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Willmott Dixon scoops £61m barracks expansion

Joshua Stein — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 11:58:42 +0000

Willmott Dixon has landed a prime defence project to construct 11 buildings at an army barracks in Rutland, in the East Midlands. The contractor will develop 15 buildings at Kendrew Barracks, of which 11 will be completely new. The other four will be refurbished or…

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Willmott Dixon reports loss after supplier collapse cost £13m

Joshua Stein — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 07:28:28 +0000

Willmott Dixon has suffered a second successive loss after the collapse of a major mechanical and electrical (M&E) subcontractor cost it £12.8m. Willmott Dixon did not name the subcontractor but said it had been completing works on two unnamed projects when it went under last…

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Contractor duo recognised for gender equality policies

Joshua Stein — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 11:01:18 +0000

Two of the UK’s biggest construction contractors have won plaudits for promoting gender equality within their businesses. Costain and Willmott Dixon, which placed 12th and 19th respectively in the most recent CN100 list, were both named in The Times’ annual Top 50 Employers for Gender…

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Willmott Dixon scoops £60m science-research hub

Joshua Stein — Tue, 14 May 2024 08:00:23 +0000

Willmott Dixon has landed a deal to build a research and development lab in Manchester Science Park. The £60m job will involve developing a 131,000 square foot laboratory space, known as Greenheys, across six floors in Manchester’s knowledge quarter at Oxford Road. Three of the…

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Kier and Morgan Sindall scoop multiple lots on £1.6bn healthcare framework

Joshua Stein — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 10:04:33 +0000

Kier and Morgan Sindall have been named on three lots in a new framework focusing on decarbonisation in the healthcare sector. The tier one firms were both named on lots two, three and four of the £1.6bn work package, which will include the replacement of…

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Willmott Dixon appoints new CFO

Toni Sekinah — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 13:29:03 +0000

Willmott Dixon has appointed James Mackenzie as its new chief financial officer. Mackenzie (pictured), who has previously held senior positions at Balfour Beatty, Berkeley Group and Kier, will also join Willmott Dixon’s main board. He previously held the CFO post at Willmott Dixon’s joint-venture partnership…

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Willmott Dixon wins £55m police HQ

Charlotte Banks — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 12:06:55 +0000

Willmott Dixon has won a £55m contract to rebuild a police headquarters in Hertfordshire. The firm was appointed to demolish 11 buildings from the 1960s that are reaching the end of their design life, and replace them with an office complex for Hertfordshire Constabulary in…

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CN’s top 10 features of 2023: safety, finance and project reports

Ian Weinfass — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 07:00:44 +0000

10. How do we make modular buildings safer? More than eight months after fire-service leaders published a five-page document outlining a litany of concerns about modular buildings, and more than a year-and-a-half after safety body Cross-UK highlighted the potential for concealed spread of fire inside…

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Council seeks new contractor as Willmott Dixon leaves leisure centre job

Jonathan Knott — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 09:01:06 +0000

Newcastle City Council is looking for a new contractor for a leisure centre that was due to be built by Willmott Dixon. In February, Willmott Dixon announced it had been appointed to develop the “state-of-the-art” Outer West Leisure Centre in West Denton, then costed at…

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‘Electricity superhighway’ puts Bam top of monthly contracts table

Charlotte Banks — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 06:00:10 +0000

Royal Bam topped the monthly contractors’ league table in July for the first time since 2020, after it was chosen to build converter stations at each end of a £2bn undersea cable between Scotland and England. The firm was awarded £500m for its share of…

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