Planning, Tenders & Contracts Awarded
Sisk will improve the public realm at the front of York railway station, creating a new Station Square and removing the Queen Street bridge. Sisk has been chosen to carry out public realm improvements at the front of York railway station, which will create a new public space called Station Square and remove the Queen …
J Tomlinson collapse leaves supply chain with £17m in unpaid invoices More than 600 subcontractors and suppliers have been left with £17m in worthless invoices after J Tomlinson went into administration in July. The Nottingham based contractor had total debts of £33m, according to an update from administrator FRP. The supply chain, who are unsecured …
A design and build contractor is sought by Southampton University to deliver its planned teaching hub in the North East Quadrant. The site is part of the Highfield Campus in the city and will be developed in two phases. The first phase will involve building a 5-storey teaching facility and ancillary facilities hub, covering 168,000 …
A 200,000 sq ft office scheme in the St John’s District of Manchester City Centre is planned by Henry Boot development arm HBD. The planning application for the scheme is expected to be submitted soon. A sixteen-storey building on the former site of the LTE Group’s Manchester College, which moved to its new campus last …
Kevin McColgan becomes the new chief executive of Bancon, a construction group based in Aberdeenshire. Bancon has appointed Kevin McColgan as its new chief executive, following the retirement of John Irvine. McColgan came to Bancon from Lovell Partnerships in Scotland, where he was the regional managing director. He had joined Lovell Partnerships in 2017 as …
Facing a decline in private market sales, house builder Vistry is changing its business strategy dramatically to focus only on partnerships housing business. The firm revealed the change in business direction as it reported a 3% increase in pre-tax profits to £114m in the first half, with revenue rising by a third to £1.57bn. Partnerships …
Liverpool Football Club has chosen Rayner Rowen Construction, a Lancashire company, to finish the stadium-expansion project that was affected by the failure of Buckingham Contracting Group. The club said that Rayner Rowen, which had previously converted a club shop into a bar in a short time in 2018, would carry out the “final works” on …