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好色先生TV understands that Mace will be appointed , , and quantity surveyor on the 拢160m Ropemaker Place scheme next week.

This site, located between Moorgate and Liverpool Street in the City, has detailed planning consent for a 505,000 ft虏, 23-storey building. Work is expected to start on site later this year with completion scheduled for mid-2009.

British Land called in Arup to redesign the tower after it bought the freehold to the site in April from DB Real Estate for 拢130m. Gensler had secured planning permission for a scheme on the one-acre site on behalf of DB Real Estate.

British Land is developing the site on a speculative basis.

In a second win in London, Mace Plus, the firm鈥檚 major projects contracting subsidiary, has been appointed to a 拢20m refurbishment of Marks & Spencer鈥檚 store at the Tottenham Court Road end of Oxford Street.

The 拢160m Ropemaker Place tower

The office tower has detailed planning consent for a 505,000 ft虏, 23-storey building

Mace this week was waiting to hear whether it had won the delivery programme role for the London 2012 Olympics, alongside consortium partners Laing O鈥橰ourke, Davis Langdon, and CH2M Hill. It is in competition with three rival consortiums.

In a separate development, Bovis Lend Lease has won a pre-construction role on British Land鈥檚 new development, Leadenhall 好色先生TV at 122 Leadenhall Street in the City of London. Demolition work is due to start in January 2007, once British Land secures vacant possession of the site. The project is expected to be completed by 2010.

Once completed, the building will be 47 storeys and 736 ft high, making it the tallest building in the Square Mile. It will also provide 601,000 ft虏 of accommodation.

It is yet to be confirmed whether Bovis will be instructed as the main contractor.

Nigel Webb, head of developments at British Land, said: 鈥淲e are progressing with detailed design. It is our intention to proceed with construction of the new building for completion in 2010.鈥�