œ20-25m docks package

Four firms are vying for a œ20 to œ25 million package of contracts to upgrade Middlehaven docks in Middlesbrough.

Harbour and General/Volker Stevin, Balfour Beatty, Tarmac and Taylor Woodrow are hoping to win the design and construct contracts, which involve site clearance/reclamation and the provision of infrastructure. The idea is to prepare a number of areas in the docks and make them available for developers. The client is Teesside Development Corporation.

The contracts cover a variety of work: demolition and site clearance; land reclamation and earthworks; maritime dock walls; refurbishment of existing dock structure; roads, bridges; hard and soft landscaping; car parking; infrastructure services; and enabling works for Middlesbrough FC's new football stadium, which is to be built by Tilbury Douglas - (see story above).

The Corporation and its project managers, Ove Arup, have divided the work into four packages. The first went out this Monday, the second will go out later this month, and a third in September. The date of the final package is dependant on discussions with Cleveland Council.