Posted: 22nd October, 2019
More than a thousand photovoltaic roof panels (solar panels) have been installed onto the roofs of four buildings at the Defence College of Logistics, Policing and Administration (DCLPA) at Worthy Down, Hampshire. A total of 1,625 photovoltaic panels have been installed at the college as part of refurbishment works being undertaken by the companies Skanska... Read More
Posted: 22nd October, 2019
The home construction company, CALA Homes has been appointed to redevelop the former Boroughmuir High School in Edinburgh into a building with 87 contemporary apartments. According to CALA Homes the Boroughmuir site has a construction value of £20.4M and will create an economic output of some £21.5M, likewise creating 55 construction jobs and 50 supply... Read More
Posted: 22nd October, 2019
Construction has begun on the part of the Church Street Regeneration Programme which covers Luton Street in the City of Westminster, prompting the delivery of 168 homes, more than one third of which will fall under the classification of affordable housing. Specifically, construction work will provide 109 homes that will be reserved for the housing... Read More
Posted: 22nd October, 2019
At the end of August this year, a process of public consultation was commenced on plans for the improvements to the A27 route in Arundel, West Sussex, but now just two weeks remain for people to voice their own opinions on whether the route needs improving and which of the six potential routes would be... Read More
Posted: 22nd October, 2019
A pharmaceutical company that is based in Huddersfield, named Thornton & Ross, has begun the process of constructing a new state-of-the-art facility which will carry out the bottling and filling of its products. The new 600sq m facility, which will be incorporated into the existing Thornton & Ross warehouse, will be completed by the 1st... Read More
Posted: 21st October, 2019
Kier Property and CTP have been granted planning permission for the construction of the Pall Mall mixed use development in Liverpool’s Commercial Business District, to be used primarily as office space. The Pall Mall office development has been commissioned by the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority at a cost of some £200M and was approved... Read More
Posted: 21st October, 2019
Planning approval has been granted to the Rainham site of the Havering Borough Council and Wates Residential joint-venture programme which will see to the construction of 12 housing estates at an overall cost of £1Bn. The Napier and New Plymouth House project in Rainham, Havering, received approval from a Strategic Planning Committee last week and... Read More
Posted: 18th October, 2019
The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) has appointed the contractor company Kier Graham Defence Ltd to the Bassingbourn Barracks redevelopment project ahead of the relocation of the British Army’s Mission Training and Mobilisation Centre (MTMC). The Bassingbourn project has cost the DIO a sum of £17M and will entail the refurbishment of accommodation blocks, social facilities,... Read More
Posted: 18th October, 2019
An application for the development of a Northampton Gateway Rail Freight Interchange project has been approved by the Secretary of State for Transport, together with associated landscaping and infrastructure works. Specifically, the Northampton Gateway project will entail the construction of an intermodal freight terminal, complete with container storage, HGV parking, new road infrastructure, a new... Read More
Posted: 17th October, 2019
The opening of the new A14 Bypass in Cambridgeshire is scheduled to for December 2019 after initial proposals did not schedule its opening until December 2020. Measuring at a distance of 12 miles long, the new bypass consists of more than half of the £1.5Bn upgrading scheme which is currently underway on a 21 miles... Read More
