Development manager Lipton Rogers hoping to start main construction work early next year

Bidders are expecting tenders for a huge towers scheme at Blackfriars to be issued in the next few weeks, 黑洞社区 understands.

The job at 18 Blackfriars, which will be one of the biggest to come up for grabs in London in the coming years, is set to be let as two-stage job with bidders being sent documents later this month.

One source said the work was being planned as a design and build contract 鈥渨ith a very long PCSA鈥�.

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Main construction work is set to start early next year and finish in 2029

Firms expected to bid include Multiplex while Mace and Sir Robert McAlpine are understood to have been pushing the client to let the job as a CM scheme. 鈥淚 think it could be some sort of hybrid 鈥� a super long CM before going to D&B. I think there鈥檚 lots of discussions going on trying to decide what鈥檚 best.鈥�

Worries have previously been expressed about letting the job, worth more than 拢900m, as a fixed-price from the start because of concerns over the level of financial risk firms would have to take on.

Lipton Rogers, the firm behind 22 Bishopsgate, is development manager on the project, which includes 100,000 sq m of office space and 433 homes, with others on the team so far including engineer Arup and QS T&T Alinea.

The job, designed by Foster & Partners, is being run by US developer Hines and will see the construction of a 45-storey office plus two residential buildings of 40 and 22 storeys all rising from a four-storey podium.

Enabling works are due to begin by the end of the year with main construction starting early next year. The entire scheme is expected to take four years to build.

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