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tarmac wins £50m of brum leisure work

Tarmac Building Midlands has won £50 million worth of work in the Birmingham area. It has a £20 million contract from developers Richardson Cordwell for the design and construction of the Five Ways Leisure complex at Broad Street, which includes a 12-screen cinema. It also has the initial phase of a £50 million project to turn the former Royal Mail sorting office into a 200-bed hotel, health club, 140 apartments and 950-space car park. Tarmac also has a £12.4 million contract to build a nine-storey office block at Brindleyplace for developer Argent.

taywood to build glass factory

Taylor Woodrow has been awarded a £10.4 million contract by Saint-Gobain UK to design and construct a float glass manufacturing factory at Eggborough, Selby in North Yorkshire. Saint-Gobain will procure and manage the installation of the process equipment valued at £50 million. The 0.5km-long factory will have the capacity to manufacture around 185,000 tonnes of float glass per year.

dudley redevelopment for amec

Amec Developments and Greenalls Hotel and Leisure have submitted a planning application to build a 552m2 cinema, 3,220m2 family entertainment centre and 100-bed hotel with bars and restaurants as the first phase of the Castle Gate Park project which will redevelop a derelict 19ha site in Dudley town centre. The remainder of the site will be taken up by a 23,920m2 business park.