Sir Robert McAlpine

Sir Robert McAlpine has seen profit pick up, following a year of loss. The construction and civil engineering firm reported a profit of £9.18m for the year 2020-21. This does not include the £0.2m cost after the firm decided to exit construction for energy from waste facilities. The recovery in…

A joint venture between Vinci Construction UK and Sir Robert McAlpine has been selected as the main contractor to build a new NHS clinical rehabilitation facility, valued between £50m to £100m. The specialist alliance called Integrated Health Projects will deliver the National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) as part of the government’s…

Sir Robert McAlpine has begun work on a 'world first' airport for drones and vertical take-off vehicles in Coventry. The project called Air One has been developed by Urban-Air Port (UAP), a start-up that plans to build hubs for drones and other small vertical take-off vehicles. Construction will include a…

The production of precast-concrete segments for the HS2 Colne Valley Viaduct has begun. The Align JV will produce 1,000 segments in a factory that will make up the deck of the viaduct, just outside of north-west London. The joint venture between Bouygues, Sir Robert McAlpine and VolkerFitzpatrick has been working…

Bam Construct is set to start work on the £300m Gateshead Arena after taking over from fellow contractor Sir Robert McAlpine.  According to Gateshead Council, developer Ask Patrizia has instructed Bam Construct to begin preparatory works on the site, which lies between the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art and Sage…

Moves to adopt flexible-working schemes at the NHS show that construction can be accommodating in its work patterns, Sir Robert McAlpine chief executive Paul Hamer has said. The healthcare sector has done well to adopt some flexible-working arrangements, and is similar to construction as much of the work must be…

Sir Robert McAlpine is investigating an incident in which exterior panels dislodged from a new 23-storey Hilton hotel it is building as part of a multi-million-pound development.  A “small number” of exterior panels dislodged from the under-construction 189-room hotel in Woking, Surrey, last Wednesday. It led to a police cordon…

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…

Three bidders have been shortlisted to deliver the £370m Solihull Interchange station for HS2. The firms in the running are Laing O’Rourke, Skanska and Unity (a joint venture between Sir Robert McAlpine, VolkerFitzpatrick and WSP). The contract is set to be awarded next year. All three bidders have already landed…

A revised planning application is to be submitted this week for a £75m concert hall in Edinburgh, which was delayed by a legal challenge in 2019. The Dunard Centre, a 1,000-capacity venue, was approved in April 2019 by the city council, with Sir Robert McAlpine named as contractor for the…