July 2020 - Invest Colchester

Ingleton Wood awarded £20m funding for school improvement projects

Posted on July 15, 2020 | by web@colchester.gov.uk

Ingleton Wood, which has an office in Colchester, won over £20 million in funding for vital school projects from the Government’s Condition Improvement Fund for 2020/21.

Ingleton Wood has secured almost 5% of the £434 million funding from the Department for Education – thought to be one of the largest amounts won by a single company nationally.

The investment for our education clients range from small repair projects such as fire door and boiler renewals to multimillion-pound school block replacements.

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Essex wins Government funding to develop secure future technologies

Posted on July 14, 2020 | by web@colchester.gov.uk

Computer scientists at the University of Essex are part of a research team which successfully won a £1.8m grant from the Government’s Digital Security by Design programme.

The UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) initiative aims to help the tech infrastructure of UK organisations and digital devices be more resilient to cyber attacks and the nine winning research teams will share the £10m investment.

Essex is a partner in the University of Glasgow-led AppControl project, which will leverage state-of-the-art microprocessors, developed earlier in the programme, to make sure vital systems that could be used in cars, medical robots or nuclear power plants remain digitally secure.

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Colchester ranked 30th in UK’s top healthy High Streets

Posted on July 8, 2020 | by web@colchester.gov.uk

Financial services company, Bankrate, recently launched its HealthRate Index to reveal the healthiest High Streets in the UK.

The HealthRate Index takes into account a variety of factors which, once combined, generates a score. The higher the score the healthier the place.

82 High Streets were assessed for the number of gyms, leisure centres, green spaces, vegan restaurants, libraries, Museums and more. Colchester was ranked 30th in the UK and has been deemed to be healthy.

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Construction to Begin on Landmark Northern Gateway Development with the Appointment of Breheny

Posted on July 7, 2020 | by web@colchester.gov.uk

Colchester Borough Council’s ambition to deliver a new, landmark destination for homes and businesses at Colchester Northern Gateway – South (CNGS) takes a major step forward this week as newly-appointed civil engineers, Breheny, start work on site.

Colchester Amphora Trading Ltd (CATL), the council’s commercial trading company, which is project managing the development, today (24 June 2020) formally announced the award of a £3.45 million contract to Ipswich-based Breheny, following a two-stage tender process.

Image credit: Breheny Civil Engineering