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Balfour Beatty and Mace are among the major organisations to adopt a new prequalification standard that promises to cut paperwork for suppliers. The new Common Assessment Standard (CAS) requires suppliers to obtain just one prequalification certification before tendering for work. This represents a shift from the previous system where different…

Multiplex’s attempt to sue the insurer of a failed design consultant that worked on 100 Bishopsgate for £5m has been struck down in court. The case concerned the construction of the original slip-form rig built on the City of London skyscraper. Concrete specialist Dunne collapsed in mid-2016 after it had…

Multiplex’s £400m contract to turn the former US Embassy building in Mayfair into a luxury hotel propelled it to the top of the contracts league in February, according to data compiled by construction intelligence provider Glenigan. Developer Qatari Diar has picked the contractor to turn the Grade II-listed building at…

Multiplex has landed the contract to turn the Grade II-listed former US Embassy in central London’s Mayfair into a luxury retail destination and hotel. Developer Qatari Diar announced the appointment today when it renamed the building at 30 Grosvenor Square as The Chancery Rosewood. The project will see the Australian-multinational…

Cases of coronavirus have been confirmed among the workforce at Multiplex’s major University of Glasgow project. Rejecting media reports that there had been an “outbreak”, a spokesman for the contractor confirmed there were a “limited number” of cases on the project – which is a £298m scheme to deliver five…

Multiplex UK estimates the pandemic cost the business between £130m and £170m in 2020. The contractor, known for its work on London high-rise projects, was forced to close its sites temporarily in March. It said costs had been increased by shutting down and restarting projects and that lower productivity caused…

Royal Bam topped September’s league table as total orders rose again. Big jobs in the leisure and entertainment sectors helped to propel the group to the top of the league with £469.7m of new work secured. The largest of these was a £230m contract to build a new studio for…

Royal Bam topped July’s contract wins league table after two road jobs put it in pole position. The Dutch-owned contracting business signed the contract for the £200m M54 to M6 Toll Link Road project and a £312m M40-M42 interchange with joint venture partner Morgan Sindall. Both jobs were landed by…

Sir Robert McAlpine and Multiplex are the latest contractors to rule out claiming through the Jobs Retention Bonus scheme. Under the programme, firms are entitled to £1,000 for each employee brought back from furlough who remain in the firm’s employment until the end of January. The industry as a whole…

An independent review has concluded that the design, build, commissioning and maintenance of Multiplex’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Glasgow (QEUH) was not linked to avoidable deaths there. The hospital review, carried out by Dr Andrew Fraser and Dr Brian Montgomery, was commissioned to find out if the management and execution…