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Following the highly successful Climate Summit held last autumn, Constructing Excellence South West (CESW) launched the West Country’s first ‘Leadership in the Built Environment Symposium’ held at Sandy Park.

A prestigious line-up of speakers helped to attract more than 120 delegates to the free full-day event, supported by platinum sponsors Kier Construction and further key sponsors T Clarke Contracting Ltd and Midas Group.

Open to members and non-members of CESW, the leadership symposium was aimed at anyone working with, or within the construction or property sectors...

Sparx, an Exeter-based learning technology company, has been shortlisted for two Education Resource Awards, one in recognition of its collaboration with the Ted Wragg Multi Academy Trust and a second for its innovative use of technology in education.

Sparx is particularly proud of their collaboration with schools in the Ted Wragg Trust. The Trust is a six school multi-academy trust responsible for the education of over 3000 children aged between two and 16 years. For the past eight years, Sparx has worked with a number of schools in the Trust to investigate how children learn maths...

West Country house builder Devonshire Homes has announced a re-structure of its senior management team to spearhead the firm’s ambitious five-year growth plan.

The independent house builder, which is on target to deliver 181 homes in 2019, is a wholly owned subsidiary of the London and Devonshire Trust (LDT). LDT has confirmed an increase in its investment in the house builder to facilitate the growth ambitions to deliver over 250 homes per annum by 2022.

The Tiverton-based business has appointed former Devonshire Homes’ chairman, Daniel Stephenson, to the role of Chief...

An Exeter law firm has taken another step in the battle against plastic pollution by working with one of the South West’s brightest community interest companies, Beach Guardian.

Stephens Scown LLP signed up to the Plastic Free Exeter pledge in late 2018 and has been taking action to cut down on its plastic use since then. This has included arranging a plastic collection along Exeter’s Quay, collecting all the plastic used in one week to assess where it comes from and looking at ways to reduce this as part of the firm’s ‘Giving Back’ program.

Solicitor Sarah Newton and...