Archive
2022 - Barnes Construction
7 December 2022
Staff from Barnes Construction return to The Treehouse
Staff from a leading building firm returned to the scene of one of its most high-profile triumphs after being shown around The Treehouse, in Ipswich. Barnes Construction started working on the East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) base in Spring 2010. The state-of-the-art building, in St Augustine’s Gardens, welcomed its first ...
7 September 2022
Supporting Supply Chain Clients
The UK construction industry currently faces an unprecedented challenge. The Covid-19 pandemic, inflationary pressures and skills shortages have created an uncertain operational environment for contractors, clients, and the supply chain alike. Uncertainty is an unwelcome addition to any project, but as a reliable, fair, and non-adversarial contractor, we have a ...
18 August 2022
Topping out takes place on The Landing Hotel at London Biggin Hill Airport
Construction of London Biggin Hill Airport’s new hotel The Landing has reached a significant milestone with a topping out ceremony held on site. This stage celebrates the building becoming watertight, and work now moving inside the new building to progress the internal fit out of the new 56-bedroom 4-star hotel. ...
22 June 2022
“Owly Rate” joins The Big Hoot Trail around Ipswich
We are delighted to be one of the sponsors of a Big Hoot for this year’s Wild in Art Trail around Ipswich. Our “Owly Rate” is situated in Holywells Park at the entrance on Myrtle Road. You will be able to see all the Big Hoots until 3rd September 2022. ...
21 June 2022
Construction of new ED and UTC facility at Ipswich Hospital progressing well
Work on constructing a new dedicated Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC) and Emergency Department (ED) at Ipswich hospital is progressing well. Barnes Construction started work last year on this key contract, which form’s part of the hospital’s £52M investment programme, Big Builds. And for the first time, representatives from the construction ...
4 May 2022
New 177 room Travelodge hotel in Wimbledon marks construction milestone
A major milestone in the construction of a new Travelodge hotel and retail outlets in the heart of Wimbledon has been marked with members of the project team getting together for the first time. Working with multiple land ownerships, Reef Group gained consent for the development of a new 177 ...
13 April 2022
Hospice construction contract awarded to team of regional businesses
Having already worked together to build the new Arthur Rank Hospice in Cambridge and Fair Havens Hospice in Southend, Suffolk-based Barnes Construction, Norfolk-based LSI Architects and Faithful+Gould, who has an office in Cambridge, have been appointed to build a new larger hospice at Pease Pottage in Crawley, West Sussex, for ...
8 April 2022
New London Biggin Hill Airport Hotel taking shape
The hotel at London Biggin Hill Airport, The Landing, is taking shape with the steel frame erected and the floors installed. The general manager of The Landing Hotel, Steven Thorne-Farrar, joined Simon Severwright, surveying director of Barnes Construction, on the second floor of what will be a 56-bedroom 4-star boutique ...
5 April 2022
Cornhill marks milestone as countdown to completion begins
A major milestone in an important Bury St Edmunds town centre redevelopment, has been celebrated as the project begins its countdown to completion. West Suffolk Council is behind the redevelopment of the former Post Office. The building work being carried out by Barnes Construction, is scheduled for completion this summer. ...
