Contracts

The Scottish government has shortlisted three firms for the latest slice of the £3.7bn A9 dualling – one of the country’s biggest infrastructure projects. Balfour Beatty is joined by Wills Bros and John Graham on the shortlist for the Tay Crossing to Ballinluig section in central Scotland, which was first…

The biggest education project ever built in Northern Ireland has finally been agreed. A joint venture worth £375m has been signed between two local firms to build a large school campus in Omagh. The Strule Shared Education Campus (pictured) will host 4,000 pupils in six schools on a former military…

Graham has been appointed to a £67m project at the UK’s low-level nuclear waste site in Cumbria.  The contractor has been chosen by publicly-owned Nuclear Waste Services to install a replacement engineered interim trench cap over the Southern Trenches at the UK’s low-level waste repository (LLWR).  The LLWR receives low…

Anglian Water is seeking contractor interest in building two multibillion pound, multi-decade reservoirs in Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire. The water company said it will start procuring a main contractor for the detailed design and construction of the Lincolnshire and Fens reservoirs in January 2027. Main contractors will require “extensive involvement and…

McLaren landed the industry’s top job in the July league table with a bumper data centre build in London.

Mace has secured the contract for the extension and refurb of a Grade II listed teaching laboratory building. The contract for the University of East Anglia (UAE) project is valued at £88m. The CN top 100 firm will deliver new modern science facilities in the brutalist, architect-designed Lasdun Wall Refurbishment…

Morgan Sindall has landed a prime contract to build a £65m university campus in Blackpool. The firm was appointed as the main contractor by Blackpool Council following a competitive tendering process through a Pagabo framework. Planning permission has already been granted in April for the mixed-use educational development, which is…

A bill to settle contractual or financial disputes faster will proceed under the new Labour government, after it took advice from the Law Commission. The Arbitration Bill will continue through parliament following the King’s Speech earlier this week. It was introduced to parliament by the previous Conservative government last November and…

Industry body Build UK has released an updated version of the Common Assessment Standard (CAS), including new questions on firms’ building-safety capabilities. The CAS is an industry-agreed set of questions and corresponding assessment standards that can pre-qualify construction suppliers for projects. The updated version (V4) contains a new Building Safety…

Faithdean has won the £130m job to alter and extend retailer Fenwick’s former flagship London store, with a radical plan to jack up entire floor slabs to create higher ceilings. The scheme, approved by Westminster City Council in April, will see four new stepped floors with terraces added to the…