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Plans to construct a new prison in North Wales have been withdrawn.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, [...]
More than £27 million will be lent by the Co-operative Bank to help build schools in the Midlands.
The Birmingham Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme will borrow £27.5 million of a £54 million debt facility from the Manchester-based lender’s PFI and Project Finance team.
Phase one of the BSF project will launch the rolling-out of [...]
Plans for a new emergency care hospital off the A19 have been tentatively backed by NHS North of Tyne.
The board said it would consider approving the development once a number of matters which still need looking at are resolved.
It also gave the go-ahead for plans to upgrade North Tyneside and Wansbeck general hospitals and to [...]
The University of Manchester has announced plans to construct a new £30 million building for its School of Chemical Engineering.
The proposed five-storey facility is part of the university’s overall £650 million construction programme, and will provide 110,000 sq ft to house research and teaching laboratories and academic offices.
Construction work on the building is set to [...]
Construction firm Skanska has won a £61 million contract to build a world-class cancer centre in the capital for the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH).
The new facility, which will have a total floor space of 14,800 square meters, will be built on the site of the former Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Obstetric [...]
The Environment Agency has approved plans for the country’s largest biomass power station in Port Talbot, south Wales.
When completed, the Prenergy plant will produce enough electricity to supply half a million homes in the region. It will use wood chip to generate power and is expected produce 50% to 80% less greenhouse gas emissions than [...]
Scotland`s first wholly sustainable school could provide lessons in developing energy efficient classes for the rest of the country.
The school, located in Acharacle in Adrnamurchan, was visited by the Scottish education secretary Fiona Hyslop. The school accommodates 48 English-speaking and Gaelic-speaking medium primary school pupils, with 14 children in the nursery.
Much of the school is [...]