Willmott Dixon

Newcastle City Council expects to sign a deal “shortly” with Morgan Sindall to replace Willmott Dixon on a long-delayed £34m leisure centre project in the city. The local authority this week insisted that work on the West Denton scheme, initially due for completion over a year ago, would finally start…

Willmott Dixon has landed a prime defence project to construct 11 buildings at an army barracks in Rutland, in the East Midlands. The contractor will develop 15 buildings at Kendrew Barracks, of which 11 will be completely new. The other four will be refurbished or retrofitted. The buildings, measuring some…

Willmott Dixon has suffered a second successive loss after the collapse of a major mechanical and electrical (M&E) subcontractor cost it £12.8m. Willmott Dixon did not name the subcontractor but said it had been completing works on two unnamed projects when it went under last year, adding that the insolvency…

Two of the UK’s biggest construction contractors have won plaudits for promoting gender equality within their businesses. Costain and Willmott Dixon, which placed 12th and 19th respectively in the most recent CN100 list, were both named in The Times’ annual Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality list. The list recognises…

Willmott Dixon has landed a deal to build a research and development lab in Manchester Science Park. The £60m job will involve developing a 131,000 square foot laboratory space, known as Greenheys, across six floors in Manchester’s knowledge quarter at Oxford Road. Three of the floors will be the headquarters…

Kier and Morgan Sindall have been named on three lots in a new framework focusing on decarbonisation in the healthcare sector. The tier one firms were both named on lots two, three and four of the £1.6bn work package, which will include the replacement of inefficient glazing and the installation…

Willmott Dixon has appointed James Mackenzie as its new chief financial officer. Mackenzie (pictured), who has previously held senior positions at Balfour Beatty, Berkeley Group and Kier, will also join Willmott Dixon’s main board. He previously held the CFO post at Willmott Dixon’s joint-venture partnership with EcoWorld London for six…

Willmott Dixon has won a £55m contract to rebuild a police headquarters in Hertfordshire. The firm was appointed to demolish 11 buildings from the 1960s that are reaching the end of their design life, and replace them with an office complex for Hertfordshire Constabulary in Stanborough, Welwyn Garden City. The…

Newcastle City Council is looking for a new contractor for a leisure centre that was due to be built by Willmott Dixon. In February, Willmott Dixon announced it had been appointed to develop the “state-of-the-art” Outer West Leisure Centre in West Denton, then costed at £26m. Willmott Dixon has carried…

Royal Bam topped the monthly contractors’ league table in July for the first time since 2020, after it was chosen to build converter stations at each end of a £2bn undersea cable between Scotland and England. The firm was awarded £500m for its share of work on Eastern Green Link…