Day: March 17, 2022

Multiplex is coverting the old US embassy in Mayfair into a hotel for Qatari DiarMultiplex Construction Europe returned to project in the year to 31st December 2021, making £2.0m before tax. The previous year it had made a pre-tax loss of £131.8m. Revenue in 2021...

Chalfont St Peter vent shaft for the Chiltern tunnelsThe current budget for HS2 Phase One (London-Birmingham) stands at £44.6bn. Of this, £14.9bn has been spent, with an additional £800m for land and property provisions. £12.7bn has been contracted but not yet actually spent. That £44.6bn...

Pivot Power’s Kemsley battery storage siteThe 50 MW/100 MWh lithium-ion battery storage facility in Sundon is expected to begin construction in early 2023, with the aim of being connected to National Grid’s Sundon substation later that year. Once constructed, Pivot Power will also develop a...

Image credit: Architype/Dalgety DesignThe new Currie Community High School will be the first Passivhaus-designed high school in the Scotland. The Passivhaus energy standard reduces the amount of energy needed for heating by up to 90%. It also lowers the total amount of energy used by...

Aerial image of the old gas works site that Churchill wants to developChurchill Retirement Living has acquired the site on Bridge Street and has been working with Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole (BCP) Council on its plans to put up around 170 new homes. Unusually for...

The £6bn framework is a planned successor to the existing Southern Construction Framework and is designed to deliver public sector construction projects in education, health, sport & leisure, fire & police, build-to-rent and more. The purpose of the PIN is to advise prospective contractors of...

Artist's impression of the new lido, courtesy of Hodson ArchitectsHull’s Albert Avenue Pools is being transformed inside and out, with the construction of a new outdoor heated lido to replace the original one that closed in 1988. The project will remodelling, refurbishment and redecoration of...

Images from Hawkins\Brown Cambridge City Council planning committee this week unanimously resolved to award consent for what will be the first dedicated children’s hospital in the east of England. The design team for Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises architects Hawkins\Brown and White Arkitekt,...

Roger Bullivant’s RBeam precast concrete foundation systemRBeam has  been added to the NHBC Accepts register of products that need prevent no obstacle to houses securing insurance. NHBC Accepts was launched in 2020 in response to the growth of prefabrication and system building in housing (called...

Frontline operatives at Kier Highways have been using the new Fyld app to reduce the time it takes to produce risk assessments from 20 minutes to just three. Take bit of video and talk about what you see, and the app produces a report. Fyld...