Boxpark, the trendy London street food outlet, has selected Bristol for its first venture outside the capital, with a scheme that will regenerate the city’s last remaining undeveloped Harbourside buildings. Called BoxHall, it will open next year in the O&M Sheds on Welsh Back, transforming buildings that at one...
The region’s largest business group has urged the Prime Minister to help create a more sustainable future for business at this weekend’s G7 summit in Cornwall. The British Chambers of Commerce South West (BCCSW) – which includes Bristol Chamber of Commerce parent group Business West – has written to...
The role of the financial services sector in the drive towards a low carbon economy will be explored at an event to be staged next week by Bristol-based green investment firm Rathbone Greenbank. Its 24th annual Investor Day – which this year takes place virtually – will look at...
Bristol’s small and medium-sized businesses are being urged to take advantage of grants which can make them greener while also saving them money. But they need to hurry as applications for the grants close on June 25. The Green Business Grant scheme is run by the West of England...
The Festival of Nature, the biggest free event of its kind in the country, comes back to Bristol and Bath this weekend after a reduced programme last year. The week-long festival, which runs from this Saturday, June 5, to the following Saturday, will include a multitude of virtual and...
Robot football players met newly elected Metro Mayor Dan Norris as they took part in a futuristic soccer tournament at Bristol’s We The Curious science centre. Ahead of the bank holiday weekend and half term the Metro Mayor visited the educational tourism attraction and personalised his own robot ahead of...
Specialist laboratory facilities, services and support for Bristol’s expanding science and engineering ecosystem have come a step closer as construction of the city’s £6m deep tech incubator passes the half-way mark. The 30,000 sq ft incubator in Old Market will house up to 250 highly skilled workers in the...
Bristol’s landmark Royal West of England Academy (RWA) building is to be transformed in a £3.8m project led by the city office of regional specialist building firm Beard. The Grade II* listed RWA on Whiteladies Road was Bristol’s first public art gallery when it opened in 1858 but is...
The basement of a 1970s Bristol city centre office block has been transformed into the UK’s highest-rated employee cycle area. Castlemead, opposite Castle Park and at 18-storeys Bristol’s tallest commercial building, is undergoing a £2.1m refurbishment, partly to prepare it for a commuting revolution likely to be sparked by...
One of the world’s largest student accommodation schemes built to low-energy Passivhaus standards is to be developed on UWE Bristol’s campus. Work on the 280,000 sq ft scheme – described as a game changer for the student accommodation market – will begin this September. It has been designed by...
The UK’s first touch-free women’s urinal has been developed by a University of Bristol student start-up, potentially putting paid to long queues for the ladies’ loos at festivals. PEEQUAL’s mission is to pioneer what it calls pee-equality for women. Its product, pictured, solves the problem of women’s toilet queues at...
A business support programme showing how small and medium-sized Bristol firms can benefit from sustainable innovation has been launched by world-leading business incubator SETsquared and the University of Bath. The three-year programme, which has been funded by the European Regional Development and available for firms based in the West...
A new partnership that includes national law firm TLT and ethical bank Triodos’s UK business – both based Bristol – is seeking to support growth of employee ownership. Backed by the Employee Ownership Association, the partnership will share its members’ collective insight and expertise on the benefits of staff...
