Sectors
Education
School building contractors to face ‘boot camp’
Firms bidding for work through Pf2 programme to face three week “boot camp” to finalise their bids with clients
Contractor picked for final batch of priority schools
Exclusive: Willmott Dixon wins £21m final batch of first phase priority schools
Gove approves 102 new free schools
Education Secretary gives green light for schools to open from 2014
Gove: modern buildings should 'lift up the soul'
Education secretary who has long downplayed the importance of school design laments lack of beauty in built environment
Infrastructure
Japanese contractors in frame for £10bn Horizon nuclear job
Exclusive: Horizon boss says he has “not ruled out” Japanese rather than UK firms for Wylfa power station
Miliband policy adviser backs Heathrow expansion
Lord Adonis tells BCO conference that Heathrow expansion is the ‘only credible option’ for solving airport capacity crunch
Bidders for £1.5bn Scottish Water job revealed
Mace, Carillion, Morgan Sindall, Atkins and Balfour Beatty among the members of six consortia in the race
UK business 'needs better infrastructure'
Chair of Port of London Authority tells BCO conference that improving the UK’s transport infrastructure is vital
Hotels
Aecom launches hotel cost calculator
Online tool will enable developers to work out viability of projects cheaply
DBK bags £35m Birmingham hotel
Consultant will act as employers’ agent on conversion of city centre office block
Blair Associates to design Admiralty Arch hotel conversion
Firm to plan conversion of historic building into hotel
Retail
Dev Secs wins Edgware Road planning
Developer gets resolution to grant for £150m scheme
Mott MacDonald snaps up Brazilian engineer
UK engineer buys 80-strong environmental engineering consultant based in Rio
Westfield and Hammerson launch Croydon joint venture
Clients launch Croydon Partnership and confirm design team
Housing
Dev Secs wins Edgware Road planning
Developer gets resolution to grant for £150m scheme
Office and commercial
Miliband policy adviser backs Heathrow expansion
Lord Adonis tells BCO conference that Heathrow expansion is the ‘only credible option’ for solving airport capacity crunch
Seventeen councils retain block on office-to-resi conversions
London councils and handful of others exempt as government rolls out planning relaxation
UK business 'needs better infrastructure'
Chair of Port of London Authority tells BCO conference that improving the UK’s transport infrastructure is vital
