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Mears Group secures a £450m Birmingham City Council and £250m Cross Keys Homes contract, pushing its order book to a record £4bn as social housing maintenance and compliance demand accelerates.

Morgan Sindall has started work on the £34m Owlstone Croft postgraduate housing scheme for Queens' College Cambridge, delivering Passivhaus-certified new buildings and Enerphit retrofits in Newnham by June 2027.

Caddick Construction starts on site in May 2026 on a £46m, 16-storey room2 hotel in Leeds city centre, delivering 200 rooms on the former swimming pool site with a fully electric, renewable-powered design and spring 2028 completion.

AtkinsRéalis secures £98m from Network Rail to upgrade signalling and telecoms across 43km of the Wessex route, relocking and recontrolling the Havant Area to Basingstoke ROC over three years.

Vinci and Hochtief’s Aspire consortium is set for a £170m PPP to design, build, finance and operate new and refurbished student halls for the University of Southampton, adding 1,092 beds and restoring Grade II‑listed Stoneham House by 2029.

Bouygues Bags Green Light for Triple‑Tower LSE Bankside Student Scheme in London

McLaughlin & Harvey wins £107m CMAL contract to modernise Port Ellen ferry terminal on Islay with new berth, linkspan, shore power and expanded facilities by 2029.

NOE CPC launches £1bn NHS decarbonisation framework with 20 lots for heat pumps, solar, ventilation retrofits across England, bids due 1 May 2026.

Graham has begun work on UEL’s £45m New Academic Building in Stratford, a BREEAM Outstanding, CLT-led facility forming the centrepiece of the university’s £170m Stratford Health Campus and Vision 2028 strategy.

Willmott Dixon has secured a £39 million contract to redevelop Hopwood Hall College’s Rochdale campus, creating a modern 75,000 sq ft teaching block that brings higher‑education provision to the town for the first time.

A £29 million Welsh‑medium primary school in Port Talbot is under construction, replacing Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Rhosafan with a net‑zero aligned campus, ALN provision, and a community hub.

Oxfordshire County Council appoints VolkerFitzpatrick to build the Didcot Science Bridge and A4130 dualling, a core part of the £350m HIF1 scheme unlocking 12,655 homes and major growth across the county’s Science Vale.