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• Kier lands leading Piccadilly role for Crown Estate

  23-07-2026 17:09 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Kier has been confirmed as main contractor for 10 Piccadilly in the heart of London.
  The job forms part of the next phase of the Crown Estate’s West End development pipeline alongside the retrofit of 21-29 Glasshouse Street where BAM is main contractor.
  The two developments will deliver 169,300 sq ft of new office, retail and hospitality space and mark the latest step in The Crown Estate’s long-term vision for its 10 million sq ft London portfolio.Kristy Lansdown, Managing Director o
  
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• Wates London reset continues as director to join from Mace

  23-07-2026 16:34 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Wates has unveiled a new Commercial Director for Wates Construction London as the reset of its business across the capital continues.
  Kevin Grace will join in October from Mace where he has spent the last 12 years lately as Commercial (Operations Director) leading projects including the £1.1bn British Library extension.
  Grace will be working alongside George Mosey who took over as Managing Director for Construction London earlier this year.The company said the latest appointment “for
  
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• Morgan Sindall lifts profit targets after blockbuster first half

  23-07-2026 08:52 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Morgan Sindall has hiked profit targets for its Construction and Fit Out businesses after a record first half powered by booming building workloads and a surge in margins.
  This morning the contractor posted pre-tax profit of £116m for the six months to 30 June, up 22% on last year, as revenue climbed 8% to £2.56bn.Net cash strengthened to £418m while its secured order book reached £12.2bn, swelling to £19.5bn including preferred bidder work.Construction and Fit Out
  
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• Sisk lands £38m London Irish Centre rebuild

  23-07-2026 08:35 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Sisk has secured the job to deliver the £38m redevelopment of the London Irish Centre in Camden.
  The firm is due to start work in January next year on the long-planned overhaul of the charity’s Camden Square headquarters, with the new centre scheduled to reopen in the first quarter of 2029.
  Designed by Coffey Architects, the three-storey redevelopment will retain the building’s original street façade while creating a modern cultural, welfare and community hub for the Iri
  
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• Hochtief lands £250m Blackpool Silicon Sands data centre deal

  23-07-2026 08:34 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Blackpool Council has selected Hochtief Data Centre Partner UK as preferred concessionaire for the £250m first phase of its flagship Silicon Sands digital campus beside Blackpool Airport.
  The first phase will deliver a 6MW carbon friendly data centre alongside around 20,000 sq ft of office and research space.The facility has already secured planning permission and will use liquid immersion cooling technology, with waste heat captured and fed into a proposed district heat network serving th
  
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• Hochtief bags £250m Blackpool Silicon Sands data centre

  23-07-2026 08:34 via constructionenquirer.com
  Blackpool Council has selected Hochtief Data Centre Partner UK as preferred concessionaire for the £250m first phase of its flagship Silicon Sands digital campus beside Blackpool Airport.
  The first phase will deliver a 6MW carbon friendly data centre alongside around 20,000 sq ft of office and research space.The facility has already secured planning permission and will use liquid immersion cooling technology, with waste heat captured and fed into a proposed district heat network serving th
  
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• HBC wins 240-home Sheffield brewery site revival

  23-07-2026 07:25 via constructionenquirer.com
  Contractor HBC has been lined up to deliver the first phase of Capital&Centric’s regeneration of the former Cannon Brewery site in Sheffield after the 240-home scheme secured planning.
  The green light clears the way for work to begin on the 4.2-acre former Stones Brewery site in Neepsend, where the developer plans to create a new mixed-use neighbourhood with around 500 homes.
  HBC will build the opening phase comprising 240 flats, alongside the first elements of a wider masterplan that
  
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• HBC lands 240-home Sheffield brewery site revival

  23-07-2026 07:25 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Contractor HBC has been lined up to deliver the first phase of Capital&Centric’s regeneration of the former Cannon Brewery site in Sheffield after the 240-home scheme secured planning.
  The green light clears the way for work to begin on the 4.2-acre former Stones Brewery site in Neepsend, where the developer plans to create a new mixed-use neighbourhood with around 500 homes.
  HBC will build the opening phase comprising 240 flats, alongside the first elements of a wider masterplan that
  
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• Green light for 54-storey multi-tenure Canary Wharf tower

  23-07-2026 07:24 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Plans for a 54-storey mixed-tenure residential tower at Canary Wharf have been given the planning green light, clearing the way for the redevelopment of the 77 Marsh Wall office site into 820 homes.
  Developer Areli and British Airways Pension Trustees secured approval from Tower Hamlets for the scheme, which will see the site’s existing 17-storey office block, built in the early 1990s, demolished.
  This will be replaced with what the developer describes as the UK’s largest integrated
  
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