According to ContractJournal.com “May Gurney has won a £75m contract to provide environmental services to Bridgent County Borough Council.
The new contract, which begins in April 2010, includes collections for recycling, waste and food waste, and management of the Council’s four Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs).
The contract runs for an initial 7 years, with a [...]
Feburary 2010 saw an increase in Hombuyers according to the latest figures from the RICS. The market has also seen a 7% increase in the number of new houses coming onto the market oupacing the number of new buyer enquries. This is the first time this has happend in the last two years.
So far, House [...]
The contest for a £100m office deal in Brighton has narrowed to three challengers.
It is understood that the client is in talks with the three remaining firms and that a decision is expected within the next few weeks.
The £100M office development which is known as Amex House, will be constructed on the car park site [...]
According to latest reports the Zero Carbon Hub and Energy Saving Trust is calling for a new marketing plan to promote zero carbon homes. The plan also addresses concerns that they appear experimental and unappealing to homeowners. The report also makes a number of proposals to ensure carbon homes are not marginalised as ‘green’. The [...]
At least two contractors have banned foam concrete containing IBA from all of their sites. The foam concrete is widely used in the construction industry. The worst of the explosions occurred at Mill Green, Hertfordshire where two workers sustained fractures to the ankle and foot.
The explosion was caused when foam concrete was placed into a [...]
Construction work on a £545 million state-of-the-art hospital in Birmingham is ahead of schedule, it has been revealed.
University Hospitals Birmingham Trust said most of the building work had been completed and the Queens Elizabeth Hospital is expected to hit all its target dates.
The hospital will be the first in the city for 70 years when [...]
Six contractors have secured a place in Severn Trent Water’s £40 million property framework.
The three-year project involves refurbishment and modernisation of facilities in an area extending from the Humber Estuary to the Bristol Channel, and from mid Wales to the East Midlands.
Allenbuild, BAM and ISG will share larger projects worth £1 million and above. Projects [...]
Plans to construct a new prison in North Wales have been withdrawn.
The former Dynamex site in Caernarfon had been tipped for purchase in February by the then prisons minister David Hanson.
Up to 1,000 jobs from the 800-capacity prison could have been provided by development on the 27-acre site, chosen from among four Welsh sites after [...]
Network Rail will fund railway refurbishments in Scotland worth an estimated £1 billion, it has been revealed.
The plans will appease green issue campaigners and commuters alike when the Glasgow to Edinburgh line is electrified and journey times could be slashed to up 35 minutes. The Edinburgh Glasgow Improvement Programme (EGIP) will also fund a number [...]
A newly-appointed government adviser has warned that the UK could face blackouts by 2016, unless new energy sources are developed to replace ageing power stations.
Professor David MacKay said that public opposition to developments such as nuclear power plants, windfarms and tidal barrages was partly to blame for the prospect of electricity shortages.
The Cambridge University researcher, [...]