Awards, wins and community news across our business
Following a competitive tender, the London Borough of Waltham Forest has entered into an agreement with Morrisons and Willmott Dixon to develop a 1.5 hectare site in Walthamstow town centre that is currently a council-owned car park and industrial area.
Willmott Dixon, which is building the new Westminster Lodge Leisure Centre in St Albans, has come to the aid of a local school after it lost its storage shed to cater for an extra class intake.
Willmott Dixon Group’s repair and maintenance specialist Willmott Dixon Partnerships has won a five year contract worth £15m with Guinness South, a member of the Guinness Partnership, to deliver responsive repairs to 6,500 homes.
Willmott Dixon is in pole position to deliver an important part of Redcar and Cleveland Council’s multi-million pound regeneration plans.
The sustainable progress of Willmott Dixon’s housing business has seen it achieve its best ever position in NextGeneration’s benchmark report that ranks the UK’s top 25 homebuilders according to their sustainability performance.
Willmott Dixon is to form a strategic partnership with the country’s largest facilities management alliance as it seeks to expand its integrated service offering.
Willmott Dixon has been awarded a £28.5 million contract to deliver a new city centre police headquarters in Newcastle for Northumbria Police Authority. Construction will commence this month on the site adjacent to the East Coast mainline station on Forth Banks.
Highlights
Willmott Dixon Re-Thinking director David Adams used a packed meeting in the House of Commons on 3rd November organised by the Aldersgate Group to urge his fellow speaker, DEFRA secretary of state Caroline Spelman, to provide more incentives for residential and commercial property owners to ‘go green’. This includes lower stamp duty to reward a home’s efficient energy performance and incentives for commercial property to invest in achieving high rating Display Energy Certificates.
Willmott Dixon is aiming to take a greater share of the private residential contracting market with the appointment of Keith Harley as housing for sale sector manager.