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Marshalls is to close its concrete landscapes factory in Mansfield Woodhouse with the loss of 73 jobs. 27-Dec-2005 Robertson Group is planning to create 100 new jobs at its construction operations throughout Scotland in 2006. 27-Dec-2005 James R Knowles is to shed an unspecified number of the 350 jobs in its construction consultancy business in January, which will affect most of the 16 offices. 21-Dec-2005 CITB-Construction Skills is to close its office at Riverhead near Sevenoaks, with the loss of up to 18 jobs. 21-Dec-2005 Wates is planning to recruit 350 new staff to its construction business over the next 12 months, and up to 1,000 over the next five years. 21-Dec-2005 Herefordshire College of Technology has received approval from the Learning & Skills Council for the £28m redevelopment of its Folly Lane campus into a "learning village" to transform vocational training in the area. 14-Dec-2005 Prestoplan is to set up a £6m 94,000 sq ft timber frame buildings factory at Quedgeley West in Gloucester, with the creation of up to 100 jobs. 14-Dec-2005 One17 Design is to relocate its Huddersfield-based architectural practice and 30 staff to a new site at Armitage Bridge by the end of next year. 13-Dec-2005 Colchester Council is to consider plans from the Carisbrooke-Essex Partnership for the development of a £50m University of Essex Research Park on the eastern side of Colchester. 12-Dec-2005 Opco, the Cardiff-based contractor with 113 staff, is looking into the possibility of opening an office in Bristol. 09-Dec-2005 Tarmac has sold its asphalt plant in Littlehampton to Newhaven Roadstone, a joint venture between Tarmac and Colas, for undisclosed terms. 09-Dec-2005 Ultraframe, the conservatory roofing company, has appointed Rothschild to conduct a strategic review, which could lead to the business being sold. 08-Dec-2005 John Laing is to sell stakes in four PFI projects to Allianz PFI Holdings (Jersey) for an initial £23m, including the Gravesend Firearms Training Centre, South East London Police Stations, Greater Manchester Police Stations and the Durham & Cleveland Firearms Training Centre. 08-Dec-2005 Bachy Soletanche has restructured its foundations contracting business with the loss of 55 jobs, and will now focus on its regional offices in Lancashire, Hampshire and Middlesex. 06-Dec-2005 WS Atkins is looking to recruit an extra 5,000 staff to handle rising demand from China and to benefit from UK-based opportunities offered by the Olympics and higher transport spending. 06-Dec-2005 Knight Frank, the property agency, is planning to open five new offices in the UK over the next 12 months, and is in negotiations to set up a 60,000 sq ft head office at Berkeley Square House in London. 06-Dec-2005 John Laing, the developer of public sector infrastructure projects with a market capitalisation of £795m, has received a takeover approach from an unnamed company. 05-Dec-2005 Mitie is looking to spend up to £60m on acquisitions to expand its support services and facilities management business. 01-Dec-2005 Nottingham City Council is considering plans to set up a new 300,000 sq ft headquarters, which would involve the relocation of 12,500 staff from 14 existing offices. 01-Dec-2005 The University of Worcester has shortlisted four proposals for the development of a new £90m city campus. 30-Nov-2005 Homeserve, the property maintenance company, is seeking funding from Advantage West Midlands for a £10m office extension in Walsall, which would create 400 new jobs over the next five years. 30-Nov-2005 British Land is planning to relocate its London headquarters from Regents Park to a larger site north of Oxford Street over the next 18 months. 28-Nov-2005 Tulloch, the construction company, is seeking permission to set up a new £4m headquarters at the Cradlehall Business Park in Inverness by spring 2007, with the relocation of 170 jobs and the creation of up to 40 new jobs. 25-Nov-2005 Medway Council has announced plans for the development of a £40m innovation centre and science park on a 10-acre site in Rochester by 2007. 25-Nov-2005 Scottish Enterprise Glasgow is seeking partners for the creation of a new centre of excellence for the Scottish construction industry, and will tender a contract to service the development of the centre. 23-Nov-2005 Lochaber Enterprise is looking to set up a £1.4m call centre for about 100 Highland Council planners at the Glen Nevis Business Park in Fort William. 23-Nov-2005 Inverness College is seeking permission to build a new £30m campus on the edge of the city by 2009. 21-Nov-2005 JCB is seeking acquisitions to expand its product range into heavier construction machines and earth-moving equipment. 21-Nov-2005 Unite is to raise £30m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its student accommodation business. 18-Nov-2005 Bristol City Council is planning to close seven of its 15 area housing offices, with the loss of about 120 jobs. 17-Nov-2005 Cemex is to invest a further £6.5m at its cement production plant in Rugby, in order to improve its environmental performance. 17-Nov-2005 Workspace, the London-based provider of short-term business space with an estimated valuation of £850m, has received a takeover approach from an unnamed company. 16-Nov-2005 Newark & Sherwood District Council has secured a £2.9m grant from the East Midlands Development Agency to build a Business Innovation Centre at the new Beacon Hill Business Park in Newark, which will create up to 120 jobs. 11-Nov-2005 Barr Holdings, the Paisley-based construction and waste management company with 880 staff, has been put up for sale with a price tag of £25m. 11-Nov-2005 Homeserve Emergency Services has confirmed plans to relocate 250 staff from Norwich city centre to a new 30,000 sq ft site on the Broadland Business Park. 10-Nov-2005 Wolseley is looking to set up a new building materials distribution centre near Manchester, while its West Horndon site in Essex will focus on winning work for the 2012 Olympics. 09-Nov-2005 Carillion has won a £500m contract to maintain 8,500 buildings in the Midlands, the north and Wales for the Ministry of Defence, in a joint venture with Enterprise. 07-Nov-2005 Oakdene Homes is to raise £7m in a share issue to fund the expansion of its residential development business in the south-east. 07-Nov-2005 Salisbury College is to seek permission for a £20m rebuilding and refurbishment project at its Southampton Road site. 03-Nov-2005 Erinaceous, the property group, is planning to set up a call centre in Lincoln, with the creation of up to 400 jobs over the next two years. 02-Nov-2005 Amec is to merge its UK design and construction operations into a new division, and the consolidation of 200 north-west staff from Adlington to Birchwood is expected to lead to job losses. 02-Nov-2005 Mowlem, the construction company with an estimated value of £312m, has received at least one takeover approach. 01-Nov-2005 Cemex is to submit plans to Cambridgeshire County Council to expand production at its Barrington cement works by up to four times. 27-Oct-2005 Winchester City Council is to draw up plans for a revamped council headquarters, and has also been considering a proposal to consolidate its offices onto one central site. 25-Oct-2005 Welsh Slate is planning to shed 33 of the 270 jobs at its slate quarry at Penrhyn, Bethesda, over the next few months, but there will be no compulsory redundancies. 21-Oct-2005 Wales & West Utilities, the gas pipeline infrastructure company, is to set up a £50m headquarters for up to 350 staff at the Celtic Springs Business Park in Newport by next summer. 19-Oct-2005 Homeserve, the provider of property response services, is to create 200 new jobs at its call centre in Walsall by the end of the year. 14-Oct-2005 The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister has announced that a new regional fire control centre will be built in Fareham by 2009, to cover all nine fire services in the South-East. 13-Oct-2005 WSP Group, the construction consultant, is to relocate its regional office in Birmingham to a 22,000 sq ft site at the Queens Drive phase of the Bullring development. 11-Oct-2005 Wessex Park Homes is seeking permission to build a larger mobile home factory on its site in North Dorset, which would increase the workforce from 160 to 220. 11-Oct-2005 Portakabin is to shed 48 jobs at its modular buildings factory in York. 07-Oct-2005 ERM, the environmental consultancy, has shortlisted three private equity companies to buy the business for about £300m, including Bridgepoint, PPM Ventures and Electra Partners. 05-Oct-2005 Driver Group is planning to raise £2m in a share placing on Aim to fund the expansion of its construction consultancy. 03-Oct-2005 Charles Evans Group is to relocate its shopfitting business from Liverpool to a new £2m headquarters in Speke at the end of the year. 29-Sep-2005 Science City York is planning to invest £2.8m over the next four years, in an attempt to attract 50 new science and technology companies and up to 800 jobs to the city. 28-Sep-2005 The University of Lincoln has announced plans for a £30m city centre expansion, including a new students' union, an extension to the central warehouse library and a new business and law building. 28-Sep-2005 Helmsley Group, the York-based property developer, is planning to relocate its headquarters and 15 staff to the Monks Cross development. 27-Sep-2005 RB Farquhar is to shed the remaining 50 manufacturing jobs at its prefabricated buildings factory at Huntly in Aberdeenshire, in order to transfer production to the Czech Republic. 22-Sep-2005 Newcastle Borough Council and Advantage West Midlands are planning to transform a 49-acre site in Chatterley Valley into a business park, which could lead to the creation of up to 1,000 manufacturing and distribution jobs. 22-Sep-2005 Finnish Living Homes UK is planning to create 35 new jobs in North Yorkshire over the next 12 months, due to rising demand for its made-to-measure log cabins. 19-Sep-2005 Speedy Hire is to raise £15m in a share placing to fund acquisitions and the expansion of its network of more than 300 hire centres. 15-Sep-2005 Lignacite is to build a new £6.5m concrete blocks factory next to its existing site in Brandon by next May. 15-Sep-2005 Marley Eternit is to close its clay tiles factory in Cannock with the loss of 66 jobs, in order to transfer the work to its new plant in Keele. 15-Sep-2005 Jackson Lloyd, the building maintenance company with sites in Wigan, Salford and Skelmersdale, has secured an estimated £15m equity investment from Gresham. 14-Sep-2005 The London Development Agency has acquired a 187,000 sq ft shed at ProLogis Park, east London, for £19m, in order to relocate companies away from the Olympics site. 13-Sep-2005 Marshalls is planning to open two more £0.3m garden and driveway transformation centres by the end of the year, and the network could eventually expand to 20 sites. 12-Sep-2005 South Yorkshire Fire Service is to build a new headquarters and fire station at Eyre Street in Sheffield. 09-Sep-2005 Cumbria Fire Service has announced proposals to spend £12m building six new fire stations in Carlisle, Penrith, Workington, Alston and Patterdale. 08-Sep-2005 Travis Perkins is planning to shed 150 jobs, which is expected to affect staff in Northampton and back-office staff at the former Wickes headquarters in Harrow. 07-Sep-2005 MJM Group, the County Down-based fit-out contractor, is to relocate from Rathfriland to a £6.9m factory and office complex in Newry, with the creation of up to 75 new jobs. 02-Sep-2005 Taylor Woodrow is planning to recruit 40 new staff this year and 40 next year, as its infrastructure division has won a number of new rail contracts in London. 01-Sep-2005 Priority Sites, the business unit developer, is looking to set up an office in Liverpool in January, and three potential sites are being considered. 31-Aug-2005 The Royal Berkshire Fire Service is looking to relocate to a new building, having applied for outline planning permission to build homes on its existing headquarters in Tilehurst. 30-Aug-2005 Partnership Housing is planning to set up a £2.2m 14,000 sq ft headquarters and multi-resource centre at the Beach Boulevard in Aberdeen by 2007. 26-Aug-2005 Project Scaffolding of Middlesbrough is looking to relocate to a larger site, and is planning to expand the 150-strong workforce with 20 new staff over the next two years. 18-Aug-2005 The National Assembly for Wales has unveiled the site for a new office for 500 staff at Parc-y-Llyn in Aberystwyth, with about 200 staff relocating from Cardiff in 2008. 18-Aug-2005 New Forest District Council is considering plans from the New Forest National Park Authority to use empty offices on the outskirts of Lymington as a temporary headquarters for up to 80 staff. 18-Aug-2005 K Home International of Teesside is to create up to 200 jobs for construction managers, quantity surveyors, safety staff and engineers, in order to work on projects in Dubai. 16-Aug-2005 Serco has been selected as preferred bidder for a £400m contract to provide support laboratories and offices for the Ministry of Defence. 15-Aug-2005 The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister has named seven locations for the planned nationwide network of fire and rescue control centres, including Durham, Warrington, Cambridge, Castle Dinington, Wolverhampton, Wakefield and Taunton. 12-Aug-2005 The London Fire Brigade is to relocate its headquarters from Albert Embankment to the 130,000 sq ft 169 Union Street, SE1. 08-Aug-2005 Reussir has closed offices in London and Wiltshire, in order to focus on its brickwork contracting business in South Wales. 04-Aug-2005 Foster Yeoman is expected to submit plans for the expansion of its Glensanda quarry on the shores of Loch Linnhe in Lochaber. 19-Jul-2005 Jarvis is in negotiations to sell its road repairs business to Accord, in order to focus on rail engineering, plant hire and road products. 19-Jul-2005 Eurocentral has won approval for the £300m expansion of its 650-acre business park between Glasgow and Edinburgh, including new office, industrial and warehouse space. 14-Jul-2005 Oregon Timber Frame is planning to relocate its headquarters and 81 staff from Jedburgh to Selkirk by the end of the year. 08-Jul-2005 Heywood Williams is looking to sell its plastic systems division, which supplies PVC windows and cellular building products, in order to focus on branded building products. 04-Jul-2005 The Crown Estate is planning to reorganise its £4.6bn property portfolio and has appointed Knight Frank to handle the sale of about £150m of commercial office buildings over the next 12 months. 04-Jul-2005 Drivers Jonas, the commercial property consultancy, is looking to relocate up to 45 London-based staff to a new 15,000 sq ft site in the City this year, and the office will expand to 120 staff over the next few years. 27-Jun-2005 The Corporation of London is to consider plans from German fund manager DIFA to build a 64-storey office skyscraper in Bishopsgate. 23-Jun-2005 North Glasgow College is seeking permission to build a new £33m campus by 2007. 22-Jun-2005 Cemex of Mexico is to shed about 750 middle management and IT jobs in the UK, following the recent acquisition of the RMC building materials business. 22-Jun-2005 Wichford, the property investment company, is to raise £100m in a share placing to fund the acquisition of small properties outside London. 21-Jun-2005 The Scottish Executive has announced plans to relocate about 100 jobs at its Communities Scotland housing and regeneration agency from Edinburgh to Glasgow. 16-Jun-2005 Seeda, the South East of England Development Agency, has submitted plans for the development of a £350m project of boat building sheds and offices at the 36-acre Woolston Riverside site in Southampton. 13-Jun-2005 Herefordshire County Council is said to be considering plans to set up a new headquarters for 1,000 staff at a former HP Bulmer site in Hereford. 03-Jun-2005 Warwickshire County Council is to relocate up to 350 staff from Warwick to a new 35,000 sq ft office at the Saltisford Office Park development next March. 03-Jun-2005 Arnold Laver is to invest £3m in a new building materials depot on the site of the Hebburn Shipyard on South Tyneside, with the creation of 40 jobs. 03-Jun-2005 John Laing is to raise £100m in a rights issue to fund new private finance initiative projects in the UK and abroad. 02-Jun-2005 Montpellier is considering a management buy-out bid for its Bullock social housing division, which does refurbishment work in the Midlands and the north. 26-May-2005 GAP Group is planning to expand its network of tool hire depots from 50 to 55 this year, and there will be three new sites in London. 26-May-2005 Advantage West Midlands has awarded a £3.6m grant for the development of a £5.8m Centre for Constructing Excellence at Wolverhampton University School of Engineering later this year. 25-May-2005 JCB has secured planning permission to set up a new heavy construction equipment factory near Uttoxeter by next spring, with the creation of 200 jobs. 25-May-2005 ADH Services, the Crediton-based walling systems contractor, has gone into liquidation with the loss of 33 jobs. 25-May-2005 SMC is planning a £25m flotation on Aim to fund the acquisition of other architectural firms. 16-May-2005 Groundwork, the West Cumbria-based environmental group, has ceased trading with the loss of 35 jobs. 13-May-2005 Scottish Enterprise, HBG Properties and Highbridge Properties are to set up two new offices on Dundee's waterfront to house up to 150 civil service jobs that are being relocated from elsewhere. 11-May-2005 Birchwood Products is planning to double the size of its new £2.2m building products warehouse in Giltbrook, Nottinghamshire, by developing a 60,000 sq ft building by late 2006. 09-May-2005 Amec has shed 74 civil engineering jobs at Sellafield, following the completion of a contract for BNFL. 06-May-2005 The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is to relocate its Cardiff office to the Eastern Business Park with the creation of up to 60 jobs. 05-May-2005 Willmott Dixon is planning to raise about £10m for its Inspace support services business with a flotation on Aim. 03-May-2005 Yuill Homes, the housebuilder, is considering plans to relocate its Hartlepool headquarters over the next few years. 02-May-2005 Tees Valley Regeneration is said to have held talks with an unnamed US building products group about plans to set up a 400,000 sq ft manufacturing and distribution site on Teesside. 29-Apr-2005 Richmondshire District Council is considering plans to build a new £4.5m headquarters in Colburn. 28-Apr-2005 Hanson Building Products is to close its brick factory in Great Wakering, Essex, with the loss of 37 jobs. 28-Apr-2005 Westbury, the Cheltenham-based housebuilder, is to increase its number of regional divisions from nine to at least 12, as part of a strategy to expand production of new homes by 60% over the next five years. 27-Apr-2005 McCarthy & Stone, the retirement homes builder, is to relocate its regional headquarters in York and up to 90 staff to a new £1.4m office in Upper Poppleton by next March. 22-Apr-2005 Halladale is planning to raise £13m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its property business. 21-Apr-2005 Goodwins Timber Frame of Ireland is to set up an 80,000 sq ft manufacturing base near Risca, Newport, in June, with the creation of 45 jobs. 20-Apr-2005 Bentley Forbes, the US property company, is to set up an office in London with the aim of investing £500m in the acquisition of UK buildings. 19-Apr-2005 Copeland Council has drawn up plans for the £1.5m transformation of the former Cleator Moor Co-op building into 18 offices, including IT and training facilities. 19-Apr-2005 Cowlin Construction is to expand its network of regional offices with new sites in Hampshire and Cornwall. 18-Apr-2005 Congleton Borough Council is to proceed with plans to build a new £4.9m headquarters on Middlewich Road. 15-Apr-2005 BuildStore is to open a new self-build housing and renovating centre in Swindon next year, with the creation of 100 jobs. 15-Apr-2005 Country Life Estates, the Insch-based luxury housebuilder, has gone into liquidation through KPMG. 13-Apr-2005 Registers of Scotland, the land registration agency, is planning to relocate some of its 1,400 staff away from Edinburgh and Glasgow over the next ten years, and sites are being considered in Fife, North Ayrshire, Lanarkshire and West Lothian. 08-Apr-2005 Centrex is to spend £10m revamping the Harperley Hall police forensics training facility in County Durham over the next three years, in order to provide IT suites, classrooms and new accommodation. 06-Apr-2005 George Wimpey North East is to relocate its 50 Stockton-based staff to Lockheed Court, Preston Farm, this summer. 04-Apr-2005 Hewlett, the Leeds-based civil engineering company, is to relocate its headquarters to a larger site at Thorpe Park later this year. 04-Apr-2005 RB Farquhar is considering plans to shed more than 100 jobs at its portable buildings business at Huntly in Aberdeenshire. 29-Mar-2005 Interserve and Southern Electric Contracting have won a £400m contract to maintain 95 properties in the south-east for the Ministry of Defence. 21-Mar-2005 HSS is seeking acquisitions to expand its network of 335 tool hire depots, and has also identified 14 potential sites for new depots. 17-Mar-2005 Rok Property Solutions is planning to expand its network of 27 construction branches to more than 75 over the next five years. 16-Mar-2005 The Prison Service has confirmed plans to set up an administration centre in Newport, South Wales, by 2006, with the creation of 500 jobs. 16-Mar-2005 West Midlands Fire Service is considering plans to relocate its headquarters out of the centre of Birmingham over the next three years. 15-Mar-2005 Lafarge is to build a new £31m plasterboard factory in Nottinghamshire by early 2007. 02-Mar-2005 Walsall Council and Urban Splash have announced plans for the £180m redevelopment of a 17-acre canal side site over the next few years, in order to provide new offices, homes and leisure facilities. 28-Feb-2005 George Wimpey is planning to shed 50 of its 4,500 jobs this year, in order to improve the efficiency of its housebuilding business. 24-Feb-2005 Lafarge is to invest £15m in the expansion of its cement factory at Hope in Derbyshire over the next five years. 17-Feb-2005 Rok Property Solutions has closed its Spaceage plastic building products business in Poole and sold its smaller Reading branch to Duraglaze for a nominal sum. 14-Feb-2005 GVA Grimley is to set up a Liverpool office with ten staff following the acquisition of the David Sayer surveying firm. 14-Feb-2005 City Lofts Group is to raise £2.5m in a share placing to help fund the expansion of its urban mixed-use property schemes. 10-Feb-2005 Brixton is looking to build the UK's first multi-storey industrial sheds, having selected Hatton Cross in west London as a suitable trial site, and the free space created will be developed with a housebuilder partner. 09-Feb-2005 Planned Maintenance Engineering, the property maintenance company with 2,000 staff, is expected to be sold for about £50m. 09-Feb-2005 London Development Agency is considering plans to relocate its headquarters from St Katherine's Way to the 300,000 sq ft Palestra scheme in Southwark, which is due for completion next year. 07-Feb-2005 The Prison Service is looking to set up a new administrative and call centre operation with 500 staff, and sites are being considered in Newport, Peterborough and Solihull. 01-Feb-2005 Sirius is to increase the workforce at its Durham-based ground engineering services business from 40 to 50, and is looking to expand into South Yorkshire, Nottingham and Scotland. 25-Jan-2005 Marshalls is to shed 77 jobs at its building products operations in Calderdale, in order to consolidate its manufacturing onto fewer sites. 20-Jan-2005 Southwark Council has agreed a £1bn property project with British Land, which will involve shops, homes and a leisure centre being built at Rotherhithe Peninsula. 18-Jan-2005 Birmingham City Council is to set up an office at an undisclosed location in London, in order to help attract inward investment. 17-Jan-2005 Aggregate Industries, the building supplies group, has received a £1.8bn takeover approach from Holcim of Switzerland. 13-Jan-2005 Wolseley is to invest £100m in the expansion of its plumbing and heating network, including a new national distribution centre in Leamington Spa. 12-Jan-2005 Willmott Dixon is planning to raise £10m from the flotation of its Inspace support services business this year. 05-Jan-2005 Armagh City & District Council is planning to transform Armagh City's Gaol into office space at a cost of up to £12m. 04-Jan-2005
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