ð Rail
Amey and Egis have secured contracts on two separate infrastructure frameworks from Transport for London. Amey have joined the TfLâs Infrastructure Improvement Framework, a programme worth up to £700M for two years while Egis have secured a position on TfLâs Professional Services Framework in a multiyear deal. Elsewhere, West Yorkshire are seeking consultants for a new £75M transport services framework. The four year framework will last until 2030 and is divided into three lots.
â¡Energy
Balfour Beatty have secured a contract worth £325M from Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks to build the Netherton Hub in Aberdeenshire. The two year contract and follows the announcement last year that Balfour would be brought in for enabling works. The work is expected to require up to 800 workers at its peak. As well as this, Balfour Beatty have also secured a £121M, four year contract from National Grid. This is a part of the Bramford to Twinstead project to extend a 400kV substation in Norfolk. Five firms have been appointed to National Gridâs £1.2Bn overhead line upgrades programme. This will take place across England and Wales in the next stage of the Electricity Transmission Partnership.
ð Roads
Westminster City Council have appointed FM Conway to work with WSP to carry out a highways and public realm contract worth £1.25Bn. The programme is set to last for eight and a half years with the potential extension of a further four. The programme is setting out to improve carriageways, footways, street lighting, drainage, bridges and structures, alongside support for a range of regulatory functions. Herefordshire Council have also appointed contractors to their infrastructure framework. 18 suppliers have been appointed to the four year programme valued up to £100M.
ð Property and development
Significant development news has come out of Scotland this week as ministers have halted a £2.1Bn hospital job being run by Laing OâRourke. Health chiefs have to redesign the Monklands Hospital project due to affordability concerns, as it was revealed the hospital would cost approximately £5M per bed. The decision is very likely to cause the targeted opening date of 2031 to be pushed back. Elsewhere in Scotland, Glasgow City Council have given approval for a 25 storey students tower. This is part of the £250M transformation of the Glasgow city centre gateway site. The project is set to start in 2027 with aims for the project to be completed in 2030. A group of 11 firms have secured places on the £1.5Bn Yorbuild framework. The refreshed framework is split across two different lots; the projects which are worth less than £30M and those worth more. £600M has been set aside for the former which has eight contractors on board, while the remaining £900M is set for the larger projects which also has eight contractors.
ð§Water
The philanthropic arm of Google, Google.org, has awarded £1M to develop a UK water resilience intelligence platform. FloodAction were awarded the grant and will now set out to find nature based solutions to flooding within the country. Barhale have been awarded a £9.5M contract by Severn Trent to deliver a stormwater management scheme in Silverdale. They will also be responsible for upgrading the existing pumping station, constructing a new pumping station and delivering a full mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, control and automation works. All of this will be to help increase the stormwater overflow capacity.