Economic
Shorefields New Model Special School and De La Salle Schol
By phillaw at May 22, 2012 | 09:57 | 0 Comment
Two major projects by Essex County Council to remodel two existing schools in Essex have reached financial close and work has started on site. Shorefields New Model Special School and De La Salle School and Language College will be redeveloped through remodelling, refurbishment and new buildings to designs by architects Astudio. Shorefields New Model Special School, more...
Manchester Projects a Step Closer
By phillaw at May 22, 2012 | 09:30 | 0 Comment
Two landmark Manchester projects have moved a step closer. London-based developer Argent and its partner, the Greater Manchester Property Venture Fund, have started work on the new office building at One Saint Peter’s Square. Meanwhile, Buro Four, the specialist property and construction project manager, has been appointed to work on the master plan for First Street more...
Clugston Construction Makes £2.5M Profit as it Celebrates 75th Birthday Anniversary
By phillaw at May 16, 2012 | 10:29 | 0 Comment
Clugston Construction one of the North’s leading privately owned building and civil engineering contractors, with offices in Leeds, Scunthorpe and Hebburn Tyne & Wear, has announced annual results for 2011/12 which show a significant turnaround in performance from the previous year. Its latest figures show turnover increased by 34% from £54M to £74M and a pre-tax more...
Bowmer and Kirkland Enjoy 32% Rise in Profits
By phillaw at May 9, 2012 | 12:16 | 0 Comment
CONSTRUCTION Company Bowmer and Kirkland has enjoyed a 32% rise in profits to £44.3 million – at a time when poor results from the building industry have been blamed for the double-dip recession. The group, which also has interests in the engineering and security sectors, has increased turnover by 6% to £708 million with cash at the bank rising to £200 million. The more...
EC Harris Wins Major Lloyds Banking Group Commission
By phillaw at May 8, 2012 | 09:41 | 0 Comment
ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the international consultancy, design, engineering and management services company, today announced that its subsidiary EC Harris, the global Built Asset Consultancy, has been appointed by Lloyds Banking Group, the UK's largest retail bank, as its single source Professional Services Provider (PSP) for the next three years, beginning in April more...
Black History Archive Project Set Back
By phillaw at May 8, 2012 | 09:12 | 0 Comment
Ambitious plans to create the first permanent home for a unique archive, covering centuries of black history in Britain, have been hit by the collapse of the building firm working on the Heritage Lottery Fund-backed £6.5m project. Work was under way to convert the long-derelict grade II listed Raleigh Hall in Brixton into a home for the Black Cultural Archives (BCA), more...
Poriot Helps Crowd Funders Solve Riddle of Lost Docks
By phillaw at May 8, 2012 | 09:03 | 0 Comment
He’s spent 22 years unlocking clues as TV detective Hercule Poirot, but now actor David Suchet is fronting a campaign to revive a historic dock in east London. Tucked away in the neglected industrial hinterland between Canary Wharf and the Olympic Park, Cody Dock on the River Lea has been forgotten and sealed off for decades. Now, without a penny of government money, more...
Alaska Project
By phillaw at April 27, 2012 | 09:41 | 0 Comment
In December 2010 the Liberal Democrat-led district council of Purbeck voted to approve the Alaska project, subject to conditions. But by March 2011 their two seat majority had switched to the Conservatives. This time the planning committee refused the application and it is now subject to a public inquiry. 'Work best' Although the elections on 3 May cannot change the more...
Expected Growth for the First Three Months of 2012 has Grown
By phillaw at April 23, 2012 | 10:45 | 0 Comment
The UK is likely to have avoided a contraction of the economy and therefore a double-dip recession by a narrow margin in the first quarter of 2012 when official figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) are published this week. The ONS is expected to say in its first estimate of growth for the first three months of 2012 that the economy grew by just 0.1 per more...
Fire Control Centres Scrapped
By phillaw at April 23, 2012 | 10:43 | 0 Comment
The fire control centres were scrapped in 2010, wasting £469m of taxpayers’ money. The Labour government commissioned the construction of nine high-spec regional fire stations across the UK in 2004 so that major incidents such as terrorist attacks could be managed more effectively. However, the public accounts committee found the project had been “flawed from the more...
