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Jarvis is to shed a further 300 jobs in its construction and engineering business by March, as part of a rescue plan agreed with its banks. 30-Dec-2004 The National Union of Students is to relocate its headquarters from London to Manchester in 2006, although an office will be retained in London. 30-Dec-2004 Easton Masonry has ceased trading with the loss of 38 jobs at its Portland stone business. 27-Dec-2004 Multiplex, the Australian construction company, is planning to set up a new headquarters for its property division at 40 Berkeley Square in London. 27-Dec-2004 Davis Service is in discussions to sell its Elliott modular buildings business for up to £170m. 23-Dec-2004 Invest NI has confirmed plans to relocate 550 staff to a new headquarters in central Belfast next October. 20-Dec-2004 Downing Rudman & Bent, the Chippenham-based building company, has ceased trading with the loss of 85 jobs. 20-Dec-2004 JCB is to seek planning permission to relocate its heavy products division from Uttoxeter town centre to a new 50-acre site nearby. 15-Dec-2004 Benson is to close its contracting division in the Midlands with the loss of 28 jobs. 02-Dec-2004 British Gypsum has won planning permission for the £50m expansion of its plasterboard factory at Sherburn-in-Elmet in North Yorkshire, with the creation of 75 jobs. 29-Nov-2004 Spencer Holdings, the St Helens-based property investment company, has secured a £77m funding package from Bank of Scotland Corporate to help with acquisitions in the small and medium-sized lettings sector. 26-Nov-2004 MJ Gleeson is planning to reorganise its construction division with the closure of two regional offices and the loss of some of the 800 jobs. 25-Nov-2004 The Welsh Development Agency has submitted plans to build a £100m urban village on a 50-acre site in the Ely Bridge area of Cardiff. 23-Nov-2004 Hewden is to reorganise its nationwide network of hire depots by setting up a hub and spoke system and by merging its tool hire, crane hire and plant hire operations. 18-Nov-2004 One NorthEast is supporting plans for a £35m investment at the former Samsung site at Wynyard, which will involve the relocation of 500 jobs by a number of local companies and the creation of a new distribution centre. 18-Nov-2004 Lambeth Council is planning to relocate 400 staff to its newly-acquired Sentinel Point building in Vauxhall. 15-Nov-2004 John Moores University is to spend £3m on improvements at its Byrom Street campus in Liverpool, including a new lecture theatre and IT facilities. 12-Nov-2004 Frank Haslam Milan is seeking 100 additional staff for its social housing contracting business on Teesside and elsewhere, including plasterers, joiners, fitters and floor layers. 11-Nov-2004 The Coalfield Regeneration Trust is to receive a further £35m of government funding to continue its training and education work at former coalfield communities. 11-Nov-2004 The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister is to provide a further £100m for the development of schools and other community facilities in the Thames Gateway. 10-Nov-2004 The Scottish Executive is to relocate the eight jobs at the crofting building grants administration agency from Edinburgh to the island of Tiree, while the ten jobs at the central inquiry unit will move to Kinlochleven. 09-Nov-2004 The Prison Service has awarded a contract to Lambert Smith Hampton to advise on the £300m expansion of its estate, including the acquisition of new sites for prisons and offices. 01-Nov-2004 Modern Art Stone, the manufacturer of artificial stone, is to relocate from Cambois to a larger site in Blyth, with the creation of 20 jobs. 26-Oct-2004 Suffolk College is to spend £50m building new facilities in Ipswich by 2007. 26-Oct-2004 CA Roofing is to set up a new £1m industrial roofing factory near its existing site in County Durham, with the creation of 16 jobs. 21-Oct-2004 The Tresham Institute in Kettering has secured a £6m grant to fund the development of a new further education college in Windmill Avenue by September 2006. 21-Oct-2004 NPS Property Consultants has announced plans to set up a second 13,000 sq ft office at the St Andrew's Business Park in Norwich. 19-Oct-2004 Leicester Regeneration Company has announced that five unnamed companies are interested in moving to the proposed £300m science and technology park at Abbey Meadows. 18-Oct-2004 Donaldsons is to advise the Independent Police Complaints Commission on plans to open seven new regional headquarters across the country. 18-Oct-2004 City of York Council is considering plans to relocate up to 1,000 staff from various sites across the city into one purpose-built headquarters, although a suitable location has not yet been found. 14-Oct-2004 Hanson Aggregates is planning to shed 316 jobs and relocate a further 234 by next June, in order to consolidate its 23 sales offices into six and its 54 materials testing centres into one laboratory. 14-Oct-2004 Jarvis is to sell its team of 40 staff who bid for new private finance initiative contracts to French construction group Vinci. 14-Oct-2004 HSS is to reorganise its network of tool hire centres, with 50 "tool supermarkets" acting as the hub for the other 300 outlets. 07-Oct-2004 Birmingham Chamber of Commerce is to build a new £80m headquarters in Edgbaston by 2007, as the city council has approved the plans in principle. 04-Oct-2004 City of Edinburgh Council has unveiled plans for a £2bn mixed-use urban development at Granton Waterfront, including new offices, shops, homes, a hotel and a casino. 04-Oct-2004 Fenland District Council is planning to relocate 70 staff from March to the Exchange Tower in Wisbech. 30-Sep-2004 Ultraframe has opened a new roof production facility at its factory in Clayton-le-Moors, and the 43-strong workforce could eventually double. 30-Sep-2004 CV Buchan is to close its pre-cast concrete plant in Accrington by the end of the year, with the loss of about 100 jobs. 30-Sep-2004 Hellens Group, the construction and landscaping company, is seeking permission from Sunderland City Council to relocate its headquarters to the new Pattinson Industrial Estate. 30-Sep-2004 Alsop Architects of London has shed 14 jobs, following a slowdown in the progress of a number of projects. 29-Sep-2004 BPB is planning to increase capital expenditure to more than £160m next year, in order to increase plasterboard production capacity in its factories. 27-Sep-2004 Slough Estates is planning to restore the historic aviation research buildings at Farnborough Business Park by 2006, at a cost of £20m. 20-Sep-2004 St Modwen Properties is to open two regional offices in Yorkshire and the South West by the end of the year. 17-Sep-2004 Thorndyke, the construction services company, is planning to relocate its 100-strong workforce away from Leicester city centre, and East Goscote is a possible location. 17-Sep-2004 Essex Police is to build a £20m centre to handle non-emergency calls in Chelmsford by 2007. 16-Sep-2004 Queen Margaret University College is to relocate 4,000 staff and students to a new 35-acre campus at Craighall in East Lothian in 2007, and work on the new site will start next year. 13-Sep-2004 Miller has increased its bank facilities to £325m to fund the expansion of its housebuilding operations into south-east England, and at least two acquisitions are being considered. 13-Sep-2004 Highland Council is considering the possibility of relocating its Inverness headquarters to a new site on the edge of the city centre. 10-Sep-2004 Bellway Homes, the housebuilder, is planning to create 200 apprenticeships in the Liverpool area over the next two years. 09-Sep-2004 Stewart Milne of Aberdeen is seeking acquisitions to expand its housebuilding operations in England. 09-Sep-2004 SIG, the insulation supplier, is planning to expand its branch network from 125 sites to almost 200 by 2008. 09-Sep-2004 Davis Service is said to be considering plans to sell off its Elliott building manufacturing business, which employs 1,600 staff at six factories. 08-Sep-2004 Travis Perkins has outlined plans to expand its chain of builders' merchants from 740 to 1,200 over the next six years. 07-Sep-2004 RMC is to shed a further 80 jobs in Rugby and South Ferriby in Lincolnshire, as part of the ongoing reorganisation of its building materials business. 06-Sep-2004 Evans Easyspace is planning to expand its network of flexible workspace sites from 25 to about 60 over the next few years, at a cost of £100m. 06-Sep-2004 Barr Holdings is seeking permission to develop a new quarry to the south of Glasgow, in order to meet rising demand for aggregates. 03-Sep-2004 Innisfree has raised £360m to invest in private finance initiative and public-private partnership projects, including new hospitals and schools. 02-Sep-2004 Jarvis has sold its division that bids for university accommodation projects, which includes 40 staff, to the Alma Mater Fund for undisclosed terms. 02-Sep-2004 Rok, the property company, is expanding its offices on Teesside and Tyneside with the creation of up to 50 jobs. 01-Sep-2004 Planet PVC, the Lancashire-based conservatory manufacturer with 500 staff, is planning to raise £10m in a flotation on Aim next year. 26-Aug-2004 Wolseley, the building materials company, has confirmed plans to relocate its head office from North Yorkshire to the Tachbrook estate near Leamington Spa next summer, and more than 600 staff will be based at the new £11m site. 24-Aug-2004 Carmarthenshire County Council is to contribute £6m to a £25m investment in new development sites and business parks in Cross Hands, Llanelli, Ammanford and Carmarthen. 24-Aug-2004 Gwynedd Council is to consider plans for a multi-million revamp of Bangor University's science site, including a new centre for ecology and hydrology for the Natural Environment Research Council. 23-Aug-2004 Spice, the Leeds-based utilities support services company, has raised £11m in a share issue, and is now looking to expand the business through organic growth and acquisitions. 23-Aug-2004 The Ministry of Defence has awarded a £5bn contract to Mowlem and Kellogg Brown & Root to provide construction and maintenance services to the Army at Aldershot and Salisbury Plain. 23-Aug-2004 Lovell is planning to create 50 new jobs at its Leeds-based affordable housing business over the next 12 months. 20-Aug-2004 The South West Regional Development Agency has awarded funding of £1m to help build the region's first sustainable construction centre in Taunton, and work on the £2.5m project will start this autumn. 18-Aug-2004 Wright's of Crockey Hill, the York-based plant hire firm, is to close with the loss of up to 55 jobs. 13-Aug-2004 The Home Office is to set up a 41,000 sq ft office at Derby Square in Liverpool for the Immigration & Nationality Directorate, and up to 250 staff will work there from 2006. 12-Aug-2004 Cavanna Group, the Torquay-based construction company with 70 staff, is to relocate to a new £2m office at The Willows in May 2005. 12-Aug-2004 Molson Holdings, the Bristol-based construction equipment dealer, has closed its plant refurbishment operation with the loss of 20 jobs. 12-Aug-2004 Balfour Beatty is seeking acquisitions to expand its construction operations in the US. 12-Aug-2004 Renfrewshire Council has unveiled proposals for a £500m development to regenerate the south bank of the River Clyde from Braehead to Renfrew, including 1m sq ft of business space, 2,000 new homes and leisure facilities. 05-Aug-2004 North Midland Construction is to create about 40 new jobs in its utilities division, having won a £80m contract with Marconi to work on the BT network. 05-Aug-2004 VT Group has won a £70m contract to build and operate a fire-fighting training centre in Cardiff. 04-Aug-2004 Northern Venture Managers is investing £1.5m in AFI Aerial Platforms, in order to fund the nationwide expansion of the Wakefield-based aerial platform company. 02-Aug-2004 Jarvis is looking to raise £150m from the sale of various assets, including its stake in the Tube Lines consortium, and will scale back its school and hospital building operations. 02-Aug-2004 English Partnerships is to relocate 45 staff from central London to offices in Exeter, Allerton Bywater and Nottingham. 02-Aug-2004 John Sisk, the construction contractor, is considering plans to open an office in the Cardiff area. 22-Jul-2004 Ibstock is planning to close its architectural brick manufacturing facility near Loughborough, unless a buyer can be found by the end of August. 15-Jul-2004 Marwell, the Aberdeen-based construction company, is creating 70 new jobs to work on a number of new design and build projects. 13-Jul-2004 Bizspace is planning to raise a further £7m in a share placing to fund the acquisition of flexible office space for small businesses. 13-Jul-2004 Gloscat, the Gloucestershire College of Arts & Technology, is planning to move to a new £38m campus in Gloucester Docks by September 2006. 12-Jul-2004 The Ministry of Defence has selected two consortia led by Babcock and Mowlem to bid for a £500m Defence Estates outsourcing contract to handle facilities management at 50 sites across the east of England. 12-Jul-2004 Burks Green is seeking an additional 15 staff for its architecture and engineering business in Newark. 09-Jul-2004 Wolseley UK is to create 30 jobs at a new building materials depot in Middlesbrough, the first of its new generation of Trade Park developments. 09-Jul-2004 Peterborough Regional College is planning to build a new £10m university building on its campus by September 2006. 08-Jul-2004 Birse Build has closed its Northampton office with the loss of up to 25 jobs. 07-Jul-2004 Hornagold & Hills is looking to recruit project managers and management consultants for its new office in Cardiff. 07-Jul-2004 Thomas Armstrong is creating 30 jobs at a new concrete products factory in Workington. 05-Jul-2004 RICS, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, is to reorganise its overcrowded offices in London and Coventry, which will involve selling part of its headquarters in Parliament Square and finding an alternative site in London. 05-Jul-2004 Dean & Dyball has won a £5.2m contract to build a new head office in Eastleigh for the Swaythling Housing Association. 05-Jul-2004 Nottingham City Council is to consider plans from Roxylight and Laing O'Rourke for a £700m mixed-use development in the city centre, including office space, homes, shops and leisure facilities. 05-Jul-2004 Scottish Borders Building Service is to close its depot in Hawick over the next 18 months with the loss of 12 jobs, in order to centralise services in Selkirk. 02-Jul-2004 Peel Holdings, the property developer, is planning to return to private ownership in a £832m deal. 01-Jul-2004 Brandon Hire is to raise £3.5m to fund the acquisition of tool hire companies. 01-Jul-2004 Goodyear and St Modwen have unveiled plans for a major redevelopment of the 88-acre tyre factory site in Wolverhampton, including new shops, offices, homes and leisure facilities. 29-Jun-2004 Allison Homes, the housebuilder, is planning to relocate its headquarters and 60 staff to the Enterprise Park industrial estate at Pinchbeck, near Spalding. 28-Jun-2004 Berkeley Group is to stop building upmarket detached houses and focus on large urban regeneration projects, as part of a restructuring that could halve the size of the company by 2010. 28-Jun-2004 Laing O'Rourke and Roxylight have acquired the 55-acre former Vauxhall site in Luton, and are expected to submit plans for one of the country's largest urban redevelopment schemes later this year. 28-Jun-2004 Cambridge Regional College is considering plans to close its city centre campus in 2007, in order to make way for a housing development and expand its King's Hedges site. 25-Jun-2004 Sunderland Council is to build a £6m 60,000 sq ft e-incubator centre at the Rainton Bridge Business Park by autumn 2005, in order to house new technology companies. 23-Jun-2004 Pinnacle is planning to raise up to £15m in a share placing, in order to expand its property management business. 22-Jun-2004 The Welsh Development Agency is considering plans to sell off its network of Technium business incubators, in order to set up a new venture capital-style investment fund. 22-Jun-2004 Highland Council is to consider plans from Inverness Estates for a £320m business, retail, housing and industry development to the east of Inverness. 21-Jun-2004 King Sturge, the property consultant, is to open a new regional office in Nottingham in August. 21-Jun-2004 M&M Plasline is expanding its factory and offices in Bishop Auckland with the creation of 50 jobs, in order to create an off-site facility to manufacture lightweight steel framing systems. 18-Jun-2004 Crossway Scaffolding, the Elland-based scaffolding contractor, is planning to double its 30-strong workforce over the next three years. 17-Jun-2004 Haymills, the contractor with 500 staff at offices in Caterham, Huntingdon, Stowmarket and London, is planning a management buy-out. 16-Jun-2004 AWG Construction is to change its name back to Morrison over the next 12 months, in order to boost its profile. 10-Jun-2004 Aberdeen City Council may have to spend up to £12m on improvements to its property portfolio, in order to meet the requirements of the new Disability Discrimination Act. 03-Jun-2004 Metropolitan Police Authority is to set up a 442,000 sq ft office at the Empress State building in London's Earls Court, but will not occupy the whole site for at least five years. 31-May-2004 Komatsu UK, the excavator supplier, is creating 35 new jobs at its headquarters in Birtley. 28-May-2004 Highway Emergency Services, the provider of emergency repair services to household insurers, is planning to consolidate its Norfolk offices and up to 250 staff onto a single site, and is seeking a suitable location in Norwich. 28-May-2004 Nurton Developments has acquired the five-storey Priory & Cannon House office building in the centre of Birmingham for £44m, and is now planning a multi-million pound refurbishment of the site. 26-May-2004 Ashe Construction is seeking additional staff for its regional office in Rugby, including senior project managers. 26-May-2004 McConnell Dowell, the Australian pipeline construction company, is to withdraw from the UK just four years after acquiring Stockton Pipelines of Wakefield. 20-May-2004 Michelmersh Brick is to raise £6m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its Hampshire-based specialist brick making business. 17-May-2004 Welsh Development Agency is considering plans to build a 150,000 sq ft North Wales headquarters at the former Hotpoint site in Llandudno Junction by 2007. 17-May-2004 Bury Council is considering plans from Greater Manchester Army Cadet Force to build a £4m training centre at Holcombe Army Training Camp. 11-May-2004 Huntingdonshire District Council is considering plans for the regeneration of Huntingdon town centre, at a cost of several hundred million pounds. 07-May-2004 Wolseley, the building materials group, is to relocate its corporate functions to an undisclosed location in Warwick, and up to 1,100 staff will be transferred from 11 regional offices over the next 18 months. 07-May-2004 Cambridge University is seeking permission to build three new colleges in west Cambridge, which could result in the student population rising from 16,000 to 21,000 by 2025. 05-May-2004 University of York has submitted outline plans to double the size of the campus in Heslington, which could lead to the creation of 4,500 jobs over the next 15 years. 03-May-2004 The Ministry of Defence is seeking a 70,000 sq ft office in Liverpool city centre, in order to relocate staff from Mersey House. 03-May-2004 Rugby Cement is to shed up to 70 jobs at its cement plant in Rugby over the next six months. 27-Apr-2004 Hanson Building Products is creating 14 new jobs at the Calder brick factory in Yorkshire, as Hanson's 14 sites across the country move to maximum output. 22-Apr-2004 Halladale is to raise £15m in a share placing with Moscow Narodny Bank, in order to fund the expansion of its Glasgow-based property development business. 22-Apr-2004 McNicholas is to close its building division, which develops warehouses in the south-east, with the loss of 20 jobs. 22-Apr-2004 The Construction Confederation is to vacate its Leonard Street headquarters in London in June, but a new office has not yet been found. 21-Apr-2004 CITB-Construction Skills is seeking permission for the £12m renovation of the National Construction College in Norfolk, in order to secure the future of 150 staff. 21-Apr-2004 Unite Group is forming a joint venture with Lehman Brothers to build a £45m student village in Sheffield, and expects to launch similar projects in other cities. 19-Apr-2004 Copeland Council is expected to shed a number of jobs when it relocates to a new £6m headquarters in Whitehaven in September. 16-Apr-2004 Tulloch of Inverness is looking to expand its housebuilding operation into England, and is in talks to acquire two unnamed building services companies for up to £10m. 15-Apr-2004 Eternit Building Materials is to invest £4m in the expansion and automation of its fibre cement slates factory in Widnes. 15-Apr-2004 English Heritage is to reorganise its regional structure with the loss of 26 management jobs. 13-Apr-2004 Slough Estates has formed a £150m joint venture with Helios Properties to develop a nationwide network of distribution parks, in order to meet rising demand from retailers for warehouse space. 13-Apr-2004 Invest NI has confirmed plans to build a new £50m headquarters in the centre of Belfast, and up to 680 staff will relocate to the site by autumn 2005. 08-Apr-2004 General Lighthouse Authority has awarded a £8.4m contract to Jackson Construction to build a new headquarters in Harwich. 08-Apr-2004 The Department of Health is to sell about 100 surplus sites to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, and English Partnerships will use the land for the construction of 15,000 homes. 08-Apr-2004 Miller is looking to relocate the Edinburgh-based headquarters of its construction business to a 40,000 sq ft office elsewhere in the city. 05-Apr-2004 The Royal Institute of British Architects is to relocate its north west regional office and 22 staff from Knutsford to Liverpool city centre. 02-Apr-2004 Bilfinger Berger of Germany is to withdraw from the UK building market and close its Chertsey-based office with the loss of up to 90 jobs over the next 18 months, in order to focus on investments in PFI projects. 01-Apr-2004 Oakdene is planning to raise £5m in a flotation on Aim in order to expand its Surrey-based housebuilding business. 01-Apr-2004 MJ Gleeson, the construction company, is recruiting 46 staff for three new offices in Leeds, Birmingham and Nottingham. 01-Apr-2004 Miller is looking to expand its housebuilding activities in England with a £50m-£100m acquisition over the next 12 months. 31-Mar-2004 ECHG, the English Churches Housing Group, is to relocate about 150 jobs from sites in Hendon, Ilford, Warwick, Leeds and Leicester to a new £5m head office at the Bede Island Business Park in Leicester later this year. 30-Mar-2004 The Ministry of Defence is planning to relocate 6,000 staff from London to Bristol, as part of recently-announced government plans to relocate 20,000 jobs to places such as Yorkshire, Newcastle and Birmingham by 2010. 30-Mar-2004 Babcock International and Bovis Lend Lease have won a £480m contract from the Ministry of Defence to maintain buildings in the south-west. 30-Mar-2004 South West Regional Development Agency and developer Howsmoor have announced plans to build a £300m science park at Emersons Green in Bristol, and the first tenants could move on to the 35-acre site by 2006. 29-Mar-2004 Karl Greenfarm is planning the £70m transformation of Bangor town centre, including a mix of retail, residential and leisure buildings, as well as a new theatre. 29-Mar-2004 Gelder Construction is planning to double the size of its Lincolnshire headquarters, with the creation of 30 jobs over the next 18 months. 26-Mar-2004 NG Bailey is creating 50 new jobs, having won a number of mechanical and electrical building services contracts in the North-East. 25-Mar-2004 Swansea Council is to help fund the opening of a Job Shop on the site of the city's historic Norwegian Church, in order to fill hundreds of vacancies that are expected to be created at the £200m SA1 docklands development. 25-Mar-2004 Brixton has raised £68m in a share placing to fund its industrial property development programme. 25-Mar-2004 Quarmby has won a £4m contract from Leeds City Council to refurbish Leeds town hall. 25-Mar-2004 The Housing Corporation has announced a £3.5bn plan to build 67,000 affordable homes across the country over the next three years, including 6,000 for key public sector workers. 25-Mar-2004 Benson, the construction contractor, is seeking staff for a new regional office in Maidenhead. 24-Mar-2004 Glasgow City Council is to consider plans from Elphinstone to build a £100m 39-storey skyscraper in the city's office district, including apartments, leisure and retail space. 22-Mar-2004 Parkview International is setting up a dedicated job centre to ensure that the 9,000 jobs being created at the Battersea Power Station redevelopment in London are won by local people. 18-Mar-2004 H&B Heating & Plumbing is to expand its 120-strong workforce with 20 new jobs, having won a £20m contract from Tristar Homes to supply heating systems to council homes on Teesside. 18-Mar-2004 Birmingham City Council is to consider plans to build a £80m business centre in Edgbaston by 2007, including a base for Birmingham Chamber of Commerce and Industry. 17-Mar-2004 Barker Shepley, the Maryport-based steel construction company, is going into liquidation with the loss of 25 jobs. 15-Mar-2004 Westbury is forming a joint venture with Bank of Scotland called Wescott Homes, in order to acquire plots of land for the development of "aspirational" houses and apartments. 15-Mar-2004 National Assembly for Wales is to relocate hundreds of jobs to new regional offices in Conwy, Aberystwyth and Merthyr by the end of 2007. 12-Mar-2004 PD Edenhall is planning to expand its concrete brick production facilities, having secured £0.5m of additional funding from Lloyds TSB Commercial Finance. 11-Mar-2004 Hanson is to close the Fagl Lane quarry near Wrexham next month with the loss of the remaining nine jobs, and environmentalists hope to transform the site into a nature reserve. 11-Mar-2004 McNicholas Construction is to create 200 new jobs in its Rail division and open new offices in York and Birmingham. 11-Mar-2004 SIG is looking to spend up to £80m on acquisitions, and is particularly interested in the roofing sector. 10-Mar-2004 Travis Perkins is looking to expand its chain of 700 builders' merchants by spending at least £600m on acquisitions, and aims to open about 50 branches a year. 09-Mar-2004 A&J Mucklow is looking to spend up to £50m developing new industrial estates across the West Midlands. 05-Mar-2004 George Wimpey is considering plans to close its office at Yarm on Teesside with the loss of up to 15 jobs, in order to merge its City Living arm with its London City division. 05-Mar-2004 RMC is planning to shed a further 225 of the 8,000 jobs in its UK building materials business. 04-Mar-2004 Celtic Technologies, the construction consultancy with 50 staff, is to relocate from Cardiff Bay to the Greenmeadow Springs Business Park, and is also looking to open offices in Manchester and London. 04-Mar-2004 The University of Abertay has announced plans to build a £5m centre of excellence in environmental science at its campus in Dundee. 04-Mar-2004 Aggregate Industries is looking to spend up to £150m on acquisitions to expand its building materials business this year. 02-Mar-2004 Wates is to wind down its Leatherhead-based luxury housing division next year, but some of the 40 staff are expected to be redeployed. 26-Feb-2004 Montpellier, the construction company, is planning to shed up to 20 jobs in its central support services unit, in order to save £1m a year. 25-Feb-2004 Metropolitan Police is planning to sell off 60% of its police stations and other London buildings by 2015, and new "front offices" will be opened in public places such as libraries and shopping centres. 23-Feb-2004 British Waterways is seeking a joint venture partner for the £2bn development of the 20-acre Wood Wharf in London's Docklands, including retail, hotel and residential space. 19-Feb-2004 St Modwen is to regenerate a 600-acre site at the Corus steelworks in Llanwern, which will involve a £200m investment in new homes and offices and the creation of up to 7,000 jobs. 17-Feb-2004 Telford Homes has raised £5m in a share placing to fund the development of new homes in north and east London. 16-Feb-2004 Kent County Council is considering plans to outsource up to £4bn of property, which would include its 1,500 sites as well as buildings belonging to district councils and other public sector organisations. 16-Feb-2004 Ashford Borough Council and English Partnerships are to devise plans for the redevelopment of Ashford town centre, in order to cope with the 31,000 new homes expected by 2031. 16-Feb-2004 London Borough of Barnet has announced plans to shed 171 jobs, including 110 manual jobs. 12-Feb-2004 British Land is seeking permission to build a 48-storey office building at Leadenhall Street in the City of London. 11-Feb-2004 Marshall Construction of Alloa has set up a housebuilding subsidiary called Marshall Homes, which will involve the creation of 50 new jobs. 11-Feb-2004 Hammerson is planning to relocate in London headquarters from Park Lane to a 34,000 sq ft office at Hanover Square. 09-Feb-2004 York College has unveiled plans for a new £50m building in Sim Balk Lane, and its existing site will be redeveloped for housing. 06-Feb-2004 Thames Water has announced a £1bn project to replace water mains in central London over the next five years. 02-Feb-2004 The Ministry of Defence is close to awarding a £2bn contract for the redevelopment of Colchester Garrison to a consortium of WS Atkins, Sodexho Alliance and Sir Robert McAlpine. 02-Feb-2004 Skanska is in negotiations to sell Whessoe, the Darlington-based builder of gas storage facilities, to Shaw Group of the US. 02-Feb-2004 Dean & Dyball is looking to expand its regional contracting operations by opening offices in the south-east and the east Midlands. 02-Feb-2004 Liverpool City Council has unveiled plans for the £500m redevelopment of the 36-acre Kings Dock area, including two hotels, a conference centre, a 9,000-seat arena, offices and homes. 29-Jan-2004 Ipswich Borough Council is planning to relocate its staff to a new headquarters at Ipswich Village, and the 14-storey Civic Centre is expected to be demolished by 2006. 28-Jan-2004 Kelsey Roofing Industries is closing offices in Bristol, Ware and Newcastle, in order to centralise operations at its Redditch headquarters. 28-Jan-2004 Cheshire County Council is looking into the possibility of relocating its headquarters and up to 120 administrative staff from Chester to Winsford. 26-Jan-2004 Bechtel, the US-based construction and engineering group, is seeking 100,000 sq ft of office space between Reading and Hammersmith. 26-Jan-2004 Aberdeenshire Council is to consider plans from Dunfermline-based Manor Kingdom for the £30m transformation of the former Kingseat Hospital near Newmachar into a 287-home village. 21-Jan-2004 The Centre for Alternative Technology has secured £4m to build a new education complex at its site near Machynlleth, and construction work will start in June. 15-Jan-2004 The Scottish Executive is to review the Edinburgh locations of the Scottish Further & Higher Education Funding Council and the Royal Fine Arts Commission this year, which could lead to the relocation of up to 150 jobs. 15-Jan-2004 John Sisk is looking to expand its construction business in the south-west with the creation of 40 jobs over the next three years, following the acquisition of the Bideem Group. 15-Jan-2004 Northern Ireland Water Service is to invest £500m in a series of water and sewage infrastructure projects across the province over the next three years. 14-Jan-2004 Mentmore, the self-storage provider, has received a number of takeover approaches from potential buyers. 13-Jan-2004 Skanska is to shed about 40 support jobs at its contracting operations across the country. 08-Jan-2004 Milton Keynes Council and English Partnerships have announced proposals to almost double the size of Milton Keynes over the next 50 years, including 70,000 new homes over the next 20 years. 07-Jan-2004 Swindon Borough Council is in talks with a Chinese government trade delegation about plans to transform the town's Renault building into an assembly and distribution centre for hundreds of Chinese-owned companies. 07-Jan-2004 Wiltshire Police Authority has announced plans to build a new £25m headquarters in Swindon by August 2006, in a Private Finance Initiative deal with developer Vinci. 07-Jan-2004 FFDR is planning to create 20 new jobs in its fire and flood damage restoration business this year, having won contracts worth £1m in Scotland. 05-Jan-2004 Neath Port Talbot Council has secured £2m of Objective One money to build a £9m Technium business support centre in Port Talbot, in partnership with Swansea University, the Welsh Development Agency and BP. 02-Jan-2004
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