BAM Construction to Build New Mental Health Inpatient Facility in London

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The Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust has appointed BAM Construction Ltd to build its new mental health inpatient facility in Highgate, north London, England. Construction of the new building, opposite the Trust’s existing Highgate Mental Health Centre, is due to begin later this year, following planning permission approval. The new facility, with five wards, a gym, dedicated activity spaces and a community café, will replace the mental health inpatient wards at St Pancras Hospital, which are aging and no longer meet modern health and safety needs, nor do they provide an effective therapeutic environment. During the last 12 months, … Read more

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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 … Read more

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Final Piece of Steel Installed on London’s Tallest Building

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In partnership with steel contractor Severfield, Multiplex recently placed the last steel beam at 22 Bishopsgate – London, England’s tallest building. It is the culmination of over two years’ work on the project’s superstructure, which began when the first piece of steel was placed in January 2017. The final building will contain 17,023 tons of steelwork, made up of 14,593 individual pieces of steel. Placing the last piece is a major milestone toward practical completion later this year. Team members from both Multiplex and Severfield gathered on the tower’s highest floor to see the beam raised into place, with a … Read more

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Digging Begins in Construction of New Antarctic Wharf

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A new 74-meter-long wharf—bigger, deeper and stronger than the current one—will be built during the next two Antarctic seasons. It is due for completion in April 2020, and will provide safe berthing and efficient operations for the new polar research vessel the RRS Sir David Attenborough. While preparations for building a new wharf have been underway for two years, the first “spade in the ground” moment occurred recently when two 35T excavators, operated by construction partner BAM Nuttall, broke through the surface of the old “Biscoe” wharf and began the process of deconstruction, which has to take place before the … Read more

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Northacre, Multiplex Sign Contract for Delivery of ‘The Broadway’

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Developer Northacre has selected Multiplex to deliver The Broadway development in Westminster, England, with the official contract signing recently carried out. Following a successful nine-month, single-stage competitive tender process for the £422m Design-Build contract, Multiplex will now deliver the 1.72-acre mixed-use development on the site of the former Metropolitan Police headquarters. Once completed, The Broadway will comprise 268 apartments across six towers, 142,000-square-feet of commercial and retail accommodation, public realm and a new thoroughfare linking Victoria Street with St. James’s Park tube station. Ian Pratt, project director at Multiplex said, “We are very pleased to secure this contract and look … Read more

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