Berkeley Estate Asset Management has appointed Legendre UK as main contractor on its 50 Stratton Street office redevelopment.

Developer Stanhope has appointed Mace Construct to deliver a 250,000 sq ft office tower on London’s South Bank. 

Latimer, the development arm of Clarion Housing Group, has awarded Winvic Construction the main works contract to deliver a mixed-tenure housing development in Digbeth, Birmingham.

Skanska has been appointed to refurbish One Appold Street, Broadgate, in the City of London.

Balfour Beatty has been awarded a £315m seven-year Warwickshire Highways Maintenance contract by Coventry City Council, Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council and Warwickshire County Council.

Westminster City Council has appointed McLaren Construction to deliver the second phase of the Ebury Bridge redevelopment in Knightsbridge and Belgravia. 

Kier has been appointed to British Airways’ new tier 1 contractor framework, supporting delivery of its Better Buildings programme.

Graham has won a hard facilities management contract with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC).

BAM Nutall has been appointed as the design and build contractor for the upgrade of Cardiff Central railway station.

Morgan Sindall Infrastructure, Costain, and Hochtief have been appointed to deliver non-nuclear infrastructure works on the Sellafield site.

A High Court judge has ruled that a WhatsApp exchange between a property developer and demolition contractor constituted a valid contract.

John Elven discusses the steps you need to take to submit a payment application in an NEC 4 contract – and what happens if you fail to submit one.

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has launched a competition to find innovative technologies to enable the remote monitoring of the 17 sites it is responsible for cleaning up.

What good is a saw without any timber? What use is the timber without any labour? These are questions facing contractors across the country as material and labour shortages threaten to stall recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, writes Oliver Pickford.