Project News Roundup: 11 March 2014

Contractor completes convenience store

Main contractor H A & D B Kitchin Ltd has now completed works on site at Victoria Road, Mortimer Common in Reading, for the construction of 6 flats and a Budgens store.

Source: Construction News. Project Id: 9056849

Public exhibition on supermarket

Sainsburys is to carry out a public exhibition on 21st & 22nd March 2014 regarding the construction of a Sainsburys supermarket at Meols Cop Centre in Southport, prior to a planning application being submitted later in the year.

Source: Architects Journal. Project Id: 12349219

Tenders due to be invited for flood scheme

Scottish Borders Council has agreed to take forward plans for a £31.4 million flood protection scheme for Selkirk. The authority said it meant the project was fully approved, designed and ready to commence the delivery stages. Prequalification questionnaires are to be issued late March 2014 for the Selkirk Flood Protection Scheme. Tenders are expected to be invited May 2014, with main construction work commencing November 2014. The flood prevention scheme would remove 595 properties in the Bannerfield, Philiphaugh and Riverside areas from the national flood risk register. It would do so by protecting against the effects of flooding from the Ettrick and Yarrow waters and the Long Philip and Shaw burns.

Source: Construction News. Project Id: 12211698

Tenders invited for waste water treatment works

United Utilities have issued tender documents for the wastewater treatment plant construction work at Royton and Oldham. The three-year contract, worth £70 million to £80 million, also includes construction work for water and sewage pipelines. The contract will includes several requirements at Royton Wastewater Treatment Works (WwTW) and Oldham WwTW including meeting final effluent discharge consents and reducing storm sewage discharges to improve river water quality in the River Irk and its tributaries. The two facilities are about 4km apart and UU plans to stop full treatment at Royton, transferring flow for full treatment at Oldham, new secondary and tertiary treatment facilities will be provided. Tenders were invited late February 2014 and are due back June 2014.

Source: Construction News. Project Id: 13319408