A London council has changed its procurement methods and will make more of preconstruction services agreement (PCSA) methods after pausing the third phase of a housing programme due to financial pressures. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea has delivered 168 homes under its £139.3m new homes programme, with another…
Willmott Dixon has been named as the preferred bidder to build a £31m Passivhaus leisure centre in Surrey that has been delayed amid unfavourable market conditions. Waverley Borough Council originally said construction work on Cranleigh Leisure Centre would start this autumn after it obtained planning permission in March. However, in…
Morgan Sindall strode to top spot in the November league tables, largely thanks to a £130m fit-out job in the City of London. The contractor’s fit-out arm Overbury scooped the £130m project on 2 Aldermanbury Square for international law firm Clifford Chance. Along with a £100m science scheme in Manchester…
Work on Luton’s £120m town centre regeneration scheme is set to resume in January, pending long-awaited approval from the Building Safety Regulator (BSR). Roger Kirk, director of property and infrastructure at Luton Borough Council, told a scrutiny finance review group meeting on Monday (27 October) that the council now has…
Willmott Dixon is eyeing record framework-related turnover in 2025, the tier one contractor has announced. The £1.1bn-turnover firm, which was ranked 18th in the latest CN100 index of top UK contractors, said it had secured more than £700m of framework business for 2025. Two frameworks were extended in H1: Procurement…
Willmott Dixon has launched a £30m legal action against civil engineer Peter Brett Associates (PBA) and Karakusevic Carson Architects (KCA) over alleged defects at a Hoxton housing block. The firms designed and constructed the 44-home Bridport House in east London, which was completed in 2011 but subsequently evacuated for remedial…
Bowmer & Kirkland was the Department for Education’s (DfE) highest paid construction company for the fourth year in a row, Construction News can reveal. Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show that the Derbyshire-headquartered firm was paid £320.8m in the 2024/25 financial year - £57m ahead of the…
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has put aside £1.1bn of contracts to restart stalled projects in its prison building programme – including two major ex-ISG jobs. The cash is meant to get 14 construction work packages up and running at 32 prisons and courts across the UK under the ministry’s…
Willmott Dixon has appointed Stewart Brundell as chief operating officer (COO) of its £1.01bn-turnover construction business. Brundell was previously managing director for the contractor’s London & East region. He replaces John Waterman, who stepped down from the COO role earlier this year after a decade in post. Brundell, who joined…
Willmott Dixon has secured a contract to build a new net-zero Passivhaus primary school and community hub in Glyn-coch, South Wales, for Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council. The contractor was appointed through the South East and Mid Wales Collaborative Construction Framework to deliver the scheme, which will replace Craig…
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