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Covent Garden Market Authority begins search for development partner
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
Covent Garden Market Authority (CGMA), the body overseeing the £1bn redevelopment of the New Covent Garden Market in Vauxhall, has started the search for a development partner.
Jodrell Bank plans new 'live science' centre
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
Plans to build a ‘live science’ discovery centre at the University of Manchester’s Jodrell Bank Observatory have been submitted to Cheshire East Council.
New primary school to be built in Dunbar
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
East Lothian Council has approved a £6.9m contract for the construction of a new upper primary school in Dunbar.
Interserve wins UK and Middle East deals
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
Interserve, the services, maintenance and building group, has won more than £200m of contracts in the UK and the Middle East.
Costain exceeds £1bn mark
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
Costain has today reported revenue of £1.061bn in the year to end-December 2009, exceeding £1bn for first time in 16 years.
Stewart Milne wins Aberdeen housing contract
Tuesday, 09 March 2010
Stewart Milne Construction has been awarded three contracts with a combined value of £10m to build the first new council housing in a generation for Aberdeen City Council.
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
| Costain JV takes £80m road contract |
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Costain has been appointed, in joint venture with Lagan Construction and Ferrovial Agroman, to Phase 1 of an Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) contract for the A8 Belfast to Larne dualling scheme in Northern Ireland.
The A8 is a strategically important road within Northern Ireland. This stretch of the A8 carries in excess of 17,000 vehicles per day and is important to the economy of Northern Ireland because the port of Larne must be serviced by an efficient road link. The client for the contract is Roads Service, Northern Division. The contract, which has a total value of £80m, is to support Roads Service in taking the scheme through the statutory processes, including Public Inquiry, and in designing and constructing the scheme. Commenting on the contract award, Andrew Wyllie, Chief Executive of Costain, said:
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