Contracts

London Borough of Hillingdon has launched a £127.9m tender to deliver a long-term highways term service contract covering capital works and maintenance. The contract, advertised on 18 August, will run for an initial seven years from April 2026 to March 2033, with the option to extend by five years following…

McLaren Construction has been appointed by Heathrow Airport to deliver a logistics scheme on the site of its Eastern Business Park. The project forms part of the airport’s current investment programme and will see McLaren build four warehouse buildings across the 1.6-hectare site. The structures, which are targeting a BREEAM…

McAleer & Rushe has broken ground on a £42.7m luxury retirement development for Elysian Residences in Kew, south-west London. The contractor is delivering the main contract for The Watermark, a scheme of 88 homes on the site of a former biothane plant near the River Thames. The project is due…

Mace has been appointed by Hertshten Properties as construction partner for a 30-storey mixed-use tower at 85 Gracechurch Street in the City of London. The scheme, designed by Woods Bagot, will replace a 1930s office block with around 21,830 square metres of office space, alongside retail and cultural uses. A…

Portsmouth-based housebuilder PMC Construction and Development Services has been named main contractor for the £69m first phase of a major housing and infrastructure development in the city. The deal follows a pre-construction services agreement signed in April with client VIVID Housing, one of the South’s largest housing providers. Following satisfactory…

Contractors are adopting alternative contract strategies including construction management and self-delivery as rising pricing risk continues to disrupt two-stage contract negotiations, according to new industry analysis from McBains. Its Summer 2025 Construction Market Report said most developers also remain cautious about committing to lump-sum deals, prompting a resurgence in package-based…

National Highways has begun preliminary market engagement for the second iteration of its Maintenance and Response 2 (M&R2) programme, worth £8bn, to replace existing contracts covering the entire Strategic Road Network. The contracts will cover more than 4,500 miles of motorways and major A roads, and include cyclic and reactive…

Capital&Centric has signed a pre-construction services agreement with Clegg Construction to convert a 1960s multi-storey car park in Newcastle-under-Lyme into 111 apartments. The Karparc scheme, approved by councillors in April, will retain much of the original concrete frame, including its footprint, internal ramps and sections of the external walls. These…

McLaren has secured a £100m contract to retrofit and extend the London School of Economics and Political Science’s 1950s building at 35 Lincoln’s Inn Fields. The David Chipperfield Architects-designed scheme will be the UK’s largest Passivhaus retrofit and aims to be a model for circular design and resource efficiency. Around…

McLaughlin & Harvey has been appointed to build a dedicated elective surgical facility at Guy’s Hospital in central London. The Guy’s Elective Surgical Centre will be located in a new eight-storey building on the Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust estate. The facility will focus on non-emergency procedures and…