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Gavin Garner, Nick Wdowczyk, and Pete Broughton have joined forces to launch GWB Consultants – a quantity surveyor and project management business.

The first living wall hoarding has gone up on the site of the future UK Biobank headquarters at Manchester Science Park as funding arrives to bolster the research facility’s equipment.

2023 has been a year characterised by regeneration, skyscrapers, and big government decisions – but what can we expect next?

The former head of regeneration delivery at Wirral Council has joined the construction consultancy to lead its new team.

Business news from across the North West

The billionaire owner of TJ Morris, the parent company of discount brand Home Bargains, has acquired the former Sovereign Distillery site on Wilson Road.

Manchester City Council has approved the next construction phase for Manchester Science Park’s masterplan which includes Bruntwood SciTech’s delivery of a £60m redevelopment of the Park’s existing Greenheys building into 131,000 sq ft of highly specialist world-class lab space. Click to read more...

But campaigners succeed in blocking the Block student scheme in Hulme, for now

Enabling works to start this year on new home for UK Biobank

The way has been cleared for a 19-storey apartment block in the city, as well as for 280 houses and a long-anticipated youth centre.