The Environment Agency has submitted plans seeking permission for a series of flood defences to alleviate flooding around the Yorkshire village of Mytholmroyd, expected to cost approximately £30 million, as part of a wider plan to prevent flooding in the surrounding area. The submission follows the publication of an action plan, commissioned by the Environment … Read more
One of the biggest demolition contacts likely to become available this year is now up for grabs. Shoreline Housing Partnership has declared that six blocks of flats, each fifteen storeys high, in the East Marsh area of Grimsby, will have to be demolished as renovating the blocks will not be cost effective. The housing charity … Read more
A £263 million extension to London Overground services to the new Barking Riverside development has recently been approved. Linking Barking Riverside to Barking and through Barking to overground services into the city centre and out to Essex; and via the London Underground with the District and Hammersmith & City lines, the extension approval is a … Read more
JV North, comprising of 11 social housing association members covering Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Nottingham and Preston, have designed a new portal to offer contracts valued under £1 million to SMEs in the second stage of a four-year home building and refurbishment framework worth £180 million. The new, specially designed portal, the Dynamic Purchasing System, is … Read more
National Rail has recently published a report suggesting a new Midlands Rail Hub could see a £2 billion boost to the economy over the next 10 to 30 years. The West Midlands and Chilterns Route study states that a Hub could, by improving access to London from the Chiltern Main Line by connecting it with … Read more
Last month saw the long awaited signing of the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Deal, delayed by the General Election in the Spring. The City Deals are a mechanism for accelerating growth by pulling in significant government investment for infrastructure, skills and innovation to boost economic performance, thereby attracting private investment and raising funds … Read more
It was recently announced that six construction firms have secured their places on a framework to exclusively bid to deliver large-scale construction projects to five universities based in the North East of England. The North Eastern Universities Purchasing Consortium (NEUPC) is one of six consortia nationwide designed to maximise third party expenditure within the Higher … Read more
The Grade I listed Palace of Westminster, a UNESCO World Heritage site and the “Mother of All Parliaments” is in desperate need of refurbishment, and, after years of debate and delays, the first steps are being taken to begin a programme of renovation. BDP and CH2M will work together in a £12 million contract to … Read more
Whilst responding to the Government’s Green Paper “Building Our Industrial Strategy”, Scape, the public sector owned built environment specialist, called for a radical rethink of procurement to unlock social value. The Green Paper consultation, which ran from January to April 2017, sought responses from a wide variety of industry and business sectors to help the … Read more
The free guides aim to advise businesses on the key concepts of modern slavery and their legal obligations regarding the issue. The first guide focuses on child labour issues. With the International Labour Organisation estimating that 211 million children under 15 are child labourers, with 73 million of them being aged 10 or under and … Read more