Contracts

Galliford Try Construction, Keltbray Highways and Colas are among 15 firms appointed to a £355m Sheffield City Council civils framework. The YORcivil3 South and West Area Contractors Framework Agreement is for construction works to serve public bodies and third-sector organisations primarily in Yorkshire & the Humber. Jobs involved are principally…

Wates has picked up the job to build the first of four new neighbourhoods on the site of Sunderland’s former brewery, taking over from collapsed contractor Tolent. Sunderland City Council announced Wates' appointment as preferred contractor for the scheme, which will see it complete the partially built 135-home Vaux housing…

Procurement consultancy solutions firm Prosper has begun the search for contractors to work on new-build projects in Scotland and Northern Ireland. The £250m multi-supplier framework opportunity notice, released yesterday (24 August), states that the successful contractors will primarily be used for new-build residential projects, but the tender also includes commercial,…

Forty-seven mechanical and electrical (M&E) contractors, about three quarters of which are small or medium businesses, have been appointed to Pagabo’s new £545m M&E Solutions Framework. The framework will be available nationally – split into 12 UK regions – and will run for four years. It was designed to respond…

MRP, the property development arm of McAleer & Rushe, has been selected as the master-development partner for the Weavers Cross regeneration scheme in Belfast. Translink, Northern Ireland’s public transport provider, selected the County Tyrone-based firm to lead private sector investment on the project. Weavers Cross will include up to 120,000…

Property developer Hines has started the procurement process for three new towers in central London. The firm submitted a planning application for 18 Blackfriars Road on Monday. Designed by architects Foster + Partners, the project will occupy a two-acre brownfield site next to the River Thames, near cultural landmarks such…

VolkerFitzpatrick has been awarded a £19m contract to build a highway bridge over a rail line in Surrey. The Ash Road Bridge project will allow for the decommissioning of a level crossing on the A323 Guildford Road ahead of increased rail use on the North Downs line. The Ash Level…

Willmott Dixon has been appointed to deliver the £8 million next phase of a major regeneration scheme in Nottingham. The firm will be responsible for creating the Green Heart, an “ecologically rich area” on the site of a former shopping centre in the city’s Broadmarsh area. The scheme will see…

Bam has been chosen to build converter stations at each end of a £2bn undersea “electricity superhighway” between Scotland and England. The planned Eastern Green Link 2 (EGL2) connection between Peterhead in Aberdeenshire and Drax in North Yorkshire is described by National Grid as the UK’s largest ever electricity-transmission project.…

Labour MP Mike Amesbury has called for an investigation into “very concerning” cost increases on the A66 road project. The A66 Northern Trans-Pennine dualling project was originally estimated to cost £1bn – but the expected cost increased to £1.3bn in 2021, prior to the appointment of Costain, Kier, Balfour Beatty…