Developer Town Centre Securities has unveiled the next phase of redevelopment plans for the Merrion Centre in Leeds. The developer plans to introduce student housing in a landmark tower and associated second building at Yorkshire’s iconic 1m sq ft mixed-used scheme. This major project will see the conversion of the 13-storey Wade House, a 1960’s
Wolverhampton City Council is looking for firms to sign up to a new housing development framework to speed up the delivery of new council homes and regeneration projects on sites across the city. The four-year deal will be supported by £109m from the Housing Revenue Account budget, with further provision allowed for within the 30-year
Balfour Beatty’s Scottish office helped to lift the firm to pole position in the contracts league for the first time since the start of this year. The Scottish region has signed off three big building projects: The HMP Highland and design and build of a new hospital in Fort William and the refurbishment of Caithness
House builder Berkeley Group is promising to support its supply chain as the fear of firms going bust replaces rampant inflation. In its half-year report today Berkeley said: “The sharp build cost rises of recent years have now responded to the prevailing conditions and, for Berkeley, cost inflation across the majority of trades has receded
Galliford Try has signed contracts with the MoD to provide new and refurbished infrastructure for the Red Arrows at their new home of RAF Waddington. The modernisation deal also include work to build or refurbish facilities at three other bases: RAF Leeming, RAF Saxton Wold and both RAF Boulmer sites. Jon Marston, managing director of
Civils contractor Strabag UK has broken the current record for the world’s longest single tunnel boring machine drive at the potash mine project under the Yorkshire moors. Tunnellers on the Woodsmith project near Whitby recently reached 25.8km on what will be the conveyor tunnel for a permanent mineral transport system. This will be used to
A roofing contractor has been fined a total of £881,000 after two workers were seriously injured during two separate incidents. Billy Hewitt, a worker at Mitie Tilley Roofing Limited, fractured his pelvis after falling through a factory roof in Newcastle. A 24-year-old labourer employed by RM Scaffolding also broke his femur after falling through the
A joint venture between Bouygues Travaux Publics and Murphy has been confirmed to deliver the main tunnel section for the massive Lower Thames Crossing project. As exclusively tipped in the Enquirer, the BM JV team beat rivals Dragados-Hochtief (DH JV) and BAM Nuttall, Ferrovial Construction (UK) and Vinci Construction Grands Projets (BFV JV) for the £2.3bn
McLaren Property and Arlington Real Estate have been selected as the strategic developer for the York Central scheme. The brownfield site is one of the UK’s largest city centre regeneration schemes. John Sisk & Son is already onsite carrying out £135m of infrastructure works including 3km of new roads, footpaths, cycleways and two new bridges
Developer/contractor Watkin Jones has submitted plans to build a high rise student flat block on the site of a former tax office in Glasgow. At 114m high, it would be the second tallest building in the city behind The Glasgow Tower at the science centre. Designed by Hawkins Brown, the Ard scheme will consist of
