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Silverdell is to acquire Redhill Analysts, the Dorking-based asbestos and environmental consultancy with four offices, for up to £10m.
21-Dec-2006
Wolseley has announced six new acquisitions for a total £27m, including Hudson Plumbing Supplies of Canada, Onda-Lay Pipe & Rental of the US, Page's Appliances of the US, Tonto Verde Construction of the US, Atout K-RO of France and Etablissments Pochon Felix of France.
21-Dec-2006
Sillars Holdings, the Hartlepool-based road construction company with 190 staff, has been acquired by Downer EDI of Australia.
18-Dec-2006
MSW, the Long Eaton-based supplier of commercial flooring systems with 200 staff, has undergone a £24m management buy-out backed by Barclays Ventures.
18-Dec-2006
Wraith, the provider of portable accommodation units, is to be acquired by TDR Capital for £30m.
18-Dec-2006
Knight Frank, the property services firm, is to relocate its London headquarters from Hanover Square to a 55,000 sq ft office at 55 Baker Street.
15-Dec-2006
Eleco has acquired Asta, the Thame-based construction project management software company with 54 staff, for £7.6m.
14-Dec-2006
Colliers CRE has acquired two surveying firms for a total £3.9m, including Jansons of Uxbridge with 25 staff and Paul & Company with 12 staff in Wetherby, Glasgow and Bristol.
14-Dec-2006
Akeler and Arlington Securities are planning to relocate their London-based property development staff to a 20,000 sq ft office in Old Burlington Street in 2007.
13-Dec-2006
NPS Property Consultants has acquired John Packer Associates, the East Sussex-based building services company with 20 staff.
11-Dec-2006
ERDC, the Edinburgh-based civil engineering and sports surfaces group with 133 staff, has undergone a management buy-out for undisclosed terms.
11-Dec-2006
McNicholas, the London-based utility contractor with 1,300 staff, is to be acquired by Skanska of Sweden for about £50m.
11-Dec-2006
Castle Cement is planning to build a £10m cement mill at its Padeswood production plant in North Wales by 2008.
11-Dec-2006
Scott Wilson has acquired Cameron Taylor, the London-based consulting engineer with 330 staff at ten offices, for £14m, as well as DGP, the Manchester-based consultancy with 180 staff, for £14m.
08-Dec-2006
Begbies Traynor has sold Rockfield Civil Engineering out of administration to a management team, securing the future of about 15 jobs in Leicester.
08-Dec-2006
Thompson Building Centres has acquired Fossway Builders' Merchants, which has 50 staff at sites in Newcastle and Gateshead, and is now planning to invest £2m in a new warehouse, branch renovations and the creation of 20 jobs.
06-Dec-2006
Hall & Partners is to relocate its building consultancy and up to 35 staff from West Road in Newcastle to a new £2m 15,000 sq ft site at the Gosforth Business Park at the end of 2007.
05-Dec-2006
Savills has acquired Hepher Dixon, the regeneration specialist with 80 staff at offices in London, Milton Keynes, Leeds and Cardiff, as well as Peterborough-based property firm Dickens Watts & Dade.
05-Dec-2006
Lafarge of France is to sell its roofing business to PAI Partners for £1.3bn.
05-Dec-2006
Veris has acquired two property management companies in Ireland - Glenrye Properties Services and Premier Property Management - for an initial £5.4m.
04-Dec-2006
Lambert Smith Hampton is to acquire Young & Butt, the property agency with 25 staff at offices in Southampton and Fareham, for undisclosed terms, as part of a strategy to double the size of its business over the next five years.
27-Nov-2006
Atisreal is to acquire Neilson Holt, the Southampton-based property agency with nine staff.
27-Nov-2006
Skelair has acquired Crushing & Recycling, the Preston-based reclamation firm, for undisclosed terms.
27-Nov-2006
Canary Wharf Contractors is planning to expand its 150-strong workforce in London with 70 additional staff, including planners, cost managers and project managers.
27-Nov-2006
Ennstone Johnston has acquired May Gurney Surfacing, the Norfolk-based surfacing contractor, for £0.5m.
24-Nov-2006
Speedy Hire is planning to support the growth of its tool hire business by setting up a training academy and increasing its IT spending by £11m.
23-Nov-2006
Tees Valley Regeneration has signed a development agreement with BioRegional Quintain for the £200m redevelopment of the Middlehaven site in Middlesbrough, including offices, shops, homes and a hotel.
23-Nov-2006
Peterborough Regional College has secured funding of £10m to build a new campus in partnership with Anglian Ruskin University over the next three years.
22-Nov-2006
Erinaceous has acquired Nolan Associates, the civil and structural engineer with 60 staff in Birmingham and Leicester, for £13m.
22-Nov-2006
George Wimpey is to relocate its South Yorkshire headquarters and up to 50 staff from Rotherham to a new building due for completion at Sheffield Business Park by the end of the year.
21-Nov-2006
Waveney District Council is planning to set up a new £40m headquarters in Lowestoft by 2009, which will force the relocation of companies currently housed on five plots of land in Riverside Road.
20-Nov-2006
Foxtons, the London-based estate agency with 1,200 staff in the UK, is considering plans for a £400m flotation, in order to fund its expansion programme in the US.
20-Nov-2006
Build Center is acquiring three builders' merchants in Stockport, Wallasey and Liverpool from Murdock Group.
20-Nov-2006
Mouchel Parkman is to acquire Ewan Group for up to £11m, Traffic Support Limited for up to £26m and the Hornagold & Hills partnership for up to £11m, in order to expand its highways, water and management consultancy.
17-Nov-2006
RPS is to acquire Thonger Safety Associates, the East Sussex-based environmental services company, for £2.5m, as well as Harper Somers O'Sullivan of Australia for £1.2m.
17-Nov-2006
HML Holdings has acquired London & Provincial Properties, the Hendon-based property management company, for £0.2m.
17-Nov-2006
Silvanus Services has merged with Landscapes Southwest of Calstock, creating a combined environmental contracting group with 100 staff at seven offices across the South West and Midlands.
17-Nov-2006
Derwent Valley has agreed to acquire London Merchant Securities for £1bn, creating a combined London-based property development group called Derwent London with 5.6m sq ft of office space.
15-Nov-2006
Space2Work has acquired FP Construction, the Wakefield-based office refurbishment company with 22 staff, for undisclosed terms.
14-Nov-2006
Akeler, the London-based property developer with 38 staff, is expected to be sold by Macquarie Global Property Advisors to Macquarie Goodman for £640m.
14-Nov-2006
White Young Green has acquired Adams Kara Taylor, the London-based civil engineering consultancy, for £10m.
14-Nov-2006
Esh Group is planning to buy William Dobson, the Tyneside-based electrical contractor with 20 staff, out of administration.
13-Nov-2006
Dartington College of Arts is looking into the possibility of relocating to Cornwall in 2009 or later, in order to merge with University College Falmouth.
08-Nov-2006
Davidson Partnership, the Birmingham-based quantity surveyor with 25 staff, has been acquired by Oxford-based building consultants Ridge for undisclosed terms.
08-Nov-2006
Supporta has acquired Bay Associates Consulting, the Cardiff-based firm of civil and structural consulting engineers with 36 staff, for an initial £1.9m.
07-Nov-2006
Severn Trent has sold Severn Trent Property, including 500 acres of development land in distribution hubs across the Midlands, to Prologis Development for £72m.
07-Nov-2006
GD Contract Services is planning to expand the 75-strong workforce at its North Tyneside-based cleaning business with 35 new jobs by the end of 2007.
07-Nov-2006
Erinaceous has acquired Painter Salter, the Birmingham-based commercial property management firm with 11 staff, for £0.8m.
06-Nov-2006
Jarvis is to sell its Prismo road markings business to Ennis Paint of the US for £9.5m.
06-Nov-2006
Hanson Building Products is to submit plans to centralise its sales and administration operations at its Stewartby brickworks in Bedfordshire by 2009, with the relocation of up to 200 jobs.
03-Nov-2006
Wolseley has acquired six companies for £61m, including Gulf Refrigeration Supply, Kandall Fabricating & Supply, Lee Window & Door and Perfection Truss of the US, Woodcote of the Czech Republic and Hjalmars of Sweden.
03-Nov-2006
South Cheshire College has unveiled proposals for the £47m redevelopment of its campus in Crewe, including a new "eco-friendly learning base".
02-Nov-2006
Pyeroy is planning to expand the 900-strong workforce at its Gateshead-based contract painting business to 1,050 over the next three years.
02-Nov-2006
Cambridge University is to set up a £6m Kavli Institute for Cosmology to study the origins of the universe, but its Intel Research Lab will close.
02-Nov-2006
National Britannia has acquired Corporate Governance through Controls Assurance, the Oxfordshire-based company that assesses building risk for asbestos and legionnaires' disease.
01-Nov-2006
Lafarge is to invest about £2m at its Cauldon cement works in Staffordshire by the end of next year, including new packing and storage facilities.
31-Oct-2006
Speedy Hire has acquired Lifting Gear Hire, the lifting equipment rental company with 309 staff at 34 depots, for £13m.
31-Oct-2006
Atisreal has acquired Fuller Peiser, the commercial property services company with 220 staff at six offices in London, Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, Sheffield and Edinburgh.
30-Oct-2006
John Laing, the construction group with a portfolio of 50 PFI and PPP projects, has accepted a £957m takeover offer from Allianz of Germany.
30-Oct-2006
Stockland, the Australian property trust, is to set up a headquarters in London with about six staff, in order to handle its European expansion programme.
30-Oct-2006
Strutt & Parker is to expand its London head office at 13 Hill Street into an adjacent site, in order to create a combined 34,000 sq ft office.
25-Oct-2006
Robinson & Sawdon, the Hull-based construction company with 45 staff, has undergone a management buy-in for undisclosed terms.
24-Oct-2006
White Young Green has acquired Trench Farrow, the project management consultancy based in London and Swindon, for £4.5m.
24-Oct-2006
Fenland District Council has approved plans from the East of England Development Agency for the £47m Nene Waterfront Regeneration Project in Wisbech, including housing and business units.
23-Oct-2006
Bison has sold Bison Structures, its Tetbury-based structural steel fabrication division, to SIAC Construction of Ireland.
23-Oct-2006
Wren Homes is planning to raise £3m in a flotation on Aim to fund the expansion of its housing development business.
23-Oct-2006
Elmondstone Construction, the Willenhall-based contractor with more than 100 staff, is planning to double the size of its business over the next 12 months.
23-Oct-2006
Hydrex has acquired Gorrel, the New Forest-based construction equipment rental company, for undisclosed terms.
23-Oct-2006
GVA Grimley is in the process of relocating its Leeds-based property consultancy and 75 staff to a new 10,250 sq ft office at City Point.
19-Oct-2006
Simpson (York) is to relocate the headquarters of its construction business from Osbaldwick to Chessingham Park in Dunnington over the next few years.
19-Oct-2006
Scott Wilson Group is to acquire Ferguson McIlveen, the property and infrastructure consultancy with 250 staff in Belfast, Glasgow, Chester, Guildford, Leeds, Middlesbrough and Swansea, for £10m.
18-Oct-2006
Ashtead Group has acquired Lux Traffic Controls, the Wiltshire-based supplier of traffic control systems with a nationwide network of 44 depots, for £16m.
18-Oct-2006
Stonemartin has agreed to acquire a 100,000 sq ft office at Hanro's planned £55m scheme in the centre of Newcastle upon Tyne, in order to set up a regional office for the Institute of Directors.
18-Oct-2006
Morson has acquired Bluetec, the London-based provider of professional personnel to the construction industry with 41 staff, for £2m.
17-Oct-2006
Burnley College is to build a new £70m campus on the site of a former mill in Princess Way by September 2009.
16-Oct-2006
Southwark Council is seeking a suitable site to set up a new 300,000 sq ft headquarters.
16-Oct-2006
Hertfordshire County Council is considering plans to relocate 1,500 staff to a 155,000 sq ft Norwich Union office in Stevenage by 2008, and Norwich Union will relocate its staff to an adjacent site.
16-Oct-2006
Stag Security Services of Harrogate is setting up an office in Gateshead, and expects to create up to 200 security and facilities management jobs in the region.
13-Oct-2006
GE Robinson & Co, the Salford-based timber company with 120 staff, has been acquired by Haldane Fisher of Northern Ireland for more than £7m.
11-Oct-2006
Wolseley has expanded its plumbing and heating products business with the £111m acquisition of three US companies - Lawrence Plumbing, Murdock ECD and Northern Water Works Supply - and Finnish kitchen cabinet distributor Helatukku.
10-Oct-2006
Keller Group has acquired Anderson Drilling, the US-based provider of heavy foundations, for £11m.
09-Oct-2006
Erinaceous has acquired Monaghans, the quantity surveyor with 65 staff in Sheffield, Manchester, Kendall, London and Edinburgh.
09-Oct-2006
Osborne has sold Cathedral Works Organisation, its Chichester-based stonemasonry subsidiary with 81 staff, to a management buy-out.
06-Oct-2006
Wright Group is planning to expand the 66-strong workforce at its Hull-based house-building and commercial property business with up to ten new sales and construction staff this year.
05-Oct-2006
Colliers CRE is to raise £16m in a rights issue to fund the expansion of its property agency.
05-Oct-2006
Farley is expanding its property services business with the £5.3m acquisition of three companies - Calcutt Maclean Standen West Kent, BTF Lester of Kent and Blenheim Bishop of London.
05-Oct-2006
Leadbitter has acquired Denne Construction of Kent for £17m, in order to strengthen its position in the affordable housing sector.
04-Oct-2006
Lotus Construction, the Otley-based construction company with annual turnover of £19m, has undergone a £2.6m management buy-out.
02-Oct-2006
Rok is to acquire Tulloch Construction Group, the building and related services business with 875 staff in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Elgin, Fort William, Inverness, Tain, Nairn and Thurso, for £31m.
28-Sep-2006
The Heath Business & Technical Park in Runcorn is planning a £20m expansion, as owner SOG is seeking permission for the development of an additional 200,000 sq ft of office space.
28-Sep-2006
Allied London, the London-based property developer, has undergone a £500m management buy-out backed by Royal Bank of Scotland and Delancey.
28-Sep-2006
Cemex is planning to build a £27m cement processing plant at Tilbury Docks in Essex by 2008.
27-Sep-2006
SMC Group has acquired four Scottish architectural firms for a total £11m, including Parr Architects, Jenkins & Marr, Davis Duncan and Hugh Martin, as well as Hickton Madeley of the Midlands for an initial £1m.
26-Sep-2006
Mercury Group is to sell its Navitas Hemway facilities management subsidiary to a management buy-out for £0.15m, in order to focus on its London-based commercial property agency.
20-Sep-2006
Stewart Milne has acquired Nuttall Construction, the Manchester-based housebuilder with about 100 staff, for undisclosed terms, and aims to double the size of the business over the next three years.
20-Sep-2006
WSP Group has acquired Environmental Strategies Consulting, the US-based environmental consultancy with 120 staff at ten offices, for £5.3m.
19-Sep-2006
Evans Easyspace is planning to expand its network of 37 workspace centres from 37 to 66 by 2008 by opening up to three new sites a month, and is particularly interested in the south of England.
18-Sep-2006
The Metropolitan Police Authority is to set up a 17,000 sq ft training facility at the new Telegraph headquarters in London's Victoria Central over the next few months.
18-Sep-2006
Regus is to invest up to £100m a year in acquisitions and setting up new serviced office centres, and is particularly interested in Asia.
12-Sep-2006
Heijmans is looking to acquire building contractors in the Midlands and the North, in order to expand its Leadbitter subsidiary.
11-Sep-2006
Cushman & Wakefield has acquired Andrew Mayer Tyser for undisclosed terms, in order to expand its property investment team in the City of London.
11-Sep-2006
Blue Boar Contracts has acquired Fen Ditching, the Cambridgeshire-based dredging contractor with seven staff, for undisclosed terms.
07-Sep-2006
Stewart Milne is planning to establish a housebuilding business in England by the end of the year, either through the acquisition of an unnamed company or by setting up its own operation.
07-Sep-2006
Balfour Beatty is expanding its new project management division at Wynyard Park on Teesside, and the workforce is expected to rise from 18 to 100 over the next year.
06-Sep-2006
Jackson Lloyd, the building maintenance firm, has launched a new apprentice training programme, and is also about to relocate its head office from Wigan to Skelmersdale.
05-Sep-2006
Faber Maunsell, the building engineering consultancy, is to relocate its London headquarters to a 37,000 sq ft office at the Johnson Building in Hatton Garden.
04-Sep-2006
Erinaceous is to acquire Egan Lawson, the London-based property investment company with 14 staff, for about £10m.
28-Aug-2006
Cardiff County Council has approved plans from Macob Exchange for the £20m restoration of the Coal Exchange in Cardiff Bay, including the creation of 116 apartments, offices, restaurants, bars and shops.
24-Aug-2006
CRH is to acquire Ashland Paving & Construction, the US-based asphalt and aggregates supplier, for £688m.
22-Aug-2006
Shouksmiths has acquired Keda Plumbing, the Bolton-based plumbing company with 20 staff.
21-Aug-2006
Berkeley Consulting, the construction consultancy with offices in Camberley, London, Glasgow and Birmingham, has been acquired by AYH for undisclosed terms.
21-Aug-2006
Hodkin & Jones has sold Decathlon Drainage, the high-performance drainage system, to Marshalls for undisclosed terms.
21-Aug-2006
Baggeridge Brick, the West Midlands-based brick supplier, is to be acquired by Wienerberger of Austria for £89m.
21-Aug-2006
Keller Group has acquired Piling Contractors, the Australian foundations contractor, for an initial £9.6m.
17-Aug-2006
Wolseley has acquired six companies for a total £36m, including Lunts Heath of Widnes, parts of Martin Architectural, Water Works Supplies and Palermo Supply of the US, Depont Materiaux of France and Marmon Keystone Anbuma of Belgium.
17-Aug-2006
Tarmac has sold its TopPave concrete landscaping blocks business, including sites in Pocklington and Poole, to Brett Landscaping & Building Products for undisclosed terms.
16-Aug-2006
McInerney has acquired Bowey, the Tyneside-based housebuilder, for £24m.
16-Aug-2006
Whitehead Building Services is planning to create more than 30 new jobs in Swansea.
14-Aug-2006
Edwin Hill, the firm of chartered surveyors, is to relocate 16 staff from Dartford to a new 3,000 sq ft office at the Crossways Business Park in Kent.
14-Aug-2006
Ennstone has acquired Jackson Precast, the East Midlands-based precast concrete manufacturer with 34 staff, for £6m.
09-Aug-2006
Cunnington Clark is to relocate its Peterborough-based building design services business and up to 20 staff to a new 29,000 sq ft site in Priestgate by the end of the year.
07-Aug-2006
SIG, the insulation supplier, is to set up an 80,000 sq ft warehouse, factory and office at the Knowsley Industrial Park in Liverpool.
07-Aug-2006
Maybin has acquired Grove Services Group for undisclosed terms, adding 2,300 staff to its existing 4,200-strong workforce in Northern Ireland and the Republic.
07-Aug-2006
Kier has acquired Hugh Bourn Developments, the Lincolnshire-based housebuilder, for £53m.
03-Aug-2006
McCarthy & Stone, the retirement homes builder, is to be acquired by a consortium led by HBOS for £1.06bn.
02-Aug-2006
Universal Aerial Platforms, the Essex-based access hire firm with 86 staff, has gone into administration through KPMG.
27-Jul-2006
Willmott Dixon is to sell its Widacre social housing division to Inspace for £65m.
26-Jul-2006
Wolseley is to acquire DT Group, the Danish building materials company, from CVC Capital Partners for £1bn.
25-Jul-2006
Regus is to acquire Managed Office Solutions, which has nine sites in London and the Thames Valley, for undisclosed terms.
24-Jul-2006
Hyder Consulting is to acquire ACLA, the planning and landscape architecture consultancy operating in China and Singapore, for an initial £3.2m.
21-Jul-2006
RPS has acquired Burks Green, the Newark-based architectural firm with about 200 staff, as well as associated companies Basicshare and Martindale Holdings, for up to £21m.
20-Jul-2006
MMP Group of Newton Aycliffe has sold its plastering and dry lining division out of administration to a management team operating under the name of Plaslines, securing the future of 41 jobs.
20-Jul-2006
GAP Group has acquired J&S Plant of Lincoln for £1.3m, taking its plant hire network to 56 sites.
20-Jul-2006
Ashtead is to acquire NationsRent, the US construction equipment rental company, for £548m.
20-Jul-2006
Rok has acquired Kingfisher Building Company, the West Midlands-based social housing company with about 50 staff, for £4.5m.
19-Jul-2006
Hanson has acquired Formpave, the Gloucestershire-based concrete block paving manufacturer, for undisclosed terms.
19-Jul-2006
Termrim Construction is to relocate its Huddersfield headquarters to a 6,000 sq ft office being built at Bradley Business Park next spring.
07-Jul-2006
GLJ Interiors, the Willenhall-based suspended ceilings and partitioning company with 12 staff, has undergone a £1.2m management buy-out.
07-Jul-2006
Renfrewshire Council has sold its Paisley headquarters to developers Westpoint Homes, and about 1,200 staff will relocate to an adjacent office block.
06-Jul-2006
Connaught has acquired the contract maintenance business and 200 staff of Botes Building out of administration for £3.3m, but Botes sister company HN Edwards is now in administration, affecting 127 staff in Basingstoke and Witney.
05-Jul-2006
Basildon Council has unveiled proposals for the £900m redevelopment of the town centre, including 3,600 new homes, shops and restaurants, and will seek investment from the private sector.
04-Jul-2006
MJ Gleeson has sold Concrete Repairs, its Surrey-based division with 200 staff, to a management buy-out for £3m.
04-Jul-2006
Regus is planning to double its serviced office space to 6m sq ft over the next three years, having appointed Jones Lang LaSalle to find 108 centres.
03-Jul-2006
White Young Green has acquired Nolan Ryan Partnership, the Irish quantity surveying and project management company with 72 staff, for £10m.
30-Jun-2006
The University of Strathclyde has confirmed plans to relocate its teacher training centre and 300 staff to a new £50m building in Glasgow city centre in 2010.
29-Jun-2006
Dumfries & Galloway College has secured £22m from the Scottish Funding Council to relocate from Heathhall to the Crichton campus in Dumfries in 2008.
29-Jun-2006
Rollalong Hire, the Dorset-based portable accommodation supplier with eight regional hire centres, has undergone a £11m management buy-out backed by Barclays Ventures.
29-Jun-2006
The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office is looking to set up a new 130,000 sq ft headquarters building in Taunton to house its 850 staff, and is currently seeking a development partner.
29-Jun-2006
Kingspan has acquired Xtratherm Group, the rigid board insulation manufacturer with sites in Chesterfield and Ireland, for up to £60m.
27-Jun-2006
Balfour Beatty is to acquire Birse, the regional construction, civil engineering and plant hire company, for £32m.
27-Jun-2006
MWB Business Exchange is looking to open six serviced office centres in London, Bristol and Newcastle this summer.
26-Jun-2006
Silverdell, the asbestos removal company, is to be acquired by cash shell Bow Lane Capital in a £22m reverse takeover.
26-Jun-2006
Lavendon has acquired AMP Access, the supplier of powered access machines with 57 staff at four depots in the south-west, for £3m.
22-Jun-2006
Wolseley has spent a further £89m on seven acquisitions, including Ivybridge Building Supplies of Devon and a number of US-based distributors of plumbing and heating products.
22-Jun-2006
West Lindsey District Council is to build a new £4.3m four-storey headquarters in Gainsborough.
22-Jun-2006
Foster Yeoman, the Somerset-based building materials company with 700 staff, is to be acquired by Holcim of Switzerland for an estimated £300m.
22-Jun-2006
Cushman & Wakefield, the property agency, is planning to open an office in Birmingham, which could eventually employ up to 50 staff.
22-Jun-2006
Vail Williams has acquired Property Management Services, the Birmingham-based commercial property consultancy with six staff.
21-Jun-2006
Silcock Dawson has acquired John Ryan Partnership, the Leeds-based building services company.
20-Jun-2006
GVA Grimley has acquired Osmond Tricks, the Bristol-based property consultancy, and the 20 Osmond Tricks staff will relocate to the GVA Grimley office at University Gate next month.
20-Jun-2006
Mears has acquired Laidlaw Scott, the Glasgow-based maintenance contractor, for an initial £2.1m.
19-Jun-2006
Lagan has bought the specialist piling division of Dew Construction from the receivers of parent company Dew Pitchmastic, securing the future of 25 jobs.
15-Jun-2006
ECHG, the English Churches Housing Group, is to merge with The Riverside Group later this year, creating a new Liverpool-based national housing association, but up to 175 ECHG jobs will be lost in Leicester.
15-Jun-2006
Barratt Developments is to acquire Squire Bridge, the Guildford-based property developer, for £25m.
15-Jun-2006
Rok Property Solutions is planning to open new offices in Birmingham, Leeds and Edinburgh for its Rok Development division over the next two years.
15-Jun-2006
DCT Civil Engineering has bought the frameworks and regions divisions of Dew Construction out of receivership for undisclosed terms, securing the future of 40 jobs in Oldham and Coventry.
14-Jun-2006
Savills has acquired Hamilton Osborne King, the Irish commercial property company with 250 staff, for £34m.
14-Jun-2006
Rentokil Initial is to sell its US-based manned guarding operations to Allied Security Holdings for £40m.
13-Jun-2006
Markham Vaughan Gillingham has acquired Edwards Hardwick & Partners, the Bristol-based warehouse property specialist, for undisclosed terms.
12-Jun-2006
Bizspace, the managed workspace provider, is to be acquired by Highcross for £77m.
09-Jun-2006
Hyder Consulting has acquired Munnich Projekt und Entwicklungsgesellschaft, the German civil engineering firm with 15 staff, for £0.3m.
08-Jun-2006
JP Corry, the Belfast-based network of 14 builders' merchants, has been acquired by Saint-Gobain of France for £75m.
07-Jun-2006
Pitchmastic PmB, the Sheffield-based supplier of structural waterproofing and anti-skid roads with 44 staff, has been acquired by Washington-based GJP Holdings.
07-Jun-2006
Pochin has sold its Pipeline Drillers division to a management team for £0.4m.
05-Jun-2006
MJ Gleeson is to relocate its head office from Cheam to Fleet in Hampshire with the loss of about 70 jobs.
05-Jun-2006
Crest Nicholson is setting up a new 23,000 sq ft headquarters at Cranmer House in Chertsey.
05-Jun-2006
Ultraframe, the Clitheroe-based conservatory roofing company, is to be acquired by Latium Holdings for £29m.
05-Jun-2006
Eaga Group has acquired Everwarm, the Livingston-based insulation and heating provider with 130 staff, from Tulloch.
01-Jun-2006
Esh Group has bought Stephen Easten out of administration, securing 105 jobs at the Northumberland-based property restoration business.
01-Jun-2006
BSS, the builders' merchant, is looking to open up to 100 new branches over the next three years, and is particularly interested in the south-east.
31-May-2006
SMC Group is to acquire Charter Partnership, the architecture firm with 120 staff at offices in London, Bedford, Bournemouth and Ipswich, for an initial £3.6m.
31-May-2006
Rugby Estates is to relocate its London headquarters from Covent Garden to a 5,560 sq ft office at Farm Street in Mayfair.
29-May-2006
Capita Symonds has acquired Ruddle Wilkinson, the firm of architects with offices in Peterborough and London, for undisclosed terms.
25-May-2006
Invensys has sold its building management systems operations in the US and Asia to Schneider Electric of France for £157m.
25-May-2006
Francis Graves has acquired Rose Project Services, the project management and building consultancy with 32 staff in London, Tewkesbury and Bristol, for undisclosed terms.
24-May-2006
Integral Services, the Bristol-based facilities management company with 2,000 staff at 12 sites, has undergone a secondary management buy-out backed by Momentum Corporate Finance.
23-May-2006
Caterpillar is to set up a 132,000 sq ft industrial equipment distribution centre at RD Park in Hinckley.
22-May-2006
Montagu Evans, the property consultancy, is to relocate its London headquarters and 150 staff to a 34,000 sq ft office in Clarges Street in September.
22-May-2006
Knight Frank, the property agency, is in negotiations to set up a 55,000 sq ft office at Berkeley Square House in London.
22-May-2006
AE Yates has acquired Steel Pile Installations, the Lancaster-based sheet piling contractor, for undisclosed terms.
22-May-2006
Nottingham Regeneration is to invest £18m in a number of new industrial development schemes this year, which could lead to the creation of up to 200 jobs.
18-May-2006
Eastlake Group of East Kilbride has acquired Calvert Morgan of Northern Ireland, creating a combined commercial interiors business with 130 staff and turnover of £27m.
17-May-2006
Jones Lang LaSalle is to acquire Rogers Chapman, the commercial property company with 60 staff in London, Cranford and Bracknell.
17-May-2006
T Jolly Services, the Lancashire-based building contractor with 140 staff, has merged with Norman Peplow Electrical, the Preston-based company with 19 staff.
16-May-2006
Speedy Hire has acquired LCH Generators, the generator hire company with 196 staff at depots in Glasgow, Aberdeen, Wigan, Coventry, London and Portsmouth, for £55m.
16-May-2006
May Gurney is planning to raise about £10m in a flotation on Aim to fund the expansion of its Norfolk-based construction services business.
15-May-2006
Jones Lang LaSalle, the property services company, is to relocate about 350 London-based staff from Hanover Square to a 40,000 sq ft office at Canary Wharf.
12-May-2006
Knight Frank has acquired C2G Property Solutions, the industrial property firm, for undisclosed terms.
12-May-2006
Caradon District Council is considering plans to build a new £8m headquarters, having identified a suitable site on the outskirts of Liskeard.
12-May-2006
Minster Insulation & Dry Lining is planning to open eight new outlets nationwide this year, having just opened a 24,000 sq ft distribution hub in Exeter.
11-May-2006
Clark Contracts is creating 75 jobs in Paisley and Edinburgh, with vacancies for contract managers, joiners, quantity surveyors, tilers and decorators.
05-May-2006
Wolseley has acquired a number of US companies for £49m, including Efficient Electric, United Electric, United Plumbing, DSI and Davies Water Equipment Company.
05-May-2006
Tulloch has acquired RPA, the Bathgate-based supplier of insulated wall panels with 20 staff.
04-May-2006
PJ Musgrave of Matlock has merged with Paul Adams of the West Midlands to create a combined electrical services contractor called PJM Adams with more than 70 staff.
03-May-2006
Interserve has acquired MacLellan Group, the Redditch-based facilities management company with 14 offices nationwide, for £118m.
03-May-2006
Bruce Shaw Group has sold BSFM, the Irish facilities management company, to Newcourt Group for £3.3m.
28-Apr-2006
Wilson Bowden has acquired Roland Bardsley Homes, the housebuilder with nine sites near Manchester, for £25m.
27-Apr-2006
Tanfield Group has acquired the powered aerial platform equipment business of UpRight for £7.3m, including operations in Ireland, Japan and the US.
27-Apr-2006
Wolseley has acquired AC Electrical, the electrical products distributor with 40 branches, for £18m, as well as K&R Building Supplies of Penzance and US-based companies Davis Homes and Pipe Products.
25-Apr-2006
Carillion is to sell Environmental Sciences Group, the testing solutions consultancy with 800 staff and 16 offices, to Inspicio for £16m.
25-Apr-2006
Lambert Smith Hampton is to acquire Poolman Harlow, the Swansea-based property agency, taking its nationwide office network to 28.
24-Apr-2006
Blackburn with Darwen Council is to consider plans from Blackburn Cathedral Developments for the £45m redevelopment of the area around Blackburn Cathedral, including offices, 100 new homes and a library.
24-Apr-2006
Interior Services Group is to acquire the Asian operating businesses of ISG Asia for about £5m, including facilities management and project management services employing over 280 staff.
21-Apr-2006
Regus is to buy back a 58% stake in its UK serviced offices business from Alchemy Partners for £88m.
20-Apr-2006
AFI Aerial is to acquire Alan Drew, the supplier of high-rise platforms with sites in Watford, Woolwich, Milton Keynes and Loughborough, for undisclosed terms.
20-Apr-2006
Macalloy, the supplier of architectural tensioning rod systems to the construction industry, is to relocate from Sheffield to Rotherham.
19-Apr-2006
Cardiff County Council is to consider plans from Macob Exchange for the £20m transformation of the historic Coal Exchange building, including 200,000 sq ft of offices, shops, apartments, bars and restaurants.
18-Apr-2006
Schmidlin UK, the cladding company, has been bought out of administration by Lindner of Germany, but the future of the 250 staff is not yet certain.
18-Apr-2006
Caledonian Building Systems, the modular building contractor with annual turnover of £80m, has been acquired by Champion Enterprises.
18-Apr-2006
CBRE has acquired Austin Adams, the property and land development agency with 24 staff in Southampton, Portsmouth and Bournemouth.
14-Apr-2006
English Heritage is to vacate its London headquarters in Savile Row in June, in order to relocate staff to offices in Bunhill Row, Waterhouse Square and the regions.
14-Apr-2006
Reading Borough Council is considering five bids for the development of a new 124,000 sq ft headquarters, and aims to relocate its 1,000 staff to the new site in 2010.
14-Apr-2006
Keller Group is to acquire Phi Group, the excavation contractor with offices in Dunfermline, Harrogate and Cheltenham, for an initial £5m.
11-Apr-2006
Clarion Homes, the Yarm-based housebuilder with 40 staff, has been acquired by Woodford Group for undisclosed terms.
11-Apr-2006
Brighton & Hove Council is to consider plans from Cathedral Group for the £100m redevelopment of the former market in Circus Street, including 180 homes, shops, offices, industrial units and dance studios.
11-Apr-2006
University of Warwick has unveiled proposals to expand the size of its campus by 40%, in a 15-year plan that would provide accommodation for an extra 2,000 students.
10-Apr-2006
Wolseley has acquired Nevill Long, the supplier of interior building products with nine branches, from James Latham for £10m.
05-Apr-2006
Homeserve is to acquire the glazing division of Pilkington Building Products for £6.5m, including seven branches and 113 staff.
05-Apr-2006
RTT, the Wallington-based electrical and mechanical services company, has sold RTT Group and RTT Engineering Services out of administration to a former manager, with the transfer of 250 staff.
05-Apr-2006
Scottish & Southern Energy has sold Thermal Transfer, the supplier of clean manufacturing environments with 425 staff in East Kilbride, Glossop and Swindon, to the ETDE subsidiary of Bouygues Construction for £20m.
04-Apr-2006
Styles & Wood, the store refurbishment and fit-out company, is considering plans for a flotation over the next 12 months, in order to raise funds for acquisitions.
30-Mar-2006
Hyder Consulting has acquired Livic, the owner of the Bettridge Turner & Partners land development and town planning business with 75 staff.
30-Mar-2006
Wolseley is to acquire Brandon Hire, the chain of 143 tool hire outlets, for £72m.
29-Mar-2006
White Young Green has acquired Farningham McCreadie Partnership, the town planning consultancy with offices in Edinburgh and Belfast, for £2.2m.
29-Mar-2006
White Young Green has acquired Tweeds, the construction consultancy with 150 staff in London, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Mold and the Isle of Man, for an initial £11m.
29-Mar-2006
SMC Group has acquired Alstop Design, the architect with offices in London, Canada, China and Singapore, for £1.8m.
28-Mar-2006
MKM Building Supplies of Hull is planning to expand its branch network from 19 to 40 over the next three years, having secured a £21m investment from venture capital firm 3i.
28-Mar-2006
Savills has acquired Blair Kirkman, the retail property company, for about £10m, and 26 staff will relocate to Savills' Grosvenor Hill office in London in May.
27-Mar-2006
Lafarge is to build a plasterboard factory next to the Ferrybridge power station near Castleford.
27-Mar-2006
JCB is seeking permission for the £2.5m expansion of its Cab Systems factory in Rugeley, with the creation of up to 75 jobs.
23-Mar-2006
IMI has sold Phoenix Interiors, the fit-out company with 35 staff, back to its original management team.
23-Mar-2006
East of England Development Agency is to award a £12m grant for the development of a new university on Ipswich Waterfront by September 2007, under the name of University Campus Suffolk.
22-Mar-2006
Jewson has acquired Connells Building Supplies, the Suffolk-based builders' merchant with sites in Framlingham, Ipswich, Woodbridge and Stowmarket, for undisclosed terms.
16-Mar-2006
Rentokil Initial has sold its Canadian manned guarding business to Garda World Security Corporation for £30m.
13-Mar-2006
Waveney Asphalt is planning to open a new £1.3m headquarters and asphalt plant for its 43-strong workforce at Ellough, near Beccles, this spring.
13-Mar-2006
Nottingham Trent University is considering plans to invest £70m in new buildings for its campus, including a large glass structure to link the Newton Building with the Victorian Arkwright Building.
13-Mar-2006
The Ministry of Defence is to announce plans to set up a new military academy to provide training for 10,000 non-commissioned officers, and is considering sites at St Athan in South Wales and Cosford in the West Midlands.
13-Mar-2006
Brandon Tool Hire is planning to expand its nationwide branch network from 143 to more than 250 over the next four years.
10-Mar-2006
TD Bingham and Nickson Davis have merged to create a combined Liverpool-based civil and structural engineering group with 40 staff.
09-Mar-2006
Beers is to relocate it Liverpool-based timber merchants and 40 staff to a new £2m site in Boundary Street this summer.
09-Mar-2006
The Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen is planning to invest £115m in new teaching and research facilities at its Garthdee campus by 2015.
09-Mar-2006
Mitie has acquired Initial Security, the manned guarding business of Rentokil Initial that has 6,000 staff at 18 branches, for £75m.
08-Mar-2006
Street CraneXpress of Sheffield has acquired Integral Cradles, the London-based facade access supplier.
08-Mar-2006
Mapeley is expected to win a Home Office contract to set up a new network of 69 passport offices, which will be used for the introduction of combined identity cards and passports.
08-Mar-2006
Drivers Jonas has acquired Erdman Lewis Rating, the property rating business with 14 staff in London and Reading.
06-Mar-2006
Galliford Try is to acquire Morrison Construction Services, Morrison Highway Maintenance and Morrison Project Investments from AWG for £42m, with the transfer of more than 1,500 staff at offices throughout the country.
03-Mar-2006
Hanson is to acquire Civil & Marine, the producer of cement substitutes with five grinding plants and four distribution depots, for £245m, as well as Material Service Corporation, the US aggregates producer, for £170m.
03-Mar-2006
Maybin Support Services, the Ballymena-based provider of cleaning, security, hygiene and facilities management services with more than 3,000 staff, has undergone a management buy-in for undisclosed terms.
03-Mar-2006
Kenmore Homes has acquired the Glasgow-based development and building operations of Hamilton Holdings for £6m, more than doubling its staff to about 50.
28-Feb-2006
Aberdeen City Council is planning to relocate its headquarters to the Marischal College site by 2008, and the estimated cost of bringing the historic building back into use is £40m.
28-Feb-2006
Huws Gray Fitlock has acquired four Wirral-based building firms for undisclosed terms - Heswall DIY, Redrock Designs, Ault Bros and Fabbies Builders & Timber Merchants.
27-Feb-2006
Finning UK, the construction equipment importer, is cutting an unspecified number of jobs at its Cannock headquarters, and is planning to relocate its MAK engines business from London to Poole.
27-Feb-2006
Lavendon has acquired Kestrel Powered Access, the Bristol-based company with 27 staff, for £4.3m.
23-Feb-2006
Ennstone has acquired Smiths Construction, the Newark-based road surfacing contractor with 102 staff, for £3.7m.
22-Feb-2006
Aberdeen City Council is to consider plans from Scottish Enterprise Grampian for the expansion of the 72-acre Aberdeen Science & Energy Park by a further 36 acres, in order to support inward investment by technology-based businesses.
22-Feb-2006
Mitie has acquired Lyndhurst Services, the grounds maintenance services company with 240 staff at sites across the country, for £9m.
21-Feb-2006
Amey has acquired Owen Williams, the Birmingham-based technical services company with 800 staff in four countries, for undisclosed terms.
20-Feb-2006
McInerney Holdings has acquired Augusta Developments, the Milton Keynes-based provider of social housing projects, for up to £6.3m.
16-Feb-2006
Lavendon Group has acquired Panther Work Platforms, the powered access machines supplier with 90 staff and six depots, for £7m.
15-Feb-2006
Scottish & Southern Energy has acquired Harrison Smith, the Batley-based plumbing and heating contractor with 50 staff, for about £1m, in order to expand its Southern Electric Contracting division.
13-Feb-2006
GSH Group has acquired AF Worxgroup, the building services contractor that includes Worxcare, Worxbuild and Worxclean, for £0.6m.
13-Feb-2006
Kennedy Construction is planning to create up to 100 jobs at a new manufacturing unit at the former Fullarton factory in Prestwick, in order to expand its housebuilding business.
13-Feb-2006
Speedy Hire has acquired the hire division of Caledonian Building for £14m and the survey assets and cabin fleets of Mowlem for £5m, in order to expand its steel site cabins business.
13-Feb-2006
Aggregate Industries has acquired Sitebatch and Roller Compacted Concrete, two Lincolnshire-based companies with 20 staff, for undisclosed terms, in order to expand its Bardon Contracting division.
13-Feb-2006
Faithful & Gould is planning to create 90 jobs at its Teesside-based project and cost management consultancy over the next five years, and a further 40 jobs will be created at its Tyneside office.
10-Feb-2006
Taggart Holdings is to acquire Cecil M Yuill, the Hartlepool-based housebuilder with 200 staff, for an estimated £60m.
09-Feb-2006
White Young Green has acquired JC Warnock Consulting Engineers, the Londonderry-based civil and structural consulting company, for £0.7m.
06-Feb-2006
Speedy Hire has acquired Caledonian Safemaker, the temporary accommodation hire company with five depots, for £14m.
03-Feb-2006
William Anelay, the York-based property restoration and conservation company with 120 staff, has undergone a management buy-out for undisclosed terms.
31-Jan-2006
Knight Frank, the property agency, is to relocate its City of London headquarters from King Street to a 5,130 sq ft site in Coleman Street, EC2, in March.
30-Jan-2006
Tarmac has acquired National Road Planning, the Lincolnshire-based provider of planning services, plant and equipment, from Rand Group for undisclosed terms.
27-Jan-2006
RTT, the electrical and mechanical services company with 250 staff in Wallington, Dover and Basingstoke, has undergone a management buy-out.
27-Jan-2006
Lafarge Cement UK is to relocate its headquarters and up to 100 staff from Oxfordshire to a new 60,000 sq ft office at the NEC in Birmingham by the end of 2007.
27-Jan-2006
Rightmove is planning a flotation in the spring, which could value the online property business at up to £300m.
26-Jan-2006
Ennstone has acquired Ayton Products' asphalt and aggregate operations near Norwich for £8.5m.
25-Jan-2006
Rydon Group, the property company, is to undergo a £100m management buy-out backed by KPMG Corporate Finance and Bank of Scotland.
25-Jan-2006
Hanson Building Products is to acquire Red Bank Manufacturing, the Derbyshire-based terracotta clay and concrete company, for undisclosed terms.
25-Jan-2006
Galliford Try has acquired Chartdale, the Lincolnshire-based housebuilder, for £67m, in order to expand its Stamford Homes division.
23-Jan-2006
Essex Fire & Rescue Service is looking into the possibility of relocating its headquarters and 300 staff from Brentwood to Kelvedon.
18-Jan-2006
BRC Special Products has acquired Capital Structures, the Huntingdon-based supplier of architectural metalwork and structural steel, for undisclosed terms.
12-Jan-2006
GVA Grimley has acquired Lamb & Edge, the Tyneside-based chartered surveyor with 25 fee earners.
11-Jan-2006
GAP Group is planning to open four more plant and tool hire depots this year, taking the total to 60.
11-Jan-2006