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South West Highways has shed 55 jobs at its Devon-based road maintenance business. 31-Dec-2009 Glasgow Housing Association is to shed about 200 jobs, as part of a reorganisation that will create five smaller organisations. 31-Dec-2009 Cardiff University has submitted plans to build a new £30m research campus at Maindy Park. 22-Dec-2009 City of York Council has confirmed plans to set up a new £32m headquarters in Station Rise by late 2012, in order to reduce its number of offices from 16 to four. 21-Dec-2009 Insulation Company of Darlington is to create up to 40 new jobs, having won a government contract to install heating and insulation in households across the North. 21-Dec-2009 The UK Border Agency is to set up a 220,000 sq ft office at the Capital building in Liverpool city centre, in order to combine staff from six existing sites. 21-Dec-2009 Ennstone Thistle is to mothball its Brand & Rae concrete blocks business at Springfield in Fife, with the loss of 11 jobs. 21-Dec-2009 Kirklees Council is planning to shed 50 of the 170 jobs at its Design & Property Service, in order to transfer work to the private sector. 16-Dec-2009 North West Development Agency is to help fund the development of a third 40,000 sq ft building at Liverpool Science Park by 2012. 15-Dec-2009 The Home Office is to set up a 157,000 sq ft regional office at Birchwood Park in Warrington, and Marshall Construction will complete the development by 2011. 14-Dec-2009 West Yorkshire Police is to submit plans to build a new divisional headquarters on a nine-acre site at Elland Road in Leeds. 14-Dec-2009 The University of Reading is to invest £30m in the refurbishment of its original London Road campus by 2011. 14-Dec-2009 North Somerset Council is considering plans to relocate hundreds of staff to the former Clerical Medical site in Clevedon. 10-Dec-2009 North Lanarkshire Council is to consider proposals from Hazledene Homes for the £85m development of a new town with 1,000 homes near Shotts. 03-Dec-2009 Anglia Ruskin University has secured funding of £9.3m to build a new university campus in Harlow by summer 2011. 26-Nov-2009 AECOM is to shed a further 350 jobs at its project management and engineering operations in the UK and Europe. 26-Nov-2009 Newcastle Gateshead Initiative (NGi) and 1NG are to set up a 9,500 sq ft office at the Baltic Place scheme in Gateshead for their local development and marketing agencies. 25-Nov-2009 Hallam University has unveiled plans to build a new £25m campus building at Charles Street in Sheffield by 2012. 23-Nov-2009 Sirius Group is to create about 15 jobs at its land remediation business over the next year, having chosen Aberdeen as the location for its first Scottish office. 23-Nov-2009 Caledonian Building Systems is to shed 40 of the 250 jobs at its modular buildings business in Carlton on Trent. 23-Nov-2009 Prospect Business Centres is seeking suitable locations in Cheshire, Cumbria and Lancashire for new business centres, and hopes to open at least 100,000 sq ft of new space in 2010. 23-Nov-2009 JCB is to shed up to 196 jobs at five construction equipment sites in Rocester, Rugeley, Cheadle and Wrexham. 23-Nov-2009 CCG is to set up a timber-framed housing factory in Cambuslang by April 2010, with the creation of 50 jobs. 18-Nov-2009 Manchester City Council is considering plans to consolidate up to 500 staff from offices in South Manchester to a 50,000 sq ft office in Wythenshawe. 16-Nov-2009 Science City York has secured £20m of European funding to help create up to 700 jobs over the next five years, including the creation of new business space at York University and the Sand Hutton complex. 11-Nov-2009 RICS is to restructure its London-based library information service, with the loss of up to 17 jobs. 09-Nov-2009 Keepmoat is to create up to 200 jobs at its Frank Haslam Milan housebuilding business in Sunderland over the next two years. 09-Nov-2009 IPC Security is planning to create 500 new jobs for security guards across the country over the next two years, including 30 new jobs at its Gateshead headquarters. 09-Nov-2009 Braintree District Council is looking into the possibility of relocating its headquarters to Mayland House in Witham town centre. 09-Nov-2009 DCS Multiserve is looking to create more than 50 jobs over the next year, having expanded its Newcastle-based cleaning franchise business into a full facilities management service. 05-Nov-2009 Total Trade Group is looking to create about 200 jobs at its Rhyl-based property maintenance business over the next year, as it hopes to provide a national service for a DIY company. 05-Nov-2009 West Yorkshire Police is to build a £20m 80,000 sq ft forensic investigation centre at Calder Park in Wakefield by June 2011. 02-Nov-2009 Thermal Transfer is to relocate its design and build contracting business from Glossop to a 14,130 sq ft office at the One Didsbury Point scheme in South Manchester in November. 02-Nov-2009 Liverpool City Council has unveiled plans for the £50m refurbishment of Liverpool's Central Library, and work will start next summer. 02-Nov-2009 Barr Construction has won a contract to build a new £11m marine research laboratory in Aberdeen, to replace Marine Scotland's facility in Torry. 02-Nov-2009 Chesterfield Borough Council has received outline plans from regeneration company Urbo for the £300m Chesterfield Waterside Project, including housing, shops, leisure and office space. 28-Oct-2009 Land Registry is planning to close offices in Croydon, Peterborough, Portsmouth, Stevenage and Tunbridge Wells with the loss of up to 1,100 jobs, while some support functions will be outsourced. 22-Oct-2009 CLM is to shed about 10% of the 500-strong workforce at its London-based construction consortium for the delivery of the Olympic Games in 2012. 22-Oct-2009 Manchester Working is to shed up to 70 jobs at its council house maintenance business in Manchester. 22-Oct-2009 Homeserve is to close its property repair operations in North Wales and Nottingham in January, with the loss of about 400 jobs. 21-Oct-2009 The Welsh Assembly has announced a £120m grants package for ten projects, including a £15m arts and science centre at Bangor University and £20m for affordable housing. 21-Oct-2009 Portakabin is to shed a further 75 of the 600 jobs at its portable buildings business in York. 19-Oct-2009 Real Office Group has saved 16 jobs at the former Welconstruct fit-out offices in Birmingham and London, and a number of Welconstruct's projects will be transferred to its ISIS Projects division. 19-Oct-2009 Connaught is to shed 49 jobs at its council house maintenance business in West Bromwich. 19-Oct-2009 Willow Park Housing Trust has awarded a contract to Hargreaves Contracting to build a new £3.2m 35,000 sq ft headquarters in Wythenshawe. 15-Oct-2009 The London School of Business & Finance is in negotiations to set up a 20,000 sq ft office at 17 Connaught Place in London's West End. 13-Oct-2009 South Northants Council is to consider outline plans from Martin Robeson Planning Practice to develop a new 25-acre industrial estate near the Sawmills in Brackley, which could create up to 1,000 jobs. 13-Oct-2009 Winkworth is planning to raise £1m in a flotation on Aim, in order to fund the expansion of its chain of 86 estate agencies with eight new offices a year. 12-Oct-2009 Countrywide Surveyors is looking to shed up to 50 jobs from its 450-strong workforce across the country. 12-Oct-2009 CR Laurence, the US glazing and stone supplier, is to set up a 71,000 sq ft European headquarters at the Kingsway Business Park in Rochdale in summer 2010. 12-Oct-2009 Laing O'Rourke is to shed up to 650 support jobs from its construction business, affecting offices in Birmingham and elsewhere. 08-Oct-2009 Tarmac Building Products has confirmed that up to 40 jobs will be lost when it closes its concrete flooring operation in Brandon, Suffolk, at the end of this month. 08-Oct-2009 Colliers CRE is to raise £20m in a share placing to strengthen the balance sheet of its commercial real estate consultancy. 08-Oct-2009 Stockley Park Consortium is to submit outline plans for the £200m expansion of its business park in Uxbridge, including a 450-bed hotel and space for more than 2,500 jobs. 08-Oct-2009 Muse Developments has set up a new headquarters at St Vincent Place in Glasgow to manage three proposed construction projects worth a combined £122m for Bearsden, Bishopbriggs and Larkhall. 06-Oct-2009 Altus Edwin Hill is to recruit up to ten agents for a new property services office in Newcastle, having ended negotiations to merge with Storeys SSP. 05-Oct-2009 Segro is to shed up to 90 of the 225 jobs at its industrial property services business, following the acquisition of Brixton. 05-Oct-2009 Anglia Homeserve is to shed up to 200 jobs at its North Wales-based property repair services operation, unless a buyer can be found. 05-Oct-2009 Cunningham Stone has shed 25 jobs at its stone supplies business in Kilkeel. 05-Oct-2009 Severfield-Rowen is planning to shed up to 155 jobs at its steelwork contracting operations in Dalton and Sherburn by the end of the year. 01-Oct-2009 Global Hybrid Roofing Solutions of the US is considering central Scotland as a potential location for a new £17m factory to produce synthetic composite roofing, which could create up to 500 jobs. 01-Oct-2009 Lincolnshire County Council has unveiled details of the proposed new 80-acre business park to be developed by Taylor Lindsey on the outskirts of Lincoln. 29-Sep-2009 DTZ is planning to shed a further 100 jobs at its commercial property offices across the country. 28-Sep-2009 Reading Borough Council has approved outline plans from Sackville Developments for the £400m Station Hill scheme, including offices, shops and a public arts venue. 28-Sep-2009 Amey has confirmed plans to set up a new 46,000 sq ft support services office at Colmore Plaza in Birmingham. 28-Sep-2009 Barratt Developments is to raise £721m in a share placing, and some of the proceeds will be used for the acquisition of housing sites. 24-Sep-2009 CCG Group has acquired an 84,000 sq ft distribution warehouse in Cambuslang for £4.7m, in order to expand its off-site manufacturing division. 21-Sep-2009 VA Marriott is planning to cease trading early next year, with the loss of up to 55 jobs at its Ipswich-based contracting business. 21-Sep-2009 Mavinwood is looking to sell Peter Cox, its Oldham-based emergency building repairs business. 21-Sep-2009 Manchester City Council is to consider plans from Argent for the development of a £50m office and retail scheme in St Peter's Square by 2013. 21-Sep-2009 Derby City Council is planning to shed up to 465 jobs over the next three years, as part of a restructuring programme to save £32m. 17-Sep-2009 The Northwest Regional Development Agency has unveiled plans for a £6m Construction Knowledge Hub, in partnership with Building Research Establishment, University of Liverpool, Urban Vision and UCLAN. 17-Sep-2009 Kilmartin has unveiled proposals for the £325m transformation of Southampton's waterfront, including new shops, hotels and offices. 17-Sep-2009 Conygar has raised £60m in a share placing to form partnerships with banks to develop repossessed property assets. 16-Sep-2009 Devono is said to be seeking up to 125,000 sq ft of office space across seven London boroughs for Calder UK of the Netherlands, as Calder has won a Department for Work & Pensions contract to help people find work. 14-Sep-2009 Galliford Try is to raise £119m in a share placing to fund the acquisition of land for its housebuilding business. 14-Sep-2009 Vinci is to close its Crispin & Borst construction offices in Swanley and the Thames Valley, as well as its Norwest Holst offices in Derby and Winchester. 14-Sep-2009 Westframe is to create 12 new jobs at its timber housing frames factory in Enderby, having won a number of new contracts. 14-Sep-2009 Swale Borough Council has approved plans for the £20m expansion of Kent Science Park at Sittingbourne, which could lead to the creation of up to 500 jobs. 14-Sep-2009 The Welsh College of Horticulture has secured a £3m government grant to develop a new learning centre for its campus in Flintshire. 10-Sep-2009 University Campus Suffolk has secured a £4.6m HEFCE grant to develop new facilities on Ipswich waterfront over the next five years. 10-Sep-2009 The University of Manchester is planning to build a new £30m 110,000 sq ft research and teaching centre for its School of Chemical Engineering by 2011. 09-Sep-2009 McGinnis Group is to recruit 100 construction workers for a housing development on the Saintfield Road in Belfast. 07-Sep-2009 Ainslie Homes is to reduce its workforce from 30 to about three, having failed to secure planning permission for a housing project in Kirkcaldy. 07-Sep-2009 The Home Office is said to be in negotiations to set up a 150,000 sq ft office at the Birchwood Corporate building in Warrington, as part of a plan to consolidate 800 staff from 12 regional offices. 31-Aug-2009 Hodgkinson Bricklaying Contractors of Derby is creating 70 new jobs for bricklayers, project managers and quantity surveyors, having won a number of new building contracts. 27-Aug-2009 Hankinsons Construction has gone into voluntary liquidation with the loss of 36 jobs at its Cheshire-based contracting business. 27-Aug-2009 SIG is planning to close six of its 12 interior building materials factories in the Midlands and the South East, with the loss of 300 jobs. 24-Aug-2009 The Department for Children, Schools & Families (DCSF) is to set up a new 66,000 sq ft office at St Paul's Place in Sheffield, securing the future of 500 jobs. 19-Aug-2009 St Modwen is to submit plans to build a new business park on a 22-acre site at Clevedon in North Somerset, providing 300,000 sq ft of commercial space and up to 450 jobs. 19-Aug-2009 Welsh Slate is considering plans to shed an unspecified number of the 240 jobs at its quarries in Gwynedd. 13-Aug-2009 Costain is planning to recruit at least 200 extra people over the next year, including project managers, engineers and health and safety staff. 13-Aug-2009 Simon Carves is planning to shed a further 80 jobs at its Cheadle Hulme-based engineering and construction business. 10-Aug-2009 Bellway is to raise £40m in a share placing to fund land acquisitions for its Newcastle-based housebuilding business. 07-Aug-2009 Amey is in negotiations to set up a 70,000 sq ft design office for its support services business at Colmore Plaza in Birmingham. 04-Aug-2009 Gazeley is to consolidate staff from Milton Keynes and Mayfair to a single headquarters in London's Victoria in October. 04-Aug-2009 Balfour Beatty is considering plans to close its Mansell building operation in Ringwood, Hampshire, with the loss of up to 40 jobs. 04-Aug-2009 Tamar Group, the owner of the Wrekin Construction business in Shropshire, has gone into liquidation through Begbies Traynor. 04-Aug-2009 South West Highways is to shed 19 of the 700 jobs at its Devon-based road maintenance and civil engineering business. 04-Aug-2009 Herbert T Forrest of Preston is looking to open new offices throughout the North, having won a number of contracts to refurbish houses for local councils and housing associations. 22-Jul-2009 The Lighthouse is said to be considering plans to shed 44 of the 57 jobs at its architecture and design centre in Glasgow. 20-Jul-2009 Wycombe District Council has unveiled plans for a new business park, coach station and hotel on the Wycombe Sports Centre site, which could create up to 2,000 jobs, and hopes to start work in 2012. 16-Jul-2009 The Department for Communities & Local Government has confirmed four sites for the development of new eco-towns, including Rackheath in Norfolk, Bicester in Oxfordshire, St Austell in Cornwall and Whitehill Borden in Hampshire. 16-Jul-2009 Telford & Wrekin Council is seeking a development partner to build a new 150,000 sq ft headquarters in Southwater. 13-Jul-2009 Advantage West Midlands has won planning permission to build a further 400,000 sq ft of office space at the Ansty Park development near Coventry. 09-Jul-2009 CLC Contractors has won a £6.4m contract to provide housing maintenance services in the Midlands to regeneration firm Midland Heart, which will create more than 30 jobs. 08-Jul-2009 Rotherham Borough Council has approved plans from Evans Property Group to build a new 172,000 sq ft civic centre building by 2012. 08-Jul-2009 Hanson Cement is to shed 93 of the 183 jobs at its cement plant in Padeswood, North Wales. 08-Jul-2009 Egger is seeking permission from Northumberland County Council to extend its chipboard factory in Hexham with a new 300,000 sq ft processing facility, with the creation of 45 jobs. 07-Jul-2009 British Gypsum is to shed a further 55 jobs at its plasterboard factory in Kirkby Thore, Cumbria, by October. 07-Jul-2009 Manchester City Council has approved plans for a new £120m 237,000 sq ft campus at Birley Fields for Manchester Metropolitan University. 06-Jul-2009 James Hargreaves is investing £3m in the expansion of its chain of plumbers' merchants, including a new warehouse and office at its main site in Burnley. 06-Jul-2009 Ibstock Brick is planning to close one of the kilns at its brick factory at Pensnett in the West Midlands, with the loss of up to 48 jobs. 02-Jul-2009 Lancaster City Council has approved plans for the development of a science park at Lancaster University, which could create up to 1,000 jobs over the next 20 years. 01-Jul-2009 Serco has won a £600m contract to build and operate two new prisons at Belmarsh in London and Maghull on Merseyside by 2011. 30-Jun-2009 University of Strathclyde has unveiled plans to invest £300m in the transformation of its Glasgow campus by 2020, including four new buildings. 23-Jun-2009 Easyoffice is looking to expand its chain of four serviced offices to about 30, having appointed Devono to find suitable locations in London. 22-Jun-2009 Swansea University is to submit plans to build a new science and innovation campus at Fabian Way, which would house about 4,000 students. 22-Jun-2009 Balfour Beatty is planning to shed an unspecified number of jobs at its Cowlin Construction offices in Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter, Plymouth, Swansea and Truro. 17-Jun-2009 Galliford Try has won a £54m contract to redevelop the Tonbridge campus of West Kent College by 2011, including a new performance arts building. 16-Jun-2009 Kier is to shed 45 of the 1,200 jobs at its council buildings maintenance business in Sheffield. 16-Jun-2009 Winkworth is planning a flotation to raise funds for the expansion of its London-based chain of 85 franchised estate agency offices across the UK, India and the Far East. 15-Jun-2009 Croydon Council has unveiled plans to build a new £90m 240,000 sq ft headquarters, in order to consolidate staff from six existing buildings. 15-Jun-2009 McNicholas is to shed up to 100 of the 1,200 jobs in its Hertfordshire-based construction services business. 15-Jun-2009 Stroud District Council has awarded outline planning permission to Bathurst for the development of a £30m business park on a 25-acre site at Draycott. 15-Jun-2009 South Ayrshire Council has approved plans for the development of a new £70m campus at the Craigie Estate in Ayr for the University of the West of Scotland by 2011. 11-Jun-2009 Tarmac is planning to close its building materials sales office in Kington, Herefordshire, with the possible loss of up to 30 jobs. 09-Jun-2009 Notting Hill Housing Trust has appointed Ashwell Rogers to find a suitable 65,000 sq ft location for the relocation of its Hammersmith-based housing association. 08-Jun-2009 Greater Manchester Police Authority has confirmed plans to relocate more than 1,000 staff to a new 240,000 sq ft six-storey building due for completion at Central Park in Newton Heath in 2011. 08-Jun-2009 Vencel Resil has closed two of its building insulation factories in Glasgow and Whitecroft, Gloucestershire. 04-Jun-2009 Interior Services Group is looking to create more than 70 jobs over the next two years, having just opened a new construction office at Wynyard Park in the Tees Valley. 04-Jun-2009 Ridgeons is to shed a further 35 of the 840 jobs at its Cambridge-based chain of builders' merchants. 04-Jun-2009 Pierse Contracting, the Northwich-based subsidiary of Pierse Group with about 60 staff, has gone into liquidation through Zolfo Cooper. 03-Jun-2009 The Ministry of Defence is to close the Fremington army camp in North Devon in October, with the loss of nine of the remaining 12 jobs. 01-Jun-2009 Bond Bryan is to shed up to 65 jobs at its architectural office in Sheffield, following a fall in government funding for college building projects. 28-May-2009 GML Estates is looking to invest up to £1bn in a wide range of development schemes across Northern Ireland over the next ten years, which could create up to 10,000 jobs. 28-May-2009 UK Border Agency is said to be in discussions to set up a 200,000 sq ft office at the Capital Building in Liverpool, in order to consolidate about 1,000 staff from six existing locations. 28-May-2009 Manchester City Council is to house 1,400 staff in a 140,000 sq ft temporary office at Number One First Street from January 2010, in order to make way for the £175m three-year refurbishment of the town hall. 28-May-2009 New East Manchester has secured a £3.6m grant to acquire and remediate the 8.2-acre Rolls-Royce Power Engineering site on Pottery Lane in Openshaw. 28-May-2009 West Norfolk Council has approved plans from Newlyn Developments for the £10m redevelopment of the Berol House site in King's Lynn by 2012, including offices, industrial units and three wind turbines. 27-May-2009 Trant Construction is forming a joint venture with Barhale to maintain water pumping stations and pipes in Hampshire and West Sussex for Southern Water, with the transfer of 160 jobs to Havant. 25-May-2009 Knight Frank is to relocate its Manchester office and up to 30 staff from to Lancaster Buildings on Deansgate in June. 25-May-2009 Glasgow City Council is to consider plans from Redevco for the £65m refurbishment of George House in George Square, in order to provide convention facilities and 270,000 sq ft of office space. 25-May-2009 Harker Construction is looking to create up to 38 jobs at its new construction office in York over the next year, providing work for labourers, joiners and bricklayers. 25-May-2009 Shepherd Construction is considering plans to shed an estimated 60 jobs from its 800-strong workforce, including an unspecified number at its head office in York. 25-May-2009 Balfour Beatty is cutting 74 jobs, including 60 at its Balfour Kilpatrick division in the North West and 14 at its northern construction division. 21-May-2009 John Merison is to expand the 52-strong workforce at its Leicestershire-based building maintenance firm with up to 20 new jobs over the next year, having won a contract from housing association Orbit Group. 20-May-2009 Carea, the French building products manufacturer, is setting up a new UK sales headquarters for its cladding division at Victoria Square in Birmingham. 20-May-2009 White Young Green is considering plans to close a further five construction consultancy offices by the end of the year, in order to focus on regional centres. 19-May-2009 SIG, the Sheffield-based construction products group, is planning to shed a further 450 jobs from its 10,500-strong workforce across Europe. 14-May-2009 Barratt Developments is to shed 25 jobs at its housebuilding office in York, including site managers and labourers. 13-May-2009 Hanson Building Products is looking to sell its Thermalite blocks business, in order to focus on cement, concrete and aggregates. 13-May-2009 Robert Gordon University has unveiled plans to invest £148m in the expansion of its Garthdee campus in Aberdeen over the next ten years. 12-May-2009 The Welsh Assembly has announced £38m of European and lottery funding for improvements to town centres and sea fronts across North Wales over the next four years. 11-May-2009 The University of Greenwich has unveiled plans to build a new £60m town centre campus and library on Stockwell Street. 11-May-2009 May Gurney has submitted plans to South Norfolk Council to build a new 34,000 sq ft headquarters at Trowse near Norwich by 2011. 11-May-2009 JN Bentley has acquired the former Wrekin Construction site in Shifnal, and hopes to create up to 300 jobs by summer 2010. 11-May-2009 Leadbitter Group, the Abingdon-based contractor with annual turnover of about £320m, has been put up for sale by its Dutch parent Heijmans. 07-May-2009 Bradford Centre Regeneration is to be disbanded, and its city centre regeneration work will transfer back to Bradford Council. 06-May-2009 HMP Dovegate is to recruit more than 100 extra staff this year, following the £53m expansion of its prison near Uttoxeter. 05-May-2009 Calderdale Council is seeking a suitable 70,000 sq ft site in Halifax for a new office. 04-May-2009 Manchester City Council and a number of government departments are to conduct a feasibility study into the development of a 700,000 sq ft office complex at Mayfield Station, in order to house 5,000 civil service staff by 2014. 04-May-2009 Wolseley is to close its building products distribution centres in Chorley and Didcot, with the loss of 269 jobs. 04-May-2009 Styles & Wood is to raise £12m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its Altrincham-based shopfitting business. 04-May-2009 North Tyneside Council has selected Kier as the preferred bidder for a contract worth up to £600m to maintain 16,000 council homes, with the transfer of 500 council staff. 04-May-2009 The Ministry of Defence has unveiled proposals for the £150m conversion of RAF Wyton near Cambridge into a major intelligence gathering centre, with up to 1,600 staff moving in by 2013. 30-Apr-2009 Pierse of Ireland is to close its building and civil engineering contracting offices in Cheshire and Surrey, with the loss of almost 60 jobs. 30-Apr-2009 Carmarthenshire Council has approved plans from R&A Properties for a new £1.5m business park on a 37-acre site at Llangennech near Llanelli, and an unnamed company will move in with the creation of 70 jobs by the end of the year. 30-Apr-2009 The Ministry of Justice is planning to build up to five new 1,500-capacity prisons at a cost of £3bn, with the first two in Barking and Chelmsford. 28-Apr-2009 Aberdeen City Council is to consider plans from Carlton Rock for the development of a £50m business park at Oakbank, including office space for up to 1,500 people. 27-Apr-2009 Drilcorp is looking to expand the 32-strong workforce at its County Durham-based drilling business to 45 over the next five years, having won contracts for the London Underground and Coal Mine Gas Recovery. 27-Apr-2009 RMJM is planning to shed up to 60 of the 174 jobs at its architectural offices in Edinburgh and Glasgow. 22-Apr-2009 Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has shed 20 of the 106 jobs at its Bath-based architectural firm. 21-Apr-2009 Construction North West has ceased trading with the loss of about 25 jobs at its Bolton-based building business. 21-Apr-2009 Liverpool City Council is to consider plans from West Bay Capital for a £50m 18-storey commercial development at 30 Pall Mall, including 225,000 sq ft of office space. 21-Apr-2009 Monmouthshire Housing Association is seeking planning permission to build a new £3.2m headquarters for 114 staff at the Mamhilad estate near Pontypool. 16-Apr-2009 Stackright is to expand the 14-strong workforce at its Skelmersdale-based portable buildings business with seven new staff over the next few weeks, following a recent management buy-out. 16-Apr-2009 Roger Bullivant is to shed a further 95 of the 440 jobs at its building foundations business in Drakelow. 16-Apr-2009 Bone Steel is planning to expand the 240-strong workforce at its Scottish structural steel contracting business with 20 additional workers. 16-Apr-2009 Hanson is to create 28 jobs at a new £50m brick factory due to open in Measham this summer. 15-Apr-2009 J Wright Roofing is to set up a £1m training centre for apprentices for the East Midlands roofing sector in Nottingham in June. 15-Apr-2009 Colleys is to shed up to 106 of the 400 chartered surveying jobs at its property valuation operations throughout the country. 13-Apr-2009 The Health & Safety Executive is looking to recruit up to 30 new construction inspectors this summer. 06-Apr-2009 Aberdeenshire Council is to consider plans from Banff & Buchan College for the multi-million pound revamp of its campus in Fraserburgh. 02-Apr-2009 Isos Group is to expand the workforce at its three affordable housing depots in Hexham, Morpeth and a new site on Tyneside from 60 to 82 over the next 12 months. 02-Apr-2009 Merchant Homes is to relocate its Glasgow-based construction business to a larger office at Centurion Park, and the workforce will rise from 9 to about 20. 02-Apr-2009 Morgan Ashurst is to create up to 185 jobs in Leeds, having won contracts to build student accommodation for the University of Leeds and refurbish the Colour Science Laboratory. 01-Apr-2009 Drivers Jonas is to shed 30 of the 750 jobs at its nationwide network of eight property services offices. 01-Apr-2009 Connaught Partnerships has subcontracted improvement works to 4,300 homes in the Rhondda Cynon Taf area to Almec Building Solutions, Watts Construction and Precision Maintenance, creating up to 40 jobs. 31-Mar-2009 South East England Development Agency (Seeda) is considering plans to shed up to 90 jobs from its 370-strong workforce, affecting offices in Guildford and Chatham. 31-Mar-2009 Mott MacDonald, the engineering consultancy, is to set up a 27,500 sq ft headquarters at 11 Wellesley Road in Croydon. 30-Mar-2009 The Olympic Delivery Authority is to relocate its London-based plant training centre to Silvertown Quays later this year. 30-Mar-2009 Sandwell Homes, the council house management firm, is to close four offices and shed 22 jobs from its 1,350-strong workforce. 30-Mar-2009 Laing O'Rourke is to recruit at least 1,000 apprentices for its construction business this year, including 800 at its supply-chain partners. 26-Mar-2009 Land Registry is to close one of its two offices in Birkenhead with the loss of about 100 jobs, as part of a strategy to shed 1,000 jobs from its 8,000-strong nationwide workforce. 26-Mar-2009 RICS, the surveyors' trade organisation, is planning to shed 18 jobs as part of a cost-cutting programme. 26-Mar-2009 Charnwood Borough Council is planning to set up a £10m training and business centre on Windmill Road in Loughborough by 2012, providing space for about 60 small businesses. 25-Mar-2009 Renew Holdings is to shed a further 100 jobs at its Leeds-based construction services business. 25-Mar-2009 Turley Associates has shed 25 of the 180 jobs at its network of nine urban planning consultancy offices. 23-Mar-2009 Robertson Construction is to create about 100 new jobs to work on the development of a £100m emergency-care centre at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. 23-Mar-2009 William Davis is to shed a further 30 of the 450 jobs at its Loughborough-based housebuilding business. 23-Mar-2009 The British Horse Society has won planning permission to build a new £3m 24,000 sq ft headquarters for 95 staff at Stoneleigh Deer Park in Warwickshire by 2010. 19-Mar-2009 Cadenza, the Windsor-based housebuilding firm, has gone into voluntary liquidation through Valentine & Co. 19-Mar-2009 Newport City Homes, the housing association, is to set up a new 24,000 sq ft headquarters at the Orb building in Newport. 19-Mar-2009 NETPark has won planning permission to build a new 19,000 sq ft science and technology centre in Sedgefield by March 2010, which could attract a major international firm and create up to 100 jobs. 18-Mar-2009 Story Construction is to shed 18 jobs at its Carlisle-based housebuilding and civil engineering business. 16-Mar-2009 Volker Stevin is looking to expand the workforce at its Gateshead-based construction and engineering business from 220 to more than 300 by 2012, by winning a number of major public-sector contracts. 12-Mar-2009 Northumbria Police has won planning permission to build a new £30m headquarters for up to 1,000 staff in Ponteland. 12-Mar-2009 Land Engineering is to create 50 jobs at its new masonry, cladding and repair services office in Livingston. 11-Mar-2009 CRH is to shed 62 jobs at its Tyrone Brick factory in Coalisland, County Tyrone. 11-Mar-2009 Scott Wilson is to shed up to 350 of the 3,500 jobs at its design and engineering consultancy offices across the country. 11-Mar-2009 Richard Burbidge is to shed 40 jobs at its timber building materials business in Oswestry. 10-Mar-2009 Jackson Building Centres is to shed up to 33 jobs at the Lincoln head office of its builders' merchants business by April 2010. 10-Mar-2009 Buro Happold is to shed an unspecified number of the 1,000 jobs at its building engineering, infrastructure and environmental services business in the UK. 10-Mar-2009 The Welsh Assembly is considering plans to invest £42m in the refurbishment of its Cathays Park headquarters in Cardiff. 09-Mar-2009 Hanson is to close brick factories in Dover, Newbury and Capel, Surrey. 09-Mar-2009 Millard Consulting is looking to expand the workforce at its new regional civil engineering office at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry from 15 to more than 40 over the next five years. 05-Mar-2009 Gateshead Council has approved plans from Terrace Hill and One Northeast for the development of a design centre on a 50-acre site at the Baltic Business Quarter by next year. 05-Mar-2009 The University of Worcester has unveiled plans to build a new £100m campus and business park at Grove Farm over the next ten years, which could create up to 1,000 jobs. 05-Mar-2009 Marley Eternit is to shed up to 65 of the 172 jobs at its building materials manufacturing business in Madeley Heath, Staffordshire. 05-Mar-2009 Cardiff Council is to increase spending on council house improvements from £12m to £17m, which should create about 100 jobs. 05-Mar-2009 OBAS UK is to create up to 20 sales jobs at its Lancashire-based builders' merchants, having formed a partnership with manufacturer Sinops, which has 23 factories in China. 04-Mar-2009 Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners is to shed 35 jobs at its architectural firm in London. 03-Mar-2009 Colliers CRE is to relocate its Birmingham-based property services office and 60 staff to a 5,600 sq ft unit at Brindleyplace. 02-Mar-2009 Manchester Metropolitan University has unveiled plans for the development of a new £70m campus for 5,000 students in Hulme. 02-Mar-2009 Laing O'Rourke is to create a further 1,000 positions for construction apprentices, in partnership with ConstructionSkills, and 200 will be recruited this year. 02-Mar-2009 McCarthy & Stone is planning a pre-pack administration that will divide its housebuilding business into two parts. 02-Mar-2009 The University of Strathclyde is planning to build a £37m six-storey Faculty of Education at its John Anderson campus by 2011, housing about 385 staff. 26-Feb-2009 Caledonian Building Systems has shed 30 jobs at its prefabricated buildings business in Carlton-on-Trent. 26-Feb-2009 Breckland Council is to outsource its planning and building control department to Capita Symonds, in a £40m deal that will involve the transfer of about 50 staff. 26-Feb-2009 Redrow is to shed a further 90 of the 740 jobs in its Flintshire-based housebuilding business. 25-Feb-2009 HSS is planning to open six tool hire depots of up to 30,000 sq ft this year, and Savills has been appointed to advise on its property portfolio. 24-Feb-2009 Mapeley, the Guernsey-based property outsourcing firm, is to be returned to private ownership by Fortress Investment Group. 23-Feb-2009 Charnwood Borough Council has approved outline plans for the development of Loughborough Science & Enterprise Park on a 26-acre site owned by Loughborough University, which could create up to 3,000 jobs. 23-Feb-2009 Hewlett Civil Engineering of Leeds is to shed 30 jobs from its 400-strong workforce. 19-Feb-2009 Oldfield Watson is to go into liquidation with the loss of 19 jobs at its West Yorkshire-based construction business. 19-Feb-2009 May Gurney is to shed up to 150 jobs at its construction operations in Devon and Cornwall by the end of September, following the completion of a contract with South West Water. 19-Feb-2009 Impact Insulation is to open a new insulation supply branch at the Wellington Employment Park in Liverpool, with the creation of 45 jobs by the end of May. 19-Feb-2009 RG Carter is to shed about 50 more jobs at its Fisher and H Bullen construction operations in Fakenham and Cromer. 19-Feb-2009 Simon Carves, the Cheadle Hulme-based construction group, is to shed up to 99 jobs from its workforce of 234 permanent staff and 270 contract workers. 18-Feb-2009 JCB is to shed 97 of the 440 jobs at its heavy excavators factory in Uttoxeter. 17-Feb-2009 Hyder Consulting is to shed 400 jobs in its engineering support services business. 16-Feb-2009 Nextek UK has gone into liquidation through Hazelwoods with the loss of 50 jobs at its Stroud-based building contracting business. 12-Feb-2009 Portakabin is to shed about 80 of the 700 jobs at its portable buildings manufacturing plant in York. 11-Feb-2009 Lafarge is to mothball its cement manufacturing plant in Westbury, with the loss of most of the 68 jobs. 09-Feb-2009 Gwynedd Council is to consider plans for a new prison on a 27-acre site in Caernarfon, which will create up to 1,000 jobs. 09-Feb-2009 Eildon Housing is to relocate 80 housing association staff from six offices in the Borders to a new headquarters at Ettrick Riverside in Selkirk in June. 05-Feb-2009 Powertherm Access Services is to relocate its Yorkshire-based scaffolding business to the Carcroft Enterprise Park in Doncaster, providing training facilities for its 180 staff. 03-Feb-2009 The University of Ulster has unveiled plans to invest £250m in the expansion of its four campuses in Belfast, Jordanstown, Magee and Coleraine. 03-Feb-2009 City Living Developments is considering Swansea and a site in East Anglia as potential locations for a new factory to manufacture modular buildings, which could create more than 200 jobs. 03-Feb-2009 The University of Bristol has submitted plans to build a new £80m science and maths complex in Kingsdown. 29-Jan-2009 Security People is to recruit up to 300 additional staff in Doncaster this year, having won a number of new contracts for its security and cleaning services. 27-Jan-2009 Atkins is to shed up to 260 jobs at its design consultancy offices in Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Leeds, London, Newcastle, Oxford, Sheffield and Stockton. 26-Jan-2009 The Foreign & Commonwealth Office is planning to set up a 35,000 sq ft office at the Cornerstone building in Milton Keynes, with the relocation of staff from London and an existing office nearby. 26-Jan-2009 Manchester City Council is planning to relocate 1,500 staff to a temporary 150,000 sq ft office in Spinningfields, in order to refurbish the existing town hall. 26-Jan-2009 The National Construction College at Bircham Newton in Norfolk has won planning permission to invest £26m in the expansion of its training facilities by 2011. 22-Jan-2009 The University of Exeter has won permission to build a £18m expansion to its business school, with the creation of 60 jobs. 22-Jan-2009 DTZ is to shed up to 100 jobs at its commercial property offices across the country. 22-Jan-2009 Persimmon Homes is to close its office in Kirk Sandall, South Yorkshire, with the loss of 17 jobs, in order to transfer the work to York and Leeds. 22-Jan-2009 Cleveland Bridge is to create 200 new jobs at its Darlington-based building and engineering business, mainly to work on an offshore contract at Haverton Hill on the River Tees. 21-Jan-2009 Derby City Council is seeking a suitable 200,000 sq ft site for a new headquarters for its 1,970 staff. 19-Jan-2009 Colliers CRE is to shed a further 70 jobs from its property services business, which will mainly affect its London office. 19-Jan-2009 Arup is planning to shed up to 400 of the 4,200 jobs at its civil engineering operations across the UK. 15-Jan-2009 British Gypsum is to shed 30 of the 250 jobs at its plasterboard factory in Kirkby Thore, Cumbria. 14-Jan-2009 Cushman & Wakefield is to shed up to 80 jobs at its property services offices across the country over the next two months. 13-Jan-2009 Marshalls is considering plans to close two concrete plants at Llay in North Wales and Hambrook in West Sussex, with the loss of 80 jobs, and a further 55 jobs could be lost in its consumer division. 13-Jan-2009 JCB is planning to shed a further 684 jobs at construction equipment factories in Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Wrexham. 13-Jan-2009 Bovis Homes has announced plans to shed a further 200 jobs from its housebuilding business. 12-Jan-2009 Cemex has unveiled plans to invest £2m in the development of a new cement plant at the Titanic Quarter in Belfast. 12-Jan-2009 Terra Solutions is investing £2.1m in a new facility in Newry, with the creation of eight jobs in Newry and 14 overseas, as part of the acquisition and expansion of the drilling and tunnelling operation of McAllister Brothers. 09-Jan-2009 Strutt & Parker is to shed about 15 jobs from its nationwide chain of property consultancy offices by February. 09-Jan-2009 Land Registry has offered early retirement to all staff over 50 and a voluntary early-release scheme for all administration staff, which could result in the loss of more than 1,000 jobs at offices across the country. 08-Jan-2009 May Gurney is to shed 56 jobs at its construction business in Norfolk, in order to reduce its private housing and commercial property work. 08-Jan-2009 Highcross has submitted plans for a 1m sq ft development at the Lakeside North Harbour site in Portsmouth, including offices, a hotel, car dealership and conference centre. 06-Jan-2009 Bertram Edwards has ceased trading with the loss of 21 jobs at its builders' merchants in Shrewsbury. 06-Jan-2009 Cognita is planning to expand its chain of 46 independent schools to 100 over the next four years. 05-Jan-2009
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