{"id":875142,"date":"2025-10-02T21:33:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T02:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/02\/bovis-wins-237m-contract-to-deliver-army-facilities-in-east-midlands\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T21:33:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T02:33:50","slug":"bovis-wins-237m-contract-to-deliver-army-facilities-in-east-midlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/02\/bovis-wins-237m-contract-to-deliver-army-facilities-in-east-midlands\/","title":{"rendered":"Bovis wins \u00a3237m contract to deliver Army facilities in East Midlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper_sleeve\">\n<p><img width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ca.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/08\/Army-armed-forces-defence-military-soldier-DIO-MoD.jpg\" alt=\"Soldiers on manoeuvres\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" ><\/p>\n<div>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"132\">Bovis Construction is to deliver new and refurbished facilities across two East Midlands sites for the British Army under a \u00a3237m contract.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"134\" data-end=\"515\">The Defence Infrastructure Organisation appointed the contractor to modernise accommodation, medical and catering facilities at Kendrew Barracks and to provide offices, storage and a band practice facility at Bulwell Army Reserve Centre (ARC).<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"134\" data-end=\"515\">Design work is under way, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/contractors\/lendlease\/\">Bovis<\/a> scheduled to start construction in autumn 2026.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"134\" data-end=\"515\">The scheme forms part of the Defence Estate Optimisation portfolio, a \u00a35.1bn investment programme aimed at upgrading military infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"517\" data-end=\"833\">At Kendrew Barracks, the works will include single living accommodation for junior ranks and new regimental offices.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"517\" data-end=\"833\">The site will also host 36 Engineer Regiment, which is relocating from Invicta Park in Maidstone.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"517\" data-end=\"833\">Units from Grantham, Telford and Nottingham will also move, enabling the disposal of several sites.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"835\" data-end=\"922\">Bulwell ARC will gain secure storage, unit offices and a purpose-built band facility.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"924\" data-end=\"1114\">Major General AJ Smith, director of Army basing and infrastructure, said the programme would improve quality of life for both regular and reserve personnel while supporting military capability.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1116\" data-end=\"1271\">Warren Webster, programme director for major projects at the DIO, said the contract represented \u201canother successful milestone\u201d in modernising the estate.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1273\" data-end=\"1353\">Contractor Willmott Dixon is developing 15 buildings at Kendrew under a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/contractors\/willmott-dixon\/willmott-dixon-scoops-61m-barracks-expansion-24-07-2024\/\">separate \u00a361m deal<\/a> awarded in June 2024.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wrapper_sleeve\">\n<div>\n<p><em>Source: Bovis announcement<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/contracts\/bovis-wins-237m-contract-to-deliver-army-facilities-in-east-midlands-01-10-2025\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Ben Vogel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bovis Construction is to deliver new and refurbished facilities across two East Midlands sites for the British Army under a \u00a3237m contract. The Defence Infrastructure Organisation appointed the contractor to modernise accommodation, medical and catering facilities at Kendrew Barracks and to provide offices, storage and a band practice facility at Bulwell Army Reserve Centre (ARC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":875143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140821,4026],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-875142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bovis","8":"category-contract"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}