Posted: 17th June, 2021
Stepnell has started work on a new multimillion-pound crematorium in the West Midlands. Waseley Hills Crematorium & Cemetery, located in Rubery, just south of Birmingham, is to be operated by Westerleigh Group, who have 35 sites throughout the UK. The site will also deliver much-needed additional crematorium capacity and provide families with the choice of... Read More
Posted: 16th June, 2021
Plans for a new £400 million city centre regeneration scheme that will see more than 1,200 homes being built have been approved by Manchester City Council. MCR Property Group’s Gasworks New Town project will create 1,202 houses on the site of the former Rochdale Road Gas Works in the heart of Manchester, featuring a mixture... Read More
Posted: 15th June, 2021
Aggregate Industries’ contracting division has won, and begun work on, the contract to construct the new Preston Western Distributor Road (PWDR). The PWDR is the first major new bypass road to be constructed in the area since the ‘Preston Bypass’, the UK’s first motorway built in 1958. The high-profile PWDR will flow to the west... Read More
Posted: 15th June, 2021
VolkerFitzpatrick has been awarded a £17m contract to construct two new teaching accommodation buildings at Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School in Hertfordshire. The new standalone Maths and Economics building will span over two storeys and will feature classroom accommodation along with departmental offices, built around a central corridor. Each classroom will be fitted with student lockers... Read More
Posted: 14th June, 2021
The Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIS) has announced new plans to help with retrofitting public spaces into out-of-town alternatives to city centre offices, reflecting the changing working patterns of post-COVID Scotland. Part of the NearHome project and supported by £250,000 in Scottish Government funding, a team of construction, sustainability, office design and technology experts have... Read More
Posted: 10th June, 2021
Southern Construction Frameworks (SCF), a joint venture between Devon and Hampshire County Councils, has launched a new Residential Delivery & Development Framework ITT worth £5.16 billion. Created to help support public sector residential construction and development in the region, SCF Residential is a four-year long framework and is available to all public bodies in the... Read More
Posted: 9th June, 2021
Vilicom, the UK-based wireless telecommunications provider, has announced that it is to provide a cloud-enabled private mobile network for the Moray East wind farm for Vestas. Currently in its construction phase 20 miles from the Scottish coast, the Moray East wind farm will comprise of 100 V164-9.5 MW units, giving a combined total power output... Read More
Posted: 8th June, 2021
Hampshire County Council, in collaboration with DEF Software, has gone live with a first of its type portal for developers. The Developer Portal is a hub which sits on Hampshire CC’s website, and allows developers, along with their consultants, to submit a complete Section 278 or 38 submission for design checking. Via the portal, drawings... Read More
Posted: 8th June, 2021
Land & Water Services, in partnership with its Plant division, has returned to the ‘Unlocking the Severn’ fish pass construction site at Holt Weir, to complete phase two of works. Working on behalf of its client, Kier, Land & Water are to carry out a wide range of activities from a Legato Block installation to... Read More
Posted: 8th June, 2021
Scottish architects Kettle Collective have announced they are to build one of the world’s tallest buildings in Russia. The tower will be built in St Petersburg and will stand at 703m tall, making it the second highest skyscraper in the world, just behind the Burj Khalifa (828m) in Dubai. The new Lakhta Center II will... Read More
