Bishop Auckland Bus Station, Car Park Project Team Celebrates Topping Out

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Bishop Auckland’s new bus station in England is taking shape as the building’s steel frame reaches completion. Marking a key construction milestone on the project, more than 120 hot-rolled steel girders weighing a total of 23.49 tons have been installed. The steel was fabricated less than two miles from the development by South Durham Structures Ltd. The bus station – being delivered by Esh Construction on behalf of Durham County Council – will offer modern and accessible facilities to passengers. Sustainable technologies will boost the building’s environmental credentials. These include solar photovoltaic panels on the roof, a rainwater harvesting and … Read more

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McLaren to Deliver Block F of Rental Housing-Led Regeneration of Bermondsey Biscuit Factory

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Greystar Real Estate Partners has appointed McLaren Construction to deliver Block F of the rental housing-led regeneration of the Peek Frean biscuit factory in Bermondsey, London (England). The general contractor is responsible for creating 230 of the total 1,624 high-quality build-to-rent homes in the regeneration project. Block F will be a mixed-use building part of the regeneration scheme, offering new homes, as well as retail spaces from the ground floor to level 2 of the building. To deliver Block F, McLaren will partially retain the former packing factory on the site, and repurpose it to fit the needs of modern … Read more

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BAM to Deliver £32.8M Net-Zero Orchards Academy Secondary School in Kent

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BAM will be constructing a new 750-pupil secondary school featuring strong sustainability credentials and design supporting diverse learning needs at the Orchards Academy in Swanley, Kent (England). The £32.8-million project will deliver a 100% newbuild school replacement on a live school site. The scope of work includes new classroom facilities, indoor sports provisions and the addition of new external soft sports pitches. Upon completion, the building will provide enhanced learning environments for children, with improved thermal efficiency and ample natural daylighting. The design emphasizes well-proportioned spaces, faculty adjacencies and integrated furniture and equipment to support diverse learning needs. The school … Read more

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Refurbishment Project to Provide ‘Construction Centre of Excellence’ in England

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Esh Construction has commenced work to transform an existing factory unit into a Construction Centre of Excellence in Langley Moor (England). Working in partnership with New College Durham, the £1.7-million project will see a change of use refurbishment delivered to create a specialized teaching facility for trade subjects. The building will be remodeled to create a space that includes teaching rooms, breakout areas, changing facilities and a practice area for teaching. Based on Littleburn Industrial Estate, a newly engineered joisted floor will create a mezzanine area to house the mechanical plant. The existing building fabric will be stripped back to … Read more

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New Secondary School Brings Sustainable Learning Environment to North West London

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The design and construction of a new five-form entry secondary school in North West London, England has been completed. BAM was appointed to deliver the scheme by the Department for Education under its National Education Framework. North Brent School, part of the Wembley Multi-Academy Trust, will provide 1,150 places for pupils in years seven to 13, in a new state-of-the-art, sustainable school building, with an interlinked sixth-form block. The new five-story school building provides spacious, modern classrooms equipped with the latest technology. The design maximizes the limited space available on a constrained urban site to provide a pupil-focused learning environment. … Read more

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