Birmingham Airport (BHX) is preparing for its busiest summer ever. A record 2.1 million passengers are expected to travel through the airport over the six-week summer break – a 5% increase compared to the same period last year.
As it prepares to celebrate a decade as the UK’s biggest event for the built environment, UK Construction Week (UKCW) has announced its first confirmed big name speakers for this autumn’s show in Birmingham.
Downtown in Business (DIB), in partnership with the West Midlands Combined Authority, will host a high-profile Parliamentary Reception on Monday 15th September to showcase the region’s ambitious Economic Growth Strategy.
Downtown in Business group chair and chief executive Frank McKenna offers his reflections on a special Labour Party reception hosted in London this week.
Birmingham Tech Week, the UK’s largest regional tech festival, is set to make a quantum leap as it returns for its seventh consecutive year in 2025, cementing the West Midlands’s reputation as a global hub for innovation, talent and transformative technology.
Skills West Midlands + Warwickshire has celebrated work being undertaken across the construction sector in the region at a special awards event, held at the offices of Gowling WLG in Birmingham.
Birmingham Airport (BHX) has unveiled its latest terminal investment as it opened the extended boarding gate lounges. The new and improved Gates 58 to 60 have been re-developed, improving boarding experience through better layout design that will also support airlines with on-time departures.
Downtown in Business (DIB) will convene some of the UK’s most influential civic leaders, government figures, and private sector stakeholders for a landmark Property, Regeneration & Infrastructure Conference this autumn — a timely event that aligns with the government’s renewed focus on accelerating housebuilding and driving regional economic growth.
Wates, Stepnell, Morgan Sindall, Kier and BAM have partnered with the newly formed Centre for Construction Best Practice as Gold Corporate Partners.
Downtown in Business is pleased to confirm that Cllr James Lewis, Leader of Leeds City Council, will be joining the speaker line-up for this year’s flagship regeneration event, Talking ‘Bout Regeneration 2025.
Change Makers Live 2025, the flagship national conference from Downtown in Business, takes place on Thursday, 2nd October 2025 at Everton Football Club’s stunning new Hill Dickinson Stadium in Liverpool.
On Tuesday, 4th November 2025, Birmingham will be at the heart of innovation as Downtown in Business hosts The Change Makers Live Summit at the prestigious Aston University.
