Willmott Dixon

Willmott Dixon has appointed James Mackenzie as its new chief financial officer. Mackenzie (pictured), who has previously held senior positions at Balfour Beatty, Berkeley Group and Kier, will also join Willmott Dixon’s main board. He previously held the CFO post at Willmott Dixon’s joint-venture partnership with EcoWorld London for six…

Willmott Dixon has won a £55m contract to rebuild a police headquarters in Hertfordshire. The firm was appointed to demolish 11 buildings from the 1960s that are reaching the end of their design life, and replace them with an office complex for Hertfordshire Constabulary in Stanborough, Welwyn Garden City. The…

Newcastle City Council is looking for a new contractor for a leisure centre that was due to be built by Willmott Dixon. In February, Willmott Dixon announced it had been appointed to develop the “state-of-the-art” Outer West Leisure Centre in West Denton, then costed at £26m. Willmott Dixon has carried…

Royal Bam topped the monthly contractors’ league table in July for the first time since 2020, after it was chosen to build converter stations at each end of a £2bn undersea cable between Scotland and England. The firm was awarded £500m for its share of work on Eastern Green Link…

Willmott Dixon has been appointed to deliver the £8 million next phase of a major regeneration scheme in Nottingham. The firm will be responsible for creating the Green Heart, an “ecologically rich area” on the site of a former shopping centre in the city’s Broadmarsh area. The scheme will see…

Housing secretary Michael Gove has doubled down on the government’s commitment to require second staircases in high-rise residential schemes – lowering the proposed threshold from 30 metres to 18 metres. In recent months, a number of contractors have halted work on developments over worries arising from a government consultation to…

Pre-tax profit plummeted at Willmott Dixon last year, with the firm blaming difficult trading conditions and spiralling supply chain insolvencies for a “disappointing” set of annual results. Profit before tax, amortisation of goodwill and exceptional items was £10.9m, down from £41.2m the year before, according to the group’s accounts for…

The chief executive of Willmott Dixon has warned schemes may be cancelled due to “considerable uncertainty” over the regulatory requirements around second staircases in high-rise blocks. Rick Willmott issued the warning as the industry waits to see if the government’s soon-to-be-updated fire safety regulations on second staircases go further than…

Willmott Dixon has launched its first drylining academy for prisoners in the North of England. The Hertfordshire-based contractor will teach inmates at HMP Lincoln plasterboard installation skills to help them find jobs on their release. It follows similar initiatives at HMP Elmley in Kent, HMP Cardiff in South Wales and…

Willmott Dixon is set to build a £40 million healthcare hub in west London. The contractor was selected by Hounslow Council and the NHS to deliver a modern replacement for Chiswick Health Centre. The new facility, to be built on the same Fishers Lane site as the existing complex, will…