Bristol’s ambition to become a leading ‘smart’ city with an experimental high-speed network linking academics and businesses to create new tech-based products and services is set to take a major step forward. The first joint venture between the city council and the University of Bristol – known as Bristol...
More young people need to be attracted into jobs in the construction or it will suffer a major skills shortage as the economy recovers, three West of England industry leaders are warning. Gary Higgins and Ben Milsom, founders of GBRS Recruitment, Integral Build director Tim Stringer, and Gemma Day,...
The 1970s former Central Electricity Generating Board building at Bedminster Down has been awarded a Grade II listing as one of the most important office buildings of its era. The office development off Bridgwater Road, now called The Pavilions, is among 12 commercial buildings named as representing the finest...
Bristol’s year as European Green Capital officially got underway with a spectacular high-wire act on Saturday evening watched by thousands. In a breath-taking and colourful public opening ceremony, Jade Kindar-Martin from Bristol-based Cirque Bijou cycled along a 120m long high wire set between the city’s iconic A and B Bond...
Bristol’s standing as one of the UK’s most innovative cities has been recognised in a major new report which also highlights the strength of its economy. The latest report from respected urban think tank Centre for Cities places Bristol ninth in the table of the leading UK cities for...
Healthcare insurance provider Simplyhealth’s Bristol office development is in the running for a prestigious property award. The 62,275 sq ft office by commercial property developer Stoford is competing in the corporate workplace category of the prestigious annual British Council for Offices’ (BCO) awards. Simplyhealth House was developed on a...
Bristol design studio Taxi has created a new brand identity for estate agency chain Ocean as it prepares to expand beyond the city. Ocean, which now has eight branches in Bristol, was launched in 1983. It quickly established itself as an agency with customer service at its heart and...
A firm supplying TV and film productions such as Downton Abbey with everything from lighting and power generators to pop-up changing rooms and gaffer tape has become the latest business to open a base at Bristol’s successful Bottle Yard Studios. Location One’s Bristol office is its second regional branch...
National property advisory firm GVA has appointed Jo Davis to head its Bristol office. Jo, who also leads the firm’s planning team covering the South West and South Wales, becomes one of nine regional senior directors at GVA – the title given to those heading UK offices. In an...
Bristol-based Integral Build has gone back to the classroom to complete the next stage of The Red Maids’ School refurbishment and expansion plans. The oldest independent girls’ school in the country is now creating two new classrooms in its Junior School ready for the new academic year in September....
From Bristol 247 Two main roads in Bristol city centre could become test areas for controversial digital advertising billboards after the council’s cabinet gave approval for the move, which could generate several million pounds for city over the next few years. Temple Way underpass and Bond Street near Cabot...
The former managing director of Bristol-based chocolate manufacturer Elizabeth Shaw has been appointed by alternative finance provider South West Investment Group (SWIG) Capital as a non-executive director to the board of its fund-holding arm. Malachy McReynolds, pictured, join the group, which since 1996 has invested £15m in to more...
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has hailed Bristol’s Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone a success and pledged to devolve more powers to the city to enable it to fund similar economy-boosting measures itself. The minister was in Bristol yesterday to mark the completion of the £40m, 98,000 sq ft, showpiece 2...
