Dave Rogers

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Decision on City tower winner pushed back three months

2 weeks ago | building.co.uk | Dave Rogers

£400m Houndsditch building being developed by Brockton EverlastMace and Multiplex have been have been told a decision on who has won a City tower will not now be made until the summer. The pair had been expected to find out this week who had won the Dovetail Building for developer Brockton Everlast which is estimated to be worth up to £400m. But the two had been told to draw up a cost plan for the job whilst still in competition with the extension expected to last 12 weeks.
Former Wates COO Dave Smith dies aged 65

2 weeks ago | building.co.uk | Dave Rogers

Tributes pour in for boss whose other roles included stints at McLaren, Balfour Beatty and OsborneTributes have poured in for former Wates chief operating officer Dave Smith who has died aged 65. Smith spent 32 years at Wates before stepping down as chief operating officer at the end of 2016. He then spent 18 months at McLaren before heading off to join Balfour Beatty as its managing director for its construction business in the south of England but went after a year in October 2019.
Erith sees profit jump as firm pays off bid-rigging fine

2 weeks ago | building.co.uk | Dave Rogers

Contractor says £17.6m penalty imposed by CMA cleared two and a half years earlyDemolition and civils specialist Erith Holdings said it has paid all of its fine for bid-rigging imposed two years ago by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).
Plans sent in for City tower that was cut down by two storeys after Roman ruins discovered at site

2 weeks ago | building.co.uk | Dave Rogers

Revised proposals for 85 Gracechurch Street scheme submitted following basilica find Proposals for a tower in the Square Mile that had to be updated following the discovery of a Roman basilica at the site have been sent in to City of London planners. The scheme at 85 Gracechurch Street by Woods Bagot was set to be 32 storeys high and was given planning 18 months ago. It will include a new public hall and exhibition space.
Three in frame for £200m Edge Shoreditch scheme

2 weeks ago | building.co.uk | Dave Rogers

City fringe job being developed by Dutch firm behind London Bridge towerThree firms are expected to send in bids for an office block on the City fringe by the end of the month. Hackney council voted last year to approve the 20-storey Edge Shoreditch building at 4 Christopher Street which is being developed by Mitsui Fudosan and Dutch developer Edge. The design and build job, which is worth upwards of £200m, is being bid by Mace, Multiplex and Sir Robert McAlpine.
Confidence remains brittle as bellwether index says output fell again last month

2 weeks ago | building.co.uk | Dave Rogers

Delayed starts, gateway 2 hold-ups, tax hikes and cautious clients keep PMI score in negative territoryConfidence remained firmly in negative territory for the third consecutive month with another fall in construction output, according to new PMI data. The S&P Global UK Construction Purchasing Managers Index hit 46.4 in March, a rise from February’s near five-year low of 44.6, but still well below the 50 no-change threshold.
Government gives £2.4bn Luton Airport expansion green light

3 weeks ago | building.co.uk | Dave Rogers

Scheme expected to double annual passenger numbers to 32 millionPlans to expand Luton Airport have been given the green light by the government. It comes despite the Planning Inspectorate recommending transport secretary Heidi Alexander reject them over environmental concerns. Luton Rising, the airport’s owners, said the decision to grant a development consent order could bring “significant economic, employment and social benefits for our town”.
Two firms to find out before Easter who has won City tower off Bishopsgate

3 weeks ago | building.co.uk | Dave Rogers

Houndsditch building being developed by Brockton EverlastMace and Multiplex are due to find out before Easter who has won a tower job in the City on which Lendlease had been in the driving seat. Now renamed Bovis, Lendlease had been considered favourite for the job after the 23-storey Dovetail Building was given planning in 2021 with Lendlease then brought in under a PCSA.
Laing O’Rourke working on £300m prison originally due to be built by ISG

3 weeks ago | building.co.uk | Dave Rogers

Collapsed contractor was due to build 1,500 space complex in BuckinghamshireThe Ministry of Justice has confirmed Laing O’Rourke is leading work on a £300m prison scheme that had been due to be carried out by failed contractor ISG. Along with Kier, Laing O’Rourke and Wates, ISG was one of four firms appointed to the New Prisons Programme – which the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) refers to as the Alliance – that is intended to create 6,000 new places.
BW eyes £500m turnover by end of decade as fit out firm switches to EOT

3 weeks ago | building.co.uk | Dave Rogers

Contractor posts improved set of numbers in latest set of resultsFit out firm BW says an income of £500m is achievable by the end of the decade as the company said it had now become an employee ownership trust (EOT). The company, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, is expecting income to be over £300m in 2025 with chief executive Steve Elliott saying it was on track for a turnover of half a billion by 2030. “I’m absolutely confident we’ll get to that [number] by then,” he said.