Barratt is beefing up its London development pipeline with two more major schemes worth £675m. Today it revealed it had signed separate joint venture deals with British Land and housing association L&Q to build 1,100 homes. The deals lift the development value of Barratt’s London pipeline to over £2bn and [...]

From stadiums in Brazil to a bank headquarters in Britain, architects led by Norman Foster are integrating solar cells into the skin of buildings, helping the market for the technology triple within two years. Sun-powered systems will top the stadia hosting 2014 FIFA World Cup football in Brazil. In Manchester, [...]

From 21 to 22 February 2013, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) carried out an audit of ConocoPhillips. The purpose of the audit was to follow up on how ConocoPhillips is ensuring that the safety instrumented systems on Eldfisk S will meet relevant regulatory requirements, recognised standards and guidelines, as [...]

Plexus Holdings PLC, the AIM quoted oil and gas engineering services business and owner of the proprietary POS-GRIP® friction-grip method of wellhead engineering, announced it has been awarded a contract for the supply of surface exploration wellhead & mudlineequipment services, worth approximately £2.5 million from Statoil Petroleum AS, a leading [...]

Balfour Beatty has landed an £80m contract to design and construct a 19-storey student accommodation building in central London for Urbanest. Work will start on site this summer on Westminster Bridge Road. The scheme will provide 1,092 bedrooms, a new sixth-form college, a health suite with swimming pool and affordable [...]

Siemens, Hitachi and Bombardier awarded train building contracts The Department for Transport (DfT) has announced that three new train contracts have been signed, each with a different train manufacturer. The preferred bidder for the new Thameslink trains is German manufacturer Siemens in conjunction with Cross London Trains (XLT). This is [...]

Supported by abundant forest resources, Finnish bioenergy companies don't have to look far for feedstock. But in a move to define its low-carbon future, the nation's energy companies are undertaking ambitious research programs to develop future biofuels. Finland is, above all, a land of abundant, and growing, forests. "We produce [...]

Solstad Offshore ASA (SOFF) has extended its contract with BG Tunisia for hire of SOFF’s anchor handling vessel (AHTS) “Nor Star”. The duration of the new contract is 2 years firm and with one yearly option. SOFF has extended its contract with Efadco Petrolcum Services Co for hire of SOFF’s [...]

HMC Farms, one of the largest grower-shipper-packer of numerous varieties of tree fruit and table grapes, has taken a huge green leap forward by moving forward with Cenergy Power on a 10 acre solar photovoltaic (PV) farm. The large 2.2 megawatt (MW) solar system will span across 390,000 square feet [...]

UK: Carillion has opened an electrification training centre at Crewe which includes a purpose-built overhead line span and associated components. Carillion is part of Network Rail’s electrification 'framework panel' and is undertaking enabling works on the Edinburgh - Glasgow Improvement Project in Scotland; it also has a partnership agreement with [...]

Willmott Dixon has won a £15m contract to build a free school that will be the first to allow pupils to board. Holyport College in Berkshire will boast Eton as its educational sponsor and 225 of the 500 pupils will be boarders. The job has been procured through the Scape [...]

BP Norge AS (BP) has received consent to use Island Constructor for well intervention on the Skarv field in the Norwegian Sea. The consent covers work on well 6507/3-D-2H at Skarv field. The operation has an estimated duration of one month. The Island Constructor is operated by Island Offshore Management [...]