CH Pearce awarded deals worth £34m

CH Pearce has picked up a brace of contracts in the South West totalling £34m.
The Bristol-based contractor has stepped into a £20m deal for footwear giant C&J Clark in Street, Somerset, after the client gave the boot to tenders from Kier, Birse and Taylor Woodrow. Work on the 32,000m2 distribution centre is due for completion around December 2004.
And for the City of Bristol College, Pearce will redevelop a Victorian orphanage into teaching facilities. Two other contractors, Leadbitter and Cowlin, were also in the hunt for the £14m design and build project.
<F03C> Pearce is also in negotiations with the Ministry of Defence for a £4m deal to design and build an extension to the West Battery Building at Whale Island, Portsmouth.
The firm is already on site at Whale Island, building a new fleet headquarters under a £16m deal.