The Heritage Lottery Fund has provided £98m to nine heritage sites, with a focus on projects to preserve Britain’s rich scientific and technology history, in the hope that it will inspire young people to take a greater interest in science… Continue Reading →

Focus Consultants is playing a key role in the redevelopment of one of the UK’s most historically significant sites for motoring, aviation and engineering after helping Brooklands Museum secure a grant of more than £4.5 million. The company has been… Continue Reading →

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (KGH), has been fined after an employee received serious burns whilst stripping down a steam boiler. On 5 November 2012, a maintenance worker at KGH was stripping down a steam boiler for periodic examination,… Continue Reading →

Retail developer Intu submits plans to revamp its shopping centre in Milton Keynes.  The proposals for the shopping centre, expected to cost more than £70m, include more shops, a new dining quarter, green spaces for families to relax at lunchtime… Continue Reading →

The entire second floor of an end of terrace house being refurbished collapsed to first floor level in West Ealing last week. Firefighters and the brigade’s Urban Search And Rescue crews were called to the scene to search the building… Continue Reading →

Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) has awarded a £7m contract for the modernisation of Govan Subway and bus station in Glasgow to Graham Construction as part of their ongoing £288 million Subway Modernisation programme. Govan, which services around one million… Continue Reading →

Five firms have secured places for £10m-plus construction projects under Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire County Council’s shared services framework. They are among a total of 30 firms making the cut on a panel that will be used to deliver an estimated £500m-£1bn of work… Continue Reading →

Essex County Council is set to start the hunt for firms for a new schools framework, ignoring the Education Funding Agency’s existing regional framework line up. The council is spearheading the new four-year framework as it rolls out a capital… Continue Reading →