UK heritage sites receive £98m lottery funds

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
Posted on May 20, 2015

Focus in driving seat at museum redevelopment

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
Posted on May 19, 2015

Hospital maintenance horror

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
Posted on May 18, 2015

£70m shopping centre revamp

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
Posted on May 18, 2015

House refurb site collapse

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
Posted on May 18, 2015

Graham wins Govan subway revamp

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
Posted on May 18, 2015

Winners named for £1bn construction framework

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
Posted on May 18, 2015

E. England councils shun EFA schools framework

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
Posted on May 18, 2015

Revamp for South London estate

Mixed-use developer First Base partners with Savills for £70m residential-led development in Earlsfield, South West London. First Base and Cordea Savills, on behalf of its second London Residential Development Fund,
Posted on May 11, 2015