Strabag and Group company Züblin have secured the design-and-build structural works for the ABS Gäubahn Nord/Pfaffensteig Tunnel in south-west Germany, centred on an 11km twin-bore rail tunnel linking Stuttgart Airport station directly to the Gäubahn line towards Switzerland. About 9.8km will be driven by two TBMs, with conventional tunnelling for the A8 motorway undercrossing and airport connection, plus a 240m cut-and-cover section, retaining structures, railway underpasses and a grade-separated crossing. A 3km surface section will be upgraded and partially realigned for 200km/h operation, delivered under an integrated project delivery model with Ed. Züblin, Wayss & Freytag and Strabag AG sharing tunnelling, structural and earthworks packages.

Federal funding for New York’s US$16bn Hudson Tunnel Project has been frozen, forcing the Gateway Development Commission to suspend works from 6 February after spending over US$1bn and employing about 1,000 site workers. A Manhattan federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order, giving the administration until 5 p.m. on 12 February to restore reimbursements or appeal, while contractors warn that demobilisation, resequencing and remobilisation will add cost and delay. Sites are now in “safe-pause” mode, with dewatering, ground support and environmental monitoring maintained, and assembly of two Herrenknecht TBMs in New Jersey likely to slip beyond the planned spring 2026 launch without funding certainty.

Swiss Federal Railways has awarded an Implenia/Marti 50:50 joint venture five of six MehrSpur Zurich–Winterthur lots worth just under CHF 1.7 billion, including the 8.3 km Brüttener tunnel (Lot 240) with twin 10 m diameter single-track tubes and a 1 km spur to Zurich Airport. TBM excavation will start in August 2029, with a roughly ten-year construction phase using BIM for planning and execution and extensive special foundations, earthworks and embankments. Additional works cover full redevelopment of Dietlikon station, about 6 km of new track across Dietlikon and Wallisellen sections, multiple underpasses, bridges and the Neumühle railway bridge and Storchen underpass near Winterthur.

MAX Power Mining has secured an additional 155,125 acres (628 sq. km) of permits contiguous with its 1,224 sq. km Lawson natural hydrogen project in south-central Saskatchewan, creating the newly named Aurora project on a basement-controlled structural play along the Paleoproterozoic–Archean contact of the Sask Craton. The company has now accumulated 660,263 acres (2,672 sq. km) of provincial permits across the Genesis Trend while running a multi-well commercial validation drill programme at Lawson targeting large-scale natural hydrogen. An MOU with the City of Moose Jaw links potential hydrogen development to a nearby heavy industrial and major data centre corridor, signalling early focus on local offtake and infrastructure integration.

Fitzroy Minerals has extended broad, shallow copper mineralisation along the 1.7 km Tenorita trend at its Buen Retiro project in Chile, with hole BRT-DDH072 cutting 111.9 m at 0.97% Cu from 21.1 m depth, including 18 m at 1.59% Cu from 84 m, and BRT-DDH070 returning 147.7 m at 0.41% Cu from 26.3 m. The company has completed 78 diamond holes for 13,036 m since February and plans a further 9,000 m this year to deliver a maiden resource and prefeasibility study by mid-2027 under its earn-in with Pucobre and SCM Buen Retiro. Fitzroy is evaluating a near-surface heap-leach operation supplying existing SX-EW capacity about 90 km away, targeting production from this brownfield Atacama IOCG system in 2028.

Agnico Eagle Mines is investing $60 million to buy 8.7 million shares in Cadillac Mines’ $385 million TSX IPO at $6.90 per share, lifting its stake from 9.7% to about 11% and deepening its position along Quebec–Ontario’s Cadillac-Larder Lake Break. Cadillac controls roughly 40 km of strike and one of the Abitibi greenstone belt’s largest land packages, including the historic Kerr-Addison mine, which produced 11 million oz. gold and now hosts 78.5 Mt indicated at 1.34 g/t and 25.9 Mt inferred at 2.7 g/t. For operators in Abitibi, the move signals continued capital support for brownfield resource growth and potential future mill-feed or consolidation options around Canadian Malartic, LaRonde and Macassa.

Yorkshire Water has set up an £80M multi-supplier framework for technical consultancy and design to support its AMP8 capital programme from 2025 to 2030, covering treatment works, trunk mains, sewers and resilience upgrades. The framework will be used to develop optioneering, outline and detailed designs for both above- and below-ground assets, including geotechnical assessments for new pipelines and structures, hydraulic modelling, and civil/MEICA integration. Consultants will be appointed on a call-off basis, giving early design input on schemes before construction procurement.

EPC Mineex Sénégal, a subsidiary of EPC Groupe, has secured a €23 million, three-year explosives and blasting services contract with Boto SA for the Boto gold mine in Senegal. The deal includes deployment of two Mobile Explosives Manufacturing Units (MEMUs) on site and the integrated supply of bulk explosives and associated blasting services. For mine planners and geotechnical teams, on-site MEMUs should enable tighter control of powder factors, blast timing, and fragmentation to support consistent ore feed and wall stability management.

Bowmer + Kirkland has reached a key construction milestone at its Derbyshire headquarters, with chairman Jack Kirkland laying the final brick on one of the new office buildings in the multi-phase redevelopment. The scheme replaces legacy accommodation with modern office space designed to current UK building and energy standards, signalling a long-term commitment to the site as an operational hub. For contractors and consultants, the project suggests upcoming fit-out, services integration and external works packages as the campus build-out progresses.

Graham has completed a new bridge over the A10 in Cambridgeshire, providing a direct link between the Waterbeach New Town development and Cambridge city centre and removing a key severance point on the strategic route. The structure spans the dual carriageway to carry active travel and local traffic between the new settlement and existing urban area, reducing reliance on A10 junctions already operating near capacity. For designers and contractors, the scheme signals further A10 corridor upgrades tied to large-scale housing growth and associated junction, drainage and earthworks packages.

GR Engineering Services has secured an EPC contract from BHP Iron Ore to deliver the Yandi Eastern Front-End Facility Upgrade, targeting the primary crushing circuit for the Ministers North project in Western Australia’s Pilbara. The scope covers engineering, procurement and construction of new front-end materials handling infrastructure tied into the existing Yandi joint venture operations. For mine planners and process engineers, the upgrade signals further brownfield optimisation of Yandi’s ore feed, with implications for crusher throughput, availability and integration with downstream screening and conveying.

Henry Brothers has opened its sixth UK office in Edinburgh, giving the contractor a permanent east coast base to complement its existing Glasgow operation. The firm has been active in Scotland since 1997, recently delivering education projects at Frogston and Aberlady primary schools and defence works at HMNB Clyde, RNAD Coulport, RAF Lossiemouth and the Army Reserve Centre in Dunfermline. Regional director for Scotland Nick McKeown says the capital base will support further UK expansion as the company approaches its 50th anniversary.

Marlborough Highways has secured its first Medway Council contract, a £375,000 junction upgrade at the A2 High Street/Mierscourt Road intersection in Rainham, scheduled to start in mid-July during the school summer holidays. The works package covers carriageway planing and resurfacing, drainage and ducting, new kerbs, footway and paving upgrades, plus replacement street furniture, traffic signs and street lighting. Marlborough plans to staff core delivery teams with Kent-based operatives, source materials from local suppliers, and run post-project employability workshops and scheme briefings for a Kent school.

Sunrise Energy Metals is fast‑tracking studies to lift its Syerston Scandium Project in New South Wales to 180tpa scandium oxide by adding a new 120tpa production train to the existing 60tpa design. The expansion case is being advanced in response to customer interest in non‑Chinese supply and forecasts of stronger scandium demand for aluminium–scandium alloys and solid oxide fuel cells. For project engineers, the larger nameplate capacity will drive re‑assessment of hydrometallurgical circuit sizing, reagent logistics and offtake contract structures.

Redpath Mining has been named preferred underground contractor for Evolution Mining’s Bert project at the Ernest Henry copper-gold mine in north Queensland, and for the E22 project at the Northparkes copper-gold operation in New South Wales. The work packages, disclosed via a Redpath job posting, cover new underground development rather than open-pit activities, signalling additional decline, level access and ore drive development in both orebodies. For suppliers and labour, this points to near-term demand for underground development crews, ground support, and mobile fleet in two established Australian base metals hubs.

Northern Ireland manufacturer Screencore has appointed RME Solutions as exclusive distributor for its full range of mobile screens and crushers, plus spare parts, across France. RME, led by managing director Benoît Roglet, will provide nationwide after-sales coverage, including service, maintenance and customer support for quarrying, recycling platforms, demolition sites and public works. The Screencore line will be integrated with RME’s existing sorting, grinding, sieving and cleaning equipment portfolio, giving French operators a single supplier for complete materials preparation circuits.

Savannah Resources has released the definitive feasibility study and maiden JORC Reserve for Phase 1 of the Barroso Lithium Project in northern Portugal, detailing a 14‑year open pit operation centred on 2.56 Mt of spodumene concentrate production. The DFS outlines conventional drill‑and‑blast mining with truck‑shovel haulage feeding a crush–grind–flotation plant, targeting battery‑grade spodumene for European converters. For geotechnical and mine planners, the phased pit development and long mine life provide a stable basis for slope design, waste scheduling and infrastructure staging.

SurveyX (UK), a Yorkshire-based start up led by project manager Joe Walshaw with over 30 years’ survey and ground engineering experience, is launching a suite of underground investigation services for tunnels, utilities and drainage networks. The firm will combine topographical surveys, ground penetrating radar, utility tracing, CCTV inspections and 3D building scanning to capture precise spatial data, structural details and defect locations for repair or future use. SurveyX has already secured contracts in Kent and is targeting UK-wide coverage within two years, leveraging AI- and internet-enabled workflows to accelerate ground exploration and design planning.

The London Borough of Ealing has awarded Preston-based consultants XAIS-PTS a £33M contract for road condition monitoring services under Lot 2 of its Highways and Transport Services Framework. The framework will cover systematic pavement condition surveys and asset data collection across the borough’s highway network, informing prioritisation of resurfacing, patching and structural maintenance. For geotechnical and pavement engineers, the deal signals sustained demand for high-resolution condition data to optimise lifecycle planning and justify capital works on urban carriageways and footways.

Galliford Try has secured a £47.5M contract from Thames Water to deliver the Camberley Sewage Treatment Works Flow Compliance project, upgrading a works previously criticised as a “cess-pit”. The scheme will focus on improving hydraulic capacity, process performance and resilience to meet tighter environmental permits and storm-flow compliance obligations. Civil and MEICA scope is expected to include new or uprated inlet works, flow control structures and treatment units, with construction staged to maintain full treatment during the upgrade.

Nista’s second Major Projects Annual Report, covering 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026, reports improving delivery confidence on parts of the £700bn-plus National Infrastructure and Construction Pipeline but flags persistent schedule and cost risks on complex rail, energy and digital schemes. The authority backs tighter portfolio management, earlier constructability input and stronger use of digital twins and alliancing contracts, yet stops short of calling for statutory planning reform or changes to Development Consent Order processes. For engineers, the message is to plan for prolonged consenting and stakeholder engagement as a fixed constraint rather than a variable.

Procurement has begun for the main construction contract on Queensland’s Tiaro Bypass, an 8.5‑kilometre, four‑lane highway realignment east of Tiaro on the Bruce Highway north of Brisbane. The project will create a new divided carriageway section, removing through‑traffic from the existing town main street and improving continuity on this nationally significant freight and cyclone evacuation route. Geotechnical and civil design will need to address greenfield earthworks, floodplain behaviour and tie‑ins to existing Bruce Highway geometry and pavement structures.

The Games Independent Infrastructure and Coordination Authority has awarded BMD the early works contract for the new Brisbane Stadium, a key package ahead of the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Scope includes bulk earthworks, erosion and sediment controls, and semi-permanent site infrastructure, setting geotechnical parameters and drainage behaviour before main construction. Contractors will need to manage sediment basins, staged cut-and-fill and temporary stormwater controls carefully, as these early levels and ground treatments will lock in foundation options and future stadium access geometry.

Newport City Council has issued a £2.7M procurement for a solar farm and battery energy storage system at the capped Docks Way Landfill Site in Newport, South Wales, aiming to convert the former waste facility into a grid-connected renewable energy asset. The design-and-build contract will need to address foundation detailing on landfill cover, settlement behaviour and gas management, as well as integrating the BESS with local distribution network constraints. Civil and geotechnical bidders will be expected to manage construction over waste, including differential settlement and leachate control.

DMC Mining Services Chile has fired its first blast under a new lateral development contract at Lundin Mining’s Minera Candelaria copper-gold operation in Chile, marking the operational start of a major project for KGHM’s international contracting arm. The work focuses on underground lateral development to open additional ore headings and improve access to existing stopes, supporting Candelaria’s long-life block and panel caving plans. For geotechnical and mine planning teams, the contract signals sustained demand for high-precision development, ground support installation and sequencing in a mature, deepening orebody.

Balfour Beatty has secured a £120M contract from Leeds City Council as sole contractor to deliver the Leeds Inner Ring Road Strategy, consolidating design, construction and phasing under a single delivery partner. The programme is expected to involve staged upgrades and renewals to existing dual carriageway sections, junction reconfiguration and associated structures, with complex works likely over live traffic and constrained urban corridors. For civil and geotechnical teams, the single-contractor model signals early contractor involvement on pavement rehabilitation, retaining systems and utilities diversions across multiple work packages.

NOVAGOLD will acquire Paulson Advisors’ remaining stake in the Donlin Gold project in southwest Alaska in an all‑stock deal, creating NovaGold Corporation, a Delaware‑incorporated US gold miner valued at about $4.2 billion. The transaction consolidates ownership of Donlin, which hosts roughly 40 million measured and indicated ounces at 2.22 g/t and is designed for about 1.1 million ounces per year over a 27‑year mine life, rising to 1.3 million ounces in the first decade. NOVAGOLD shareholders will own nearly 65% of the new company, with Paulson locked up on its c.35% stake until project financing or year three.

Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering, VSL Systems (UK) and Bachy Soletanche have formed a dedicated Geotechnical Sub-Alliance for the Sizewell C nuclear project, in what is believed to be a first-of-its-kind delivery model on a UK megaproject. The alliance is expected to coordinate complex ground engineering packages for the twin EPR units, including deep foundations, retaining structures and heavy temporary works for major nuclear island and marine structures. For contractors and designers, the move signals tighter integration of design–build geotechnical risk management on a highly regulated, coastal, soft-ground site.

Civil and structural engineering consultancy Perega is consolidating its two London offices into a single base at Waterloo, relocating staff from Leytonstone to support a push into healthcare projects across the capital. The move centralises design teams working on hospitals, clinics and other NHS estate upgrades, positioning them closer to major clients and transport hubs. For contractors and project managers, a unified Waterloo office should streamline coordination on complex healthcare schemes with tight phasing, live-site constraints and demanding structural and MEP integration.

Work has started on a £50m programme by Aspire Defence Ltd to build new living, working, and training facilities on Salisbury Plain for three British Army units under the Ministry of Defence’s Defence Estate Optimisation portfolio. The scheme will deliver modern accommodation blocks and technical buildings designed to current MoD standards, replacing older stock and consolidating units onto fewer, more serviceable sites. Contractors will need to manage construction within an active training area, with tight security protocols and restricted access shaping logistics, groundworks, and phasing.

McLaughlin & Harvey has secured a £100m contract to build a new Rolls-Royce air combat facility in Bristol, providing integrated research, manufacturing and assembly space for next-generation aerospace propulsion. The complex will support novel technology development and agile production methods for future air combat programmes, with construction scheduled to start in late 2026 under Rolls-Royce’s defence infrastructure division. For engineers, the scheme signals upcoming demand for high-spec industrial building services, vibration control and precision environmental conditions to support advanced test and assembly operations.

Great British Energy – Nuclear has appointed Jacobs, supported by planning consultancy Quod, to deliver planning and consenting services for small modular reactor (SMR) projects in the UK. Initial work will concentrate on new nuclear development at the Gwyndod site (formerly Wylfa Newydd) and Oldbury-on-Severn, covering strategic land-use planning, consent strategy and leadership of approvals. Scope includes statutory stakeholder engagement plus socio-economic, traffic and transport assessments, signalling early demand for geotechnical, infrastructure and access studies around these priority SMR locations.

Aeris Resources has more than quadrupled the ore reserve at its Tritton copper operations in central New South Wales to 10 Mt at 1.7 per cent Cu and 0.38 g/t Au, securing over five years of mill feed for the existing processing plant. The enlarged reserve base underpins Aeris’ strategy for a long-life, multi-mine hub, giving planners clearer visibility on stope sequencing, backfill requirements and ventilation upgrades across multiple underground orebodies. For contractors and suppliers, the five-year runway signals sustained demand for ground support, pastefill, and mine services in the Tritton district.

HS2 has completed realignment of the A43 near Brackley, Northamptonshire, carrying traffic over the future high-speed rail route on a newly constructed bridge. The works, delivered during planned weekend closures, were sequenced to avoid disruption to the nearby Silverstone F1 Grand Prix traffic flows on this key dual carriageway link between the M40 and M1. For civil and highways engineers, the scheme illustrates typical HS2 interface constraints: tight possession windows, high traffic volumes, and maintaining strategic network resilience during major earthworks and bridge construction.

Balfour Beatty has secured a seven‑year, up to £120m contract from Leeds City Council to maintain and upgrade the 2.5‑mile inner ring road, which carries more than 83,000 vehicles per day and includes over 135 structures such as bridges, tunnels and major retaining walls. Works under the Leeds Contractors Major Works Framework will combine annual planned maintenance with design-and-build strengthening and refurbishment of four bridges and viaducts, three tunnels and one footbridge. Routine maintenance starts immediately, with major structural interventions from 2027 and overall completion targeted for 2032.

Thames Water is tendering a £227m framework for sewer rehabilitation, CCTV surveys and cleaning across its entire region, covering both gravity and rising mains with methods including structural lining, pipe replacement, patch repairs, leak-tight lining, pipe bursting and associated manhole sealing. The scope also includes minor civils, inspection reporting, waste disposal and street works, with some packages requiring work adjacent to railway infrastructure. The framework is split into two lots above and below £3m, with up to six suppliers per lot from April 2027–2030 and potential extension to 2035.

Arada has unveiled a £2.5bn plan for the 47‑acre Thameside West site in London’s Royal Docks, targeting at least 5,000 homes with 35% affordable, green space over roughly half the site and a 1km active waterfront. The first phase will deliver 1,500 homes in six buildings plus a major public park, with Arup, Gensler and landscape architect Planit appointed to lead design updates to current building safety and regulatory standards. Arada aims to submit the first-stage planning application this summer, start on site by early 2028, and open a new DLR station with TfL in time for initial occupation.

Tactical Resources has secured Nasdaq Capital Market approval via a SPAC merger with Plum Acquisition Corp. III, with New PubCo shares to trade under the ticker “TREO” after the expected 28 July 2026 closing. The company plans to use the listing to accelerate its Peak rare earths project in Hudspeth County, Texas, which holds exclusive rights over about 4 million tonnes of REE-bearing tailings and stockpiles from the Sierra Blanca quarry and already has initial quarry operating permits. Tactical’s feedstock-first model relies on existing mined material, aiming to bypass new mine development and move directly into processing.

London Gold LLC has proposed a US$25 million cash-and-stock acquisition of Bocana Resources (TSXV: BOCA), whose key asset is the 40 km² Escala gold-silver-copper project in Bolivia’s Potosí department, about 40 km from San Cristobal Mining’s major silver operation. Bocana’s C$7.7 million market cap shares, last traded at C$0.075 on 29 June, are halted while terms are finalised, with assets to be rolled into a new London Gold-controlled vehicle targeting a Nasdaq listing and backed by an initial US$1.2 million diligence funding. Investors face limited visibility on London Gold, which has filed dormant UK accounts since 2016 and disclosed neither funding sources for the US$25 million nor its beneficial owners.

Anglo American has reportedly selected the Global Diamond Consortium, led by former De Beers chief executive Gareth Penny, as preferred bidder for De Beers, with the proposal including equity participation from Botswana, Angola and Namibia. Botswana, which produces about 70% of De Beers’ diamonds and already holds a 15% stake, has signalled it wants a larger share as part of Anglo’s portfolio reshaping. The sale process is unfolding against a severe market downturn, with WWW’s rough diamond index down roughly 50% from its 2022 peak and De Beers suspending output at South Africa’s largest diamond mine.

Seabridge Gold has secured a US$100 million unsecured credit line at 7% interest, drawable in US$10 million tranches to year-end 2026, to fund roads, geotechnical, metallurgical and environmental data collection for feasibility-level design at its US$8.8 billion KSM gold-copper project in British Columbia’s Golden Triangle. The financing proceeds despite a B.C. Supreme Court order to redo Indigenous consultation on KSM’s “substantially started” status and a permitting standoff with Tudor Gold over the 12.5 km Mitchell Treaty Tunnels crossing Treaty Creek. KSM’s 2022 prefeasibility study reports 2.29 billion tonnes of proven and probable reserves grading 0.64 g/t gold and 0.14% copper, containing 47.3 million oz. gold and 7.3 billion lb. copper.

USA Rare Earth has appointed Serra Verde Group chief executive Thras Moraitis as its next CEO from 1 October, following completion of a $2.8 billion cash-and-stock merger expected to close by the end of August, with current chair Michael Blitzer becoming executive chairman. The combined company aims to build a mine-to-magnets rare earths supply chain outside China, anchored by Serra Verde’s Pela Ema operation in Brazil, which is forecast to supply about half of global ex-China heavy rare earth output next year. Serra Verde recently secured a $565 million US International Development Finance Corporation financing package to expand Pela Ema, signalling strong US-backed support for non-Chinese heavy rare earth production capacity.

Kier has secured more than £51M of work to upgrade three Severn Trent wastewater treatment works at Droitwich, Warton and Worksop under the AMP8 capital programme. The projects will focus on process and capacity improvements to meet tighter discharge consents and resilience requirements across the Midlands network. Contractors, designers and suppliers can expect significant packages in civil, mechanical and electrical works as Severn Trent accelerates AMP8 delivery.

Jacobs has secured three National Highways contracts, including design commissions for schemes on the M32 and M5 plus a separate project management framework role. The work is expected to cover highway and structures design, traffic management layouts and construction staging on heavily trafficked motorway sections, where lane occupation and possession windows are tightly constrained. For contractors and consultants, this signals upcoming opportunities in detailed design, temporary works and programme integration on these corridors as schemes move from options to delivery.

JordProxa has been selected as technology and equipment partner for Lilac Solutions’ Phase 1 commercial lithium carbonate plant on Utah’s Great Salt Lake, which targets 5,000 t/y of battery-grade lithium carbonate using direct lithium extraction. The partnership covers the downstream conversion process, integrating JordProxa’s thermal and process equipment with Lilac’s ion-exchange DLE system. First lithium production is planned for 2028, signalling a move from pilot-scale brine processing to a full commercial facility in a chemically complex salt-lake environment.

Work is due to start on a £6.9M upgrade to Selset Reservoir, near Barnard Castle in County Durham, with Esh-Stantec delivering improvements to Teesdale’s strategic water supply assets for Northumbrian Water. The scheme is expected to focus on refurbishing existing raw water infrastructure and treatment interfaces at the reservoir, rather than building new storage, to improve resilience of supply to downstream works. Contractors and designers will need to manage construction around an operational impounding reservoir, with associated geotechnical, temporary works and water quality constraints.

Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering, VSL Systems (UK) and Bachy Soletanche will jointly deliver major geotechnical works for the Sizewell C nuclear project, covering piling, soil mixing, diaphragm walls and plastic cut-off walls. The package will form key below-ground containment and support structures for the twin EPR units, where groundwater control and long-term settlement performance are critical on the Suffolk coast. The collaboration signals early locking-in of specialist contractors for complex deep-foundation and seepage-control systems on one of the UK’s largest current infrastructure schemes.

Evans Randall Investors has secured full planning and related consents for the £200m WilkinsonEyre-designed redevelopment of Thavies Inn House at Holborn Circus, London, clearing the way for demolition contractor Erith and main contractor McLaughlin & Harvey to mobilise on site. The scheme replaces the existing office block with a new Grade A commercial building in a prime City fringe location, signalling imminent demand for complex demolition, deep temporary works and constrained urban logistics.

Severn Trent Water is preparing early supply-chain engagement for a new capital delivery framework programme worth up to £25bn over the next 8–15 years across the Midlands. The frameworks will cover long-term water and wastewater infrastructure upgrades, signalling sustained demand for civil works, pipelines, treatment assets and associated geotechnical investigations. Contractors, designers and materials suppliers will need to position for multi-AMP procurement, likely involving alliancing models and capacity to deliver large, phased programmes rather than one-off schemes.

Red South West, part of Red Group, has secured delivery of the £34m Portwall Place office scheme in Bristol, designed by Buckley Gray Yeoman for BlackRock and LS Estates, signalling a major commercial build in the city’s central business district. The contractor will also construct Buro Happold’s new £8m headquarters at Pinesgate West in Bath, designed by AWW Architects for WPV Developments, consolidating the engineering consultancy’s operations into a purpose-built facility.