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Warwick Business School is to invest £20m in the expansion of its teaching facilities by 2010. 29-Dec-2008 The Department for Communities & Local Government is to provide funding of £78m to upgrade fire station buildings throughout the country over the next two years. 18-Dec-2008 MJ Gleeson is to cut the workforce in its housebuilding and property development business from 224 to 50. 15-Dec-2008 Tarmac Topfloor is to close its concrete products factory in Derbyshire with the loss of 62 jobs, in order to transfer production to Norfolk. 12-Dec-2008 Reading Borough Council is considering a number of existing office buildings for a new 125,000 sq ft headquarters, having dropped plans to build a new office for 1,050 staff. 10-Dec-2008 Bennett Verby has been appointed as liquidator of ACG North, the Artisan Construction Group division that is currently developing 96 flats at Liverpool's Kings Dock. 09-Dec-2008 Alcoa is planning to refurbish its 130-acre site at Waunarlwydd in Swansea into a new industrial park called Westfield, which could lead to the creation of hundreds of jobs in new offices, manufacturing units and a training centre. 08-Dec-2008 King Sturge is to shed up to 80 of the 500 jobs at its Warwick Street headquarters in London. 04-Dec-2008 Babcock & Brown Public Partnerships is to shed up to 60 jobs in its property and leasing division over the next year. 03-Dec-2008 Yuill Homes is to shed up to 50 of the 150 jobs at its Hartlepool-based housebuilding business. 02-Dec-2008 Make Architects is to close its office in Edinburgh by the end of the year, as part of a reorganisation that has reduced its headcount from 130 to 100 over recent months. 02-Dec-2008 British Gypsum is to set up a 210,000 sq ft building materials warehouse at UK Coal's Gascoigne Wood complex near Selby in North Yorkshire. 01-Dec-2008 Knauf Drywall is to shed 22 jobs at its plasterboard products factory in Immingham. 28-Nov-2008 Ridgeons is planning to shed up to 95 jobs from its chain of 21 builders' merchants in East Anglia early next year. 27-Nov-2008 Speedy Hire is closing 38 of its 470 equipment hire depots, and a further 63 jobs will be cut from its 5,000-strong workforce by the end of the year. 27-Nov-2008 Britannia Stone Precast has gone into liquidation with the loss of up to 15 jobs at its concrete business near Nottingham. 26-Nov-2008 GVA Grimley is to shed up to 40 of the 726 jobs at its property services offices in London and Birmingham. 25-Nov-2008 Terex is to shed up to 130 of the 600 jobs at its construction equipment factory in Newhouse, Lanarkshire. 24-Nov-2008 Quintain is looking to shed up to 28 jobs at its London-based property development business. 24-Nov-2008 Cluttons is planning to shed more than 20 of the 600 jobs in its property business. 24-Nov-2008 Leicester University is planning a £1bn redevelopment for its campus over the next 20 years, in order to increase the number of students from 10,000 to 15,000. 21-Nov-2008 MJ Gleeson is to relocate the head office of its urban regeneration business from Fleet in Hampshire to Sheffield by September 2009. 21-Nov-2008 Ennstone is to shed 120 jobs from its 1,200-strong UK workforce, following a fall in demand for aggregates. 20-Nov-2008 Sir Robert McAlpine is to shed 30 jobs from its nationwide network of construction offices. 20-Nov-2008 Wolseley is to close 200 of its 1,900 building materials branches in the UK and Ireland over the next few months, with the loss of about 2,300 jobs. 19-Nov-2008 Countryside Properties (Northern) is to shed up to 80 of the 200 jobs in its Warrington-based housebuilding business. 19-Nov-2008 Wates Living Space is to shed up to 48 jobs at its affordable housing operations in the North East. 19-Nov-2008 Tarmac is to close its silica mine at Lochaline on the Morvern peninsula, with the loss of 11 jobs. 19-Nov-2008 Northern Bear is to open a permanent office for its Jennings Roofing business at the Pilsworth Industrial Estate in Bury, and the workforce will rise from 26 to 35. 18-Nov-2008 ProLogis is planning to shed up to 20% of the 1,500-strong workforce in its worldwide industrial property development business. 18-Nov-2008 Boston College has unveiled plans for a new £79m building and campus on Skirbeck Road by 2012, and will seek funding from the Learning & Skills Council. 17-Nov-2008 Kingmoor Park has unveiled plans for the £50m expansion of its industrial estate in Carlisle, including 1m sq ft of warehousing, 400,000 sq ft of office space and the creation of up to 3,500 jobs. 17-Nov-2008 J&S Seddon is to create 30 new jobs in the South East, having won a four-year maintenance and painting contract from housing charity Carr-Gomm. 17-Nov-2008 JCB is to shed a further 297 manual jobs and 101 administrative jobs from the 5,000-strong workforce at its 11 construction equipment plants. 17-Nov-2008 The Department for Communities & Local Government has announced funding of more than £130m to build new fire stations in Cleveland, County Durham, Darlington, Northumberland, Surrey, Staffordshire and London. 14-Nov-2008 Elements Europe is to double the 100-strong workforce at its pre-fabricated buildings business in Oswestry over the next 12 months, and is also looking to set up a new factory with 200 staff by 2010. 14-Nov-2008 Bradfords Group is to shed 45 of the 1,000 jobs in its builders' merchants business, affecting sites in Yeovil, Glastonbury, Bristol and Hampshire. 13-Nov-2008 Springfield Properties is to shed about 30% of the 186-strong workforce in its Elgin-based housebuilding business. 13-Nov-2008 North East Lincolnshire Council has approved plans from the Grimsby Institute for the development of a £150m university centre, which will create 60 new teaching jobs. 12-Nov-2008 Taylor Wimpey is cutting a further 1,000 jobs in its housebuilding business this year. 12-Nov-2008 Cemex, the cement supplier, is to shed 62 jobs at its regional administration centre in Stockton. 11-Nov-2008 Wacker Neuson is to close its construction equipment factory on the Crown Business Park in Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent, with the loss of up to 90 jobs, in order to transfer dumper truck production to Austria. 10-Nov-2008 Connect is to shed up to 40 of the 170 jobs at its Cardiff-based utilities installation business. 06-Nov-2008 J Breheny Contractors is to shed about ten of the 350 jobs at its Suffolk-based civil engineering business. 06-Nov-2008 Piper Construction Midlands, the housebuilder, has ceased trading with the loss of 30 jobs, but other companies in the Piper Group are unaffected. 06-Nov-2008 Rok is to shed 750 jobs at its building services operations across the country, following a fall in demand for construction and refurbishment of social housing. 06-Nov-2008 Stewart Milne Group, the Aberdeen-based housebuilder, is to shed a further 44 jobs across the country. 05-Nov-2008 Cemex is to close its cement plant at Barrington in Cambridgeshire with the loss of up to 87 jobs. 05-Nov-2008 Butler & Young has closed its building control services office in Hinckley, with the loss of seven jobs, following a review of its network of 22 offices. 04-Nov-2008 Birmingham City Council is to submit plans for a new 180,000 sq ft office building in Aston, in order to relocate 1,800 staff in a property rationalisation scheme. 04-Nov-2008 Hanson has closed its brick factory at Swillington in Leeds with the loss of 45 jobs, and a further 22 jobs will be lost in North Wales. 03-Nov-2008 The University of Bedfordshire is to submit plans for the £70m redevelopment of its campus in Luton, including a new student centre, lecture theatre and exhibition space. 03-Nov-2008 The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) and the Department for Children, Families & Schools are to relocate their Sheffield offices and up to 800 staff to an 80,000 sq ft unit at Wilson Bowden's Holly Street scheme in 2011. 03-Nov-2008 Fowey Town Forum is looking into the possibility of building a marine science and technology park at Fowey in Cornwall, which could create 50 jobs. 30-Oct-2008 Kier is to merge its facilities management operations into a new division called Kier Facilities Services with 1,200 staff in London, Cardiff, Basingstoke and Sheffield, but about 20 back-office jobs will be lost. 29-Oct-2008 Rok is to shed about 50 jobs at its construction offices in Exeter and Truro, as part of a strategy to focus on general building and maintenance services. 29-Oct-2008 Roy Hankinson Group, the Birkenhead-based painting contractor with 200 staff, is to open new offices in Flint, Leicester, Manchester and Sheffield. 28-Oct-2008 DTZ is to close its 29,000 sq ft office at Curzon Street in London W1 in December, and the staff will relocate to Old Broad Street and Warwick Street. 28-Oct-2008 Wates Interiors is planning to cut the 150-strong workforce at its fit-out business, with the loss of 19 jobs in London and 12 in Manchester. 27-Oct-2008 Rightmove is planning to shed up to 20% of the 300 jobs in its online property search business, due to the decline in the housing market. 24-Oct-2008 The Scottish Prison Service is seeking suitable sites to build new prisons to replace HMP Greenock and HMP Inverness. 23-Oct-2008 Bovis Lend Lease is said to be considering plans to shed up to 400 jobs from the 2,000-strong workforce in its construction business. 22-Oct-2008 Trek Highway Services is to create 40 jobs at its new traffic management depot in Thetford. 21-Oct-2008 Applecross is looking to relocate the headquarters of its luxury housebuilding business from Edinburgh Park to a smaller office, having reduced its headcount to 45. 21-Oct-2008 The University of the West of England (UWE) has acquired 70 acres of land next to its Frenchay campus in Bristol for £40m, in order to expand its research centres. 20-Oct-2008 Costain is to close its construction office in Chelmsford and transfer up to 17 staff to other locations. 20-Oct-2008 Travis Perkins is planning to shed about 1,000 of the 15,000 jobs in its chain of 1,241 building materials outlets over the next year. 20-Oct-2008 Craigvar Construction of Galashiels is to cease trading by the end of the year, with the loss of 14 jobs. 17-Oct-2008 Brown & Co is to relocate its Norwich-based property consultancy to a new 10,000 sq ft office at St Martin at Palace Plain by the end of next year. 16-Oct-2008 JCB is to shed 195 of the 5,900 jobs at its construction equipment factories in Cheadle, Foston, Rocester, Rugeley, Uttoxeter and Wrexham. 15-Oct-2008 John Jarvis and sister company Cartwrights have ceased trading with the loss of 35 jobs at their building operations in Kent. 14-Oct-2008 Tingdene Group is to shed up to 99 of the 380 jobs at its mobile homes manufacturing business in Wellingborough. 13-Oct-2008 Segro is to shed up to 30 of the 250 jobs in its property business, which will mainly affect its central services division in Slough. 07-Oct-2008 RG Carter, the construction company with 2,000 staff, is to shed up to 90 jobs at its joinery operations in Norfolk. 07-Oct-2008 HOK International, the architecture firm, is to set up a 27,000 sq ft office at the Qube Development in central London. 07-Oct-2008 K Home International is looking to recruit 100 new staff at its Teesside-based project management business. 06-Oct-2008 CB Richard Ellis is to shed up to 70 of the 1,800 jobs in its property services business, with many of the redundancies at its capital markets division in London. 06-Oct-2008 May Gurney is to take on 70 staff from Avent Engineering, the Chippenham-based utility contractor currently in administration. 06-Oct-2008 The US Embassy in London is considering plans to relocate from Mayfair to Nine Elms in Vauxhall. 06-Oct-2008 Renew Holdings is to shed 80 jobs at its specialist building operations across the country, and its land remediation business will focus on the civil engineering market. 03-Oct-2008 Toolstation is to set up a 140,000 sq ft tools and fixings distribution centre at Quintain Estates' Arrow Valley scheme in Redditch, and also plans to expand its nationwide chain of 40 trade counters to more than 100. 30-Sep-2008 Sheffield Homes is considering plans to shed up to 200 of the 1,000 jobs at its council housing operation in Sheffield by March 2010. 26-Sep-2008 Robertson Group has shed 44 of the 1,000 jobs at its Elgin-based construction business, affecting the Robertson Homes and Robertson Timberkit divisions. 26-Sep-2008 Simons Group is to shed an unspecified number of the 450 jobs at its Lincoln-based building firm. 25-Sep-2008 Hanson Building Products is to close its brick factory in Accrington in October, with the loss of about 80 jobs. 24-Sep-2008 Humberside Police is to relocate its headquarters from Hull city centre to a new £28m building on Clough Road by 2011. 24-Sep-2008 The University of Wales Institute (Uwic) has won planning permission to build a £20m management training centre at its campus in Llandaff by 2010. 23-Sep-2008 Robinson Construction is to shed 19 jobs at its structural steelwork business in Derby. 23-Sep-2008 Lafarge Cement is to close one kiln and two cement mills at Westbury in Wiltshire, with the loss of 65 jobs. 22-Sep-2008 Mott MacDonald is looking to expand the 20-strong workforce at its project management office in Reading. 19-Sep-2008 Wienerberger is to shed 71 of the 180 jobs at its brick manufacturing operations at Hartlebury near Kidderminster, and a further 27 will go at Eldon brickworks in County Durham. 19-Sep-2008 Persimmon is to shed about 30 jobs at its Space 4 prefabricated walls manufacturing business in Castle Bromwich. 17-Sep-2008 H&H Celcon is to close its concrete blocks factory at Westbury in Wiltshire in October, with the loss of 48 jobs. 16-Sep-2008 Capita Symonds has formed a £75m joint venture company with 70 staff called Capita Glamorgan Consultancy, in order to deliver construction projects for Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf councils. 16-Sep-2008 Jones Lang LaSalle is to shed up to 80 jobs in its property services business. 16-Sep-2008 Urban Splash is to shed an unspecified number of the 280 jobs at its Manchester-based property development business. 15-Sep-2008 Dreweatt Neate is to close an unspecified number of its 18 property offices with the loss of some of the 250 jobs, ahead of its planned merger with Carter Jonas. 15-Sep-2008 Manchester City Council has outsourced its property management to Jacobs and GVA Grimley, with the transfer of 28 staff. 15-Sep-2008 Forth Valley College has secured £30m from the Scottish Funding Council to go towards the £50m development of new campuses in Alloa and Stirling, with work starting in 2010. 12-Sep-2008 Gladman Developments and United Business Centres are planning to set up seven new business centres across the country, including sites in Liverpool, Newark, Northumberland, Oldham, Stafford, Tewkesbury and Wakefield. 11-Sep-2008 The Ministry of Justice is considering plans to build a new £400m Titan prison at the Omega business park development in Warrington by 2012. 11-Sep-2008 Carillion is considering plans to shed up to 150 jobs in its building division, and its office in Exeter will close. 10-Sep-2008 Davis Langdon has shed 13 jobs at its London-based quantity surveying business, following the cancellation of a number of projects. 09-Sep-2008 Grafton, the Irish owner of the Buildbase builders' merchants chain in the UK, is to shed up to 1,000 jobs this year. 09-Sep-2008 Milton Keynes Council is planning to shed up to 40 jobs at its Architecture MK building design unit. 09-Sep-2008 Wolseley is to shed 84 head office and support jobs at its builders and plumbers merchant operations in Leamington Spa and Ripon. 09-Sep-2008 Conder Structures is to shed about 60 of the 180 jobs at its Staffordshire-based structural steelwork business. 08-Sep-2008 North Ayrshire Council is in discussions with NPL Estates about proposals for the £500m regeneration of a 1,700-acre brownfield site on the Ardeer Peninsula, including 1,300 new homes, a business park, marina and golf course. 08-Sep-2008 Liverpool Mutual Homes is to put its housing repair and maintenance contracts up for tender, prompting concern about the future of more than 300 staff currently employed by Enterprise Liverpool. 05-Sep-2008 Bilfinger Berger is to recruit 50 construction staff to work on the development of Edinburgh's new £500m tram system. 04-Sep-2008 Omar Homes has shed 80 jobs at its holiday homes factory in Brandon, Suffolk. 02-Sep-2008 Tulloch Timber Systems has closed its timber-kit production facility in Inverness with the loss of 13 jobs. 02-Sep-2008 McCarthy & Stone, the retirement homes builder, has confirmed plans to shed 200 jobs at offices in Byfleet, Coventry, Glasgow, Potters Bar, York and Bournemouth. 02-Sep-2008 Six Town Housing is to set up a 20,000 sq ft office at the £80m 155,000 sq ft Townside Fields scheme in Bury, which is due for completion in 2010. 01-Sep-2008 Regus, the provider of serviced offices, is to relocate its headquarters to Luxembourg in October, for tax reasons. 01-Sep-2008 The Government Office for the North West, the Highways Agency and the Training & Development Agency for Schools have confirmed plans to relocate about 800 staff to Piccadilly Gate in Manchester from early 2010. 29-Aug-2008 Gladedale is considering plans to close its housebuilding office in Dundee with the possible loss of up to 35 jobs. 26-Aug-2008 Welsh Slate is to shed up to 50 jobs at the Bethesda and Ffestiniog slate quarries in Gwynedd, due to falling demand from housebuilders. 21-Aug-2008 The UK Border Agency is to set up a new centre at Manchester Airport by 2010, with the creation of up to 250 jobs, in order to track movements of foreign nationals. 21-Aug-2008 Kingspan is to close its Interlink metal construction equipment plant in Lancing, West Sussex, with the loss of 58 jobs, and its Alsteel Fabrications business in Crowborough will also close with the loss of 40 jobs. 21-Aug-2008 The Centre for Educational Leadership (CEL) is to set up a 10,000 sq ft laboratory at the Liverpool Science Park next spring. 14-Aug-2008 CA Group is planning to shed up to 26 of the 240 jobs at its roofing business near Bishop Auckland. 13-Aug-2008 Rok is to close its commercial property development unit with the loss of up to 200 jobs, in order to fund acquisitions for its building and maintenance operations. 13-Aug-2008 Ian Firth Hardware is to shed 40 of the 98 jobs at its Dewsbury-based building products supply business. 12-Aug-2008 Bouygues, the French construction firm, is seeking a suitable site for a new 100,000 sq ft office in London, and aims to relocate by 2011. 11-Aug-2008 Scotia Homes is considering plans to shed up to 40 jobs at its housebuilding operations in Scotland. 07-Aug-2008 Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council has awarded a £70m ten-year contract to Capita Symonds to deliver property and highway services, with the transfer of 150 staff in October. 06-Aug-2008 The NHBC is to shed about 150 site inspection jobs from its 1,200-strong workforce, due to the decline in housebuilding. 01-Aug-2008 DM Hall is to shed about 30 of the 300 jobs at its 29 chartered surveying offices in Scotland. 28-Jul-2008 Torith is to shed more than 20 of the 180 jobs at its construction business in Fife, which will affect its civil and plant teams. 25-Jul-2008 Talling Construction of Newquay has ceased trading with the loss of 16 jobs. 25-Jul-2008 Streif of Germany is in preliminary talks with Sandwell Council about plans to set up a new flat-pack housing factory in the West Midlands, which could lead to the creation of up to 500 jobs at the plant and at local suppliers. 24-Jul-2008 Stewart Milne Group is to shed 289 of the 1,500 jobs at its housebuilding operations across the country, including almost 200 in Scotland and 70 at its timber systems factory in Witney. 23-Jul-2008 Atkins has shed 51 jobs at its design consultancy offices in Winchester, Aberdeen, Nottingham and Cambridge. 23-Jul-2008 Goodwins Timber Frame has ceased trading with the loss of about 75 jobs at its prefabricated housing kits business in Pontymister, South Wales. 23-Jul-2008 Atisreal is to shed up to 15 jobs at its commercial property operations throughout the country. 21-Jul-2008 Haslam Homes, the housebuilder, is to shed 77 jobs at regional offices in the Midlands and the North, including 30 in Kegworth. 18-Jul-2008 Wolseley is considering plans to shed up to 15% of the 14,000-strong workforce in its UK building and plumbing products business. 17-Jul-2008 Tarmac is to close its concrete plant in Kirkby-in-Ashfield in December with the loss of up to 130 jobs, while plants in Cambridge and Essex will be mothballed and further jobs lost in Staffordshire, East Sussex, Durham, Newark, Coventry, Northampton and Middlesbrough. 17-Jul-2008 JCB is to shed several hundred of the 5,700 jobs in its UK construction equipment operations, in order to cut its production schedule by 20% for the rest of the year. 15-Jul-2008 Hanson is to close its brick factory at Steerforth near Barnsley with the loss of 76 jobs, and a further 50 jobs will go at Measham in Leicestershire. 14-Jul-2008 The Manchester Centre for Arts & Technology (MANCAT) is considering plans to relocate from 14 properties across Manchester to a new 200,000 sq ft building at the former Boddingtons Brewery site. 14-Jul-2008 Styles & Wood is to shed 45 of the 300 jobs in its retail fit-out business, which includes offices in Manchester, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, London and Belfast. 14-Jul-2008 Redrow is planning to shed about 500 of the 1,300 jobs in its housebuilding business, and offices in Warrington and Basingstoke will be closed. 10-Jul-2008 Bovis Homes is planning to shed about 400 of the 1,000 jobs in its housebuilding business, including the loss of about 100 jobs through the closure of its Cambourne office in Cambridgeshire. 10-Jul-2008 Tulloch Homes is to shed 40 jobs at its housebuilding operations across Scotland. 10-Jul-2008 Hanson is to shed 13 jobs at its Kings Dyke brickworks in Whittlesey, near Peterborough. 10-Jul-2008 Persimmon has confirmed plans to shed 1,100 jobs in its housebuilding business, in order to save £45m a year. 09-Jul-2008 Castleoak, the Cardiff-based care home construction firm, is planning to expand the workforce at its newly-acquired timber frame manufacturing facility in Ebbw Vale from 13 to at least 40. 08-Jul-2008 Kier Group is to close three Kier Residential regional offices in St Neots, Borehamwood and Glasgow, with the loss of up to 300 jobs. 08-Jul-2008 Terex is to shed about 60 of the 350 jobs at its construction equipment factory in Coventry. 07-Jul-2008 Barhale Construction of Walsall is to create about 50 new jobs, having won a contract to build a sewer system and pumping station for the Olympic Park development in London. 07-Jul-2008 CB Richard Ellis is shedding about ten jobs at its property services business in Glasgow, and a further 13 have gone in Ireland. 07-Jul-2008 Barratt Developments is to shed about 1,000 jobs from its 6,700-strong workforce, including the closure of offices in Chester and Sheffield. 07-Jul-2008 Marshalls is to shed up to 140 jobs with the closure of concrete production plants at Cannock in Staffordshire and Sawley in Nottinghamshire. 04-Jul-2008 Ballymore is to shed up to 50 of the 400 jobs in its property development business, following a management restructuring programme. 04-Jul-2008 Jelson Homes of Leicester is said to be planning to shed up to 90 jobs, which will mainly affect bricklayers. 02-Jul-2008 Space Architecture is looking to set up a nationwide network of offices by 2012, including new sites in the North West, South East and the Midlands. 01-Jul-2008 MEPC is to build a £6m incubator unit to house up to 60 start-up companies at Milton Park in Abingdon, in partnership with Oxford Innovation. 01-Jul-2008 Wealden District Council is planning to relocate up to 165 jobs from Crowborough to a new £12m council headquarters in Hailsham. 30-Jun-2008 Leeds City Council is said to be considering plans to consolidate some of its 19 city centre properties and 4,000 staff into a new 250,000 sq ft office, having appointed DTZ to conduct a property review. 30-Jun-2008 Enterprise, the maintenance support services company, is to submit plans to build a new 200,000 sq ft office at the Estuary Business Park in Liverpool by 2011, with the creation of up to 1,500 jobs. 27-Jun-2008 Clyde Valley Housing Association is considering plans to relocate its Motherwell headquarters to a new office on Scott Street. 26-Jun-2008 Galliford Try is considering plans to shed up to 43 of the 117 jobs at its Stamford Homes division in Peterborough, and further cuts are likely at other regional offices. 26-Jun-2008 Kingspan Off-Site is to close its factory in Tredegar with the loss of 68 jobs, in order to transfer production of timber housing frames to sites in Milton Keynes, Dewsbury and Gransden. 25-Jun-2008 Toolstation is planning to develop a chain of 70 hardware supplies branches over the next five years, and has just sold a 30% stake in the business to Travis Perkins for £5m. 25-Jun-2008 Hampshire Police Authority is to relocate its headquarters from Winchester to Alpha Park in Chandler's Ford in 2010, and the refurbishment cost is estimated at between £7m and £15m. 25-Jun-2008 Derby City Council is to consider plans from Norseman Investments for a £150m office development on Traffic Street, including 400,000 sq ft in six buildings of between six and nine storeys. 24-Jun-2008 Carillion is looking to sell Alfred McAlpine Plant Services for about £20m. 23-Jun-2008 Real Estate Opportunities has unveiled plans for the £4bn mixed-use redevelopment of the Battersea Power Station site in London, including flats, shops and a hotel. 23-Jun-2008 MJ Gleeson is expected to shed about a third of the 170 jobs in its Regeneration and Homes division, affecting offices in Sheffield and Hampshire. 23-Jun-2008 Balfour Beatty is relocating its Balfour Kilpatrick engineering services operations in Scotland to Hillingdon Park in Glasgow. 19-Jun-2008 Bristol City Council is planning to sell off 35 of its 52 offices and shed up to 450 jobs, as part of a reorganisation aimed at making savings of £17m a year by 2012. 19-Jun-2008 Roger Bullivant is planning to shed an unspecified number of the 750 jobs in its Staffordshire-based construction business. 19-Jun-2008 DTZ is to shed up to 50 of the 2,000 jobs at its commercial property offices across the country. 19-Jun-2008 Dyson Insulations of West Yorkshire is to increase its workforce from 200 to 350 over the next 12 months, having won a number of contracts from energy suppliers to install cavity and loft insulation. 17-Jun-2008 HOK is seeking a suitable office in central London for a new 30,000 sq ft headquarters for its architectural business. 17-Jun-2008 Les Forshaw, the Liverpool-based building company, is planning to open new offices to service Cheshire, south Manchester, Shropshire and Staffordshire by the end of the year. 13-Jun-2008 The South West Regional Development Agency is planning to shed up to 50 jobs in Bristol and Exeter, in order to reduce annual costs by £30m over the next three years. 13-Jun-2008 Salisbury District Council has approved plans for the development of a new science park at Porton Down, including laboratories, offices and the creation of up to 350 jobs. 12-Jun-2008 Wienerberger is to mothball two brick factories at Steer Point in Devon and Ewhurst in Surrey, with the loss of about 80 jobs. 09-Jun-2008 One NorthEast has unveiled plans for the £700m redevelopment of the former Gallowgate brewery site in Newcastle-upon-Tyne into a science quarter, including offices, research facilities, homes and the creation of up to 5,000 jobs. 09-Jun-2008 The College of West Anglia is planning to relocate to a new £80m campus in King's Lynn by 2011, having agreed a land deal with West Norfolk Borough Council and Morston Assets. 06-Jun-2008 The Iraq Economic Development Group (IEDG) is planning to set up a £3m headquarters at an undisclosed former mill building in Bradford later this year, with the creation of 200 jobs. 06-Jun-2008 Persimmon is considering plans to shed a few hundred of the 5,500 jobs at its housebuilding operations across the country. 04-Jun-2008 Jones Lang LaSalle is to relocate its Manchester office and up to 65 staff from King Street to the Chancery Place development later this year. 04-Jun-2008 The Environment Agency is said to be considering plans to consolidate its four West Midlands offices into a new 80,000 sq ft building. 03-Jun-2008 Drivers Jonas is planning to recruit more than 70 new staff for its property business over the next year, including 25 graduates. 03-Jun-2008 Carillion is to create 400 jobs on South Tyneside to work on a £200m contract to refurbish schools and health centres. 02-Jun-2008 Interior Services Group has won a £50m contract to fit out KPMG's new 400,000 sq ft headquarters that will be built at Canary Wharf in London. 02-Jun-2008 Consarc Design Group is to create 20 jobs at its new £1m architecture and quantity surveying office in Londonderry over the next three years. 29-May-2008 Howarth Timber is cutting 40 jobs at its windows and doors business at New Holland in Lincolnshire, reducing the workforce to 133. 29-May-2008 David McLean is to shed 30 of the 300 jobs at its Deeside-based housing development business. 29-May-2008 MD Pipeline Consultants is to expand the 16-strong workforce at its Bridgend-based pipeline survey business with 29 new jobs. 28-May-2008 Construction Partnership UK (CPUK) is to relocate to a new £2m 7,000 sq ft headquarters at the White Moss Business Park in Skelmersdale by the end of the year. 28-May-2008 Finning UK is to create up to 60 financial and IT jobs at its construction equipment distribution business in Cannock over the next few weeks. 26-May-2008 Kier has closed two housing offices in Lincoln and Spalding, but some of the 90 staff will be redeployed. 26-May-2008 Bellway Homes is to shed 370 of the 2,476 jobs in its housebuilding business, due to the economic downturn. 26-May-2008 Oregon Timber Frame is to shed about 15 of the 100 jobs at its factory in Selkirk, due to the downturn in the housing market. 23-May-2008 Taylor Wimpey, the housebuilder, is planning to shed about 600 jobs and close 13 of its 39 branches, affecting offices in Wolverhampton, London, Scotland, the East Midlands, Peterborough and the South East. 23-May-2008 Manchester Metropolitan University is planning to close its 20-acre campus in Didsbury and relocate 2,740 students to a new £90m purpose-built site in Hulme by 2011. 22-May-2008 Wienerberger is to lay off up to 80 workers at its two Baggeridge Brick plants in Kidderminster for up to three months at the end of the year. 22-May-2008 The Department for Employment & Learning in Northern Ireland has reached agreement with the East Down & Lisburn Education Partnership for the £60m development of four new Further Education Colleges in Lisburn, Downpatrick, Newcastle and Ballynahinch. 20-May-2008 Humberts, the chain of 80 estate agency offices with 700 staff, has suspended trading in its shares, pending the clarification of its financial position. 19-May-2008 Crest Nicholson is to shed up to 80 jobs in its residential and commercial development business, including construction staff and buyers. 19-May-2008 Balfour Beatty is to raise £180m in a share placing to fund acquisitions and organic growth for its building and civil engineering business. 16-May-2008 Darlington Borough Council is to consider plans from St Modwen for the development of a £50m industrial park on a 70-acre site in the Faverdale area, which could create 1,500 jobs over the next ten years. 15-May-2008 Redrow has shed about 200 jobs in its housebuilding business, and further cuts are expected. 15-May-2008 Barr is planning to build a new £10m headquarters for its civil engineering business in Paisley, including space for up to 400 staff. 15-May-2008 Leicestershire County Council is considering plans to sell off more than 20 offices, in order to relocate hundreds of jobs to its Glenfield headquarters. 13-May-2008 McCarthy & Stone is to shed up to 110 jobs, having decided to delay building work on new retirement home sites. 12-May-2008 Ibstock is to close its brick factory at Tannochside, Uddingston, in June, with the loss of 54 jobs. 12-May-2008 Rok is planning to create 150 jobs at its construction operations in Warwickshire over the next 18 months, and is also considering proposals to set up a training centre at its depot in Warwick. 08-May-2008 Cemex has closed its precast concrete plant in St Helen Auckland, County Durham, with the loss of 31 jobs. 02-May-2008 East Renfrewshire Council is to shed up to 80 of the 110 jobs in its construction services department, although some staff will be redeployed. 30-Apr-2008 The South West Regional Development Agency and Quantum Property have unveiled plans for a £300m science park on a 54-acre site at Emersons Green near Bristol, and the ten-year Spark One project will create up to 6,000 jobs. 30-Apr-2008 Capita Symonds is planning to recruit about 25 staff in the North West over the next few years, having just opened a new multidisciplinary consultancy office in Chester. 25-Apr-2008 The University of Exeter is to invest £80m in science, medicine and engineering over the next three years, including research and teaching infrastructure. 25-Apr-2008 Peverel Group has submitted plans to build a new property services office in New Milton, Hampshire, and aims to create 300 jobs over the next year. 25-Apr-2008 Hurstwood Group, the property developer, is to relocate its headquarters and 100 staff from Haslingden to the new £2m Oceanic office development in Bolton in June. 24-Apr-2008 Brent Council is in negotiations to relocate 1,250 Wembley-based staff to a new 250,000 sq ft headquarters at Quintain Estates' Arena Square office development. 22-Apr-2008 RE MAX Property Associates of the US is planning to open four estate agency offices in Plymouth over the next year, with the creation of about 60 jobs. 22-Apr-2008 Hyde Housing Association is to relocate its headquarters and 80 staff from Lee Green to a 50,000 sq ft office at 30 Park Street near London Bridge by March 2009. 18-Apr-2008 Styles & Wood, the Altrincham-based shopfitting company, is considering plans for a £80m management buy-out. 17-Apr-2008 AW Lumb is to relocate its builders' merchant business from Ossett to a new £2.7m site in Dewsbury in June, and the 52-strong workforce will rise to 75 by the end of the year. 17-Apr-2008 Barratt is looking to sell its Wilson Bowden Developments commercial property division for more than £250m, having appointed Jones Lang LaSalle to find a buyer. 14-Apr-2008 Power On Connections, the Leicestershire-based company that connects buildings to the electricity grid, is planning to expand its 90-strong workforce with up to 45 new jobs by summer 2009. 14-Apr-2008 JCB is to shed up to 90 jobs at its construction equipment plants in Cheadle, Uttoxeter and Rugeley. 10-Apr-2008 Kunskapsskolan of Sweden is planning to set up 30 school academies in the UK over the next ten years, and has already been selected by Richmond Council as preferred sponsor for two academies in London. 07-Apr-2008 QFSL is planning to create 100 new jobs at its Washington-based building maintenance business over the next year, having won a contract to clean 28 NHS surgeries nationwide. 03-Apr-2008 Hanson is to close its brick factory in Caernarfon in May, with the loss of 50 jobs. 02-Apr-2008 Carillion is planning to close its recently-acquired Alfred McAlpine business services unit in Tannochside, which currently employs about 700 staff. 02-Apr-2008 The Scottish Government has announced plans to invest more than £5m in new and refurbished fire stations, as part of a £25m funding package for the next year. 01-Apr-2008 E Bowman & Sons is planning to relocate the headquarters of its building restoration business and up to 75 staff to a larger site near Stamford. 31-Mar-2008 The Housing Executive is to shed 450 jobs in Northern Ireland over the next three years, as part of a cost-cutting programme that will affect mainly administrative and technical staff. 27-Mar-2008 Bradford College has unveiled plans to build a new £120m campus in the city's Learning Quarter by 2011. 25-Mar-2008 The University of Cumbria has unveiled plans to build a new £70m campus at the Viaduct Estate in Carlisle by autumn 2011, and will relocate from existing sites at Paternoster Row and Brampton Road. 24-Mar-2008 Your Space is considering plans to relocate the head office of its property business from Manchester to Liverpool, and is also looking to open a further 30 serviced office centres over the next three years. 20-Mar-2008 David Wilson Homes is to relocate its Warrington office and up to 60 staff from Cinnamon Park to a 12,000 sq ft unit at the Bridgewater Place scheme. 20-Mar-2008 Sandvik is planning a multi-million-pound expansion at its recently-acquired Extec crushing and screening equipment business in Derbyshire, with the creation of 100 jobs. 19-Mar-2008 Wolseley is expected to shed hundreds of jobs from its plumbing and building materials business over the coming months, due to falling sales in the UK and US. 18-Mar-2008 Manchester Business School is to support government plans for the development of a £8m National Enterprise Academy at an undisclosed location in Greater Manchester, in order to offer new qualifications in enterprise. 14-Mar-2008 Stancliffe Stone is to close the manufacturing business at Stainton Quarry near Barnard Castle in June, with the loss of up to 40 jobs. 11-Mar-2008 Strategic Team Group is planning to expand the 165-strong workforce at its Yorkshire-based contracting business by 10% a year, having agreed a £11m restructuring deal with Barclays Ventures. 11-Mar-2008 Hewden, the plant hire firm, is to close its head office at Uddingston in Lanarkshire with the loss of 27 jobs, in order to centralise the support operations of parent firm Finning in Cannock. 10-Mar-2008 West Midlands Police is to set up an 84,500 sq ft office at the Forum building on Birmingham Business Park. 10-Mar-2008 City of York Council has unveiled plans to build a new £40m council headquarters in Hungate for 1,400 staff. 06-Mar-2008 Fleming Developments UK is seeking permission to build a new pre-fabricated homes factory on the Baglan estate at Neath Port Talbot, with the creation of up to 500 jobs. 05-Mar-2008 Travis Perkins is planning to expand its network of 1,166 building materials stores with up to 100 new outlets this year. 05-Mar-2008 The Department for Innovation, Universities & Skills (DIUS) is to invite proposals to open 20 more university campuses and higher education centres in towns across England over the next six years. 04-Mar-2008 Access 55 is looking to create up to 120 jobs at its scaffolding operations in the North East, and a new depot will open in the Newcastle area. 03-Mar-2008 Pick Everard, the architectural firm, is planning to create 130 jobs at offices in Leicester, Nottingham, London, Bury St Edmonds and Taunton over the next few years. 28-Feb-2008 Goodman, the property developer, is to relocate its Solihull headquarters to a new £5m 18,000 sq ft office at Blythe Valley Park this summer, and aims to expand the 30 staff to 50. 26-Feb-2008 JT Dove is planning to expand the 200-strong workforce at its building materials business to 240 by the end of the year, and is also looking to relocate its Newcastle-based headquarters. 21-Feb-2008 Gibbs & Dandy, the chain of 11 builders' merchants, has received a takeover approach from an unnamed company. 18-Feb-2008 Carillion has secured a £500m contract to provide facilities management services to BT's 7,000 buildings through its Monteray joint venture. 06-Feb-2008 King Sturge is said to be considering plans to relocate its Birmingham office to a 15,000 sq ft unit at the 45 Church Street development. 05-Feb-2008 North Devon College has secured £100m in funding to build a new campus at Seven Brethren in Barnstaple by 2011. 04-Feb-2008 JCB has offered to acquire the former Indesit factory site at Blythe Bridge in Staffordshire, which could lead to the creation of a new construction equipment factory and hundreds of jobs. 04-Feb-2008 Persimmon is to close its Charles Church housebuilding office in Reigate, but some of the 40 jobs will relocate to Camberley. 31-Jan-2008 Mansell, the construction firm, is to extend its office at Swaffham in Norfolk with a new 4,300 sq ft learning and development facility for the site's 180 staff. 30-Jan-2008 Atkins is to expand the workforce in its nuclear division from 600 to about 1,000 over the next two years, in order to benefit from the expected development of new power plants. 29-Jan-2008 Eastwood Construction of Warsop is to cease trading over the next few months with the loss of 38 jobs. 24-Jan-2008 GVA Grimley is considering plans to relocate its Bristol office to Ashfield Land's 31,000 sq ft St Catherine's Court scheme. 22-Jan-2008 Frank Haslam Milan is planning to create up to 40 jobs at its Sunderland-based regeneration business this year, having won a number of housing refurbishment contracts. 18-Jan-2008 Welsh Slate is to shed 22 of the 295 jobs at its roofing and architectural slate quarries. 16-Jan-2008 Williams Homes is seeking a suitable site in Bala to relocate its timber housing business, which currently has 12 staff. 09-Jan-2008 Henley College has unveiled plans to rebuild its college buildings in Coventry at a cost of £40m. 09-Jan-2008 Waring & Netts is planning to double the size of its Tyneside-based architectural firm over the next five years, including new regional offices in the Midlands, the South and the South West. 09-Jan-2008 City College Norwich has unveiled plans for the £173m redevelopment of its college campus by 2015, providing space for up to 20,000 students. 08-Jan-2008 John C Wilkins is to relocate its flooring business to the Waters Meeting Development in Bolton later this year, with the creation of up to 100 jobs. 07-Jan-2008 LSL Property Services, the owner of Your Move estate agencies, has closed 12 branches and shed 315 jobs, in response to a slowdown in the housing market. 04-Jan-2008
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