Veteran pair leave Currie & Brown
Consultant Currie & Brown is undergoing major leadership change as group chairman David Broomer retires this month after 51 years at the business.
Group chief executive officer Euan McEwan is also retiring at the end of this year.
Broomer became a partner in 1980 – the youngest partner in the company’s history – and in 1999 moved into the role of group managing director. Since October 2008 he has held the position of chairman.
McEwan will be succeeded as group chief executive officer by Alan Manuel, who has been chief operating officer, Europe and UK since 2016 when Currie & Brown acquired Sweett Group.
Nick Gray joins Currie & Brown to lead the Europe and UK business. He joins from Faithful+Gould where he was regional lead for the North, Scotland and Ireland business.
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British Gypsum upgrades website to improve product data info
British Gypsum has launched its new website as part of its wider commitment to continue to provide better data, tools and support for its partner construction customers.
The website delivers a range of new features and is one of the steps that British Gypsum is taking following an in depth review of its approach to data and marketing integrity, to help raise building standards across the industry and facilitate better building outcomes.
In order to ensure that it provides users with access to the most accurate and up-to-date tested product and specification information, the new website is fed by a Product Information Management (PIM) system, which provides all the performance data on British Gypsum’s drylining products, systems and specifications from a single source.
This is in line with the Code for Construction Product Information (CCPI), giving partner construction customers total confidence in the accuracy of product information, making it easier to specify systems and products.
The new website will automatically serve EN, rather than BS standards across the site, meaning that all product performance data provided has been tested to the more rigorous EN standards. While the White Book Specification Selector will now be prioritising EN standards going forwards, British Gypsum’s bank of BS standards data will still be available on the website for customers specifying to the latter.
As part of British Gypsum’s commitment to providing its partner construction customers with complete transparency and all the information required to support the ‘golden thread’, the new website has a dedicated project area which allows users to set up separate ‘projects’ and gain access to additional documents including test reports and BIM files.
In addition, British Gypsum’s industry-leading online White Book Specification Selector has been revamped to improve functionality and make it easier for users to find exactly what they are looking for based on their criteria. With the ability to compare up to three specifications and remove any ambiguity, users are able to easily identify the right specification for every project.
Stacey Temprell, Marketing Director at British Gypsum, said: “We are proud to have launched our new website and do our bit to provide complete transparency of our product and system data. The website has been developed to provide certainty when it comes to fire safety and technical competency, and ultimately help our partner construction customers build better.
“The construction industry has been faced with a high level of scrutiny in previous years and it is our responsibility as the UK’s leading manufacturer of high performance drylining and finishing solutions, to tackle this head on and continue to improve our own standards, whilst encouraging our partner construction customers to do the same.
“Having reviewed the way in which we manage data and marketing integrity at British Gypsum, it is clear that the only way to achieve lasting and tangible results for the business and our customer’s, is to provide clear and accurate product, system and specification information that can always be relied upon.
“The new website is just one of the measures that we have implemented to ensure that we continue to provide our partner construction customers with clear, accurate and up-to-date information, and we are proud to be doing our bit in helping the industry build better.”
Further features on the new website include the new digital training prospectus which showcases the training courses that British Gypsum provides, as well as an online chat feature, QBot, which has been built into the website to provide answers to some of British Gypsum’s most commonly asked technical questions 24/7.
A Thistle Plaster Coverage Calculator allows customers to calculate the exact amount of plaster needed for a project, and a Thermal Calculator to help measure thermal performance.
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Scottish house builder buys rival for £56m
Growing Scottish house builder Springfield has bought Inverness-based Tulloch Homes for £56m.
Springfield has also announced plans to raise £22m through a share placing at a 4.4% discount to the share price to part finance the deal.
The takeover of the Highlands builder, which was itself bought through a management buy-out six years ago, is conditional on the successful fundraising, expected to be finalised on 21 December.
Innes Smith, CEO of Springfield, said: “This is another great acquisition for Springfield – and our third since coming to the market in 2017.
“Tulloch Homes has an excellent reputation for building high-quality homes in the Scottish Highlands in and around Inverness.”
He added: “This is an area of high demand where we have been organically building a presence in recent years.
“As a result, it will significantly strengthen our foothold in an area of strategic importance and accelerate our growth, being earnings enhancing from the current year.
“We welcome all of the Tulloch Homes employees to the Springfield group and we look forward to working together to continue to grow our business.”
In the last financial year to June, Tulloch sold 219 homes, generating a pre-tax profit of 6m from £46m revenue.
Tulloch Group has a land bank of 1,791 plots, of which 87% have planning permission.
The total gross development value is put at £375m, equivalent to seven years of development at current build rates.
In the year to September, Springfield sold 973 homes, lifting revenue by half to £217m, and generating a profit before tax of £18.5m.
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Wates wins contract for underground houses
Wates Residential has been chosen as main contractor on a pioneering eco-housing development in East Sussex.
Wates will start work early next year on the Blackfriars in Battle for Rother District Council’s housing company Alliance Homes.
All 200 new homes have been designed to significantly reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions, while minimising energy costs for residents.
The site will see the unique use of Earth Sheltered Homes and inclusion of principles taken from Passivhaus – a building standard that is energy efficient, comfortable, affordable, and ecological at the same time.
Councillor Doug Oliver, Leader of Rother District Council, said: “We are delighted to name Wates as the contractor for this ground-breaking, sustainable housing development in Battle. So many people have contributed down the years to getting us to this point where we can now look forward to the start of construction.”
Helen Bunch, Executive Managing Director, Wates Residential, added: “Wates works collaboratively with its customers to find better and more innovative ways to reduce waste, reduce energy consumption and enhance the natural environment, and on this exciting new project with Rother District Council we will be using the latest technologies to push boundaries and achieve a more sustainable future.
“These 200 new homes in Battle will be warm and comfortable places for families to call home, utilising energy efficient technology. Everyone deserves a great place to live, and along the way we will be looking to create a lasting legacy for the people that will live in and around this new unique community.”
One of the major factors stalling the delivery of the site was the need for a new spine road to facilitate development.
In 2018, Rother District Council successfully applied to Homes England, and were allocated grant funding under the HIF programme to deliver the road infrastructure. Planning permission for the whole development was gained in April this year.
26 firms win £7bn school building framework
Twenty six firms have chalked up places on the Department for Education’s £7bn school and further education building programme over the next four years.
The firms are spread across 22 lots covering over three value bands and key English regions.
High-value projects over £12m
North
Bowmer and KirklandWillmott Dixon ConstructionBAM ConstructionKier ConstructionWates Construction
South
Bowmer and KirklandWillmott Dixon ConstructionBAM ConstructionKier ConstructionWates ConstructionSkanska Construction UKGrahamBouygues UK
Projects between £6m and £12m
North East and Yorkshire
Tilbury DouglasGalliford Try BuildingMorgan SindallISG ConstructionHenry Boot Construction
East Midlands
Tilbury DouglasGalliford Try BuildingMorgan SindallISG ConstructionGrahamHenry Boot Construction
East of England
Tilbury DouglasGalliford Try BuildingMorgan SindallISG ConstructionHenry BrothersMcLaren Construction
London
Tilbury DouglasGalliford Try BuildingMorgan SindallISG ConstructionGeoffrey OsborneBaxall constructionMcLaren Construction
South East
Tilbury DouglasGalliford Try BuildingMorgan SindallISG ConstructionGeoffrey OsborneMcLaren Construction
South West
Tilbury DouglasGalliford Try BuildingMorgan SindallISG ConstructionSpatial InitiativeGoldbeck
West Midlands
Tilbury DouglasGalliford Try BuildingMorgan SindallISG ConstructionBouygues UK
North West
Tilbury DouglasGalliford Try BuildingMorgan SindallISG Construction
Projects up to £4.5m
North East
Bowmer and KirklandKier ConstructionWates ConstructionVINCI Construction- Building Division
Yorkshire and the Humber
Bowmer and KirklandKier ConstructionWates ConstructionENGIE RegenerationSpatial InitiativeRayner Rowen
East Midlands
Bowmer and KirklandKier ConstructionWillmott Dixon ConstructionWates ConstructionG F Tomlinson
East of England A
Bowmer and KirklandKier ConstructionVINCI Construction UK – Building DivisionENGIE RegenerationThe McAvoy Group
East of England B
Bowmer and KirklandKier ConstructionWillmott Dixon ConstructionWates ConstructionENGIE RegenerationSpatial Initiative
London
Bowmer and KirklandKier ConstructionWillmott Dixon ConstructionWates ConstructionVINCI Construction UK – Building DivisionENGIE RegenerationSpatial Initiative
South East A
Bowmer and KirklandKier ConstructionWillmott Dixon ConstructionWates ConstructionBaxall constructionENGIE RegenerationSpatial Initiative
South East B
Bowmer and KirklandKier ConstructionWillmott Dixon ConstructionWates ConstructionENGIE RegenerationSpatial Initiative
South West A
Kier ConstructionVINCI Construction UK – Building DivisionENGIE RegenerationDarwin Group
South West B
Kier ConstructionENGIE Regeneration
West Midlands
Bowmer and KirklandKier ConstructionWillmott Dixon ConstructionWates ConstructionG F Tomlinson
Lot 22 – Low value band: North West
Bowmer and KirklandKier ConstructionWates ConstructionConlon Construction
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