Willmott Dixon

Willmott Dixon has been chosen to deliver a £65m mixed-use scheme in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. The project, located in Northminster, includes 315 apartments in 10 storeys, 37 townhouses, and leisure and commercial units on the ground floor. It will be built next to a cathedral on the site of a former…

Durkan has named a former Willmott Dixon managing director as its new head of construction. Tim Carpenter joined the Hertfordshire-based developer and contractor as new business director last year and has now been promoted to managing director of construction. He succeeds Jim Briggs, who is retiring after 44 years at…

Morgan Sindall, Kier and Galliford Try are among firms on a new £1.8bn framework covering the North West. The framework has been split between building and infrastructure works and contains different value lots. The highest value band is for projects worth more than £30m. The projects covered include construction work…

Fast-growing GMI Construction has poached Willmott Dixon’s regional operations director for Yorkshire. Andrew Hurcomb (pictured) has joined Leeds-based GMI as managing director for Yorkshire. He takes the position recently vacated by Lee Powell who stepped up to chief executive of GMI. Powell said of Hurcomb’s appointment: “His knowledge and experience…

Willmott Dixon, Robertson and Farrans have been selected for a £4.2 bn major-projects framework. Procurement Hub, part of the developer and property management company Places for People, confirmed the three would deliver projects on the second generation of the Major Projects framework, which includes local government, housing, health, transport and…

Mace, Morgan Sindall and Willmott Dixon have signed a letter sent to the construction minister, urging him to make carbon assessments mandatory for public sector jobs. The letter to Lee Rowley (see bottom of article), sent by framework provider Scape and and signed by 16 contractors and consultants, called for…

Morgan Sindall, Wates, and Willmott Dixon are among the firms appointed to the £5.16bn Southern Construction Framework (SCF). The residential framework will run for four years and give the firms access to residential work in London, the South East and South West. Projects awarded could include traditional design-and-build contracts, end-to-end…

Bam Construct, Kier and Willmott Dixon are among the five contractors to scoop places on both high-value lots of the Department for Education’s (DfE) mammoth £7bn building framework. A total of 26 contractors have been picked on the 22 separate lots on the four-year framework, which is split into regional…

Multiplex is offering staff the option of four-day working weeks in a new flexible-working initiative that it hopes will improve the gender balance in the company. Its ‘Multiplex Flex’ initiative will provide staff with different options for flexible working. It includes early finishes on Fridays, four-day weeks, remote working and…

Mace and Willmott Dixon have formed an alliance to bid on new healthcare jobs. The contractors said working together would allow them to deliver a wider scope of new-build and refurbishment projects than they could achieve individually. The two will now bid together for contracts under an FAC-1 framework alliance…