Buildings
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Turner & Townsend’s latest fit-out cost data puts London behind only New York for high-specification office fit-out, with premium workspace demand, AI-ready systems, and a shortage of Grade A supply continuing to support elevated project budgets.
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Kier has been appointed by Nexus to deliver the £7.9m Regent Centre Metro Station refurbishment in Gosforth, covering civils, fit-out, M&E, passenger improvements, accessibility, and removal of the existing bus canopy.
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Places for People is preparing a £400m National Groundworkers Framework for groundworks and civil engineering contractors, creating a four-year route into its residential, mixed-use, and community development pipeline across England.
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OPDC is moving to market for a long-term development partner at Old Oak, where a unified 70-acre public land agreement is expected to support 8,000 homes, 200,000 sq m of commercial and community space, and one of London’s largest regeneration programmes.
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Esh Construction has completed the £6.4m Bishop Auckland Bus Station redevelopment, delivering a new accessible transport hub with local steel, sustainable technologies, and wider regeneration links.
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Digital Realty has started work on PAR15 at Dugny, the first building in a planned 176MW data centre campus north of Paris.
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Cameron Homes has secured planning approval for Bamford Place, a 119-home redevelopment of JCB’s former Bamford Works site in Uttoxeter.
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Marks & Spencer has started construction of its £340m automated food distribution centre at DIRFT in Northamptonshire, combining warehouse automation, rail-linked infrastructure, and BREEAM Outstanding ambitions.
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Skanska has started construction of Warsaw’s Live Park Media Centre. The €20m facility will support remote football production and specialist broadcast operations from 2028.
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The National Housing Bank has backed Starlight’s UK rental platform. The £100m commitment will support a pipeline of up to 6,000 Build-to-Rent homes.