Contracts

Lendlease Construction Europe has been awarded three contracts for British Army facilities under a broader £5.1bn Ministry of Defence (MoD) framework. The contractor said today (5 July) that the deals, worth a combined £450m, were procured under the Defence Estate Optimisation (DEO) Army Programme by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO).…

Beard has started work on a £9.2m job to create a Central African forest habitat at Bristol Zoo.  The facilities will include a new gorilla house, crocodile house and a parrot aviary as well as an outdoor space for gorillas featuring a moat - with the gorillas set to enjoy…

Red Construction Group has been appointed to replace failed Henry Construction Projects on a Westminster office scheme. The Bedford-registered company was appointed by Tellon Capital to deliver the 40 Broadway scheme under a £50m contract. Henry Construction Projects was initially named as main contractor for the project but fell into…

Barhale has nabbed a major job to revamp part of London’s sewer network. The contractor will deliver “essential remediation works” worth £36m to the Northern Outfall Sewer (NOS), which runs above the Jubilee Line and Docklands Light Railway at Manor Road, West Ham. Barhale will both design and build the…

United Utilities has named 18 companies which will undertake £2.75bn of works between 2025 and 2030.  Earlier this month the North West water company named seven partners, including Kier, Costain and Murphy, which it said would oversee delivery of £3bn of major infrastructure works during the period.  Now United Utilities…

Bouygues has been picked to build a health facility in west London to speed up the diagnosis of cancer and other illnesses. The UK arm of the French firm was named as lead contractor for the design and build of the Ambulatory Diagnostic Centre at West Middlesex University Hospital. Chelsea…

Contractors are being sought for a £155m road-dualling project in Scotland. Transport Scotland has formally advertised the job to work on the A9 between Tay Crossing and Ballinluig. The 8.2km section of road in central Scotland is being upgraded to a dual carriageway as part of a wider programme to…

Amey, Aecom and WSP are among six contractors to have scooped places on a £90m engineering design framework in Northern Ireland. They join Jacobs, RPS Ireland and AtkinsRealis on the Department for Infrastructure’s (DFI’s) Major Works Planning, Assessment and Delivery Framework. The deal will see the successful firms work on…

Six contractors appointed to carry out £100m of work on universities in the North East have an extra period of opportunity after their four-year deal was extended. The North Eastern Universities Purchasing Consortium has published an official notice of modification to its Minor Works Lot 1A Framework Agreement. Rather than…

Speller Metcalfe is to deliver major upgrades to two public buildings in Wolverhampton. The contractor, which has offices in the West Midlands city, was named as preferred bidder for works on its Central Library and adult education facilities. The deal forms part of a £61m investment in Wolverhampton’s Learning Quarter…