Contracts

Work will begin on the second phase of the £750m Station Hill project in central Reading on 9 August, with the start of demolition work to remove a multi-storey car park on the site. Planning permission for the second stage of the development, adjacent to the town’s mainline rail station,…

Contractors are on alert after the government started the procurement process for a new construction framework worth up to £30bn. The new agreement includes the NHS Procure23 framework and will be valid for all government departments, local authorities and devolved administrations. It will be divided into five separate lots, with…

Two building frameworks, available to Yorkshire, the North East and parts of the East of England and Midlands, are open for tender to a total value of £640m. Contractors are on call for a YORBuild West framework, worth £400m, serving Yorkshire, Leicestershire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. In the North East, Yorkshire…

Two new housing frameworks in England and Scotland, potentially worth a combined £1.5bn over four years, have been launched. Framework provider LHC is inviting contractors to join up, with work worth up to £1bn expected to be procured in England and £500m worth of work to be procured through the…

Legal & General has announced the next phase of their broader £4bn development partnership with Oxford University. The existing Begbroke building will be redeveloped with new buildings delivered in the 14 hectares that surround it to create an innovation district. L&G said the Begbroke project will be an innovation district…

Balfour Beatty and Mace have been appointed to deliver the UK’s largest diagnostic facility as part of the government’s COVID response. Balfour was picked as main contractor for the 225,000 square foot Rosalind Franklin Laboratory in Royal Leamington Spa on behalf of NHS Test and Trace. Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick will…

Kier, Laing O’Rourke, ISG and Wates have been picked to deliver four prisons in four years worth around £1bn under a new alliancing arrangement, Construction News can exclusively reveal. As an alliance, the four will work together over the next year to develop detailed designs, plan construction and set up…

Winvic has been appointed to deliver another build-to-rent scheme for developer Platform. The latest project is a 335-apartment scheme across two blocks that will be seven and 14-storeys high. It will include communal gardens and 7,500 square foot of commercial space. Construction intelligence provider Glenigan has estimated the value of…

A new tool to help firms find work in the Scottish public sector’s £8.5bn project pipeline has launched. The Construction Pipeline Forecast Tool holds data for 1,150 public-sector projects. Users can search the database (pictured) and filter results by categories of contract value, sector, procuring authority and the route to…

Bam Nuttall has been appointed to deliver a range of infrastructure works for the £4bn Victoria North regeneration programme in Manchester. Manchester City Council, in a joint venture with Far East Consortium, successfully obtained £51.6m in funding from the UK Government’s Housing Infrastructure Fund (HIF) last year to pay for…