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Balfour Beatty is to acquire Birse, the regional construction, civil engineering and plant hire company, for £32m. 27-Jun-2006 Birse has won a £7m contract from South West Trains to upgrade its train depots in Wimbledon and Bournemouth. 17-Feb-2005 Birse Build has closed its Northampton office with the loss of up to 25 jobs. 07-Jul-2004 Birse is planning to shed an unspecified number of jobs at its Tunbridge Wells office, due to a decline in commercial construction work in the south east. 04-Sep-2003 Birse has won a £11m contract to build a new headquarters for B&Q in Chandlers Ford, Hampshire. 13-Aug-2003 Birse has won a £2.5m contract from Cine UK to fit out a new cinema in Braintree. 10-Jun-2002 Birse has won a £10m contract from Woodbridge Edenside Developments to build a leisure complex at Chichester Gate in West Sussex. 14-Mar-2002 Birse is to restructure its building, civil and process engineering operations into three separate subsidiary companies called Birse Build, Birse CL and Birse Process. 14-Feb-2002 Birse has won a £5.7m contract to build a football academy at Carrington for Manchester United. 19-Jul-2001 Birse Logistics Solutions has won contracts worth £8.7m to build two new distribution centres for ProLogis Developments at Hams Hall in Warwickshire. 20-Jun-2001 Birse Building has won a £9m contract from HLC Engenharia to build a materials recovery and energy centre for waste treatment at Port Talbot. 28-Feb-2001 Ashtead has bought part of Birse's BPH plant hire business for £1.6m, including the hire fleet, motor vehicles and trading contracts. 04-May-2000 Birse has sold the Aberdeen-based engine refurbishment division of its plant hire subsidiary to Rentair for £2.5m. 04-Nov-1999 Birse has won a £6m contract to build a sewage treatment works in Bridport for Wessex Water. 30-Sep-1999 Birse has won a £5m contract to extend Bupa's Hull & East Riding hospital in Anlaby. 03-Jun-1999 Bilfinger & Birger of Germany has sold its 9.7% stake in Birse, the construction company, but they will continue to work together on future projects. 26-Mar-1996
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