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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
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
Warrington Slate, the builders' merchant, has been sold for £5.5m, with the Warrington site being acquired by Hendricks and the Bury site by Travis Perkins.
23-Dec-2004
Jarvis has sold its European roads business to the Somaro subsidiary of Bouygues for £25m.
23-Dec-2004
Homeserve has acquired Sergon BRM, the Nottingham-based home insurance repair network with 85 staff, from GAB Robins UK for £11m.
22-Dec-2004
Invest NI has confirmed plans to relocate 550 staff to a new headquarters in central Belfast next October.
20-Dec-2004
Bizspace is to acquire a portfolio of 22 managed workspace properties in the North East from UK Land Estates and One NorthEast for £28m.
17-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
Morgan Sindall has acquired three Benson operating divisions out of administration for £3m, including 175 staff in Reigate, Hatfield and Southampton.
14-Dec-2004
Purcell Miller Tritton, the Norwich-based conservation architect firm with 120 staff, has acquired Martin Stancliffe Architects of York.
10-Dec-2004
Travis Perkins has acquired JH Walker, the York-based builders' merchant with 17 staff, for undisclosed terms.
09-Dec-2004
Low & Bonar has acquired LCM Construction Products, the polypropylene fibre manufacturer, for £13m.
08-Dec-2004
Aggregate Industries has acquired the Allt-y-Garn quarry near Cross Hands in South Wales.
02-Dec-2004
Lafarge has acquired the readymix operations of Riskend Aggregates, which includes four plants in Glasgow and a new site in Edinburgh.
01-Dec-2004
Colliers CRE has acquired Campbell & Co, the Glasgow-based firm of surveyors, for £1.7m.
30-Nov-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
CJ Pearce, the Telford-based contractor with 55 staff, has undergone a management buy-out from Meade Corporation.
24-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
Tribal Group has acquired Dereck Hicks & Thew, the Liverpool-based architect, for up to £3.4m.
18-Nov-2004
M&M Plasline has acquired Metek Building Systems of Bristol for about £1m, and is relocating its own business to a larger site in Newton Aycliffe with the creation of 35 jobs next month.
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
Countryside Properties, the Essex-based housebuilder, has accepted a £218m takeover offer from Copthorn Holdings.
15-Nov-2004
Jarvis is planning to sell its private finance initiative unit to Hochtief Projektentwicklung of Germany for undisclosed terms.
15-Nov-2004
Greenfield Construction, the Nottingham-based groundworks company with 70 staff, is to be acquired by Hightower Construction for £0.7m.
11-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
Hanson Building Products has acquired Wilnecote Brick, the Tamworth-based brick supplier, from Tarmac for undisclosed terms.
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
Brixton has acquired a portfolio of 163 industrial properties from Industrious Holdings for £675m.
08-Nov-2004
Manor Kingdom, the Dunfermline-based luxury housebuilder, has been acquired by the owner of Bett Homes for undisclosed terms.
03-Nov-2004
Brandon Hire has acquired AM Plant & Tool Hire of Luton for £0.2m, taking the total number of branches to 130.
02-Nov-2004
Colliers CRE has acquired Fletcher King Manchester, the Manchester-based firm of chartered surveyors, for £0.4m.
02-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
Independent Access Supplies, the plant machinery rental company with 75 staff, has been bought out of administration by a management buy-in.
28-Oct-2004
Frank Galliers, the Shropshire-based contractor with 100 staff, has been acquired by Pan Atlanta Developments for undisclosed terms.
28-Oct-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
Keller Group has sold its J Woods stone masonry business to Rattee & Kett, a division of Mowlem, for a nominal sum.
22-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
Vemco Brasscapri, the builders' merchant with annual turnover of £20m, has been acquired by Mueller Industries of the US.
21-Oct-2004
Rok Property Solutions has acquired Team Building Maintenance, the Birmingham-based property maintenance company, for £0.2m.
19-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
Interlink, the Yorkshire-based supplier of modular buildings, has been acquired by Waco International of South Africa for £31m.
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
Speedy Hire has acquired the internal hire division of Simons Construction for £0.5m.
12-Oct-2004
Carillion is to sell its French civil engineering contracting and building business to a local management team for £10m.
12-Oct-2004
Brandon Hire has acquired Hiramix of Burton-on-Trent, Yorkshire Tool Hire of Halifax and Universal Tool Hire of Totnes, for a combined £0.8m.
04-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
Brooke Smith Associates of Birmingham has merged with CSJ Planning Consultants of Bristol, creating a combined town planning consultancy with 20 planners.
04-Oct-2004
Savills has acquired Smith-Woolley, the chartered surveyor with offices in Oxford, Bath and Newark, for £2.4m.
04-Oct-2004
Wilkinson Special Projects of Warrington has been bought of administration by JHL Plant Hire, securing the future of 150 jobs.
01-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
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
Tulloch has acquired Las Plant, the Inverness-based heavy plant supplier with 24 staff, for undisclosed terms.
30-Sep-2004
Centrica has acquired Residential Services Group, the US home maintenance company with 2,000 staff, for £83m, in order to expand its Direct Energy subsidiary.
29-Sep-2004
RMC, the building materials company, is set to be acquired by Cemex of Mexico for £2.3bn.
28-Sep-2004
Thebrickbusiness, the brick manufacturer with 680 staff at nine sites, is to be acquired by Wienerberger of Austria for £100m.
28-Sep-2004
Lloyds British Testing has acquired Rumney Crane, the Swansea-based lifting equipment company with £2m annual turnover.
27-Sep-2004
Cumbrian Industrials, the Penrith-based construction company with 196 staff, has been acquired by Hanson Aggregates.
22-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
HSS is to sell its RentX tool hire operations in the US, and the proceeds will be invested in its UK operations.
16-Sep-2004
Babcock International has acquired Turner & Partners, the provider of construction management services to mobile telecom network operators, for £4m.
13-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
Century Homes has acquired Timber Frame Solutions, the Northumberland-based timber frame maker, and plans to double its 40-strong workforce.
10-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
Alumasc has acquired Timloc Building Products of Goole from Expamet International for £3.3m.
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
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
JT Dove has acquired Auckland Timber & Builders Merchants of Bishop Auckland, taking its chain to seven branches.
03-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
Brandon Hire has acquired Delco, the chain of seven tool hire branches in London, Manchester and Southampton, for £4m.
02-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
Rok, the property company, is expanding its offices on Teesside and Tyneside with the creation of up to 50 jobs.
01-Sep-2004
Connaught has acquired Gas Care Central Heating and Building Services Training, two Caerphilly-based suppliers of services to the social housing sector, for £1.6m.
27-Aug-2004
Spring Grove Property Maintenance is to be acquired by Park Street, the investment vehicle of Mount Street, for £5.4m.
26-Aug-2004
Blair Plant & Civil Engineers of Norfolk has been bought out of administration by a management team, securing the future of 30 jobs.
25-Aug-2004
Lark Construction, the Redruth-based social housing contractor with 78 staff, has been bought out of receivership by Rok for undisclosed terms.
25-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
CI Traders is to acquire ComProp for £51m, in order to expand its property development operations on the Channel Islands.
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
Lovell is planning to create 50 new jobs at its Leeds-based affordable housing business over the next 12 months.
20-Aug-2004
Connaught has acquired Maginnis, the Glasgow-based maintenance services company with 162 staff, for £2.5m.
19-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
Speedy Hire has acquired Coates Rentair UK, the power generation equipment hire company, for £6.7m.
17-Aug-2004
Bow has sold its Peterlee-based scaffolding operation out of receivership to a management team, securing the future of 65 jobs.
13-Aug-2004
Amec has acquired Generale Maintenance Services, the French maintenance and mechanical engineering company with 40 staff, for £0.3m.
12-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
Chorus, the Barnet-based fit-out company with 60 staff and annual turnover of £30m, has been acquired by Byrne Group of Ireland.
12-Aug-2004
Balfour Beatty is seeking acquisitions to expand its construction operations in the US.
12-Aug-2004
Grafton is planning to acquire Heiton, the Irish building materials group, for £226m.
09-Aug-2004
Barratt Developments is to sell its US housebuilding operations to Barratt Investments for £91m, and the proceeds will be invested in urban renewal projects in the UK.
06-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
Vibro, the Preston-based civil engineer, has undergone a management buy-out for undisclosed terms.
05-Aug-2004
VT Group has won a £70m contract to build and operate a fire-fighting training centre in Cardiff.
04-Aug-2004
Jarvis has sold its entire stake in Ultramast, the developer of mobile telephone radio masts, to Shere Group, a joint venture company formed by Babcock & Brown and four Ultramast managers, for £0.3m.
03-Aug-2004
Alumasc has acquired Roof-Pro, the Bedford-based building products company, for £3.7m.
03-Aug-2004
Brandon Hire has acquired U Hire of Merseyside and Hire-It Northern of County Durham for £0.7m and £0.2m respectively, taking its chain of tool hire outlets to 114.
03-Aug-2004
Speedy Hire has acquired the tool hire business of Multi Group for £7.2m, including ten tool hire depots and 23 temporary on-site facilities.
03-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
DJ Tool Hire has undergone a management buy-out, and is planning to expand its chain of six tool hire outlets to 30 over the next five years.
02-Aug-2004
Wolseley is to acquire Brooks Group, the Irish builders' merchant with 18 branches, from UPM-Kymmene for £120m.
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
Regus has agreed to acquire HQ Global, the US serviced office company with 263 sites, for £163m.
19-Jul-2004
Murston Plant, the Ashford-based hire company with 40 staff, has been acquired by GSE Plant.
15-Jul-2004
Rok Property Solutions has acquired John Dickie Construction, which operates in the central belt of Scotland, from John Dickie Group for £0.8m.
14-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
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
Rand Group has acquired the road planing operations of Associated Asphalt for undisclosed terms, which will involve the transfer of 32 Oxfordshire-based staff.
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
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
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
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
Boulton Construction Products of the West Midlands has been bought out of administration by a management buy-out.
24-Jun-2004
Capita Symonds has acquired Percy Thomas Architects, creating one of the country's five leading architectural groups.
23-Jun-2004
Pochin Plant has acquired Raynesway Concrete Plumbing, which has depots in Bellshill, Manchester, Leeds and Newcastle, for £2.4m.
23-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
Eleco has acquired Prompt Profiles, the Norwich-based gutter and fascia supplier.
17-Jun-2004
White Young Green has acquired DWP Consulting, the Leicester-based building services consultancy, for £0.8m.
16-Jun-2004
Philip Quantrill, the Norfolk-based structural engineer, has been bought out of receivership by SCWS Holdings of Dereham, saving 46 jobs.
14-Jun-2004
May Gurney has acquired TJ Brent, the Bodmin-based infrastructure services company with 18 regional offices, in a multi-million pound deal.
11-Jun-2004
Erinaceous has acquired Jordans, the property management network with 60 staff at offices in Manchester, Altrincham, Wilmslow, Macclesfield, Warrington, Sandbach and Chester, for £2.8m.
10-Jun-2004
Morgan Est has acquired AWG Rail Services, the Sheffield-based trackwork company, saving about half of the 60 jobs.
10-Jun-2004
Bowater Building Products, the supplier of doors and windows, has undergone a £52m management buy-out backed by 3i.
04-Jun-2004
White Young Green has acquired Hawthorne Kamm, the Hampshire-based town planning consultancy, for £1.5m.
02-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
Group 4 Falck has agreed to sell Global Solutions, its UK-based prison management business, to Electra Partners Europe and Englefield Capital for £207m.
27-May-2004
White Young Green has acquired IMC Consulting and IMC Europe of Nottinghamshire for £10m, in order to expand its project management operations.
27-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
McInerney Holdings has acquired Alexander Developments, the Sedgefield-based housebuilder, for £8.8m.
24-May-2004
Canary Wharf, the London-based property developer, is to be acquired by a consortium led by Morgan Stanley for £1.7bn.
24-May-2004
Balfour Beatty is to sell Andover Controls, the US-based supplier of building management controls with subsidiaries in the UK, Germany, Poland and France, to Schneider Electric for £226m.
20-May-2004
Loweth, the Romford-based refurbishment contractor with about 200 staff, has gone into administration through Begbies Traynor.
19-May-2004
Fitzpatrick, the Hertfordshire-based construction company with about 750 staff, is to be acquired by VolkerWessels of the Netherlands.
18-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
Carillion is to sell its Crown House mechanical and electrical engineering business to Laing O'Rourke for £17m, in order to focus on its Business Services and Private Finance activities.
13-May-2004
Aggregate Industries is to acquire Frehner, the US-based construction company that supplies aggregates and asphalt from sites in Nevada and Utah, for £53m.
11-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
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
Erinaceous is to acquire ISG Occupancy, the property services company with offices in London, Manchester, Bradford and Bristol, from Interior Services Group for £10m.
04-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
RPS Group is to acquire MRP, the Wolverhampton-based development consultancy, for up to £25m, as well as BBG, the Australian supplier of environmental planning services, for up to £2.9m.
30-Apr-2004
Ennstone is to acquire GRS (South Witham), the operator of a limestone quarry in Lincolnshire, for £1.6m.
29-Apr-2004
RMC Concrete Products has acquired Conway Concrete Products of Newport for £1.5m.
29-Apr-2004
Clancy is to acquire TMP Parkover, the modular car parking installer, for undisclosed terms.
29-Apr-2004
Safestore is to acquire Mentmore for £209m, creating the country's largest self-storage company with 68 sites.
29-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
Brandon Hire has acquired four tool hire depots operated by Anvil Plant Hire in Kent, with the transfer of 37 staff.
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
Aggregate Industries has acquired Woodhall Spa Sand & Gravel, the Lincolnshire-based supplier of aggregates, for £10m.
16-Apr-2004
Extrudawood International, the Isle of Wight-based licensor of wood replacement technology, has been acquired by CPI Plastics Group for £5m.
16-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
Clee Hill Plant has expanded its network of plant hire depots to seven with the acquisition of Stoke-based Triangle Plant for undisclosed terms.
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
Trax Portable Access has acquired Rapid Response Barriers, the London-based supplier of roadway barriers, for undisclosed terms.
15-Apr-2004
Meade Corporation has acquired CJ Pearce, the Telford-based contractor with annual turnover of £17m, for undisclosed terms.
15-Apr-2004
Thomas Vale has acquired Collier & Catley, the Reading-based contractor with anticipated annual turnover of £15m.
15-Apr-2004
Independent Access Supplies, the Norwich-based hirer with eight depots and 100 staff, has gone into administration through KPMG.
15-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
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
Morris Homes, the Merseyside-based housebuilder, has undergone a £130m management buy-out backed by Royal Bank of Scotland.
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
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
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
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
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
Hewlett Group has acquired Portford Builders, the Wetherby-based housebuilder, for undisclosed terms.
24-Mar-2004
Babcock International is to acquire Peterhouse, the rail and telecoms maintenance company, for £106m.
23-Mar-2004
Eleco has acquired RB Fabrications, the Norwich-based building products company trading as Prompt Profiles, for £1.2m.
22-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
Peterhouse has sold Eve Shorco, its piling and trench support equipment rental business with sites in Glasgow, Andover and the Midlands, to Vp for £2.1m.
16-Mar-2004
Pritchard Holdings has acquired Mellor Building Services of Hednesford, securing the future of almost 50 jobs.
16-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
Charles Evans has acquired Stockport Joinery & Windows from AP Byrne for undisclosed terms.
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
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
Peterhouse is to sell Jackson Civil Engineering, the Ipswich-based civil engineering contractor with 300 staff, to a management buy-out for £5.5m.
05-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
Hanson has acquired Athens Brick, the US brick manufacturer with 90 staff, for £22m.
02-Mar-2004
Vp has acquired the laser and survey rental business of Sokkia, including premises in Crawley, Crewe and Coleshill, for £1.2m.
02-Mar-2004
David McLean has acquired Sharman Group, the Devon-based housebuilder, for £20m.
01-Mar-2004
Multi Group is to sell its event hire subsidiary to Place Settings London for £0.3m, while its two software subsidiaries are being sold to Touchstone for £0.7m.
24-Feb-2004
Capita Group has acquired Symonds Group, the provider of consultancy, project management and design services to the property market with 700 staff, for an initial £30m.
17-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
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
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
Alfred McAlpine has acquired UK Power Construction, the electrical services company that specialises in overhead power lines, for £5.2m.
09-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
Speedy Hire has acquired Petreavie Tools, the operator of tool hire sites in Livingston and Dunfermline, for £0.3m.
05-Feb-2004
Omnico, the Eastleigh-based chain of builders' merchants, has undergone a management buy-out from Haymills Contracting for undisclosed terms.
04-Feb-2004
Brandon Hire has acquired Higgins Hire Centre, the London-based tool hire company, for £0.4m.
03-Feb-2004
Kier has acquired Tudor Homes, the Lincolnshire-based housebuilder, for £15m.
03-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
Dean & Dyball is looking to expand its regional contracting operations by opening offices in the south-east and the east Midlands.
02-Feb-2004
Fairview New Homes is to acquire Rialto of Hertfordshire, creating a combined housebuilding group with an estimated value of £60m.
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
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
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
Rentokil has sold its industrial and commercial roofing business, which includes seven offices, to a management buy-out and the business will be renamed Four Seasons Roofing.
21-Jan-2004
White Young Green has acquired Cetec Consultancy, the Southampton-based provider of structural engineering and project management services, for £0.7m.
20-Jan-2004
Ashtead has sold its Irish chain of 15 plant hire outlets to McCormick Macnaughton for £12m.
16-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 Platform Company has acquired Meek Group, the Bristol-based powered access hirer with three branches, out of administration for undisclosed terms.
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
Aggregate Industries has acquired Aggregate Supplies, the Wembley-based operator of ten bagging plants for construction materials, for £7.3m, as well as a 51% stake in Concrete Developments, the flooring manufacturer with plants in Fairford and Newark.
14-Jan-2004
Warmseal Windows, the Tyneside-based double glazing company with 150 staff, has undergone a management buy-out backed by Northern Venture Managers for undisclosed terms.
14-Jan-2004
White Young Green has acquired Denis Rooney Associates, the Irish project management company with more than 40 staff in Dublin and Belfast, for £4.3m.
14-Jan-2004
Chesterton, the commercial property company, is to be acquired by Resurge, an Aim-listed company that is exercising its right to acquire a stake from Phoenix Acquisitions.
13-Jan-2004
Jewson has acquired Healey-Ward, the Huddersfield-based builders' merchant with 35 staff.
12-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
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
Brandon Hire has acquired Ilford Plant Hire & Sales, the operator of tool hire sites in Chelmsford and Rainham, for £0.5m.
06-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