Company News Roundup: 28 October 2014

Last Updated:

23rd October 2014

Balfour Beatty Olympic Stadium conversion to cost £190m

The cost of Balfour Beatty’s £154m Olympic Stadium conversion job has rocketed by £36m, following complexities installing a new stadium roof.

The contract has now been revalued at £189.9m, the London Legacy Development Corporation has confirmed.

In a statement today, the LLDC said the project was a “hugely complex engineering scheme”

Company page: Balfour Beatty

EFA picks Laing O'Rourke for Yorkshire PSBP schools

The Education Funding Agency has appointed Laing O’Rourke to deliver the Yorkshire batch of privately financed schools under the Priority School Building Programme.

Laing O’Rourke beat Bam Construction and Morgan Sindall, which were also shortlisted for the batch in April.

Company page: Laing O'Rourke

Willmott Dixon wins £34.5m 1,000-student Llandysul super school

Willmott Dixon has been appointed to build a £34.5m super school for 1,000 pupils in Llandysul, Wales.

The school is the largest building ever commissioned by Ceredigion County Council and will merge five existing schools to form an ‘all-through’ school for three to 19-year-olds.

Company page: Willmott Dixon

Galliford Try wins £38m Northamptonshire council HQ and £39m Subsea 7 office

Galliford Try has been appointed to deliver two office contracts in Northamptonshire and Surrey, worth a combined £77m.

It will build a new £38m headquarters for Northamptonshire County Council in Northampton.

The 17,600 sq m four-storey building will regenerate an area on the south side of Northampton town centre and consolidate the council’s existing offices in the town into one building.

Company page: Galliford Try