BMT Group, the international design, engineering and risk management consultancy with a major presence in Bath, has merged two of its subsidiaries to strengthen its service to blue-chip customers. The move brings together Bath-based BMT Cadence, which sells safety and environmental risk management services, and BMT Reliability Consultants, which focusses on reliability and supportability...
The University of Bath has teamed up with French power giant EDF Energy to launch a pioneering research partnership aimed at improving the management of supply chains in major capital schemes and including more local firms. The Hinkley Point C Supply Chain Innovation Lab will be based in the university’s School of Management and...
Andrews, the Keynsham-based property group, has rounded off 2016 with another industry award, taking Silver in the training & development category at the Estate Agency of the Year Awards. The firm, which has 55 branches across the South of England, was commended by the judges for the way in which it does not view...
Property agents Carter Jonas’s Bath office has secured three industrial lettings totalling more than 19,000 sq ft as its industrial team continues its successful 2016. Two of the lettings are on the Dunkirk Business Park at Southwick, near Trowbridge, with the third on the Westfield Trading Estate in Midsomer Norton. The deals strengthen Carter...
Bath-based developer Kersfield has staged an exclusive tour of its newest luxury residential development at an event attended by around 100 of the region’s top property professionals. The invitation-only gathering, organised jointly with the Bristol office of accountancy, investment management and tax group Smith & Williamson, was an opportunity to see the transformation of Burwalls,...
Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has officially opened Bristol Airport’s new £24m west terminal extension as the airport prepares to handle more than 8m passengers next year. The extension transforms the security search process for passengers as well as creating an enlarged baggage reclaim area, customs facilities, more retail space and a meet-and-greet area. This...
Bristol Airport’s £24m new west terminal extension is due to be officially opened by Transport Secretary Chris Grayling this afternoon as the airport prepares to handle more than 8m passengers next year. The extension will transform the security search process for passengers as well as creating an enlarged baggage reclaim area, customs facilities, more...
Construction of the first buildings on the £50m Hawke Ridge Business Park between Trowbridge and Westbury - which will eventually become one of the region’s largest developments of its kind – will begin next year, its owner has said. Detailed planning consent for the four units, which will vary in size from 7,500sq ft to...
The ban on estate agents’ boards in the Bath Conservation Area has been extended for a further 10 years following a decision by a government planning inspector. The move follows Bath & North East Somerset Council’s application to extend the ban, which has been in effect for 27 years. The council said the ban...
Nationwide Building Society is to open a branch in Glastonbury, where the last bank closed earlier this year, to pilot new ways of using technology to give people access to financial services. Glastonbury, with a population of around 9,000 and a healthy tourist industry, has been without a traditional bank branch since Lloyds pulled...
