The Antony & Roderick House scheme Apex Airspace and Lambeth & Southwark Housing Association (LSHA) have gained planning to build 30 affordable homes on top of and in between existing residential buildings Antony House and Roderick House in Bermondsey, with the assistance of HTA Design. The development will include ‘bookends’ at each end of the…
Managing director Eddie McGillycuddy A focus on industrial markets has led to business mushrooming at Glencar Construction, creating a forward order book of £180m. In the year to 31st March 2019, Glencar turned over £22.1m and made a pre-tax profit of £774,000. It subsequently changed its financial year so a direct year-on-year comparison does not…
Factory-produced Ilke Homes units Ilke says that the deal is 2020’s biggest institutional investment in modular housing. Man GPM is funding the development of a 14.6-acre site in Grantham, Lincolnshire, that has detailed planning consent for 227 homes. Of the 227 factory-built homes being delivered, 140 will be made available at affordable rent levels, 47…
The north portal of the Long Itchington Wood tunnel is under construction A launchpad is being constructed for a tunnel boring machine (TBM) that will dig a one-mile twin bore tunnel under Long Itchington Wood, before the route heads north and swings into Birmingham’s Curzon Street Station. Current work on the one-square-kilometre north portal site…
The Building Safety Bill is part of the government’s response to the Hackitt Review into building safety that it commissioned after the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire. The draft Bill has a host of measures for buildings over 18 metres high, including: a new building safety regulator (for inhabitants’ safety, not construction worker safety) new government…
Built Environment Networking plans the online event on Wednesday 27th January 2021. The virtual event ran for a first time last month and attracted 400 job seekers and employers with 1,000 jobs to be filled. The organisers are hoping for more this time. Keith Griffiths, managing director of Built Environment Networking, said: “The ongoing coronavirus…
The acquisition of Surrey-based CGL, for an undisclosed sum, is CET’s third bolt-on acquisition since Palatine Private Equity took a majority stake in November 2018 and its largest acquisition to date. CGL has about 65 employees across seven regional offices and is said to be the largest independent specialist geotechnical and geo-environmental consultancy in the…
How 30 South Colonnade looks now and (below) the vision for its makeover McGee is undertaking strip out and enabling works. The main build contract is still in negotiation. 30 South Colonnade, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox, was completed in 1991 as 288,400 sq ft of office accommodation over ground-level reception, mezzanine and 10 upper…
Redrow’s Ashdown Vale development, also in Barnham Approval from Arun District Council takes Redrow’s live developments in the region to six, with further proposals for two sites in the pipeline, subject to planning. Expected to launch in March 2021, the first scheme will bring 145 new homes to Yapton, which is mid-way between Arundel and…
The 42 houses aimed at ‘help to buy’ owners will be similar to those built by Orkney Builders in the Grainbank area. It has applied to Orkney Islands Council for build 97 properties at the site, where It hopes to begin work early in the new year. The first phase of the development offers 28…
