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Heathrow bosses are planning to use its £16bn airport expansion project to “revolutionise” the way contractors build major infrastructure. Heathrow CEO John Holland-Kaye confirmed a major push to support more off-site construction. And the hunt has now begun for four UK sites to host new off-site logistics hubs which will help deliver expansion plans and […]

HS2 has confirmed that Bechtel is preferred bidder as development partner for the second phase of the high speed rail line, taking over the role initially awarded to CH2M. Fellow US consultant CH2M withdrew from a £170m deal to develop Phase 2b last month after third placed losing bidder Mace threatened legal action over the initial contract […]

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust has given Kier the go-ahead to start construction of a new A&E unit at Wrexham Park hospital in Slough. New Wrexham Park emergency department The four-storey building will have an emergency department with children’s and minor injuries units, and 36 major injury rooms. The 5,000 sq. m. facility will also […]

HS2 has started the search for architects, designers and developers to deliver four new stations worth up to £220m. Contract opportunities have now been published for station designs and a development partner for London Euston. The winning bidders will work with HS2 on detailed plans for three brand new stations, at Birmingham Curzon Street, Birmingham Interchange […]

Waste recycling specialist Viridor has appointed Clugston Construction to build a new £252m energy recovery facility  on an industrial site in Avonmouth on the outskirts of Bristol. Avonmouth energy recovery plant Industrial engineering contractor CNIM will provide the established technology for the consented incinerator facility and Clugston has been appointed as the building and civils […]

Sixty-six house builders and property developers today urged the Government to back Crossrail 2 as a means to help tackle London’s housing crisis Leaders from Berkeley Group, Taylor Wimpey, British Land and all of London’s largest housing associations have written to the Chancellor, Transport Secretary and Communities Secretary spelling out how the next phase of […]

Joint developers British Land and Universities Superannuation Scheme have got the green light for the £400m regeneration of Kingston town centre’s Eden Walk shopping centre in West London. The scheme designed by BDP Architects, will see new shops and restaurants, a new cinema on top of a refurbished multi-storey car park and nearly 400 flats in […]

Heathrow Airport has revealed plans to invest an extra £650m in expanding existing facilities over the course of 2019. International investors in the airport will fund plans to ramp up spending to pave the way for expansion of Terminal 2 and a new access tunnel. The plans send a strong signal that Britain continues to be open […]

Bouygues/Laing O’Rourke has got the go-ahead to start pouring concrete on the first key structures for the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station. The Office for Nuclear Regulation has approved first structural concrete for the ‘technical galleries’ of the power station. These are a series of underground reinforced concrete structures to be located beneath the site and […]

Developers have submitted an outline planning application for a new 6,000 home community in Hampshire. Plans would create a new village in Hampshire Buckland Development Limited is behind the scheme for the new community at Welborne just north of Fareham. BDL’s Chairman, Mark Thistlethwayte, said: “This represents years of hard work and effort from BDL […]