Author Archives: Joshua Stein

Trade bodies have warned against scaling down HS2 amid speculation that imminent cuts to government spending could see plans changed. Market turmoil and pressures on the government have led to chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng bringing forward an announcement on how he will balance public finances following last month’s package of tax…

A Mace and Willmott Dixon partnership has bagged a £126m job to build an emergency care centre in Plymouth. The partnership, MWD Healthcare, will build the 17,000 square metre emergency care centre in Derriford. The new facility will replace the current emergency department at University Hospitals Plymouth. The complex will…

A plan to build 1.3 million square feet of build-to-rent (BTR) homes and commercial space in Leeds has been submitted to the council. Developer Platform plans to build up to 1,350 BTR apartments and 200,000 square feet of commercial space on a brownfield site in the city, which has been…

Bam Construct has been awarded an £84.5m job to build a mental health facility in Bodelwyddan, Wales. The contractor will develop a 63-bed facility at Glan Clwyd hospital, in the north of Wales. It won the work via the £560m NHS Building for Wales framework. Betsi Cadwaladr University’s (BCU) Health…

Contractors have seen the first details of a £500m framework covering construction in the east of England. The four-year framework, which is being run by Suffolk County Council, covers public sector construction and building services in the region and is split into five lots, depending on the value of the…

Transport for London (TfL) rewarded senior bosses with five-figure bonuses in 2021/22 despite being urged by government to resist, Construction News can reveal. Last November, former parliamentary under-secretary of state for transport Trudy Harrison urged TfL to "demonstrate prudence" in rewarding bosses this year – stressing that bonuses should not…

Profit at John Sisk nearly quadrupled as it completed a number of significant builds. The contractor penned a pre-tax profit of £8.4m for the year to 31 December 2021, in comparison to £2.8m the year prior. Much of that was due to a “number of major projects" it completed over…

HS2 has fired up its first giant tunnel boring machine (TBM) in London. The 2,000-tonne piece of equipment, known as Sushila, was launched in Hillingdon on 6 October and will bore five miles towards Greenford in west London. Sushila will work on a 24-hour basis for the next 22 months,…

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…

Junior business minister Jackie Doyle-Price has been handed responsibility for the government's construction brief. Rumours have been circulating that the Thurrock MP had been appointed as construction minister ever since she was appointed as a minister of state in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) last month.…