Barr Construction has been appointed to create a new 40,000 sq ft Asda superstore on the Kingsway West, Dundee.

Barr has worked with major retailers including Waitrose, with whom CN reported it had won a fit-out deal earlier this week, but the £6.5m deal marks the Paisley-based contractor’s first contract with ASDA.

The new Dundee store will be a two storey building with a mezzanine floor, which will be the location for a customer cafe.

Balfour Beatty Living Places has secured a £150 million maintenance contract with Wiltshire council.

The firm will provide highway maintenance, grass cutting, litter collection and street lighting in Wiltshire, as well as problems caused by winter weather and maintenance of drainage systems and bridges.

The work was previously carried out by four different organisations, but Balfour has taken on the role as a single operator.

National Grid has awarded long-term deals worth almost £3 billion to Balfour Beatty and a Skanska/ Morrison Utility Services joint venture.

Skanska and Morrison Utility Services have won an eight-year deal for National Grid’s gas mains replacement programme and associated activities in the UK.

The total amount of the contract is £1.6 billion and the contractors will be responsible for two of four regional areas in England: the East of England and North London.

Contractors are being sought for a new four-year North-east framework valued at between £90 million and £1 billion to replace the abandoned North East Improvement and Efficiency Partnership.

The North East Procurement Organisation is seeking six contractors for four lots under its new framework for building construction works.

Balfour Beatty has beaten four competitors to land Suffolk’s £500 million highways maintenance and improvement deal.

Balfour Beatty Living Places has beaten Amey, Carillion/Mott MacDonald, Enterprise Mouchel and MGWSP (May Gurney/WSP) to the deal, expected to be confirmed at a council meeting next week.

It will be responsible for the design and implementation of highway maintenance and improvement works, winter gritting, street lighting, traffic signals and bridge works throughout the county for at least the next five years.

Carillion is believed to have won a fierce bidding race to build a new £50m viaduct as part of a huge package of works for Crossrail and Network Rail in west London.

The Enquirer understands Carillion has beaten off competition from Morgan Sindall and Skanska for the Stockley Viaduct in Hillingdon near the existing flyover.

Jacobs Engineering has designed the flyover to provide a separate route for trains crossing the main line and to enable Crossrail services to operate to Heathrow.

Transport Scotland has awarded two trunk road maintenance contracts, worth an estimated £230 million total, following a successful bid to have a court suspension lifted.

A Balfour Beatty/ Mouchel joint venture has been given a £125 million deal to manage and maintain major trunk roads in the South-west of Scotland following a successful bid to have a suspension overthrown.

Amey has challenged the decision to award the North West deal to Bear Scotland, after the Scottish procurement agency rejected its bid, which included works priced at 1p, as “unusually low”.

Bam Construct has won the first stage of a two-stage £36 million deal to build the new Huddersfield Sports Centre through the YORbuild framework.

Kirklees Council has announced its preferred contractor for the centre which will be built on the Spring Grove car park in Huddersfield.

Under the YORbuild procurement framework for construction projects, the council will now work with Bam to meet stage 2 requirements after which a contract is set to be signed later this year.

Bouygues’ subsidiary Warings has signed a deal to design and build a three-tower property development in Southampton worth £48.5 million.

The Warings scheme includes a 26-storey tower, which, at 81 metres, will be one of the tallest buildings on the south coast of England.

It will be accompanied by two residential towers, respectively 50 metres and 30 metres tall. These new buildings form part of the Admiral’s Quay development, which is characterised by numerous luxury apartments.

Mace has been confirmed as the main contractor for the £129m 30-storey King’s Reach development on London’s South Bank

As Building revealed in September, Mace was in the final stage of discussions with developer CIT Group.

The Kohn Pederson Fox-designed plans focus on the retention and redevelopment of the existing King’s Reach Tower and adjacent podium building, which have been empty since 2007. The scheme includes 370,000 sq ft of offices, 72,000 sq ft of shops and 173 flats.