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Wates has won the £75m contract to deliver the 381-home first phase of a new community in Hampshire. The contractor has already broken ground at the 13.8ha Lower Acre site, with its work expected to complete by 2027. The scheme is the first of nine phases of development on the 130ha One Horton Heath site

Operating theatre in a Portakabin-built modular building at Royal Stoke University Hospital Portakabin has bought modular healthcare builder that turned over £80m in 2022. Portakabin, which specialises in modular building, did not disclose how much it paid the Telford-based Darwin Group, but said the acquisition will help it to expand into the healthcare sector and

ISG has been appointed to refurbish hundreds of cells at a major prison – to bring them back into use. The £61m contract involves ISG refurbishing 300 single prison cells at HMP Birmingham so that they can be used again, and is part of the Ministry of Justice’s (MoJ) bumper prison modernisation scheme. Worth £3.8bn

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Kier has been awarded a contract to build a new two-storey mortuary in Aberdeen by spring 2024. The work – worth £30m – will include building post-mortem and body-storage rooms, an office for Police Scotland and a teaching and museum area. The facilities, which will be located on a site at the Foresterhill Health Campus

Contractor Mace has been picked to build a 12-storey office scheme in the City of London. Developers BauMont Real Estate Capital and YardNine chose Mace to deliver the ‘Edenica’ office and retail development, which lies between Chancery Lane and Fleet Street. The scheme has an estimated completion date of late 2024. Edenica is the first

Mace has landed the the integrated delivery partner and construction manager role on the £440m second phase of the Manchester Airport expansion. The firm was appointed to deliver the latest chunk of work on the major upgrade of the regional flights hub after Manchester Airport Group this week made the final investment decision to go ahead

Galliford Try has been awarded a £95m contract to expand Rye Hill prison in Warwickshire. The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has appointed the contractor to deliver a new building at the site in Rugby, which will increase the capacity of the prison to accommodate 426 more inmates. The expansion job is one of four announced