EHA Group is building 106 social housing units in Bangor for Choice Housing Ireland. The contract will take 24 months to complete at a cost in the region of £9.8million. Geda Construction will be responsible for a 30-unit social housing development in Ballycastle for Fold Housing, at an estimated cost of £2.3million. In addition, TAL Ltd has been awarded the contract for 24 units in a Choice Housing supported living development in Whiteabbey, at an estimated cost of £2.9million. Donaghmore Construction is building 16 social housing units at a value of £1.7million at Parkside, Phase 2, Belfast, for Newington Housing.
The commercial and hospitality sectors are also buoyant. Work is starting on a £6million office and retail complex in Belfast by Karl Asset Management Group. Turkington Construction has secured the £5.5million contract to refurbish the Colby House office building in Belfast for CPD, and O’Hare & McGovern has started work on the construction of a £13million, five-storey office block for US firm Allstate, close to Central Station in Belfast.
Abercorn Construction has started site-enabling works for the new £27million boutique hotel at the former Harland & Wolff headquarters building, while the disused Bangor Castle Leisure Centre site has been earmarked for a four-storey, 85-bedroom hotel development for Premier Inn.
Progress on educational and medical construction projects includes the appointment of the preferred bidder, JPG O’Hare, for the construction of a community treatment and care centre project in Newry.
The tendering procedure has started for the creation of a 144-bed new North Wing building at Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry-Londonderry, costing £38million. Entering the planning process is the proposed development of a £24million state-of-the-art education facility at the former Erne Hospital site in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh. A £3.5million school and youth club development is starting on site at St Bronagh’s Primary school in Rostrevor. Ganson UK Limited has secured this contract.
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