West architects, design practices and planners will be thrust into the international spotlight next week as part of a national campaign to promote exporting. Members of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) will get the chance to showcase their talents in a Living Cities Challenge – an interactive...
Avonmouth specialist construction group Churngold is urging charities and community organisations to apply for funding to support projects that maintain or improve public spaces and buildings for community use. Churngold’s set up its Environment Fund in 1997 to help small groups in Bristol, North and South Somerset, Bath and...
Chinese telecoms equipment giant Huawei is to open a research and development base in Bristol, it revealed this week. The centre, part of its UK Innovation Programme, will initially recruit 30 high-calibre R&D employees and have a primary focus on researching ICT chips, software, and the analog chip technology...
Bristol is one of the UK’s most successful cities for attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) and is helping the South West outperform most other regions in a highly-competitive market, according to new research published today. Bristol is ranked sixth in a list of leading UK cities in global accountants...
Filmscape Media, a leading supplier of film and television equipment, has become the latest creative industry firm to set up at Bristol’s Bottle Yard Studios. The camera, lighting and grip equipment rental company, whose head office is based at The Perfume Factory in central London, is expanding operations and...
By Paul Wilson, chief executive, West of England Local Enterprise Partnership Bristol is on a roll. It’s the best place to live in the country. The 100,000 people who engaged in the art of sliding down Park Street sparked a national debate on modernising city centre management. Bristol Food...
International property consultancy JLL has made a number of graduate appointments to its Bristol office as the market continues to improve. Four have joined with a fifth due to start in September – the highest number of graduate appointments made by the office since 2007. Head of JLL’s Bristol...
National employment and training firm Seetec has relocated its Bristol base to a refurbished office block on the edge of the city centre – the latest in a series of moves triggered by the economic recovery. Bristol property agents say good quality office accommodation is being snapped up as...
Bristol Zoo Gardens’ new gorilla house, featuring an overhead glass panel that allows visitors to see the 32-stone animals walking above their heads, has won a regional award for its inspirational and innovative design. The £1.4m refurbishment of the existing Grade II listed building has transformed and extended the...
Work to ‘unlock’ the site of Bristol’s Arena with a new bridge over the River Avon started this afternoon yesterday with communities minister and Bristol West MP Stephen Williams taking the controls of a digger to mark the start of the £11.5m infrastructure work on the former diesel depot...
Bristol can be a lightning rod for a global debate on the look and shape of the city of the future as it prepares for its role next year as Europe’s green capital. Its year in the international spotlight can also help it shape future thinking about what makes...
Commercial property specialists Colliers International has made a number of new appointments at its Bristol office to meet a steep increase in workload as the city’s property sector continue to recover strongly. The firm said activity levels are returning to pre-recession levels, which in turn is triggering significant increases in...
The final building in the 11-year redevelopment of Bristol’s Harbourside has been given planning approval by the city council. Building 3a at Canon’s Gate will be the final piece in the jigsaw that has transformed the 16.3-acre site from a wasteland of disused rail tracks and a derelict gasworks...
