Willmott Dixon

Sheffield Council has paused work on a venue and events space due to “astronomic” cost increases - just weeks before Willmott Dixon was due to start on site. The costs of the project have now almost quadrupled. Last week the contractor announced it had been appointed for Event Central, a…

An under-construction £80m college campus in South Wales has been evacuated and work partially halted after contractors discovered unexploded ordnance. Two devices were found in separate incidents at a site in Cheapside, Bridgend, where a 13,000 square metre campus is being built for Bridgend College. Willmott Dixon is the main…

Tier one firm Willmott Dixon has been awarded a £20.7m job to build the new Durham Academy in County Durham. The Department for Education appointed the contractor via a direct award under its construction framework, with works beginning on 30 July 2025 and scheduled to complete by 23 August 2027.…

Willmott Dixon moved back into the black last year after securing recoveries from third parties of £34.1m related to cladding remediation work. In its latest set of audited accounts, for the year to 31 December 2024, the tier one contractor posted a pre-tax profit of £26.8m. This compared with a…

Newcastle City Council expects to sign a deal “shortly” with Morgan Sindall to replace Willmott Dixon on a long-delayed £34m leisure centre project in the city. The local authority this week insisted that work on the West Denton scheme, initially due for completion over a year ago, would finally start…

Willmott Dixon has landed a prime defence project to construct 11 buildings at an army barracks in Rutland, in the East Midlands. The contractor will develop 15 buildings at Kendrew Barracks, of which 11 will be completely new. The other four will be refurbished or retrofitted. The buildings, measuring some…

Willmott Dixon has suffered a second successive loss after the collapse of a major mechanical and electrical (M&E) subcontractor cost it £12.8m. Willmott Dixon did not name the subcontractor but said it had been completing works on two unnamed projects when it went under last year, adding that the insolvency…

Two of the UK’s biggest construction contractors have won plaudits for promoting gender equality within their businesses. Costain and Willmott Dixon, which placed 12th and 19th respectively in the most recent CN100 list, were both named in The Times’ annual Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality list. The list recognises…

Willmott Dixon has landed a deal to build a research and development lab in Manchester Science Park. The £60m job will involve developing a 131,000 square foot laboratory space, known as Greenheys, across six floors in Manchester’s knowledge quarter at Oxford Road. Three of the floors will be the headquarters…

Kier and Morgan Sindall have been named on three lots in a new framework focusing on decarbonisation in the healthcare sector. The tier one firms were both named on lots two, three and four of the £1.6bn work package, which will include the replacement of inefficient glazing and the installation…