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A new rail station at Cambridge Science Park was granted planning permission by the Cambridgeshire County Council in a bid to help shorten the journey times between the city's main business areas and London, a news report in the local business media has revealed.The station, designed by Atkins, will make it possible for passengers to travel between Science Park, St John's Innovation Centre and the Cambridge Business Park to London in just around 30 minutes.

More than 250 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have participated in a large-scale tender for supplying various services as part of the project to build a new prison for north Wales, a news report in the business media has revealed.The sub-contracting projects were put out to tender by Kier, Carillion, Lend Lease and Interserve - the four contractors who are themselves bidding to build the new prison for the Ministry of Justice.

The electromagnetic locks and electric strikes market will grow at CAGRs of 6.9% and 7.8% respectively by 2017, significantly outperforming the mechanical locks' segment, a new research report from IHS has revealed.It's already a well known fact that access control systems are becoming increasingly popular because they provide a higher level of security while offering integration opportunities with time management and building automation systems.

The global physical access control market is set to record a 7% increase over 2013 levels, research firm IHS Technology has predicted during a recent report.The new report suggest that this specific market segment will reach an overall $3.4 billion. Additionally, for the video market, IHS Technology forecasts 12 percent global growth this year, with fixed-dome and 180/360-degree network cameras as the fastest growing categories.

BAM Construction has managed to secure the contract for building a new Leisure World facility in Bridlington, after plans were officially approved by the East Riding of Yorkshire Council.According to a news report in the local media on this topic, the facility will include a six-lane, 25m swimming pool, a smaller learner pool, a freeform pool with water features, two water slides and swimming spectator seating for 150.

Construction group Balfour Beatty has managed to complete a £2.4m Winter Ward for the Basildon University Hospital in Essex for the Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, a news report in the local media has revealed.The ProCure 21+ National Framework project features will provide 28 new beds and has been specifically designed in order to boost capacity for emergency patients during the winter period and also includes a nurses' station and bathrooms.

Despite of the leaps ahead recorded over the past decades in access control technologies, the truth of the matter is that quite a lot of companies continue to use traditional physical keys to control access to their premises.The most dangerous issue when using keys is the fact that physical keys can be easily copied at the local hardware store, making it easy for unauthorized copies to be made and used to obtain access to a locked office or storage room, without proper authorization.

Working through a 50:50 joint venture with Balfour Beatty, Kier Construction has managed to secure a contract for building and delivering the MoD's new Defence College of Technical Training at the former RAF Lyneham airbase in Wiltshire, a recent news report has revealed.The new college will provide training facilities in one location for all three Armed Forces - the Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force - for the first time in the UK.

Following a very rigorous bidding process that involved two different consortia, construction services company Skanska has managed to secure the contract for building the new Papworth Hospital when it relocates to the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, a recent media news report has revealed.Project Director Ken Brewer said: "While the two bids were both very comprehensive the assessment of the bids followed a very robust process which resulted in the selection of the consortium led by Skanska."

The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow is set to get a new £2.8m ward that will be built close to the Accident and Emergency Department and will provide 20 extra beds, a news report in the local media has revealed.Furthermore, construction will include 60 extra places at the Linkway multi-storey car park.

An US-based provider of recycling and garbage-collection services has implemented a very innovative reward scheme, based around the use of an advanced RFID system, a news report has revealed.Sanico, the company in question, has implemented a solution consisting of passive ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) RFID tags affixed to recycling canisters, a reader on each of its recyclables collection trucks, and an onboard computer that interprets read data and then forwards that information to a server.

Students and staff at the Corby Technical School have just moved to a new multi-million-pound school building, a brand new report in the local media informs us.The £6m new school building features multiple classrooms, science laboratories, design technology workshops, IT suites, music technology and art and design studios, library, theatre, sports hall and dedicated dining room.