Author: Rhys Gregory

A top class business is being sought to undertake construction work pivotal to the rebirth of a former south Wales industrial heartland. [aoa id=”1″] The company that succeeds in the Europe-wide competitive tender process will transform a key area of Swansea’s former Hafod Morfa Copperworks site. They will make the area, including the historic Powerhouse building, ready for Wales’s Penderyn Distillery to expand there and to fit it out as a new distillery and visitor centre. [/aoa] Robert Francis-Davies, the council’s cabinet member for investment, regeneration and tourism, said: “This will be a high-profile work and we want a top…

Pupils from Mid Wales with additional needs associated with autism have debuted innovative new Pod school classrooms, designed with their additional learning needs in mind. [aoa id=”1″] The IAD Company has flipped the conventional ‘portacabin’ approach to additional learning space on its head with the design and installation of six ground-breaking classroom ‘Pods’ at Ty Bronllys, near Brecon. As the brainchild of the award-winning company, the pods are among the first of their kind designed specifically for students with complex needs associated with autism. [/aoa] Rebecca Lewis-Chapman, Director at The IAD Company, explains: “The need for annexed school classrooms is…

A team of business-savvy school children from Bridgend have won a national competition looking to find and nurture entrepreneurial young talent from Wales, beating hundreds of pupils across the country to the post. Pupils from Garth Primary School picked up the top title at the annual Enterprise Troopers competition held by Welsh Government which took place at Cardiff Metropolitan University. [aoa id=”1″]After impressing the judges with their business acumen and entrepreneurial flair, Garth Primary School were presented with the top prize for their business idea ‘Bee-Spoke T-shirts’, bee-themed t-shirts that they designed themselves to raise awareness about bee conservation and…

ONE of Wales’ leading aluminium fabricators, Dudley’s Aluminium, has secured a high-profile project with Buckingham Group Contracting for GKN Aerospace. Together they will support the development of the multi-technology aerospace supplier’s new R&D facility in Bristol. [aoa id=”1″]This will be the first time Dudley’s Aluminium and Buckingham Group Contracting Ltd team up. The contract, worth nearly £500,000, is expected to be completed by the end of the year. Dudley’s Aluminium will install state-of-the-art curtain walling as well as thermally broken doors in the new research and development facility, which will be home to 300 engineers.[/aoa] The new centre in Bristol…

A team of accountants and tax experts from South Wales have pulled on their overalls to support the Prop Appeal at Rookwood Hospital. Five members of staff from Kilsby Williams came together to renovate the hospital’s outdoor equipment in Cardiff. The hospital in Llandaff is one of the few spinal rehab units in the UK specialising in rehabilitation care for patients with brain injuries. Together with Cardiff and Vale Health Charity, they launched the Prop Appeal to raise funds for patients who have to re-learn aspects of everyday living due to their conditions. Maddy O’Neill, a business service manager at…

The Prince of Wales has made a special visit to South Wales Police headquarters as part of celebrations to mark the force’s 50th anniversary. On 1st June 1969, the predecessor forces of Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Swansea, and Cardiff came together and a new force came into being. During the visit on Tuesday, HRH led a re-dedication of a memorial garden and toured the Heritage Centre, met call handling staff at the Public Service Centre and saw some of the technology at the heart of modern-day frontline policing. The memorial garden features a series of semi-circular memorial walls which include the…

THE Cardiff Capital Region (CCR) Business Council will be travelling across the region this July to raise awareness of the CCR City Deal and how it plans to support and work with a range of regional businesses of all sizes. From Wednesday 3 July to Wednesday 24 July, representatives of the council will host a number of business engagement events throughout South East Wales and introduce the CCR City Deal to organisations and entrepreneurs. [aoa id=”1″]The aim of the tour is to bring the CCR City Deal closer to companies within the region, highlighting how they can collaborate and grow…

A group of friends are gearing up to raise money for Hospice of the Valleys by flipping a tractor tyre for 10 kilometres around Bryn Bach Park in Tredegar, South Wales. The charity event, which takes place on 27 July 2019, will see friends Mike White, Matthew Jordan, James Woods, Daniel Purchase, Joseph Phillips and Matthew Dobbs join forces to raise money for a cause that has affected them personally. Event organiser team member, Matthew Jordan, said: “The Hospice of the Valleys is a charity close to my heart, they provided amazing support and comfort for my mother who required…

Wales’ largest startup and coworking community, Welsh ICE has teamed up with Caerphilly County Borough Council (CCBC) to hold a hackathon event, with the goal of finding solutions to foundational economy challenges. [aoa id=”1″]Five teams of four took part in the event held at ICE where participants were given twelve hours to research and identify a genuine problem or issue in the foundational economy in Wales, and then create a project, product or service that would solve it. The winners would receive a prize of £500 as well as support in potentially bringing their pitch before the Welsh Government’s Foundational…

RDM Electrical and Mechanical Services has hired a further three new members of staff as the company seeks to expand its delivery capabilities.  [aoa id=”1″]Anthony Brunton from Swansea has been hired as MOD Contracts Director. His new role will see him manage a significant government contract and integration as a Tier 1 supplier and grow the level of hard services currently being supplied by RDM. He has over 35 years’ experience in maintenance and facilities management (FM) delivery, having worked as an FM provider in the UK, Europe and Middle East. More recently, Brunton has worked client side, managing FM service…