Contract details are currently being finalised, however Morgan Sindall is believed to have fended off competition from Preston-based Eric Wright Construction to win the scheme.

CN revealed it was one of four contractors bidding the Knowsley scheme in November. The others were Bam Construct, Eric Wright Construction and Willmott Dixon.

The proposal for the 20,000 sq m centre in Southwark, south London, was approved on Wednesday by the Trust’s board of directors, almost three years after a Laing O’Rourke-led consortium was selected as preferred bidder for the project, CN has learned.

The consortium is set to carry out the work after fending off bids from Bovis Lend Lease, Brookfield, Kier, Mace and Skanska in 2010.

The centre will be built at the corner of Great Maze Pond and Snowsfield and is scheduled for completion in 2016. The consortium also includes Stantec Anshen & Allen, Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners and Arup.

The deal from Network Rail will see more than 50km of railway electrified, as part of a wider £80m investment in the line between Cumbernauld and Scotland’s largest city.

As well as the main works, Carillion will also be lengthening the Cumbernauld station platforms and constructing a turnback facility at Springburn.

Bam Construct, Brookfield Multiplex and Mace are all understood to be in the running to renovate the famous building on Charlotte Street in Fitzrovia, London.

Saatchi & Saatchi’s HQ is to be part-demolished and rebuilt with 55 new homes and 323,000 sq ft of office space in one of the West End’s biggest development projects.

The advertising agency was behind such campaigns as ‘Probably the best lager in the world’ for Carlsberg and ‘Labour isn’t working’ for the Conservative Party. It is due to vacate the building in March this year, after which work will commence.

A leading UK steel glazing company has supplied fire-rated systems to several Olympic, FIFA and other major stadiums. Wrightstyle’s technical director Lee Coates reports on fire safety.

It’s been called “codifying by catastrophe” - how fire and other safety regulations have often come about because of tragedy.

In stadium design, the most awful example remains the UK’s worst football disaster, which claimed the lives of 96 Liverpool fans in 1989. Hillsborough, back in the news again amid evidence of official cover-up, is testament to how poor crowd management and police control can so easily become tragedy. The subsequent Taylor Report led to radical change, and the much safer stadiums we see today.

Wakefield council has signed a deal with Shanks paving the way for Kier to build a waste treatment plant at South Kirkby.

Under the 25-year, £750m PFI deal, Shanks will build the new facility to process 230,000 tonnes of municipal waste each year.

Social housing contractor United House and partner Keepmoat have won a £150m repairs and maintenance contract to refurbish 14,000 properties in the South-east of England.

The contract awarded by housing group Circle covers Merton Priory in south west London, Mole Valley in the Dorking and Leatherhead area of Surrey and Russet Homes in the Tonbridge area of Kent.

Oldham Council has issued an OJEU notice seeking a contractor for its £10m town hall redevelopment.

Planning permission was given in September 2012 to transform the derelict building to incorporate an 8-screen cinema with restaurant and retail use.

Galliford Try, ISG, Kier, Lovell and Willmott Dixon are among the winners on a lucrative framework with Network Housing Group to deliver 1,500 affordable homes in inner London over the next two years.

The group, made up of six housing associations, is aiming to construct 1,500 low-cost and affordable rent homes, as well as for private sale and mixed tenure by March 2015.

The framework also includes major refurbishment and regeneration.

The water provider has issued a contract notice to support its future Quality & Standards IV capital investment programme for the regulatory period starting 2015.

The programme will be divided into two lots: waste water infrastructure and water infrastructure. Each lot is estimated to be worth up to £65m annually with an estimated spend of £390m in each lot between 2015 and 2021.