Lend Lease Consortium Wins £24. Billion Birmingham BSF Deal

Catalyst Lend Lease has been appointed as preferred bidder on the much delayed £2.4billion Birmingham Building Schools for the Future scheme (BSF). Catalyst Education, which is led by Catalyst Lend Lease and Bovis Lend Lease, was selected by Birmingham City Council over a rival bid from Land Securities Trillium.

Work will be carried out in six phases with the first phase, worth £152.4 million, is set to start next April. It involves the co-location of Mayfield Special School, Lozells Primary School and Holte Secondary on to a single site and the rebuild or refurbishment of Waverley, Four Dwellings High, Park View, Broadway, Moseley, George Dixon International, The International School, Stockland Green and Saltley schools.

Catalyst Lend Lease chief operating officer Gary Taylor said: "We are immensely proud and very privileged to be chosen as the council's partner for such a vital and exciting project. ..This is Britain's biggest BSF project to date and we want these new schools to play their part in raising the aspirations and educational attainment of the city's young people for many years to come.