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06/07/2017

M Lambe Construction Wins Two Housing Deals With Keepmoat

M. Lambe Construction has won two housing development contracts with Keepmoat Homes.

Both deals are worth more than £18 million and involves the contractor carrying out various site works.

The first contract, worth £12.9m, will see M. Lambe help deliver the £360m Spirit Quarters redevelopment scheme in North East Coventry. The project will see more than 3,300 new homes built in the neighbourhoods of Wood End, Henley Green, Manor Farm and Deedmore.

Works include the formation of foundation bases for 356 new homes and two apartment blocks; infrastructure works include roads, sewers and section 278 works; a small acoustic bund; a mixture of strip and piled foundations; various sewer connections in existing roads; and on-site and off-site sewer diversions.

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The second deal, at the Willows in Dudley, is worth £5.07m. It involves delivering the specialist construct raft foundations for 130 plots, infrastructure, including: on-site roads and sewers, a balancing pond and public open space (POS) footpaths.

Michael Lambe, Director, M. Lambe Construction, said: "We are extremely pleased to have been awarded these two contracts, which reflects the strong and successful partnership we have built with Keepmoat Homes.

"The Willows and Spirit Quarters wins demonstrate the trust our clients place in us to deliver high quality highway, infrastructure and groundworks to multi-million-pound regeneration developments throughout the Midlands."

(LM)

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