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Bristol Building Schools for the Future

The close of Bristol Building Schools for the Future (BSF) project creates the UK's first Local Education Partnership (LEP) - a new breed of strategic partnership tying consortia to local councils for multi-deal programmes

Ras Abu Fontas B2

Ras Abu Fontas B2 (RAFB2) - an upgrade of an existing IWPP in the Gulf state of Qatar - closed last week, with US$485.5 million in financing from six MLAs and some of the most aggressive pricing on any deal in the region.

Nottinghamshire's pathfinder waste PFI

Veolia Environmental Services and Nottinghamshire County Council have closed the groundbreaking £140m waste management PFI project - writes Angus Leslie Melville

Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal

The refinancing of Queensland's Dalrymple Bay coal terminal - which accounts for 6 per cent of the world's coal trade - comes at the confluence of the two major trends in Australian project financing.

Birmingham Acute and Adult Psychiatric Hospitals PFI

The project to build a new 1,213 bed hospital and mental health centre to serve the UK's second largest city reached close this week becoming the tightest-margined healthcare deal to close this year.

University of Sheffield accommodation project

A Bovis Lend Lease and HSBC Infrastructure Funds consortium went to the debt capital markets to fund a project to consolidate and renew a large part of the University of Sheffield's Student Accommodation portfolio under a PFI-like structure

SHARQ Petrochemicals at Jubail

The key driver in the expansion of the SHARQ petrochemicals facility was an agreement with Saudi Aramco whereby the monopoly hydrocarbons firm would provide an increased ethane feedstock for an upgraded complex at Jubail.

Northern Ireland's Alpha water PPP

After a fitful start, Northern Irish PPP has finally started to boom. For years the region's unstable political environment and the mixed results of devolution obstructed development (IJ Opinion 24 March.) But with a rash of PPPs on the drawing board and

Cyprus airport: Legal clearance

Cyprus airport: Legal clearance

SIPP: Private sector pulls

SIPP: Private sector pulls

Hidd: Turning Japanese

Hidd: Turning Japanese

Greater Equate: Banks' banquet

Greater Equate: Banks' banquet

SSI: In on the rebound

SSI: In on the rebound

Break out

Break out

Old money

Old money

Old risks – new contracts

Old risks – new contracts