Precision measurement technology firm Opti-cal Survey Equipment has opened an office in Bristol as part of its national expansion. The firm, which has its headquarters in Reading and satellite offices in Crawley, Milton Keynes and Huddersfield, has moved into Apex Court Business Park at Almondsbury – the latest tech...
Bristol-based outsourcing group Mitie predicted further strong growth this year as it unveiled a 4.3% increase in annual pre-tax profits to £113.3m. The increase came on revenues up 8.2% to £2.14bn – the result of a number of major contract wins during the year to the end of March. ...
Bristol’s distinctive St Vincent’s Works industrial building, described as the city’s very own Disney castle, has gone onto the market for the first time in more than 20 years. Built when Queen Victoria was still on the throne as the headquarters of Bristol company John Lysaght, the Grade II*...
Work on the first phase of a new public square on Bristol’s waterfront have been completed. Museum Square has been created as part of developer Umberslade's £26m, 3.5-hectare Wapping Wharf scheme and was this week be handed over to the city’s M Shed museum to be used as an...
Bristol City Council has opened the bidding process to operate the city’s long-awaited arena – and according to Mayor George Ferguson there is no shortage of potential operators for the 12,000-capacity venue. The council staged a bidders’ day yesterday for would-be partners when they were given full details of...
Commercial property agency Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) has promoted two of its Bristol staff as part of series of national senior promotions. Simon Redgers, who works in the Bristol office’s building consultancy, and Hollie Ruddle of its capital markets team, have been promoted to associate director level. The firm...
Engineers’ House, the Grade II listed conference centre on Clifton Down, has received accreditation in a prestigious national scheme – one of only 29 venues out of 360 assessed nationwide to receive the accolade. The BDRC Continental VenueVerdict Gold Standard Accreditation is the only scheme of its kind determined...
AECOM, the international technical and support services consultancy, has appointed Dr Gordon Mudge as global director of its impact assessment and permitting (IAP) practice based in its Bristol office. Dr Mudge, pictured, brings more than 25 years of extensive international experience to the role, having worked in more than...
Invest Bristol & Bath, the inward investment body for the West of England, has helped 30 companies locate or expand in the area in its first year of operation. These businesses, from a mix of sectors including creative, low carbon, hi-tech, and advanced engineering and aerospace, have the potential...
Three Bristol offices have been recognised as the best workplaces in the South West in a prestigious property sector awards scheme. Barclays, Imperial Tobacco and Motability Operations landed three out of the four awards in the regional leg of the British Council for Offices’ (BCO) respected annual awards programme....
Nasa Consulting is the latest company to take space at the landmark Tower House in Bristol city centre, meaning the 14-storey building is now nearly full. It was the sixth deal in as many weeks at the Fairfax Street building and joint agents Colliers International and JLL are predicting...
Midas Construction’s Wessex and Wales division has promoted Jamie Harwood to the post of operational director just five months after he joined the company. Jamie was recruited as an operational manager last November to manage multi-million pound projects for the division of Midas Group, one of the South West’s...
Integral Build, the Bristol-based specialist construction, refurbishment and fit out firm, is working with Red Maids’ School, the country’s oldest girls’ school, to create new facilities for students, teachers and visitors. The £1.5m refurbishment project at the mainly Edwardian school in Westbury-on-Trym, will modernise its library over two floors and create a split-level learning...
