Quintain Estates has selected a panel of 10 contractors to deliver the remaining work on its £2.1bn transformation of Wembley Park, Construction News can reveal.
The successful contractors will be asked to tender for the remaining phases within the scheme, which will include residential, student, hotel, leisure and commercial office facilities.
The contractors on the panel are Bouygues, Carillion, GB Solutions, Higgins, John Sisk & Son, Kier, Mace, Vinci, VolkerFitzpatrick and Wates.
Projects will range in size up to the “hundreds of millions”, according to Quintain head of construction Matt Voyce, with contractors chosen depending on their areas of expertise and “appetite for risk” on jobs.
He said: “As projects come forward we will select from the appropriate contractors on our panel.
“We look to engage with our panel on a quarterly basis in order to make sure we are giving them [notice] of emerging plans, while we hear first-hand about what’s happening in their businesses.”
Three contractors from the panel have already been shortlisted for the next phase of the project’s North West Village (pictured), comprising 370 homes as well as public space.
They are Bouygues, Kier and Wates.
A contractor is expected to be appointed by the end of February.
John Sisk & Son has won the bulk of work at the Wembley scheme, earning the contractor around £300m to date.
It is working on construction of the 475-home ‘Emerald Gardens’ phase of the redevelopment.
The project consists of seven buildings arranged around private gardens, next to the civic centre and the London Designer Outlet, which were also developed by Quintain.
Other projects in the completed first phase of the development included the renovation of Wembley Arena and construction of 500 residential apartments.
Quintain has also completed a 361-bed Hilton hotel, a 660-bed student accommodation scheme and a multi-storey car park.
Mr Voyce said that the developer wanted to mirror the relationship the group had established with John Sisk & Son with the other contractors on the panel.
He told Construction News: “It is important to us to have contractors that are like-minded to Quintain and who want to have a long-term working relationship, and want to sit alongside someone like John Sisk & Son, who has performed very well for us and who we have had a relationship with now for seven [or] eight years.”
In November 2014, the developer announced the extension of its development pipeline to more than 1,700 homes across the entire western half of the scheme, with construction due to start on half of these by the end of this year.
Mr Voyce said “recognising the need to accelerate delivery” was an important factor in selecting the firms.
The panel strengthened Quintain’s commitment to be transparent with contractors, he added.
“That level of commitment and method of working is what we expect from our suppliers, as well as loyalty [to Quintain].”
Among the contractors on Quintain’s panel, Wates and GB Solutions have previously bagged contracts on the Greenwich Peninsula regeneration.
Quintain severed its ties with the south London scheme in November 2013, after it sold its remaining stake in the project to Hong Kong billionaire Henry Cheng Kar-Shun’s investment company Knight Dragon.
The Greenwich Peninsula scheme was originally a 50/50 joint venture between Quintain and Lend Lease before Knight Dragon bought out the latter’s share in 2012.
This week’s news came ahead of the relaunch of Quintain’s masterplan for Wembley Park.
The company is working with stakeholders and its design team to produce the revised masterplan.
But Mr Voyce was unable to confirm which schemes would be altered in the plan, including whether the 5,000 homes target would be increased or lowered.
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Two children had to be rescued after they became stuck in mud on the construction site of the guided busway in Manchester.
A family out walking in the fields near Leigh tried to cross the public transport works and got into difficulties in the soft mud yesterday morning.
The two adults were stuck up to their waists at one point but managed to get to safety.
The two children, who were in the mud to their knees, were not strong enough to pull themselves out.
Fire crews from Atherton and Leigh stations and a water incident unit from Eccles attended the scene and managed to find another way on to the building site to rescue them.
Ambulance crews checked out the family members, who were suffering from the cold but were otherwise unhurt.
Watch manager Dave Holden from Atherton fire station said “The family was out for a walk along the bus route that’s under construction and through the fields, and they’ve tried to get across and got stuck.
“A lot of heavy plant machinery has been going up and down there and it’s churning up the mud. When it gets wet and cold, like it has been recently, there’s about two feet of soft mud.
“At one point the adults were almost waist deep in the mud but they’ve self-rescued. We had a young girl and a young boy stuck, so we found a different route down to wade across to get them out.
“They were just cold, and I think they were a bit embarrassed too.”
Holden said walkers out near the guided busway route should think again before trying to use the building site as a short cut.
He said: “It’s a construction site and just because the gates are open it doesn’t mean it’s safe to go through if you’re out walking, particularly in this sort of weather.”
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A man has been arrested after two women suffered serious head injuries from a falling scaffold pole in the City of London.
The injured pair, both in their 50s, were taken to hospital after the pole fell from a building site in Eldon Street this morning.
City of London Police said: “A man has been arrested after two women suffered serious head injuries in Eldon Street. The two were injured after an object fell on them.”
The man has been arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm.
It is believed the injured women were walking on the opposite side of the road from the nearest scaffold clad building.
Witness Michael Jarman said ”The two ladies on the floor seemed to be in a lot of pain.
“There was a fair bit of metal all around them that from what looked like it had fallen from the scaffolding above.
“There were a lot of people at the scene attending to the two ladies. One lady was sitting up right with a lot of blood around her face while the other lady was lying on the ground. She seemed in a lot of pain.
“Ambulance and police were quick to the scene but I had to leave, made my stomach turn.
Vale Park Demolition Services has been appointed to clear the site of an £18m student halls scheme in Preston.
Eric Wright is main contractor on the regeneration scheme in Friargate for Developer Portergate Properties.
Vale Park is mobilising a team of 15 demolition experts using specialist equipment working on the site.
Tom Perks, contracts manager at Vale Park, said: “We are delighted to have been appointed on such a high-profile construction scheme in Preston and to be working with the Eric Wright team to deliver the project successfully for Portergate.
“At the moment we are operating inside the existing buildings on the site carrying out removal work and our specialist equipment will be on site shortly and then we will begin the overall site clearance.
“It is a big task, but it is something we specialise in and we have more than 20 years’ experience in this kind of work.”
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The transformation of the 1.5 acre site will bring new retail premises onto Friargate and a 253-room building providing boutique hotel-style accommodation to students at the nearby University of Central Lancashire.
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At the height of the building project around 200 workers will be employed on the Friargate development site.
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