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• Offsite Solutions lands £5m Downing deal

  18-07-2023 16:01
  
  Offsite Solutions has been awarded two contracts totalling £5m for nearly 1,500 bathroom pods for Downing’s first co-living scheme.
  Designed by Simpson Haugh, Square Gardens is a £400m co-living scheme in Manchester developed and built by Downing, which will provide new homes for rent – a mix of private studios to five-bedroom apartments.
  This project is also the very first application of Offsite Solutions’ new large format tile-effect finish for its GRP bathroom po
  
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• Skanska lands £450m Lower Thames Crossing deal

  18-07-2023 14:18
  
  Skanska has been named as preferred bidder for the £450m Kent Roads contract on the Lower Thames Crossing project.
  The contractor fought-off competition from three rivals to land the deal – BFV JV; comprising of BAM Nuttall, Ferrovial Construction (UK) Ltd and VINCI Construction Grands Projets, Costain and Kier Eiffage (KEJV); comprising of Kier Highways and Eiffage Génie Civil.
  The Kent Roads contract will deliver the southern part of the route that connects the A2/M2 to the
  
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• United Utilities starts £5.5bn major project bid race

  18-07-2023 08:48
  
  United Utilities has started the hunt for contractors to deliver complex design and build projects for a programme worth £5.5bn over 10 years.
  The North West water company’s AMP8 and AMP9 investment plans are set to be significantly larger than years.
  To deliver the ramping up of work, United Utilities has created a model of five delivery runways.The Construction Delivery Partner (CDP) frameworks now out to bid will form the design and build delivery runway within the new procurement
  
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• Winvic to start first phase of £1bn West Midlands Interchange

  18-07-2023 08:39
  
  Winvic Construction Ltd has been awarded the contract for the first phase of the £1bn West Midlands Interchange (WMI) project.
  Construction will start later this year on phase one which will include road and energy infrastructure and the earthworks required to create development plots and landscape zones.
  Winvic was confirmed as the design stage delivery partner by client Oxford Properties and Logistics Capital Partners (LCP) last year on the 734-acre site where 8m sq ft of commercial spac
  
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• Consultancy growth stabilises Mace at £1.9bn revenue

  18-07-2023 08:13
  
  Mace’s consultancy business achieved record growth last year offsetting a dip in construction activity to keep revenue stable at £1.9bn.
  Consultancy revenue jumped by just over a third to hit £500m, while project delays at the main construction business saw revenue dip £100m to £1.4bn.
  Mace also delivered more than £214m of construction work through its construction management projects, not included in overall revenue.Across the group, underlying profitabilit
  
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