Contract Awarded for UK’s biggest gigafactory

Sir Robert McAlpine Contract Awarded for Agratas Gigafactory The race to net zero shows promising signs as a contract has been awarded for the £500m Agratas Gigafactory in Somerset. Contractor Sir Robert McAlpine is confirmed to begin work on site on January 2025. Phase one of the build will comprise of: Battery cell manufacturing facility, … Read more

Contract awarded for Dakota Hotel at Manchester Airport

Evans Property Group were awarded the contract for the Dakota Hotel at Manchester Airport on 1st July 2024. Currently at the detail planning stage, the £60m build will consist of the erection of 7 storey 154-bedroom hotel, with associated access, car parking & landscaping. Located on Enterprise Way & Bailey Lane, minutes away from Manchester … Read more

Scotland Secures a Quarter of Infrastructure Awards with Major Energy Projects

Scotland secures a quarter of all infrastructure awards in July. The domination of the sector was bolstered by two £150m projects. Based in Lanark, Strathclyde the first of the two huge projects is the 500MW Coalburn Energy battery storage facilities. The second project based in Dumfries and Galloway features an 84MW Wind Farm. Coalburn Energy … Read more

Workforce Inclusion: Harnessing Diversity for Accessible Environments

The panel lineup for 'Workforce Inclusion: Harnessing Diversity for Accessible Environments' at UK Construction Week London 2024 on the Barbour ABI Main Stage

On day 1 of UK Construction Week London, we attended the insightful ‘workforce inclusion’ session on the Barbour ABI Main Stage. Co-chaired by Ele George, Founder of Elevate, and Guy Harris, Director of AccessiblePRS, the session started by asking the audience four eye opening questions. Guy asked everyone to stand up and when they answered … Read more

The Future of the Built Environment

For this month’s content calendar blog, we are looking to the future of the built environment. What does it look like? With massive advances possible in technology, materials, automation, relationships, processes, diversity and countless other facets, it is impossible to know exactly what the next industrial revolution may look like. Within this blog, we will … Read more

July provides some respite from the cost of living crisis

Building Model on top of Blueprints with Microscope

The data within the latest release of Snap Analysis, our monthly industry snapshot, provided some respite from the planning environment’s recent downturn due to the cost of living crisis, supply chain distribution and rampant inflation. This is because contract awards bounced back to £7.2bn in July. July saw the second monthly rise in a row … Read more

How to Optimise Client Experience

Star Review

Understandably, businesses focus a large amount of time and energy on seeking out new business, but not many spend as much time thinking about the experience of a client once they’ve purchased a service or been onboarded. Customer service experts Zendesk state that 62% of B2B customer buy more from a business after receiving good … Read more

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