Bristol Airport is to build a £24m extension to its terminal featuring state-of-the-art technology aimed at streamlining passenger security checks and ending peak-time bottle necks. The airport, the UK’s ninth largest and one of its fastest growing, is holding talks with security firms to install the industry’s most-advanced equipment...
Bristol-headquartered law firm Burges Salmon has advised Ahli United Bank UK (AUB UK) on the sale of its entire student accommodation portfolio in a £271m deal with the Unite UK Student Accommodation Fund (USAF). AUB’s UK Student Accommodation Fund was set-up as a Sharia-compliant vehicle and in 2011 bought...
By Barbara Davies, chief executive, West of England Local Enterprise Partnership. Our newly refreshed LEP board met for the first time on June 17. There are some new faces following the local elections and a business-led selection process. Great news that Colin Skellett has been reappointed as chair of...
Accountancy and investment management group Smith & Williamson has launched a free tax calculator to enable businesses to work out how much tax they could be saving on their research and development (R&D) costs. The online tool has been set up in the light of research suggesting that thousands...
Bristol firms’ contribution to more sustainable ways of operating – and the city’s year as European Green Capital – will be recognised next week when Business Green Week takes place. Events during the week will aim to inspire more businesses to adopt sustainable practices in the workplace. The 39...
The Bristol office of building surveying, cost consultancy and project management firm Watts is on the lookout for new recruits as it continues to grow. The independent consultancy, which celebrates 21 years in the city this year, says the economic recovery and greater certainty following the General Election has...
Fledgling businesses in Bristol’s burgeoning creative, digital and hi-tech industries will soon be able to set up home in a new workspace scheme to be made out of 20 shipping containers. Called Boxworks, it will provide additional capacity for the neighbouring Engine Shed innovation hub at Temple Meads, whose...
Undergraduates Megan Peeks and Victoria Gosden have been chosen to represent the South West region at the annual National Association of Women in Property (WiP) National Student Awards. Megan, who is studying architecture and planning at UWE, and Victoria, a landscape architecture student at the University of Gloucestershire, were...
Plans for another major development in North Bristol – which would create more than one million sq ft of mixed-use space – have been submitted to council planners. The 65-acre vacant site next to the A38, which includes the former Rolls-Royce East Works, already has outline consent for 1,211,715...
National property consultancy GL Hearn has expanded its Bristol office with the appointment of Sally Davis as a senior planner. In her new role, Sally is focusing on promoting residential sites, submitting planning applications and securing consent for proposed developments. Sally started her career in local government as a...
All four graduate trainees at Bristol property agency Hartnell Taylor Cook have passed their APC (Assessment of Professional Competence) to become qualified chartered surveyors. Giving the firm a 100% pass rate are Henry deTeissier, pictured top right, an industrial agent, and Tom Gable , pictured bottom right, a property &...
Eight business leaders have been appointed to the West of England Local Enterprise Partnership’s board to help drive its growth ambitions. Five new representatives join three reappointed members on the newly formed LEP board, which meets for the first time on June 17. LEP board members are drawn from...
American supercomputer giant Cray has opened its new European, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) headquarters in Bristol – strengthening the city’s reputation as a hotbed for IT innovation. A global leader in supercomputing, Cray is behind the Met Office’s new £97m supercomputer in Exeter – set to be one...
