Tom O’Brien, director, O’Brien Contractors, reflects on the construction commitments made in last week’s Autumn Budget and why these need to go further.
VolkerFitzpatrick has delivered the £13.7m project under budget, to redevelop the Department of Media, Culture and Language facilities for the University of Roehampton.
GMI Construction has been awarded a contract by Muse Developments to construct a new 12,000 sq ft office for the Department for Work and Pensions in South Shields.
Concord London has appointed Kier to deliver Marylebone Square, a £106m scheme in Central London on the site of the former Moxon Street car park and the last whole city block in the W1 postcode to be developed.
A new pilot project has secured funding to increase the use of home-grown timber in UK construction and develop the country’s first engineered timber manufacturing plant.
The total value of construction contract awards in October 2020 was £4.9bn based on a three-month rolling average, according to Barbour ABI’s Economic & Construction Market Review.
The new Offsite Show will be organised by Industry Expo, in partnership with Buildoffsite and will be co-located with UK Construction Week (UKCW), UK Construction Week Summits and Grand Designs Live.
Alumno has been given planning approval by Leeds Council to build a seven-storey building that will provide accommodation for the city’s growing student population.
Galliford Try, ISG, Morgan Sindall and Willmott Dixon are amongst the contractors who have won a spot on the Constructing West Midlands (CWM) framework.
