A scheme to transform an historic building at Bristol Temple Meads Station into a centre for world-class innovation has been given top-level backing. Bristol Mayor George Ferguson and University of Bristol vice chancellor Professor Eric Thomas signed a partnership agreement to redevelop Brunel’s iconic Engine Shed into an innovation...
Bristol-based tensile fabric specialist Base Structures can now reveal its major role in the London 2012 games, including working on the Basketball Arena, the largest single temporary structure ever used at an Olympic games, as well as two other iconic venues. Due to a marketing blackout on firms working...
Bristol City Council is to buy an £18m office block as part of its cost-cutting plans to consolidate staff into two buildings. The council has exchanged contracts on 100 Temple Street near Temple Meads with owners Aviva Investors Property Trust. The deal will allow it press ahead with plans...
Bristol and Bristol have teamed up for the first time to jointly promote themselves as a single prime inward investment destination. A new brand called Invest in Bristol and Bath is to be launched next Tuesday at MIPIM, the world’s highest-profile international property and development showcase. The new approach...
Property agent Savills has promoted three key staff in its Bristol office. Ben Taylor of the development team has been promoted to director. With more than 14 years’ experience in the property sector, Ben provides development agency advice and consultancy working mainly with residential developers. Nick Matthews of the Bristol...
The likely impact on Bristol of the Government’s controversial Localism Act is the theme of a major conference in the city tomorrow. Staged by the Constructing Excellence Bristol Club, the event entitled Local Heroes will outline the implications of the 2011 Act and look at how it will be...
West property consultancy Alder King has won two prestigious awards from property industry publication Estates Gazette, picking up the inaugural South West Property Adviser of the Year Award, and the South West Most Active Agent award for an unprecedented 12th year in succession. The firm, employing around 150 people...
The Institute of Directors has moved its South West regional headquarters to the Bristol & Bath Science Park. IoD director general Simon Walker visited the new offices where he met regional IoD representatives including South West chairman Richard Ayre, South West director Simon Face and regional staff, along with...
Work has started on the latest – and largest – ‘big shed’ food warehouse at Avonmouth as the transformation of the area from a major industrial site into a prime location for supermarket distribution centres gathers pace. The 616,000 sq ft building for Asda is on the 40-acre site...
Bristol’s Architecture Centre and UWE Bristol have signed a three-year partnership agreement to develop and enrich its existing programme of exhibitions, lectures and other events; encourage public debate about the future development of Bristol and its region; and develop further the public outreach activities of both organisations. Students of...
Property consultancy Alder King has announced the promotion of Nathan Clark, based in its Bristol office, to associate with effect from March 1. Nathan joined Alder King’s award-winning agency team in Bristol in 2010, advising clients on the acquisition and disposal of industrial property across Greater Bristol and nationwide....
Bristol-based construction consultancy Hydrock has set up a Building Performance Engineering division with the sole objective of making buildings work better and perform to maximum efficiency. Led by senior building services professionals, the division will operate as part of multi-disciplinary teams alongside structural engineers and architects, focussing on influencing...
The Bristol office of commercial property consultants Hartnell Taylor Cook has advised on the £1.2m purchase of a business park in Bridgwater. Hartnell Taylor Cook’s investment team partner Ian Lambert acted on behalf of Parabolas Capital which bought Blake Mill Business Park from the administrators of London and West...
