The University of Manchester has announced plans to construct a new £30 million building for its School of Chemical Engineering.
The proposed five-storey facility is part of the university’s overall £650 million construction programme, and will provide 110,000 sq ft to house research and teaching laboratories and academic offices.
Construction work on the building is set to [...]

Construction firm Skanska has won a £61 million contract to build a world-class cancer centre in the capital for the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH).
The new facility, which will have a total floor space of 14,800 square meters, will be built on the site of the former Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Obstetric [...]

The Environment Agency has approved plans for the country’s largest biomass power station in Port Talbot, south Wales.
When completed, the Prenergy plant will produce enough electricity to supply half a million homes in the region. It will use wood chip to generate power and is expected produce 50% to 80% less greenhouse gas emissions than [...]

Scotland`s first wholly sustainable school could provide lessons in developing energy efficient classes for the rest of the country.
The school, located in Acharacle in Adrnamurchan, was visited by the Scottish education secretary Fiona Hyslop. The school accommodates 48 English-speaking and Gaelic-speaking medium primary school pupils, with 14 children in the nursery.
Much of the school is [...]

p>Multi-national engineering firm Balfour Beatty has been selected as the preferred bidder for a £120 million academy project in West Sussex.
West Sussex County Council chose the company to revamp four academies at Littlehampton, Lancing, Midhurst Rother and Shoreham, with a mixture of refurbishing and new building.
Balfour Beatty chief executive Ian Tyler said the company was [...]

Approval has been granted for a proposed £13 billion military academy at St Athan - a project being hailed as the biggest single public investment in Wales.
The Defence Technical College (DTC) will come up on a 1,000-acre site at a former air base and construction is expected to begin late next year.
Councillors in the Vale [...]