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In recent weeks, P.C. Harrington Contractors has scooped three major hospital contracts - worth a total of approaching £70 million and making the company market leader in the provision of structural frames for the healthcare sector.
The new projects are for the new Royal London, King's Mill and Queen Elizabeth Hospitals in London, Mansfield and Birmingham respectively and follow on from successful large-scale hospital projects in Romford and Coventry.

Negotiation through an excellent long term relationship with main contractor Skanska was the basis for two of the awards - at the Royal London and King's Mill Hospitals. The P.C. Harrington team had worked with the contractor on Coventry Hospital and supported them, prior to contract award, with budgetary, logistical and specialist technical advice as the designs developed and grew.

On 24th July, the teams working on the King's Mill and Queen Elizabeth hospitals mobilised on site. In Mansfield, the challenge is to provide structural concrete work for a new 95,000 sq m building and refurbishment scheme which will deliver state-of-the-art medical services.

The new super-hospital in Birmingham will be the first new general hospital in the city for over 60 years. Our work, for main contractor Balfour Beatty, involves construction of four 9-storey slipformed cores with insitu construction for each medical floor and liner walls for the linking service tunnels.

Work on the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel started on 11th September. Most clinical services, including London’s leading trauma and emergency care centre, the capital’s second largest children’s hospital and one of Europe’s largest renal units, will be housed in a new landmark 18-storey building. London’s Air Ambulance, which is based at the hospital, will operate from the top of the new building.

One of HTC's new 6017FL cranes recently arrived - straight out of the box - at Shepherd Construction's Gateshead College site.

The crane will support the construction of Gateshead College's main campus, at the Baltic Business Quarter. Overall, the College is investing £45 million in a new campus based across three sites which will offer leading edge facilities and have the capacity to educate 15,000 students each year.

Other new cranes purchased include a 7532FL erected at Carillion's project at Piccadilly Place in Manchester, a 6531FL now in action at Shepherd Construction's Clarence Dock residential development site, adjacent to the Royal Armouries in Leeds and a 6071FL which has been installed on the St James' University Hospital site, also in Leeds.

More MAN cranes are on their way - 17 cranes were purchased in 2005 and it is this continuous investment in new equipment which ensures that HTC Plant consistently has the most reliable fleet in the UK.

A major new £200m development is rising in Milton Keynes thanks to Slipform International's speedy services.

The main contractor, Bowmer & Kirkland, has commissioned P.C. Harrington Contractors for the structural concrete work and they, in turn, appointed Slipform International to provide the six cores required for the project. The first slipform launch was started on 25th January and the team completed the sixth core and departed in May.

The Central Business Exchange III (CBX 3) will become a continental-style business district with smart hotels, a World Trade Centre, quality restaurants and apartments set around a central square in the heart of Milton Keynes - within five minutes walk of the railway station. The development will rise to 14-storeys on its 2.34ha (5.8 acre) site and is expected to create hundreds of new jobs.