Property consultancy Knight Frank in Bristol has appointed Andrew Burt to head its building consultancy team. He joins after nine years at BNP Paribas in Bristol where he was associate director. The Knight Frank building consultancy division is involved at any stage of a building project’s lifecycle and services include...
Bristol & Bath Science Park has celebrated its second anniversary by announcing the arrival of another global technology firm and a visit by the Duke of Gloucester. US-owned Altair, a world leader in engineering technology and services, has relocated its regional office from nearby Aztec West to the Science...
A £4m masterplan has been unveiled to safeguard Underfall Yard, a unique area of Bristol’s historic harbour and one of its last remaining working boatyards. The objective is to transform the yard into a Maritime Centre of Excellence, creating jobs that will use maritime traditional skills, preserving its historic...
Plans for a £40m redevelopment of Bristol City FC’s Ashton Gate stadium to increase capacity from 21,500 to 27,000 have been submitted to the city council. The scheme includes replacing the existing Williams and Wedlock stands with new structures, updating the Dolman Stand and creating a new conference, exhibition...
The first businesses have moved into the Engine Shed, Bristol’s new innovation hub which is taking shape in part of Brunel’s original Temple Meads railway station. To co-incide with the arrival of the 16 firms – all members of Bristol University’s SETsquared business incubator – minister for culture, communications...
Two surveyors at independent property adviser GVA’s Bristol office have passed their APC (Assessment of Professional Competence) exams following two years of study and professional training. The APC, when added to full-time study and learning received at university, leads to RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) membership. It is the...
Planning lawyers at Bond Dickinson, the national law firm with a major office in Bristol, have helped global renewable energy firm RES win development consent for a biomass power station in Northumberland. The scheme is the first of its kind to be granted a development consent order by Energy...
National property consultancy Bruton Knowles has opened an office in Bristol and recruited two of the city’s best-known and experienced commercial property specialists to build its team. Paul Matthews, who has 32 years’ experience of the Bristol market, joins from the city office of BNP Paribas. He was formerly...
Barclays is to re-locate its two Bristol offices into prestigious new space in the city centre. The office in Bridgewater House, Finzels Reach, will bring together Barclays’ Corporate Banking and Wealth and Investment Management divisions. Barclays is to lease more than 18,000 sq ft of state-of-the-art space at Bridgewater...
French students learning about international real estate at UWE have been given a hands-on insight into the different techniques used to measure office space in the UK compared to France. The students, from the Ecole Supérieure des Professions Immobilières (ESPI – School of Real Estate Professions) in Paris, are...
Mezze, the fast-growing Bristol bar and restaurant chain, has officially opened its sixth venue –The White Lion in Portishead – with a little help from Bristol-born Olympic gymnast Imogen Cairns. Imogen, who represented Great Britain at the Beijing and London Olympics and has won three Commonwealth Games gold medals,...
Islamic finance specialists at West law firm Foot Anstey have worked on the £40m-plus acquisition of a student housing scheme by Gulf investors operating through a shari’ah-compliant real estate firm chaired by former Dragons’ Den star James Caan. London-based independent property advisory firm 90 North Real Estate Partners serves...
Veteran Bristol commercial property figure Grant Watson is to receive an honorary degree from UWE Bristol in recognition of his inspirational leadership, entrepreneurship and passion for the region. The Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science will be conferred on Mr Watson, pictured, at the awards ceremony of the Faculty...
