Buildings

City of London officers have recommended councillors back a bid to build a 73-storey skyscraper as tall as the Shard in the capital’s financial district. A report to councillors ahead of a meeting on Tuesday (2 July) urges them to grant consent for the 1 Undershaft proposals subject to conditions…

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…

A third contractor has been appointed to finish a residential scheme, after the previous two contractors went bust in the space of two years. Wokingham Borough Council announced today (25 June) it has picked local firm Feltham Construction to finish building 55 apartments at its Carnival Place development. Original contractor…

Multiplex has been appointed to build the City of London’s newest skyscraper. Fifty Fenchurch Street will provide around 60,400 square metres of office space in the heart of the financial district. Multiplex did not divulge the value of the job but data provider Glenigan estimates it is worth £400m. The new…

Cruden Homes and City of Edinburgh Council have submitted plans for the first phase of a £1.3bn “sustainable new coastal town” in the Scottish capital.  The Scottish housebuilder and local authority are working in partnership to overhaul part of a vast brownfield site to the north west of Edinburgh’s city…

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…

Worcestershire County Council has issued a tender for a new £100m design and construction framework for new primary schools. Interested firms have until noon on 15 July to bid for the 10-year New Primary School Design and Build Programme. A council spokesperson told Construction News that the contract is for up to…

CN100-ranking contractor RG Carter is among seven firms selected for a £96.3m construction and refurbishment framework from the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich. The UEA Contractor Framework has a baseline lifespan of three years, with the university having the option of extending it by two years. Work will…