Wear Point Wind Ltd, a consortium consisting of John Laing and wind developers Infinergy has achieved financial close on the 8.2MW Wear Point Wind Farm near Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire. John Laing and Infinergy own an 80% and a 20% share in the facility respectively.

John Laing has today signed contracts with an affiliate of Moser Baer Clean Energy Limited to develop three new solar parks situated near St Austell in Cornwall.

John Laing is celebrating the achievement of 100 infrastructure investments, following the financial close of the Intercity Express Programme (IEP) in July.  

Following the announcement in May of the Acorn consortium as the preferred bidder, M&G Investments with SMBC and the European Investment Bank have now been appointed as preferred funders of Alder Hey’s new hospital. This follows an extensive funding competition by Acorn (John Laing, Laing O’Rourke and Interserve).

The Regenter Myatts Field North consortium comprising Regenter, Higgins Construction, Rydon Maintenance, Pinnacle PSG and E.ON has received the award for Best Scheme in Planning at the Affordable Home Ownership Awards 2012 for its work on the regeneration of Myatts Field North, Lambeth.

 John Laing, as part of the SecureFuture consortium has signed a contract to build and operate the new prison at Wiri, South Auckland.  The new public-private partnership (PPP) facility will be designed, financed, built, operated and maintained by the consortium on behalf of the New Zealand Department of Corrections and will focus on rehabilitation and making communities safer. 

John Laing has achieved financial close on the Bilsthorpe Wind Farm in Nottinghamshire, its first project in the onshore wind sector.

Following a hugely successful six months for Regenter, joint venture partners John Laing and Pinnacle Regeneration Group are looking forward to evolving their highly effective partnership to continue improving residential environments and the lives of communities across the UK.

John Laing has today signed contracts for the acquisition of two operational solar parks: Five Oaks based in Billingshurst, West Sussex and Fryingdown based near Basingstoke, Hampshire.

 

The UK Department for Transport (DfT) and Agility Trains (comprising Hitachi Rail Europe and John Laing Investments) today signed the contract for the DfT’s Intercity Express Programme (IEP) and confirmed financial close for Phase 1 of the project.

The Acorn consortium, comprising John Laing, Laing O'Rourke and Interserve, will formerly today be announced by Andrew Lansley, Secertary of State as Preferred Bidder to redevelop the Alder Hey children's hospital in Liverpool. The announcement follows approval of the project by the Department of Health and HM Treasury.

The Regenter Myatts Field North consortium comprising Regenter (a 50/50 joint venture between John Laing and Pinnacle Regeneration Group), Higgins Construction, Rydon Maintenance, Pinnacle PSG and E.ON has today achieved financial close on the Lambeth Myatts Field North Housing PFI project.

 

John Laing is celebrating being recognised for a Gold award by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA). The Gold award will be presented at the prestigious 2012 RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Awards at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel on Thursday, 17 May.

 

John Laing is delighted to announce that it has achieved Platinum in Business in the Community’s (BITC) 2012 Corporate Responsibility Index (CRI), the UK’s leading voluntary benchmark of corporate responsibility.

The SecureFuture consortium is pleased to have been selected by the New Zealand Department of Corrections as preferred bidder to provide and operate the new public-private partnership (PPP) prison at Wiri, South Auckland.

An outdated Lambeth Council estate will be transformed into state-of-the-art social housing after £150m in Government funding was approved this week.