Work has started on a £3.5m upgrade of Bristol Airport’s air traffic control tower, the latest in a series of improvements on the site. The 20-year-old facility tower will undergo extensive renovations, improving its appearance and functionality while also meeting the latest building standards and regulations. It will also incorporate environmentally friendly elements such...
Bath-based international landscape architecture practice Grant Associates has attracted widespread praise of its work on a social housing scheme described as “reimagining the almshouse for 21st century inner-city living”. The firm worked with RIBA Stirling Prize-winning architects Witherford Watson Mann and charity United St Saviours on the scheme of 57 units in Bermondsey, South...
Specialist investor BBRC (Bristol & Bath Regional Capital) has introduced two new senior roles to its team – with a further two to follow within months – as part of its ambitious five-year growth strategy. Paul Dennis-Jones has been appointed as chief investment officer at BBRC, which launched in 2015 as the West of...
Bath legal and financial planning firm Mogers Drewett has strengthened its residential property team with the arrival of a new partner and an internal promotion. The firm, which also has offices in Wells, Sherborne and Frome, has appointed experienced residential property lawyer Samantha Cook as a partner while Jessica Gregory becomes residential business development...
Creating sustainable, well-designed and inspiring school buildings has earned an architecture firm a major industry accolade. Frome-based NVB Architects won the Education category at the annual Building Design Architect of the Year Awards, topping a shortlist of eight firms. The hotly contested title, which celebrates the very best UK architecture in the education sector,...
Four Bath area hotels have triumphed in one of the sector’s most coveted awards schemes. The Royal Crescent Hotel & Spa, Lucknam Park Hotel & Spa, No.15 by Guesthouse, Bath, and Homewood Hotel were among the winners at The Boutique Hotelier Awards, the annual celebration of resilience and innovation in the UK hotel industry....
A landmark office building on the edge of Bath city centre could be demolished and replaced by a major hotel under a scheme drawn up by a London-based real estate developer. Beazer House on Lower Bristol Road, which was built in the 1960s for the housing company of the same name, is “nearing the...
Logistics group Wincanton has repeated its warning that its total revenues are likely to be lower this year as it continues with a strategic reorganisation of its transport operations. The Chippenham-headquartered group alerted shareholders to expected outcome recently when it updated them on its first quarter performance. Now it has reiterated the warning in...
Bath-based workplace design and build company Interaction has relocated to a new state-of-the-art head office in a former city centre distillery building. The firm harnessed its own award-winning expertise to transform the Grade II-listed building in Edgar Mews into a flexible, modern workspace for up to 70 staff, making it one of Bath’s largest...
Bath-headquartered law firm RWK Goodman has strengthened its residential property, farms and estates team in the city with the appointment of Rebecca Gillard as a senior associate. Rebecca, pictured, joined from the Salisbury office of Trethowans and has also worked for Goughs in Trowbridge and TLT in Bristol. She has spent the past nine years...
