Buildings

Sisk has been selected for a new children’s cancer centre at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. The central London hospital is aiming to raise £300m through fundraising for the facility, to cover both construction and equipment costs. The value of the construction contract has not been disclosed, though industry…

Rachel Reeves has officially thrown the government’s weight behind a third runway for Heathrow airport. In a major speech this morning (29 January), she said that the lack of extra runway capacity at the UK’s biggest aviation hub was “damaging”. She added that a third runway would add 0.43 per…

McLaren Construction has scooped a bumper project to redevelop a famous central London location. The firm landed the £60m job this week, to develop 5,400 square metres of retail and office space on the corner of New Bond Street and Grafton Street, at the centre of London’s high-value West End…

Associated British Ports (ABP) has appointed Bouygues Travaux Publics to deliver its ambitious Immingham Green Energy Terminal (IGET) in the Humber Estuary. The design and build contract for IGET was tendered in autumn 2023 and at the time was expected to be worth up to £170m. The IGET will support the import…

Sir Robert McAlpine has been appointed main contractor on Tata Steel UK’s £1.25bn low carbon ‘green’ steelmaking project at the Port Talbot steelworks. The contractor will be responsible for managing main, civil, structural and building works for the construction of a new electric arc furnace-based steel production facility under a…

The leader of the national firefighter union has slammed a housing association for progressing with plans to build a near-18-metre-high block of flats with a single staircase. The general secretary of the Fire Brigade Union (FBU) said the plan to build a 17.7 metre site in Penge with a single…

Three government departments are facing an “intractable” maintenance problem, with the total bill swelling to at least £49bn. Property failure is now a “principal risk” for the Ministry of Defence, Department of Education and Ministry of Justice, according to a report released by the National Audit Office (NAO) today (22…

At least five massive hospital construction projects, initially earmarked for completion by 2030, will not get underway before 2037. Under fresh plans, health secretary Wes Streeting revealed a phased approach to deliver the remaining schemes in the previous Conservative government’s New Hospital Programme (NHP). Projects will get underway in waves,…

Hundreds of listed ecclesiastical buildings across the UK are at risk of structural deterioration amid tax relief concerns, peers have said. In a House of Lords debate on listed historic buildings, held on Tuesday (14 January), speakers raised concerns around the future of a government grant scheme for the restoration…

The facilities management (FM) arms of tier one contractors Galliford Try, Kier, Morgan Sindall, Vinci and Wates are among 27 firms with places on a new Pagabo framework. The Total Facilities Management Framework will run until January 2029 with a total estimated value of £814m, Pagabo announced yesterday (15 January).…