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Olympic 2012 Slalom venue on course
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
The construction of the London 2012 Canoe Slalom venue is on course the ODA announced today.
Green light for Blackpool gateway scheme
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Muse Developments has been given planning permission for its £220m Talbot Gateway scheme in Blackpool.
Balfour Beatty’s Parson Brinckerhoff lands US rail contracts
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Balfour Beatty has announced that Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB), its recently acquired professional services business, has been awarded three new contracts to manage high-speed and intercity passenger rail projects in Illinois, Ohio and Florida.
Coal power station planned in Ayrshire
Monday, 15 March 2010
Plans to build a coal-fired power station in Ayrshire are to be lodged with the Scottish government today.
Boris Johnson gives green light to Brent Cross scheme
Monday, 15 March 2010
Mayor of London Boris Johnson has approved the £4.5bn regeneration of Brent Cross and Cricklewood in north London.
Two battle it out for £1bn Hertfordshire BSF
Monday, 15 March 2010
Balfour Beatty and Sir Robert McAlpine have progressed to the final stage of bidding for the £1bn Hertfordshire Building Schools for the Future contract.
Features
H+H points to zero carbon housing at EcoBuild
H+H will showcase cost-saving solutions already proven to meet the zero-carbon level 6 of the Code for Sustainable Homes at Ecobuild. The Thin Joint bonding system, using the manufacturer’s new vertical elements, was used to meet level 6 of the code on a 3.65-acre housing project by Miller Homes in Basingstoke.
Securing the skills base
Housing associations can help avoid a future skills gap, says Nigel Donohue, ConstructionSkills’ apprenticeship programme manager.
A big job in Brum
The UK’s largest council has recently awarded the UK’s largest highway maintenance contract for its roads, lights and infrastructure
Shouting from the rooftops
It’s been just over a year now since Corus launched its new ‘Colorcoat Urban™’ product. The move has already generated new jobs, and now promises to grow year-on-year.
The National Brownfield Strategy for England
Dr Richard Boyle, Brownfield Technical Consultant, the Homes and Communities Agency, says unlocking brownfield land is the key to a sustainable future.
The AGS Data Standard - what is it and why?
The Association for Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Specialists (AGS), has committed itself to the standardisation of electronic data transfer through the AGS Data Transfer Format
Life after PPG 16
Kathryn Whittington, PR Coordinator, Institute for Archaeologists, on the major changes to the profession of the last 20 years
Train your way through the recession
Jimmy Phillips, from the Construction Study Centre outlines four ways training can make construction companies recession proof.
City News
| Carillion wins £157m PPP health project in Toronto |
| Tuesday, 22 December 2009 | |
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A Carillion Joint Venture, Carillion Health Solutions, has been selected to design, build, finance and maintain Phase 1b of Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).
This phase includes the demolition of the existing administration building and the construction of three, new state-of-the-art buildings: the CAMH Gateway Building, the Intergenerational Wellness Centre and the Utilities and Parking Building. Demolition work is set to start in early 2010 with completion of the new buildings scheduled for 2012. The project will be delivered using an Alternative Financing and Procurement (AFP) model, which is similar to the UK’s Public Private Partnership model. As well as arranging debt finance to meet the costs of construction, Carillion will also invest £7m of equity in the project. |
