Posted: 9th December, 2019
A joint venture between the two construction companies VolkerFitzpatrick and Kier saw to the installation of an 80m long, 1,000 tonne curved bridge as a component of the Luton DART fast transit system, with completion achieved ten hours ahead of schedule. The Luton DART shuttle will be responsible for the transportation of people between the... Read More
Posted: 9th December, 2019
A planning application will soon be submitted for the redevelopment of the Guildhall building in Nottingham into a 160-bedroom, four-star hotel which will be operated by the company Ascena. The Guildhall redevelopment scheme is estimated to have a total cost of £120M and will feature a rooftop fine-dining restaurant, a spa, wedding facilities, and conference... Read More
Posted: 6th December, 2019
The property development consultancy Pick Everard has now overseen the completion of the first phase of the West Suffolk College’s £8M Campus for Science Technology Engineering and Maths (STEM) Innovation, with students now occupying the facility for the 2019/20 academic year. The West Suffolk College development was designed by the architecture firm Wynne-Williams Associates and... Read More
Posted: 6th December, 2019
The construction and property development company Kier have reached the halfway point in the construction of the independent Nuffield Health hospital at St Bartholomew’s in the City of London. The new St Bartholomew’s Hospital has cost Nuffield Health a total figure of £65M and will include facilities such as 48 bedrooms, four state-of-the-art operating theatres,... Read More
Posted: 5th December, 2019
The construction and property development company Kier have now commenced the construction of the new School of Digital Arts (SODA) building on Higher Chatham Street in North Manchester on behalf of the Manchester Metropolitan University. The new SODA building has come with a cost of £35M and will measure at a height of five-storeys, containing... Read More
Posted: 4th December, 2019
Sir Robert McAlpine has been awarded the contract for a new £260M arena, conference and exhibition centre at Gateshead Quays. “Ask:PATRIZIA” (a Joint Venture between Ask Real Estate Limited and PATRIZIA AG, the pan-European real estate investment partner, for the development of Gateshead Quayside), Gateshead Council’s development partner, awarded Sir Robert McAlpine the contract to... Read More
Posted: 4th December, 2019
The construction, property, and utility company Kier has been successfully reappointed to the Network Services Alliance (NSA) Framework by South West Water (SWW), commencing in April 2020 and continuing for a duration of five years as part of the wider AMP7 utilities framework. Appointment onto the South West Water framework means that Kier will now... Read More
Posted: 3rd December, 2019
The residential property development company CALA Homes has commenced the construction of 40 five-bedroom detached homes at the Queenswood Development in the idyllic West Lothian town of Linlithgow, Scotland. Construction recently began on the Linlithgow housing estate and is expected to continue up until the summer of 2020, at which point the first show homes... Read More
Posted: 3rd December, 2019
The property development and logistics company St Modwen has officially commenced construction on a 79 acre site in Wiltshire, which is now scheduled to become the St Modwen Park Chippenham. St Modwen Park Chippenham is now set to be the site of various commercial and industrial units of differing size, following the approval of the... Read More
Posted: 2nd December, 2019
The construction and property development company Seddon have officially commenced construction on the Manchester Road project in Cheshire East after being commissioned by the property developer Laurus Homes. Specifically, the Manchester Road project will entail the construction of 94 homes with half of these falling under the status of affordable housing, basically meaning that 47... Read More
