Quote The Doghead="The Doghead"Just reading your post shows how tricky finding the best value for money tender application. Barr also have an agreement with Tesco, dont know if that would be of any help to Barr with this tender. www.barr.co.uk/retail.html'" Tesco and their agreements are a little loose at the moment.

Quote The Doghead="The Doghead"Just reading your post shows how tricky finding the best value for money tender application. Barr also have an agreement with Tesco, dont know if that would be of any help to Barr with this tender. www.barr.co.uk/retail.html'" Tesco and their agreements are a little loose at the moment.

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The piles of rubble are on the retail side of the linkway, and its where the roundabout is going

amd as you can see there is quite a lot of banking already gone

I heard a little whisper that the precast will be made near the site and not brought in.

Is bowmer kirkland in for job? they have been subbing there ground work out to a firm called abbey civils.

Bowmer and Kirkland are bidding as a joint venture. B&K are looking at the Tesco side of things and a Leeds based contractor is looking at the stadium side (can't think of their name at the mo).

As for the precast side of things, are you saying they would be cast in-situ? I really can't see that as bringing the moulds to site would be as big a logistical task as bringing the units to site. That is even before considering the space required.

The only guys who have the capablity locally to manufacture terrace units are based in Bolton, but at the end of the day it will be a commercial decision.

So, given there are a few bods posting on this thread that appear to have a bit more knowledge than 'Why aren't I being told anything. It's a disgrace!' type posts, a question.

Seeing as there are still buildings on the land that don't look like they've been touched since the big one came down, and the land is reported to need some kind of decontamination, is this groundwork be factored into the build time or will be added on? And will they wait for the road to be finished before starting it so the heavy equipment will have access to the site?

The reason behind no news, I would imagine, is there is no news to tell. Procuring construction work is incomparable to almost every other form of procurement.

I get that, I meant more knowledge of the building industry rather than this project.

Leeds based firm, is it Marshalls?

I would say that tayban in Bolton will do precast as is prob nearest to site.

I know the will be concrete going to site tomoz around dinner time. It looks like Tarmac topmix will be doing the concrete.

No. Something beginning with 'W'. Really can't remember.

If you think of the name let me know. Il be able to tell you if they have put price in for job.

The brother in law's golf partner owns a very large building firm in Yorkshire, Williams.