Laing O'Rourke miss-out but bids from Balfour Beatty and Severfield sites make final 18 in the running to become one of the four offsite logistic hubs that will be used to help build the third runway at Heathrow airport.
The Explore Industrial Park site in the east Midlands – where its offsite Design for Manufacture and Assembly is based – had been one of 65 sites long-listed for the work to help build the west London airport's new runway.
But it was one of close to 50 sites ditched by Heathrow bosses which yesterday drew up a shortlist of 18 sites which will pitch this autumn for their chance to become one of the four construction centres.
Others to miss out was a submission by Peel Ports for the Port of Liverpool and six sites in Sheffield.
But there was better luck for sites owned by steelwork contractor Severfield as well as ones run by Balfour Beatty and Tarmac.
Heathrow expansion director Phil Wilbraham has said the hubs will be used to keep the number of site workers required at Heathrow down to around 10,000 people. "If we constructed it [the new runway] like we did T5, there would be around 15,000 on the site at any one time."
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Promoter |
Site Name |
Region |
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Amalga Limited |
Iver Hub |
South East |
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Amalga Limited |
Burton Superhub |
West Midlands |
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Associated British Ports |
Port of Cardiff |
Wales |
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Babcock Marine Rosyth Limited |
Rosyth Dockyard |
Scotland |
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Balfour Beatty |
Birch Coppice Industrial Estate |
West Midlands |
|
British Steel |
British Steel - Brigg Road |
Yorkshire & Humber |
|
Forth Ports Limited |
Forth Ports Rosyth |
Scotland |
|
Glasgow Prestwick Airport |
Ayrshire Logistics Hub |
Scotland |
|
John Graham Construction Limited |
Michelin Site, Silverwood Business Park |
Northern Ireland |
|
MJM Marine Ltd |
Ballykelly |
Northern Ireland |
|
Peter D Stirling |
Mossend International Rail freight Park (MIRP) |
Scotland |
|
Mckeating (Energy Coast West Cumbria Ltd) |
Lillyhall Industrial Estate |
North West |
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Severfield UK Ltd |
Dalton Airfield Industrial Estate |
Yorkshire & Humber |
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Tarmac Trading Ltd |
Tarmac Westbury Works |
South West |
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Tarmac Trading Ltd |
Tarmac Hindlow Quarry |
East Midlands |
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Tarmac Trading Ltd |
Tarmac Thrislington Works |
North East |
|
TATA Steel UK Ltd |
TATA Shotton Deeside |
Wales |
|
Wincanton |
Wincanton Greenford |
London |
The four winners will be announced early next year.
