Contracts

A bill to settle contractual or financial disputes faster will proceed under the new Labour government, after it took advice from the Law Commission. The Arbitration Bill will continue through parliament following the King’s Speech earlier this week. It was introduced to parliament by the previous Conservative government last November and…

Industry body Build UK has released an updated version of the Common Assessment Standard (CAS), including new questions on firms’ building-safety capabilities. The CAS is an industry-agreed set of questions and corresponding assessment standards that can pre-qualify construction suppliers for projects. The updated version (V4) contains a new Building Safety…

Faithdean has won the £130m job to alter and extend retailer Fenwick’s former flagship London store, with a radical plan to jack up entire floor slabs to create higher ceilings. The scheme, approved by Westminster City Council in April, will see four new stepped floors with terraces added to the…

Lendlease Construction Europe has been awarded three contracts for British Army facilities under a broader £5.1bn Ministry of Defence (MoD) framework. The contractor said today (5 July) that the deals, worth a combined £450m, were procured under the Defence Estate Optimisation (DEO) Army Programme by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO).…

Beard has started work on a £9.2m job to create a Central African forest habitat at Bristol Zoo.  The facilities will include a new gorilla house, crocodile house and a parrot aviary as well as an outdoor space for gorillas featuring a moat - with the gorillas set to enjoy…

Red Construction Group has been appointed to replace failed Henry Construction Projects on a Westminster office scheme. The Bedford-registered company was appointed by Tellon Capital to deliver the 40 Broadway scheme under a £50m contract. Henry Construction Projects was initially named as main contractor for the project but fell into…

Barhale has nabbed a major job to revamp part of London’s sewer network. The contractor will deliver “essential remediation works” worth £36m to the Northern Outfall Sewer (NOS), which runs above the Jubilee Line and Docklands Light Railway at Manor Road, West Ham. Barhale will both design and build the…

United Utilities has named 18 companies which will undertake £2.75bn of works between 2025 and 2030.  Earlier this month the North West water company named seven partners, including Kier, Costain and Murphy, which it said would oversee delivery of £3bn of major infrastructure works during the period.  Now United Utilities…

Bouygues has been picked to build a health facility in west London to speed up the diagnosis of cancer and other illnesses. The UK arm of the French firm was named as lead contractor for the design and build of the Ambulatory Diagnostic Centre at West Middlesex University Hospital. Chelsea…

Contractors are being sought for a £155m road-dualling project in Scotland. Transport Scotland has formally advertised the job to work on the A9 between Tay Crossing and Ballinluig. The 8.2km section of road in central Scotland is being upgraded to a dual carriageway as part of a wider programme to…