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Network Rail and Kier have indefinitely delayed the replacement of a railway bridge as part of a £161m upgrade to Oxford Station.  The replacement of the bridge over Botley Road had been due to take place at the end of July, but has now been paused due to delays in…

Kier has been picked to redevelop a college campus in London. The contractor will demolish the current Greenwich campus belonging to London South East Colleges (LSEC) and develop a new 5,654 square metre site in its place. The £47m project will include classrooms, wellbeing spaces, a student welfare area and…

Kier has landed a job to build an accommodation block and workshop at HMP Bullingdon, Construction News can reveal. The contractor scooped the design-and-build contract to construct a seventh houseblock at the category B prison, which will increase its capacity by 247 to more than 1,300. The four-storey block will…

A major archaeological discovery last year at a Kier construction project has raised the cost of the job by nearly 50 per cent. The project to demolish and then rebuild Abbey Fields Swimming Pool in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, was set to cost £26.8m when Kier scooped the project back in October…

Kier has nabbed a job to build a four-storey office block for civil servants in Darlington. The contractor will design and build a £118m office space that will house 1,400 civil servants once it opens in 2027. It is part of a major move to relocate civil servants to different…

A £1.49bn project to develop the A66 has hit another stumbling block in the form of a legal challenge. The A66 Northern Trans-Pennine project received development consent last month. The project would see a 50km section of road upgraded to dual carriageway. But during a legal challenge period that ended…

Tier one contractors Kier, Morgan Sindall and Tilbury Douglas have gained places on a major decarbonisation framework. The four-year agreement from Pagabo will cover decarbonisation works across all sectors in the UK except the healthcare sector, which was covered in a separate Pagabo framework announced earlier this month. Work will…

Kier has been confirmed as the facilities management (FM) provider at a major new hospital in Cardiff. The contractor’s Kier Places arm will carry out the work at the Velindre Cancer Centre (pictured) for a period of 25 years, starting in 2027. Its duties will include mechanical and electrical maintenance,…

Kier has announced that it will help develop small modular reactors (SMR) with US firm X-Energy. The contractor has signed a memorandum of understanding with X-Energy and Babcock subsidiary Cavendish Nuclear to collaborate on the new technology. The firms will have access to £3.34m from the UK Government Future Nuclear…

Kier and Morgan Sindall have been named on three lots in a new framework focusing on decarbonisation in the healthcare sector. The tier one firms were both named on lots two, three and four of the £1.6bn work package, which will include the replacement of inefficient glazing and the installation…