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.
A new industry alliance whose main purpose is to promote the development of an open standard for securing transactions based on wireless technology and biometrics has been established, a news report in the media has revealed.
The Alliance is made up of 24 numerous influential companies from the retail, banking, payment provider, and IT communities whose common goal is to create a payment mechanism that merges wireless technology, a personal device and biometrics.
The University of Leicester is set to create a testing and analysis centre for the automotive, aerospace and space industries within the MIRA Technology Park at the enterprise zone site near Hinckley, a news report in the local media has revealed.
The new scheme represents a £2.5m investment, supported by the government’s Regional Growth Fund and the European Regional Development Fund, and is delivered in partnership with Polytec.