Archive Group News

16/12/2009 - Taylor Woodrow Construction/BAM Nuttall Joint Venture Awarded £250 Million Contract to UpgradeTottenham Court Road Tube Station
A joint venture between Taylor Woodrow (part of VINCI Construction UK) and BAM Nuttall Ltd has been awarded a contract in the region of £250 million by Transport for London (TfL) to upgrade Tottenham Court Road Tube station.

16/12/2009 - Business in the Community – Care Leavers Pilot Scheme
The Cardiff office of VINCI Construction UK (Stradform) has offered Damien Thomas a three month work placement following two weeks spent with the company as part of the Business in the Community – Care Leavers Pilot Scheme.

16/12/2009 - Pocketful of Presents
50 Welsh businesses have supported Business in the Community’s Pocketful of Presents campaign, including the Cardiff office of VINCI Construction UK (Stradform).

14/12/2009 - Performance Beyond Compliance
The Building Division of VINCI Construction UK has been awarded a certificate for ‘Performance beyond Compliance’ by the Considerate Constructors Scheme for the Cynon Valley Healthcare Facility in Mountain Ash, South Wales.

14/12/2009 - MedEquip4Kids
A team from the Building Division - North has taken part in the BUPA Great Manchester 10k Run, raising over £2,500 towards the appeal for medical equipment to kit out the new Women and Children's Unit at North Manchester General Hospital.

11/12/2009 - Technology Centre Attains UKAS Accreditation For New Acoustic Facility
The Technology Centre now offers the UK’s only UKAS (United Kingdom Accreditation Services) accredited Rain Noise testing laboratory.

07/12/2009 - Project MoDEL Update
The redevelopment of RAF Northolt is part of Project MoDEL, a £180 million construction programme which will consolidate and redevelop the Ministry of Defence's estate in Greater London.

07/12/2009 - DLR Awards £10 Million Contract for Final Three-carriage Works
Docklands Light Railway (DLR) has awarded VINCI Construction UK a £10 million contract for capacity upgrades and improvements to its Beckton route.

01/12/2009 - Performance Beyond Compliance
East Barnet Secondary School has been awarded a certificate for ‘Performance beyond Compliance’ by the Considerate Constructors Scheme.

26/11/2009 - John Jones Excavation Awarded £16 Million Earthworks Contract
John Jones Excavation, part of VINCI Construction UK Limited, has been awarded a £16 million contract by Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering Limited who is working on behalf of the Highways Agency.

26/11/2009 - VINCI Construction UK Limited Awarded £6.1 Million Contract by Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS foundation Trust
The Building division of VINCI Construction UK Limited has been awarded a £6.1 million contract by Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

26/11/2009 - Charity Parachute Jump
Construction Manager, Alun Williams, recently completed a parachute jump over Cardiff, raising in excess of £1600 for Y BONT Nursery which his daughter Elis Rose attends.

26/11/2009 - Girls in Construction
Naomi Jones, 17, is in her second year of a construction technician trainee apprenticeship with the Cardiff regional office of VINCI Construction UK (Stradform).

26/11/2009 - Technology Centre Team Member Gains Ecology Licence
Richard Smith, Environmental Consultant, has obtained a Great Crested Newt (GCN) survey licence from Natural England.

23/11/2009 - Retail Division of VINCI Construction UK Awarded £15.5 Million Contract to Construct Tesco Store in Hanley, Stoke on Trent
The Retail division of VINCI Construction UK has been awarded a £15.5 million contract to design and construct an 80,000 sq ft store for Tesco in Hanley, Stoke on Trent.

20/11/2009 - CIVILS 2009
This year's CIVILS exhibition is taking place at London Earls Court on 25-26 November.

20/11/2009 - Green Dragon Level 4
The Cardiff regional office of VINCI Construction UK (Stradform) has been awarded Level 4 of the Green Dragon Environmental Standard in recognition of their implementation of the Environmental Management System (EMS) used across the entire business.

17/11/2009 - Watford Schools Art Competition
Amy Tang, a GCSE student from King’s Langley School is the Supreme Winner of this year’s Watford Schools Art Competition, an annual event sponsored and supported by VINCI Construction UK.

17/11/2009 - Performance Beyond Compliance
The Building Division of VINCI Construction UK has been awarded a certificate for ‘Performance beyond Compliance’ by the Considerate Constructors scheme for their contract to extend Hazeley School in Milton Keynes.

16/11/2009 - FMA Young Manager of the Year
Peter Burnell-Jones has won the 2009 Facilities Management Association (FMA) Young Manager Award.

11/11/2009 - Construction Manager of the Year
Rod Nutbourne, Project Manager for the Building Division – South, recently received a silver medal at the Construction Manager of the Year Awards in the category of New Build and Refurbishment £10-£15m.

09/11/2009 - VINCI Construction UK Limited Awarded £25 Million Contract to Design & Build New Education Campus
VINCI Construction UK has been awarded a £25 Million contract to design and build a new education campus in Liverpool as part of the £500m Building Schools, Skills, Success scheme (BSSS).

06/11/2009 - VINCI Construction UK Awarded £6.4 Million Contract at Harris Girls Academy, East Dulwich
The Building division of VINCI Construction UK Limited has been awarded a £6.4 million contract for the construction of a three-storey sixth form teaching block at Harris Girls Academy, East Dulwich.

02/11/2009 - Docklands Light Railway
The Civil Engineering division is undertaking a £208 million design and build project to enhance Docklands Light Railway (DLR) infrastructure to allow the current two-carriage trains to be upgraded to three-carriage trains.

29/10/2009 - Luton Sixth Form College has Reasons to Celebrate
Luton Sixth Form College recently celebrated completing the main structure of this £56 million building project with a topping out ceremony.

28/10/2009 - VINCI Construction UK Limited Awarded £5.5 Million Contract by Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Integrated Health Projects (IHP) a joint venture between VINCI Construction UK Limited and Sir Robert McAlpine, has been awarded a £5.5 million contract by the Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

22/10/2009 - Gatwick Airport South Terminal
On 12th October, David Joyce, Managing Director of VINCI Construction UK Limited, attended the contract signing ceremony for the £31m refurbishment of Pier 2 at Gatwick Airport.

21/10/2009 - VINCI Facilities Secures an M&E Services Contract with BSI
VINCI Facilities has been awarded the provision of a three-year M&E contract with BSI at their head office in London, covering 200,000 ft2 of office space over 19 floors.

21/10/2009 - Rosser and Russell Retains its Contract with Yorkshire Building Society
Yorkshire Building Society has renewed its maintenance contract for the second time with Rosser and Russell which is part of VINCI Facilities.

21/10/2009 - London to Brighton Mini Run
Peter Wright of the VINCI Facilities division once again took part in the London to Brighton Mini Run, raising money for the children’s ward of the Princess Royal University Hospital in South London.

16/10/2009 - CEEQUAL for King’s Cross Package 4
King’s Cross Package 4 is a £28 million project which involves the design, construction, testing and commissioning of a 10 metre deep basement to house a plant room and service yard.

16/10/2009 - Fatboys Cancer Charity
VINCI Facilities recently donated £250 in support of the Fatboys Cancer Charity which was set up 10 years ago in memory of a 30 year old police officer in Swindon who died of cancer.

16/10/2009 - Technology Centre team member becomes a registered Low Carbon Consultant
Principal Consultant, Ian Smith has recently qualified as a Low Carbon Consultant.

12/10/2009 - Merthyr College Workshops Visit
Stradform is currently on site with a £3.1 million contract to construct a new two-storey building to provide improved workshop facilities at Merthyr College for the University of Glamorgan.

09/10/2009 - BIFM Awards 2009
VINCI Facilities has been shortlisted as a finalist for a BIFM Award for Innovation in Customer Service in partnership with Nationwide Building Society and Turner & Townsend.

29/09/2009 - Great North Run 2009
Sian Cassy, Plant Co-ordinator based in Widnes, this year completed the Great North Run for a second time, achieving a new personal best of 2 hours 7 minutes and 12 seconds.

17/09/2009 - VINCI Abseil for ASCEND
On Saturday 12th September, a team from VINCI PLC abseiled from the 80ft tower of St. Mary’s Church in the centre of Watford in aid of ASCEND.

02/09/2009 - Excellent CCS Scores for Luton Sixth Form College
The contract currently underway to construct Luton Sixth Form College has achieved scores of 4.5 out of 5 in all areas of an inspection recently carried out under the Considerate Constructors Scheme (CCS).

27/08/2009 - Success at Terminal 4 - Check-in Zones Delivered Six Weeks Early
Two new check-in zones, encompassing 42 new check-in desks, have been handed over six weeks early by the Air Division as part of the £70m terminal extension and refurbishment project they are undertaking at Heathrow’s Terminal 4.

26/08/2009 - Research and Development Funding
VINCI Construction UK has secured up to £150,000 of research and development funding from the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) which will be used for research into the retrofit of social housing to reduce its carbon footprint.

26/08/2009 - Construction Manager of the Year Awards 2009
The Tank Museum in Bovington, Dorset has nominated Project Manager, Rod Nutbourne, as Construction Manager of the Year 2009.

13/08/2009 - Acquisition of Haymills
Following the administration of East Anglian based Haymills Group on 13th August 2009, VINCI Construction UK Limited has acquired the business assets relating to the company’s Property Solutions and East Anglian Projects businesses.

10/08/2009 - Stradform Host Careers Workshop
Stradform recently hosted a construction careers workshop for 60 pupils from Cardiff’s Fitzalan High School as part of Skills Week.

03/08/2009 - Christie’s at Oldham Appeal
On Sunday 12th July, as many as 20 construction workers building the new radiotherapy centre in Oldham, completed the 60-mile Manchester to Blackpool bike ride, raising £7,000 for the Christie’s at Oldham Appeal.

03/08/2009 - Top Marks at Loughborough
Andrew Sherwin has received the Taylor Woodrow prize for the top scoring marks in his Architectural Engineering and Design Management (AEDM) degree.

03/08/2009 - VINCI Construction UK Limited Awarded £25 Million Contract as Part of Sheffield BSF
The Building division of VINCI Construction UK Limited has been awarded a £25 million contract by Sheffield City Council to refurbish and extend High Storrs Secondary School as part of the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme.

24/07/2009 - Taylor Woodrow Retains Highways Agency Facilities Management Contract
The Highways Agency has extended its facilities management contract with Taylor Woodrow Facilities Management (part of VINCI Facilities) until 2011.

08/07/2009 - Soil Engineering Open Day
Soil Engineering, part of VINCI Construction UK Limited, and one of the UK’s leading geotechnical contractors, hosted an open day event on the 18th June at their Leeds office.

06/07/2009 - VINCI Construction UK Limited Awarded £7.3 Million Contract to Upgrade Tesco Store in Barnsley
The Building division of VINCI Construction UK Limited has been awarded a £7.3 million contract as part of the Tesco Strategic Partners Framework to upgrade an existing Tesco store in Barnsley, South Yorkshire.

23/06/2009 - Microsoft UK Challenge
Requiring physical and mental stamina, intelligence and a huge amount of teamwork twenty VINCI Construction UK employees recently formed three teams to compete in the Microsoft UK Challenge.

18/06/2009 - VINCI Construction UK Awarded £8.1 Million Contract to Construct Multi-storey Car Park at University Hospital, Aintree
The Building division of VINCI Construction UK Limited has been awarded an £8.1 million contract by Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for the construction of a five level car park which will provide 1,242 car parking spaces.

12/06/2009 - Taylor Woodrow FM Awarded a Contract with the Welsh Assembly Government
Taylor Woodrow Facilities Management (part of VINCI Facilities) has been awarded a three year contract to provide integrated facilities management services to the Welsh Assembly Government at its new site in Aberystwyth.

12/06/2009 - VINCI Construction UK Limited Awarded £10.3 Million Contract for the Construction of a New Hospice in Worthing
The Building division of VINCI Construction UK Limited has been awarded a £10.3 million contract by St Barnabas House hospice in Worthing, West Sussex.

28/05/2009 - Norwest Holst Underway with £23 Million Contract for Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The Building division of VINCI Construction UK Limited is underway with a £23 million contract for Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

26/05/2009 - 20 Bishops Square Awarded Best Housing Development
20 Bishops Square has recently won the ‘Best Housing Development’ category at this years Grand Designs Awards hosted by Kevin McCloud.

08/05/2009 - Crispin & Borst Awarded £4.4 Million Leisure Centre Contract
The South East region of Crispin & Borst (part of VINCI Construction UK Limited) has been awarded a £4.4 million contract by Medway Council to construct a three-storey extension at the new Medway Park regional centre of sporting excellence in Gillingham, Medway, Kent.

07/05/2009 - Celebrating Construction Awards
VINCI Construction UK swept the board at the Celebrating Construction awards with three award wins.

28/04/2009 - Glan Usk Primary School
Pupils and staff from Durham Road Infants School recently took part in the topping out of the new Glan Usk Primary School in Newport, South Wales.

24/04/2009 - Stradform Awarded £7.6 million Contract to Construct New South Wales Hospital
Stradform (part of VINCI Construction UK Limited) has been awarded a £7.6 million contract to construct an innovative 25-bed hospital development in Hensol, South Wales.

17/04/2009 - Docklands Light Railway Three-Car Capacity Enhancement Project
VINCI Construction UK Limited is undertaking a £208 million design and build project to enhance Docklands Light Railway (DLR) infrastructure to allow the current two-carriage trains to be upgraded to three-carriage trains.

09/04/2009 - Hensol Hospital Development
Stradform is on site with a £7.6 million contract to construct an innovative 25-bed hospital development in Hensol, South Wales.

09/04/2009 - Egg-Cellent Easter For South Wales Children
Employees from 20 companies across South Wales have donated more than 1100 Easter Eggs for underprivileged or seriously ill local children.

01/04/2009 - VINCI PLC 2008 Results
In 2008, VINCI PLC achieved record turnover of £1.02 billion (2007 £778 million).

18/03/2009 - Crispin & Borst Underway with £10 Million Office Refurbishment Contract
An air handling unit was recently installed at roof level of Bidborough House, a seven-storey 1960s office building being refurbished by the London Region of Crispin & Borst (part of VINCI Construction UK Limited).

10/02/2009 - Considerate Constructing at Wembley Primary School
Norwest Holst has been awarded a certificate for ‘Performance beyond Compliance’ by the Considerate Constructors scheme for their work on Wembley Primary School.

23/01/2009 - VINCI Construction UK Limited
VINCI PLC is reorganising its contracting activities in the UK by consolidating its operations in the name of VINCI Construction UK Limited.