Work at Portman Square site latest in series of wins private equity-owned firm has won in past few months
Bovis has won the scheme to redevelop a 1920s office building at 43-45 Portman Square in London, Building understands.
The firm was recently told it had picked up the job, which has a contract value of around £60m, in the Marylebone area of the capital, just north of Oxford Street.
The scheme, which is being developed by Bentall Green Oak on behalf of the Welput Fund, will see the existing seven floors retained with two more levels added as well as pavilion space on level 10. It will include ground floor retail spaces, communal workspaces and a new atrium.
It has been designed by Henning Larsen and was given planning by Westminster council in May.
The building, also known as Hesketh House and originally designed by Messrs Joseph Architects in 1928, underwent partial reconstruction in 1996.
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General Demolition has been on site since the spring ahead of main work starting with other members of the project team including Opera as project manager, cost consultant CHP, structural engineer Elliott Wood and planning firm DP9.
The win is the latest in a series of jobs Bovis, which was bought by US private equity firm Atlas Holdings earlier his year, has picked up in the past few months.
The firm is set to start next year on the £330m 60 Gracechurch Street office scheme for Sellar while over the summer it won a £200m office job for BC Group to build a new tower near the British Museum.
Along with Sir Robert McAlpine, Bovis is set to find out soon who has won a £150m office deal on Shaftesbury Avenue for Dutch developer Edge.
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