The University of Manchester has selected framework partner Balfour Beatty to build its new £350m engineering campus. The Manchester Engineering Campus Development (MECD) is described as “one of the largest, single construction projects ever undertaken by a higher education institution in the United Kingdom”.
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Leeds City Council has handed Interserve a £12.3m contract to refurbish and modernise the city centre’s Grade I listed Kirkgate Market. Works are expected to last until autumn 2016 but business life will continue during the works for the 200 shops and 150 stall holders in the market place.
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The Victoria and Albert museum in London is on the hunt for an architect to design new members' room The V&A is looking for an architect to design a new £1.3 million members’ room to accommodate its growing number of supporters.
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The City of Budapest has launched an international competition to regenerate the eastern bank of the River Danube The contest seeks ideas to boost community use of public spaces between Kossuth Square – which is home to Hungary’s parliament – and nearby Fővám.
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The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames is seeking an architect for a tranche of its £30 million ‘mini Hollands’ public realm improvement programme The winner of the £700,000 design contract will draw up plans for a £6 million cycle hub and plaza outside Kingston Station and a new £160,000 cycle ‘quietway’ improving access to nearby Kingston Bridge
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The London Borough of Merton is seeking an architect to re-masterplan Wimbledon Park The winning team will draw up five separate concept plans for the Capability Brown-landscaped 27 hectare green space which is next door to the world famous All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.
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Milford Haven Port Authority in Pembrokeshire is seeking an architect for its £70 million Milford Dock regeneration project The winning team will draw up an ‘economically realistic and deliverable’ design brief for the 44,600m² mixed-use masterplan which won outline planning permission earlier this year.
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Morgan Sindall has won a £30m contract for a major refurbishment of a Birmingham office building. The building at 55 Colmore Row, formerly home to law firm Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co, is getting three extra floors added on top to create 160,000 sq ft of grade A office space.
Continue reading...Planning development is currently in progress for a £100 Million 1,400 unit development in Rochester
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ISG has bagged an £8.4m contract to build a new University Technical College (UTC) in Warrington for the Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU). This is the second phase of the town’s Stadium Quarter regeneration scheme, which has an overall project value of £10m..
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