The Pegasus Report - Issue #133

In the South, planning go-ahead has been given for a £150m aviation fuel pipeline running from Southampton to London. Images of a proposed dramatic water feature for Mayfair Garden Square was unveiled last week. The Natural History Museum have published a notice for a contractor for a £20m deal to help it achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2035. In West London, above-ground construction has started on the new eleven storey Gateway Central building at White City Place. A £72m contract has been secured to build new offices in St James Square in London. Plans have been unveiled for a £5bn North London development, Brent Cross Town will have 6,700 homes, 3m sqft of office space and 50 acres of parkland. HS2 southern main works civils contractor has signed off the orders for the first two giant tunnelling machines for London’s HS2 tunnels.

In the South West, a modular construction firm has been chosen to deliver a new £33m COVID-19 hospital building in Cardiff to ensure capacity for patients in the event of a second spike in serious coronavirus cases. In Neath, six affordable modular homes are set to be maufactured as part of a wider 4,000-home development on the site of the UK’s first-ever oil refinery.

In the North West, work on the £130m New Victoria scheme in Manchester city centre has begun. Plans for a landmark 500,000 sq ft office scheme in Manchester city centre have been put forward. Last week the Government unveiled refined plans for the Western Leg of HS2 to Manchester, with expansion of both Manchester’s Piccadilly and Airport stations. In Burnley, plans have been unveiled for a £14m hospital scheme. In West Cumbria, construction is expected to start early next year on a £165m new coal mine scheme after planners gave the scheme the go-ahead last week. Liverpool City Council has selected a contractor for a £3.4m project to build temporary, pop-up, studios, work is set to start on site in November.

In Yorkshire, it has been announced that the Conservatives plan to open a second headquarters in Leeds. In South Yorkshire, as part of a large scale refurbishment, the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has upgraded the operating theatres at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, with only a 72-hour window to turnaround.

Two for you this week!

In this episode I talk to Simon Marshall; founder and one of three owners of BIM UK Limited; a Leeds based Construction and Digital Consultancy.

Things you will get from this episode:

How BIM UK are a new age consultancy mixing construction consultancy with developing digital assets and software.

How and why BIM UK broke into a market typically reserved for the bigger consultancies and acquired the Commercial Assurance role for Yorkshire Water.

Their adoption of the Agile methodology and how it helped them grow from 10 to 55 staff in two years.

A must listen for those in small consultancies. 

This will be the first of a two-part mini series; this one is dedicated to what actions candidates should take to get the best from a recruiter.

We have a packed technology news section for you this week!

This week’s green news.

This week’s global round-up.

Primary school pupils across London are among the first to receive a unique new children’s book designed to inspire them to work in the construction industry, a great move in hopefully increasing future diversity within the sector.

Have a great week!