will complete next year and has now secured the contract for the next similar sized building for client Yondr. ISG’s scope of works across both phases encompasses
The industry welcomed the government’s allocation of an extra £1.25bn to the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund. With match funding, the award will see around £2.5bn pumped into insulating or retrofitting 140,000 homes between 2025 and 2028. Social housing contractors said the allocation provided all-important long-term certainty for businesses. The Government announcement on how it intends
Raised access flooring specialist Floorplan Systems Limited has celebrated 25 years in business. Established in 1998 by founders Gordon Scott, Gordon Taylor, Brian McEvoy, and more recently headed up by Patrick Swift, the Lancashire based company has evolved from a modest startup into a key player in the industry helped by its exclusive partnership with
Unite Students has awarded the build contract to RG Group for a new 600-bed development at the heart of Bristol’s biggest ever regeneration project. The £75m Marsh Mills scheme will be constructed adjacent to the University of Bristol’s new Temple Quarter campus and a lease agreement is in place with the Russell Group university for
The construction arm of property development specialist HG Living is to deliver a 185-bed purpose-built student accommodation scheme in London’s Vauxhall area. The scheme is advancing following a deal with International Students House, a charitable organisation providing affordable homes to back the project at Kennington Lane. HG Construction is due to commence in early 2024,
The Defence Infrastructure Organisation has awarded Morgan Sindall a £54m contract for a major programme to upgrade Marne Barracks in Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire The barracks, which is currently the home of 5 Regiment Royal Artillery and 32 Regiment Royal Engineers, requires additional infrastructure to prepare for the arrival of 21 Regiment Royal Engineers by
Lancashire based steeelwork specialist James Killelea & Co Ltd owed £4m when it went into administration in October. A statement of affairs lodged at Companies House by administrator Leonard Curtis revealed the scale of debt following the collapse of the firm which had been in business since 1970 providing structural engineering services including 3D building
Engineering teams have lifted the 245-tonne steel dome capping the first Hinkley C reactor building. The delicate 90-minute heavy lift by the Big Carl crane saw the dome, wider than St Paul’s cathedral, lifted onto the 44m tall first reactor building. EDF’s nuclear island director Simon Parsons said it as a fantastic night with smiles
HS2’s Skanska Costain Strabag joint venture has secured an extra £200m funding for its first phase southern tunnelling section of the high speed route. It is the second extra payment since July when the three-way joint venture secured £300m in extra funding for planned and agreed changes to the scope of works. Skanska’s share of
