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A well-known British construction company has been selected to redevelop the arts and design centre at Somerset College, a recent news report in the local business media was able to reveal.BAM will carry out extensive work on the existing 1970s Arts House on the college’s Taunton campus. The contractor for the £7 million project will put a new roof and exterior glazing on the main four-storey arts building, as well as giving it new mechanical and electrical services.

Construction company Willmot Dixon has revealed plans to build a new school in Liverpool on behalf of the local council, a recent media news report on the matter was able to reveal.

Physical, proximity smart card-based access control systems are to become fully integrated with IT identity management solutions in order to make both sets of systems faster and easier to use, industry experts forecast.Convergence eliminates the need for users to remember and carry separate cards or other devices for opening doors, logging onto computers, and accessing cloud-based applications.

The strong and continued partnerships working between Police and private security firms has managed to help forces across the country reduce costs in the face of public sector budget cuts, said the the BSIA.

A construction company has started working on the latest stage in the Development Securities and SWIP Property Trust's final phase of its office-led regeneration project in London, a news report in the local media was able to reveal.The new 167,000 sq ft 11-storey building, on the site of 12 Hammersmith Grove, includes speculative Grade A office provision, retail space and additional public realm works adjacent to Hammersmith tube station and opposite the Lyric Square in the centre of Hammersmith.

A secure and reliable proximity card access control system designed to prevent unauthorized access, coupled with a high-performance CCTV surveillance system should be a must on every construction site manager's checklist, given the fact that such locations are a prime target for thefts and vandalism.

A new Defence and National Rehabilitation Centre is set to built near Loughborough following an investment estimated at around £300m.The new facility will take over the services currently delivered at Headley Court and will be roughly four times larger than the current site. The Ministry of Defence argued that it will "improve and advance the cutting-edge treatments already available to injured members of the armed forces".

The global Electronic Access Control systems market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 12.6% from 2014 to 2019, to reach an estimated value of USD 31,187.8 million in 2019, the new market report published by Transparency Market Research was able to reveal.

545 new student apartments are set to be built on behalf of Swansea University by St. Modwen as part of a £50 million deal, bringing the total amount of new student residences to 1,462, a news report in the local media was recently able to reveal.

The Plymouth College of Art has recently inaugurated a new £6m state-of-the-art workshop block that was built on an area of vacant land within the heart of Plymouth's busy city centre. The four-storey building will provide 3,444m2 of specialist workshop space and will house ceramics, glass and digital design workshops, as well as student workstations, communal hubs and display areas.

Construction work on a new multi-million primary school in Dorset has recently started, with the main development works set to be completed by spring 2015, a news report in the local media could recently reveal.ISG is the main contractor for the Pimperne CE VC Primary School project. The £3.9m building will provide single-storey accommodation for pupils aged 5 to 11 and will include classrooms, a multi-use hall and outdoor hard and soft play areas.

Revenues resulting from the sale of video surveillance equipment globally are expected to rise to $15 billion in 2014, up from $13.5 billion in 2013, the latest research from the IHS could reveal.