The winners of the first-ever Inspiring Women in Construction and Engineering awards have been revealed at a ceremony in central London. Jointly launched by Construction News and its sister title New Civil Engineer, the awards celebrate the role models and organisations empowering women in construction and engineering. A total of…
Higgins’s £75m residential project in Hayes boosted it to the peak of September’s league tables. The contractor scooped the job to demolish and rebuild the Hayes Town Centre Estate, a job which is being spearheaded by the London Borough of Hillingdon. The site will include more than 500 homes and…
Kier, ISG and Willmott Dixon are among a host of major contractors to win multiple slots on a £600m framework to develop new buildings for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs's (DEFRA) Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) science estate. The framework covers design, build, installation, commissioning and handover…
Willmott Dixon has appointed a director to drive the firm's transformative plans for growth. Roger Morton, who was named as the contractor's new director of strategic change, joins from Vistry Group, where he was group change director as the housebuilder was reconstituted following Bovis Homes’ acquisition of parts of Galliford…
Willmott Dixon has been named as the main contractor on a £43.5m green leisure centre project in Staines-upon-Thames. The tier one contractor will work with consultant Gale & Snowden and architect GT3 to meet the international Passivhaus standard for energy-efficient design and construction. Spelthorne Borough Council, which awarded the contract,…
Laing O’Rourke’s £370m job to build HS2’s Birmingham Interchange propelled it to the top of the July league table. The contract to build the last of HS2’s stations took Laing O’Rourke nearly £150m ahead of its nearest competitor, according to data gathered by construction intelligence provider Glenigan. Laing O’Rourke will…
Flexible working can help to tackle the skills gap in construction without having a negative impact on business performance, according to a review of four pilot projects at top firms. The review, conducted one year after flexible working pilots were introduced at Bam Construct, Bam Nuttall, Skanska UK and Willmott…
Willmott Dixon has scooped a £50m contract to transform a 1990s office block near Tower Bridge into one of the UK’s most sustainable offices. The contractor has been chosen by Fore Partnership to overhaul the 10,219-square-metre building next to Tower Bridge into the TBC.London workspace. The speculative development is underpinned…
Reduced working hours, more breaks and alcohol warnings are among the measures being introduced by contractors this week as the UK braces for record temperatures. The Met Office issued an “exceptional” weather warning for the temperatures on Monday and Tuesday, when the temperature in southern England is expected to reach…
A pre-planning consultation for a £90m educational campus in Newport, Wales, has been launched. The proposed scheme involves building a new university campus on the site of the ageing Newport Centre leisure centre, which will be relocated. The consultation, launched this week, acts as a precursor to the outline application…
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