On Monday, Engineers in the UK advised George Osborne, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, to use Tuesday’s emergency budget to ensure the government’s planned Investment commitment in the Green Investment Bank is reaffirmed. The engineers requested the Chancellor to offer government commitment and assurance that the Bank will attract the vital investment required in the

The UK department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and One North East, said they had awarded INEOS Bio, a biofuels technology developer, about £7.3 million in funding for the development of an advanced, state-of-the-art, waste-to-bioethanol plant to be located in the Tees Valley. INEOS Bios said the 3MW plant that is scheduled for construction

The Australian company, Goodman Group, announced it has set up two new relationships with CBRE Realty Trust in the UK and Europe worth A$ 1.3 billion. The co-investment vehicles are expected to invest in pre-committed logistics development opportunities to be sourced via Goodman and funded on an 80/20 basis, with CB Richard Ellis Realty (CBRE)

In a deal that will see the creation of the UK’s 6th biggest publicly listed Property company, the UK Commercial Property Trust (UKCPT) successfully staked a takeover of F&C Commercial Property Trust (FCTP) in a deal worth £1.6 billion. This acquisition by UKCPT comes in the wake of its April sale of its 16.5% FCPT

Acknowledging that some changes to an $11 billion deal with the UK government might be made, Japanese Company, Hitachi, said today that it still hopes to win the order for the large train project in Britain. Reports that the train project may be nullified or delayed by Britain have recently put the company’s shares under

The construction sector in the UK is made up of; infrastructure, repair and maintenance, public and private housing, non residential public property such as schools and Hospitals and other public amenities, industrial such as factories and processing plants and the commercial construction sector. Almost a third of new jobs in this industry in the UK