Project Reports

Scheme: The Ribbon Client: CBRE Main contractor: Wates Architect: Orms Contract value: £80m Contract type: JCT Design & Build Start date: March 2024 Completion date: Q3 2025 Demolition subcontractor: Erith Steelwork subcontractor: Billington Structures Concrete subcontractor: Careys Precast manufacturer: Thorp Precast Energy consultants: Cundall Wates is adding a mixed retail…

Project name: Bristol Airport Transport Hub Client: Bristol Airport Main contractor: Griffith Farrans JV Contract value: £60m Contract type: NEC Option A Concrete frame subcontractor: Statom Steelwork subcontractor: Smyth Steel Mechanical & electrical subcontractor: Dodds Group Engineering designer: Burroughs Architect: The Development Studio Bristol airport is one of the UK’s…

Client: Oldham Council Contract type: JCT 2016 Design & Build, procured through Partnerships Framework Contract value: £67m (£23.5m phase one, £36.4m phase two, £7m phase three) Architect: AEW Structural engineer: JPS Piling: Van Elle Facade: Longworth M&E: Dalkia Ceilings and partitioning: RapidFix Start date: November 2022 Expected completion date: May…

Project title: Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus – TQA1 Building Client: University of Bristol Architect: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios Main contractor: Sir Robert McAlpine RC frame: Toureen M&E: NG Bailey Cladding panels: FKN Facades Precast concrete: Techrete Structural steel: Elland Steel Prefabricated stairs: Taunton Fabrications Groundworks: Churngold Construction Contract value: £266m…

Client: MEPC Project value: £74m (main contract value) Contract type: Two-stage JCT design and build Architect: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios Concrete frame and basement: MPB Structures Steel and CLT: UIS Facade: Inasus MEP: King & Moffatt Demolition: DSM Construction start: May 2023 Expected handover: May 2025 Wedged between the Grade…

Mace is sticking to strict sustainability criteria on its latest project in London Bridge Client: Edge Technologies Project value: £230m Architect: Pillbrow and Partners Site size: 25,548 square metres Piling: Cementation Skanska Concrete frame and basement: Morrisroe Steel and CLT: Severfield NI Facade: Permasteelisa Twin lifts: TKE MEP: Shepherd Engineering…

Client: Publica Contract value: £132m Contract type: JCT Main contractor: McLaren Architect: Studio PDP Structural engineer: Civic Engineers Demolition: Erith Piling: Franki Foundations UK (subcontractor to Erith) Steelwork: Severfield Mechanical, electrical and plumbing: Briggs & Forrester Mechanical and electrical consultancy: ChapmanBDSP Crane and hoists: London Tower Cranes Facade: Glaze Aluminium…

Towering over a historic City of London landmark and one of Harry Potter’s stomping grounds, One Leadenhall has presented a raft of building challenges Project: One Leadenhall Client: Brookfield Properties (1 Leadenhall Limited Partnership) Contract value: £275m Contract type: Construction Management Construction manager: Multiplex Architect: Make Architects Executive architect: Adamson…

How Multiplex is remodelling, refurbishing and extending London’s brutalist IBM Building – while retaining 80 per cent of the existing structure Project: IBM Building, 76 Upper Ground, London Client: Stanhope Contract value: £145m Contract type: JCT Major Project Construction Contract 2016 Main contractor: Multiplex Architects: Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Structural…

Adding a host of new uses and spaces to a still-operational exhibition venue is a tall order. CN finds out how Laing O’Rourke is rising to the challenge Project client: Yoo Capital and Deutsche Finance International Main contractor: Laing O’Rourke Architect: Heatherwick Studio and SPPARC Structural engineering: Robert Bird Group…