Buildings

Plans have been submitted for a major mixed-use development at Earls Court, west London, that would become one of the country’s largest regeneration schemes. Construction is due to start by the end of 2026 on the multi-billion, multi-decade project to redevelop the former Earls Court Exhibition Centre, which Keltbray demolished…

Morgan Sindall has nabbed an early-works contract on a 9 acre redevelopment in Liverpool. The contractor is also delivering masterplanning on the scheme, Paddington South, where work has already begun.  Paddington South is the second of three phases on the £1bn, 30 acre Knowledge Quarter Liverpool (KQ Liverpool) project, also…

The UK government has refused to bail out a landmark Belfast stadium affected by Buckingham Group’s collapse, after build costs more than doubled. Ministers told the Northern Ireland Executive on Friday (13 September) that it would no longer back the scheme due to a “significant risk that the stadium would…

Galliford Try has been picked for a £101.5m revamp of Haslar Immigration Removal Centre (IRC), near Portsmouth.  The centre was originally built as a prison but was later used to hold immigrants accused of being in the UK illegally or pending their deportation, until it closed in 2015.  Haslar IRC…

Two construction firms are sharing £800m worth of work on the Transpennine rail upgrade. Amey, Bam and design consultancy Arup – working as the TRU West Alliance – have won the latest stage of the £2bn project to improve train travel between Manchester, Huddersfield, Leeds and York. The alliance said…

The first details of a 180,000 square metre data centre for Hertfordshire have been revealed as the government announced that new IT developments will be classed as ‘critical national infrastructure’ (CNI). The new designation, to be announced by technology secretary Peter Kyle today (12 September), puts data centres on a…

Wates and Hill Holdings are among 22 firms that have taken spots on a four-year housing framework focusing on modern methods of construction (MMC). The Integrated Traditional Build & MMC framework will cover 37 different regions of England and Wales for a range of projects, including low and medium rise…

Plans have gone in to knock down Multiplex’s City of London headquarters and replace it with a 54-storey tower. Developer Brookfield Properties, Multiplex’s parent company, is proposing to replace the existing 99 Bishopsgate with a new tower that will be more than double its height. If approved, the new 240…

“Unprecedented severe weather” has delayed a Bouygues health innovation campus by three months. The facility was due to be completed by this summer as the first phase of Carmarthenshire County Council’s Pentre Awel, a £200m health and wellbeing village in Llanelli, South Wales. However, site progress has stalled by three…

Tens of homes left half-finished by collapsed modular housebuilder Ilke Homes are to be part-demolished before construction can restart. Work at the Meadow Grange development in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, stopped last June after the housebuilder collapsed into administration. More than a year later, a replacement contractor has not yet been appointed.…