Buildings

Willmott Dixon has picked up a £48.8m net-zero campus job near Manchester. The Department for Education (DfE) selected the firm from its construction framework for a new building for Wigan & Leigh College, a further education college in Wigan, Greater Manchester. The new three-storey, 10,600 square metre building has been…

Plans for a new service station on the M25 have been submitted. Client Moto Hospitality wants to build the facility on both sides of the motorway at Brentwood in Essex. If approved, the development would feature up to 850 car parking spaces, 450 HGV spaces, coach parking, two 3,400 square…

Graham has won a contract to finalise the design of a health and leisure hub in Northern Ireland. The firm was appointed by Fermanagh and Omagh District Council to work on the redevelopment plans for the facility at the Fermanagh Lakeland Forum complex (CGI pictured). The project is estimated, according…

The Environment Agency wants to hear from contractors interested in taking part in a £3bn asset-management framework. The government-owned body issued a prior-information notice this week relating to its Collaborative Delivery Framework (CDF) 2, calling for construction suppliers to take part in a pre-market-engagement questionnaire. Flood and coastal risk management…

The £1bn redevelopment of what was Europe’s largest printworks is set for approval, nine years after plans were first submitted. Officers at Tower Hamlets council have recommended conditional approval of the residential-led Westferry Printworks scheme, which will occupy a 61,500 square metre site near Canary Wharf in London. A contractor…

Construction of a new specialist paediatric hospital in Cambridge has moved a step closer. The outline business case for the Cambridge Children’s Hospital was signed off by the treasury and health ministry this month. This step recognises that the project “has the appropriate funding streams in place” to deliver the…

The London Fire Brigade has announced an investigation into the Bank Holiday weekend blaze at the Spectrum Building in Chadwell Heath, east London. Construction News has pieced together a history of the building from planning documents. Circa 1973: The part-five-part-six-storey office building is built on a 3,106 square metre site…

A Birmingham hospital beset by delays after contractor Carillion collapsed has finally been given an opening date – six years after it was originally due to finish. Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH, pictured), which is being completed by Balfour Beatty, will open on 6 October, the Sandwell and West Birmingham…

Bouygues UK has submitted a planning application for a £150m scheme on a 1960s estate in south-east London. If approved by Southwark Council, Bouygues will act as developer and contractor for phase two of the Tustin Estate, which will deliver 295 homes across four buildings near the Old Kent Road.…

Winvic has been selected by developer GLP to construct a 761,000sq ft industrial facility at a logistics complex in Leicestershire. The scheme at Magna Park North in Lutterworth (CGI pictured) will feature a 716,662sq ft warehouse, a 34,667sq ft three-storey office building, two transport offices and other facilities, Winvic stated.…