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McLaughlin & Harvey has secured a £70m main contract to redevelop Thavies Inn House at Holborn Circus in central London for Evans Randall Investors. The project will replace the existing 1950s building with a substantially larger commercial development, with main construction scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter of 2026 following demolition works by Erith Contractors. Designed by WilkinsonEyre, the scheme will provide around 90,000 sq ft of prime office space alongside 2,

GRAHAM Building has secured a £50m contract to rebuild Cranbourne Secondary School in Basingstoke, replacing ageing buildings including blocks affected by RAAC. The project will deliver a new 10,000 sq m secondary school on the existing Wessex Close site, with early works already underway and main foundation works due to begin this autumn. The redevelopment will replace seven existing buildings and create a new two and three-storey facility bringing teaching, specialist learn

Wavensmere Homes’ £150m Wolverhampton Canalside South development is preparing to welcome its first residents. An initial tranche of 30 family homes are ready to move into at the 17-acre former British Steel site and Crane Foundry, which had lain derelict since 2009. 50% of the 378 family houses at the city centre regeneration scheme have already been sold off-plan to owner-occupiers and investors, with 131 plots purchased by global real estate investment company, Kennedy Wil

BSN Group Construction has started work on a major refurbishment and extension programme at the University of Wolverhampton’s Springfield Campus. The project includes a substantial extension and refurbishment of Block A, incorporating the adaptive reuse of the existing Grade II listed building. Works will also include the full refurbishment of Block H, alongside a new-build extension and the creation of a new engineering workshop for students and staff. The scheme forms part

Bouygues UK has secured a £64m contract to rebuild Holy Trinity CofE Secondary School in Crawley under the Government’s School Rebuilding Programme. Work is due to start this month on the phased redevelopment of the West Sussex school, which will remain operational throughout construction. The main element of the scheme is a new 9,300 sq m three-storey teaching building on land to the south of the existing campus. Pupils and staff will move into the new building before the ex

Anglian Water has selected Ferrovial Construction, MWH Treatment, VolkerFitzpatrick and VolkerStevin Infrastructure for a major infrastructure delivery framework worth up to £3bn. The framework will support Anglian Water’s capital investment programme as it upgrades water and wastewater infrastructure to respond to population growth and climate change across its operating region. The procurement has been split across two contracts, each carrying an estimated value of £1.5bn.

Costain has secured around £150m of wastewater treatment upgrade work from Thames Water across 15 sites in the South and South East of England. The programme forms part of Thames Water’s wider investment plan to upgrade more than 250 sewage treatment and sewer sites between 2025 and 2030. Costain will divide delivery across eastern and western regions, each overseen by a regional senior project manager. The eastern programme covers sites at Barkway, Brentwood, Long Reach, Lit

McAleer & Rushe has started construction of a £95m hotel development in Edinburgh city centre after MRP secured a pre-let with Dalata Hotel Group and development funding from AIB. The scheme at 60 Morrison Street will deliver a new 256-bedroom, four-star Clayton Hotel next to the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. The project will become Dalata’s second Clayton Hotel in Edinburgh and is being developed by MRP, with McAleer & Rushe appointed as design and build contrac

Birmingham-headquartered urban regeneration specialist Wavensmere Homes has appointed Ryan Pritchard as a technical manager to bolster the team supporting its major construction projects. Established in 2016, Wavensmere’s live projects have a collective GDV of over £400m. The five major developments currently under construction are seeing circa £3.5m per month spent on brownfield regeneration. An additional three major Midlands schemes are at the planning or pre-construction

BAM has handed over the new Lyde Green Primary and Secondary Schools in South Gloucestershire, completing a £58.3m education project ahead of opening to pupils in September. Delivered for South Gloucestershire Council, the development comprises a 420-place primary school and a 900-place secondary school for pupils aged 11 to 16. The schools are the largest in England to be designed and built to Passivhaus standards, with the project targeting significantly reduced energy dema

GMI Construction Group has secured places on four lots of the new Crescent Construction framework, strengthening its public sector pipeline across the Midlands and North of England. The contractor has been appointed to every lot it bid for on the framework, which is operated by Crescent Purchasing Consortium (CPC). The framework provides public sector organisations with a compliant route to procure new-build, refurbishment and wider capital works. GMI’s appointments cover two

ScottishPower Energy Networks has awarded M Group a £110m contract to modernise a major 400kV electricity transmission route across central and southern Scotland. The contract will see M Group refurbish more than 70km of overhead transmission line along the Strathaven to Smeaton corridor, linking South Lanarkshire with East Lothian. Originally constructed in the 1960s, the route will undergo a full upgrade including the installation of almost one million metres of high-capaci

Balfour Beatty has raised its full-year guidance after reporting higher revenue, profit and cash generation during the first half of 2026, supported by growth in US buildings and UK power transmission. Group revenue increased to £5.56bn during the six months, up from £5.15bn in the same period last year. Underlying profit from the group’s earnings-based businesses rose to £153m, compared with £108m in the first half of 2025, while total underlying profit from operations incre

Kier has secured a key role on Thames Water’s £265m upgrade of Maple Lodge Sewage Treatment Works in Hertfordshire, marking its largest wastewater project to date. The contractor has signed an £8.7m early contractor involvement agreement to help develop the AMP8 scheme ahead of the main construction phase. Kier will work with Thames Water and the project design team to finalise the design, manage delivery risks and prepare the programme for construction. Located at Maple Cros

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust has signed contracts with Dragados to develop detailed designs for the replacement West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds. The international contractor will work alongside the Trust and the Government’s New Hospital Programme as the scheme moves into its next design and development stage. The proposed hospital will be built at Hardwick Manor, where the Trust has already acquired the site and secured outline planning permission. Dragados wil

GMI Construction is set to secure a £21m contract to design and build a new library and business centre in Nuneaton for Warwickshire County Council. The Leeds-based contractor was selected ahead of Clegg Construction, McLaren Construction and McPhillips (Wellington) for the scheme, which forms a key part of the wider Transforming Nuneaton regeneration programme. The project will redevelop the former Royal Mail Delivery Office site into a new civic and commercial hub designed

Caddick Construction has been appointed principal contractor to design and build a new Big Yellow Self Storage facility on Scotswood Road in Newcastle. The development will provide 60,000 sq ft of internal storage space across four floors, alongside customer loading bays, offices, reception space and staff welfare facilities. External works will include new car parking, landscaping and the installation of roof-mounted solar photovoltaic panels and battery storage. The facilit

Kier has secured two school redevelopment contracts worth a combined £98m, including a flagship low-carbon academy in Lancashire and the replacement of the RAAC-affected Anglo European School in Essex. The contractor will deliver the £45m Wellfield Academy in Leyland for the Department for Education as one of its GenZero Pathfinder projects, showcasing the next generation of ultra-low carbon school buildings. The new 6,540 sq m secondary school will feature a three-storey tea

Planning approval has been granted for the redevelopment of the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre, paving the way for a major refurbishment of one of the UK’s most iconic sporting venues. The project, which is expected to begin on site in late 2026, will modernise the Grade II* listed complex while preserving its historic character and improving accessibility, sustainability and sporting facilities. Procured through the Southern Construction Framework, Morgan Sindall Cons

Kier Construction has started work on two new-build schools worth a combined £29 million, delivering modern learning environments in Cowbridge and Sennybridge. The projects will replace ageing school buildings with new energy-efficient facilities and form part of the Welsh Government's Sustainable Communities for Learning programme. At Ysgol Iolo Morganwg in Cowbridge, pupil capacity will double from 210 to 420 places, while the development will also include an adult educatio