Company News Roundup: 3 February 2015

Last Updated:

30th January 2015

Berkeley Group's £2m safety aimed at cutting on-site accident

Berkeley Group has launched a £2m fund to encourage companies and individuals to come forward with ideas to reduce accidents on site.

Grants of between £250 and £250,000 will be made available over the next two years to anyone with an idea that will lead to safer sites.

Berkeley Group managing director Rob Perrins said “getting people to think more about looking after themselves” was a common challenge as the housebuilding pipeline continues to grow.

Company page: Berkeley Group

Laing O’Rourke lands proposed £118m Liverpool cancer hospital

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust has partnered with Laing O’Rourke for a new cancer hospital on the Royal Liverpool University Hospital site.

The £118m Transforming Cancer Care project will develop a new cancer hospital in the centre of Liverpool and redevelop the existing Clatterbridge Cancer Centre in Wirral.

Company page: Laing O’Rourke

Galliford Try wins £72m in extra care deals

Galliford Try has been appointed to four extra care and affordable housing contracts, worth a combined £72m.

Its Partnerships business will deliver a £36m retirement village for the Extra Care Charitable Trust on the former MG Rover plant in Longbridge, near Birmingham.

Company page: Galliford Try

Goldman Sachs issues PQQ for London headquarters amid ongoing uncertainty over plans

US investment bank Goldman Sachs has gone out to the market for the construction of its proposed European headquarters quarters in London, despite opposition to the scheme, Construction News can reveal.

The client issued a prequalification questionnaire for the development, which is estimated to have a construction value of around £350m.

Goldman Sachs received planning approval for the scheme in March 2014.

Company page: Goldman Sachs