20 December 2019
The team who delivered the Barking Town Hall Refurbishment project for London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, has been presented with the Spaces...
06 December 2019
A major redevelopment of the restaurant at Notcutts Woodbridge Garden Centre has reached the topping out milestone this week, marking the...
15 July 2019
We are delighted that we have retained our Framework status on both the Suffolk County Council Major Construction Framework and the London...
08 July 2019
The funders for the new Wong Avery Song School in Cambridge have paid a visit to the site from their home in America.Barnes started construction...
26 June 2019
To mark the completion of construction, Councillor Ray Gooding, Essex County Council Cabinet Member for Education and Skills has unveiled a MAN...
25 June 2019
The start of a major project to redevelop the restaurant at Notcutts Woodbridge Garden Centre has been marked at a special ground-breaking...
21 June 2019
Members of the project team have joined the Principal and Bursar to celebrate the start of the construction of a new accommodation and auditorium...
03 May 2019
A brand new hospice which is being built for South East Essex is starting to become more of a reality as construction hits the halfway point...
03 May 2019
The Head Teacher of Sybil Andrews Academy in Bury St Edmunds has taken part in a topping out ceremony to mark a milestone in the construction...
21 March 2019
On Thursday 21st March, a local junior school joined us at our site for the new state-of-the-art adult’s hospice for South East Essex.Pupils from...
18 February 2019
Building work is underway on a new 78 room hotel in the heart of the area set to become London’s Hollywood.The new Travelodge in Dagenham East is...
18 January 2019
Construction on Southend’s only adult hospice is progressing well with the concrete pour of the foundations now halfway through.Designed by LSI...
18 January 2019
The same construction team that built Sybil Andrews Academy in 2016 has returned to build new phases of the high school based on Bury St Edmunds’...
18 December 2018
Barnes has been appointed to work on the next stage of a £6.72million landmark development in the heart of Bury St Edmunds town centre.St...
09 November 2018
The final piece of copper roofing has been laid to mark the topping out at three new graduate houses for Churchill College in Cambridge.The houses...
19 October 2018
Cllr Ray Gooding, Essex County Council’s Cabinet Member for Education and Skills took part in a topping out ceremony at Paxman Academy in...
15 October 2018
The official opening of the newly-expanded Stanway Fiveways Primary School in Colchester has taken place with a ribbon cutting and the burying of...
12 October 2018
Building work on Southend’s only adult hospice has officially started on a new site which will care for twice as many people. On Monday 8th...
03 October 2018
A milestone in the construction of a new extension for BUUK at their main office at Woolpit has been marked with a topping out event., Along with...
28 September 2018
Power tools firm Festool has celebrated a milestone in the construction of its new £9.5 million UK HQ by holding a traditional German ‘Richtfest’....
16 July 2018
A key milestone has been achieved at the new Staff Residences project at West Suffolk Hospital with the completion of the erection of the metsec...
16 July 2018
Barnes has been working with three Suffolk companies; Wincer Kievenaar Architects, Gill Associates and Superstructures, on a project that will...
06 July 2018
Some of the children who will be part of the first intake at a new primary school being built by Barnes in Oulton near Lowestoft have paid a visit...
17 May 2018
The UK Managing Director of Festool, Ole Held, has taken part in a ground-breaking event at Suffolk Business Park in Bury St Edmunds, to mark the...
17 May 2018
The award was made under the category New Build – large building and was for the worked carried out on the West Suffolk Hospital Central Sterile...
05 April 2018
We have been awarded the £14 million contract to build the new school in Paxman Avenue and Essex County Council Chairman, Cllr John Aldridge and...
27 March 2018
Local councillors and business leaders gathered to celebrate the topping out of a new free school being built on Lime Avenue in Oulton.The Limes...
16 March 2018
We have been awarded a contract to build a second Premier Inn and restaurant in the popular Norfolk seaside town of Great Yarmouth; a sister hotel...
15 January 2018
We have started work on a kitchen refurbishment at one of the most ancient colleges at the University of Cambridge; Corpus Christi. The 50-week...
10 January 2018
Ipswich charity Families in Need (FIND), which provides thousands of food parcels to people in crisis each year, has launched an appeal to raise...
02 January 2018
Barnes Construction has successfully been appointed to the latest version of Education and Skills Funding Agency’s (ESFA) schools construction...
14 December 2017
We have been helping the Bumblebee Children’s Charity through fundraising and carrying out work at the independent pre-school in Sproughton...
04 December 2017
Construction is set to begin on a new 900-place Secondary Shcool on the former Alderman Blaxill School Site in Paxman Avenue, Colchester. We have...
20 November 2017
BARNES HAS STARTED WORK ON A PROJECT AT KING’S COLLEGE SCHOOL IN CAMBRIDGE.The scope of works includes the design and construction of a purpose...
17 November 2017
Essex County Council has commenced a £14million primary school expansion programme in Colchester which will create more than 900 new places across...
27 September 2017
BARNES CONSTRUCTION WON ITS FIRST MAJOR CONTRACT IN CAMBRIDGE IN 2007, WHEN IT WAS COMMISSIONED TO BUILD THE KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR COSMOLOGY STUDY...
18 September 2017
Work is well underway to construct The Limes Primary Academy in Oulton, Lowestoft. Building started in July 2017 on the single and two-storey...
14 August 2017
Suffolk County Councillor Matthew Hicks and Tim Passmore, Police and Crime Commissioner, formally opened the £540K redeveloped shared base on...
20 July 2017
ENTRIES SUBMITTED BY LOCAL SCHOOLCHILDREN INTO THE 2017 PAINT THE HOARDING COMPETITION AT OUR SITE IN BARKING, ESSEX HAVE BEEN DECLARED ONE OF...
07 July 2017
The event was held at the Rooftop Terrace at the Varsity Hotel, Cambridge. Although the weather was challenging, the venue provided unique views...
07 July 2017
The Lincoln scheme is to construct a 2-storey, 38-bed lodge for Marston’s Inn and Taverns.Located in the desirable Burton Water residency within...
12 June 2017
LOCAL SCHOOLCHILDREN HAVE VISITED BARKING TOWN HALL TO SEE THEIR ENTRIES FOR THE 2017 PAINT THE HOARDING COMPETITION PUT ON PUBLIC VIEW. We are...
02 June 2017
The brand new Skyliner sports centre was officially opened on Saturday by the Mayor of St Edmundsbury, Councillor Julia Wakelam and other guests...
24 May 2017
HELPING TO GIVE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC INSPIRATION TO CREATE HEDGEHOG CORRIDORS. Barnes Construction's Carpenter James Fairs shows Suffolk...
19 May 2017
Arthur Rnak Hospice in Cambridge has been awarded RICS East of England Project of the Year 2017.Thirty six of the East of England’s most...
12 May 2017
WE HAVE RECEIVED A COMMENDATION IN THIS YEAR’S CRAFTSMANSHIP AWARDS FOR THE TWO RIVERS MEDICAL CENTRE ON WOODBRIDGE ROAD EAST IN IPSWICH. The £6m...
01 May 2017
BARNES’ HAS CELEBRATED ITS 25TH YEAR AT RANSOMES EUROPARK IN IPSWICH WITH A SPECIAL BIRTHDAY CAKE. In the early 90s, there was a realisation that...
12 April 2017
WE HAVE SECURED A FURTHER CONTRACT AT WEST SUFFOLK HOSPITAL IN BURY ST EDMUNDS. The project comprises of two areas of courtyard infill works; one...
01 March 2017
The East of England CO-OP's Joint Chief Executive, Nick Denny, has visited the Tosehill Retail Centre site in Ipswich., Escorted by Mark Bailey,...
31 January 2017
A ceremony has taken place to lay a ‘date stone’ at Saxmundham’s new joint police and fire station with local MP Therese Coffey, together with...
13 December 2016
We are Suffolk County Council Framework members and have preferred contractor status with Marstons and Travelodge.Marstons InnsWe have commenced...
21 November 2016
This summer’s ‘Pigs Gone Wild’ fundraising initiative by St Elizabeth Hospice was a resounding success, smashing all expectations by raising a...
16 November 2016
Sybil Andrews Academy on Bury St Edmunds’ Moreton Hall estate to be ready for students within the next few weeks.Sybil Andrews Academy on Bury St...
16 November 2016
The construction of the new Ipswich Audi dealership has been completed and handed over to the Marriott Motor Group.The £8 million building, which...