Balfour Beatty to Deliver Healthcare Facilities in Midlands

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Balfour Beatty has been awarded England’s £267-million Midland Metropolitan Hospital contract on behalf of Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust. Having been appointed to deliver the early works contract in 2018, Balfour Beatty will now progress with the main construction works to the 80,000-square-meter hospital, including the completion of the external façade and all associated mechanical, electrical and plumbing services, delivered by Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick. The 670-bed Midland Metropolitan Hospital will offer maternity, children’s and inpatient adult facilities to a half million people. Located in Smethwick, the hospital will remain the closest acute hospital to the center of Birmingham […]

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Balfour Beatty JV Awarded Manufacturing Facility Contract in Hong Kong

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Balfour Beatty’s 50/50 joint venture, Gammon Construction, has been awarded a HK$4.75 billion contract to deliver an Advanced Manufacturing Centre on behalf of the Hong Kong Science & Technology Parks Corporation. The contract will see Gammon deliver the 108,000-square-meter AMC facility, including a seawater district cooling system. This system, which will be used to cool the entire AMC building, is a cost-effective and environmental friendly solution for building cooling. The work will include all mechanical, electrical and plumbing services, the building façade and a significant amount of steelworks. To ensure the project’s safe and efficient delivery, Gammon will deploy a […]

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Skanska Develops Parkview Complex in Prague

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The Pankrác project of developer company, Skanska, called Parkview, is under construction in Pujmanová street in Prague 4, opposite the Pankrác Central Park. After its completion in the second quarter of 2020, the nine-floor building, designed by the New York Architectural Studio, Richard Meier & Partners, is to offer almost 16,000 square meters of top-class office space. A quarter of the building—almost 4,000 square meters, has already been leased by IWG for its co-working center, Spaces. One of the most notable features of Parkview will be its clean white façade and an airy atrium incorporating greenery, which will serve to […]

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Clayco Subsidiary Lamar Johnson Collaborative Combines with BatesForum Architecture Firm

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Lamar Johnson Collaborative, a subsidiary of constructor Clayco, will combine with Clayco-owned architecture firm BatesForum, creating one firm of more than 240 professionals in five offices with capabilities in integrated design and delivery. The expanded firm has expertise in commercial, residential, multi-use, interiors, healthcare, retail, planning, landscape, education and industrial architecture, as well as a strategy team which uses economic and ethnographic data to consult with clients on workplace trends and asset optimization. Among the firm’s capabilities are the Technical Assurance Group, which consults with project teams to apply lessons from the built environment to projects still on the drawing […]

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Clayco Subsidiary Lamar Johnson Collaborative Combines with Architecture Firm BatesForum

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Lamar Johnson Collaborative, a subsidiary of constructor Clayco, will combine with Clayco-owned architecture firm BatesForum, creating one firm of more than 240 professionals in five offices with capabilities in integrated design and delivery. The expanded firm has proven expertise in commercial, residential, multi-use, interiors, healthcare, retail, planning, landscape, education and industrial architecture, as well as a strategy team which uses economic and ethnographic data to consult with clients on workplace trends and asset optimization.  Among the firm’s capabilities are the Technical Assurance Group, which consults with project teams to apply lessons from the built environment to projects still on the […]

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