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The government has announced 50 projects for the first part of its 10-year £1bn school rebuilding programme. The first round of the programme, for which the Department for Education (DfE) has pledged 500 projects in total, will include 50 school rebuilds across England. The first 50 schools were prioritised due to the physical conditions of the buildings; either due to having buildings of a specific construction type that require replacement, or having buildings with the worst physical conditions, identified through a data collection programme launched by the government in 2017. The departme...

Bam Construct has been confirmed on a £192m film and TV studio job for Sky in Elstree, Hertfordshire – one of the contractor’s largest ever contracts. The development, which was announced in December 2019, will include 13 stages to host various TV and film productions at once across 20,000 square feet. The project will also include production offices, a screening cinema, a set-construction workshop and state-of-the-art post-production and digital facilities when it opens in 2022. The contractor has been appointed by Sky, its sister firm NBC Universal and investment partner Legal & Genera...

Kier has been appointed to deliver an £87m surgical centre at Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton, Somerset. The contractor has been selected by Somerset NHS Foundation Trust to provide a new building that will include eight operating theatres, six endoscopy rooms, a patient recovery and clinical support area, and a critical care unit with 22 beds. It is already on site carrying out enabling works for the surgical centre and will commence the construction of the first phase of the building, the sterile services department, next month. This will be a base for sterilising equipment for the build...

Bam Construct wins £68m hospital job Bam Construct has been picked to deliver a new £68m major trauma hospital in Salford, Greater Manchester. It is already on site carry out enabling works with construction on the six-storey building due to start next month. The contractor won the job through the Procure22 framework and has been working on the design with the client, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, as part of its early engagement on the scheme. Bam Construct healthcare construction manager Rob Bailey said the firm’s range of expertise had helped it come up with a better design. He sa...