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Housing association looks to fill £1.7bn framework

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Southern Housing is seeking contractors for up to £1.7bn worth of projects over the next 20 years. The housing association’s official tender notice for its Capital Investment Works 2026 to 2046 framework shows 10 lots covering a range of tasks across London, Sussex and Kent. The main packages involve external…

Balfour boss pours cold water on HS2 contract renegotiation

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Balfour Beatty boss Leo Quinn has pushed back against suggestions by HS2 bosses that construction contracts on the London to Birmingham rail scheme could be renegotiated. In December, Construction News reported comments made to MPs by HS2 chief financial officer Alan Foster, saying that contractors accepted that the legal agreements…

Morgan Sindall lands £61m Liverpool lab

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Morgan Sindall has been named as the preferred contractor to build a £61m science laboratory and workspace in Liverpool. The 117,190 net sq ft development will be located at Paddington Village in the city’s Knowledge Quarter. Client Sciontec said it would work with Morgan Sindall to refine the project’s technical…

Graham takes over former ISG cultural retrofit job

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Graham has taken over a £44m former ISG project to turn a former retail outlet into a cultural hub. The City Centre Cultural Gateway project is set to see a seven-storey former Ikea store in Coventry retrofitted with gallery and collections space, as well as a cafe, library, dance studio,…

Clancy secures £250m water job

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Clancy has landed a £250m deal to deliver reactive and proactive repair services for Southern Water. The agreement will see the Middlesex-based contractor respond to emergency calls, support leakage reduction, work with housing developers and businesses, and install water meters. The contract covers the AMP8 control period, beginning this October…

Bowmer & Kirkland wins first slice of £100m logistics scheme

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Bowmer & Kirkland has scooped a deal to build two industrial units within a £100m development in the West Midlands. The Derbyshire-headquartered contractor will deliver a 23,500 square metre building and a smaller 1,650 square metre structure on the Spark scheme in Walsall. Both are set for completion later this…

Tier ones to deliver big jobs for Scottish university

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Six large contractors will deliver large construction jobs for the University of Glasgow after winning places on a £500m framework. CN100 firms Balfour Beatty, Galliford Try, John Graham, McLaughlin & Harvey, Morgan Sindall and Robertson were named on Lot 3 of the institution's Construction Framework. This will see the six…

Kier scoops £118m army barracks deal

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Kier has won a £117.7m deal to work at an army site in Suffolk. The tier one contractor will deliver infrastructure design-and-build work at Rock Barracks near Woodbridge. The contract, which runs until April 2030, was awarded by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) last week as a framework call-off. It…

Goldbeck named on Cardiff revamp scheme

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Goldbeck has scooped part of a multi-million pound deal to develop a new municipal office block and production studio in Cardiff. Goldbeck UK – a subsidiary of German commercial contractor Goldbeck GmbH – is one of three firms named on the project, which includes a replacement for Cardiff Council’s headquarters.…

JJ Rhatigan to build £84m Ealing homes 

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JJ Rhatigan has signed an £84m contract to build a major housing development in Ealing, west London.  The UK arm of the Ireland-based contractor will start building the 296-home Twyford Abbey scheme for Latimer, the development arm of Clarion Housing Group, in March, as initial groundworks have been completed.  The…