Amec lands Shell oil platform
Amec has secured a £300m contract to build a floating oil and gas production vessel for oil giant Shell's offshore Nigerian operations.

Gammon wins HK station
Skanska's Hong Kong arm Gammon Construction has won a £116m job to build a station depot on the Ma On Shan rail scheme in Hong Kong.

Heery to manage arts project
Balfour Beatty arm Heery International is to manage the £17m refurbishment of the National Gallery of Scotland and the Royal Scottish Academy.

Shimizu nabs £12.2m job
Contractor Shimizu Europe has started work on a £12.2m mixed-use scheme in Greenwich, south-east London. The project includes student homes, retail and restaurants.

Beazer faces PFI challenge
Social housing specialist Beazer Partnerships has started work on a £2.5m PFI job to upgrade homes for staff at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital NHS Trust. It will refurbish 144 flats and build 16 new units.

Totty's Yorkshire village
Totty Construction is to build the first stage of a 400,000 ft2 business village in Wakefield, west Yorkshire. It is set for completion in June.

Cowlin scoops £15m of work
Cowlin Construction has won contracts worth £15m. They include a £2.7m redevelopment of a Bristol office; a £2.1m new-build scheme in Yeovil; a £1.3m primary school in Trowbridge; a £1.3m pool in Calne, Wiltshire; and a design-and-build contract for a £2.2m technology centre in Ystrad Mynach, Caerphilly.

Benoy to design Kowloon mall
Hong Kong's public–private rail company MTRC has appointed architect Benoy to design a £100m, 83,000 m2 retail scheme as part of its £6bn Kowloon Station development.