Energy storage and clean fuel company ITM Power, which is headquartered in Sheffield, has secured agreements for DHL Supply Chain and London Stansted Airport to participate in trials for its transportable high pressure refuelling unit. The hydrogen on site trials will begin in 2011 with DHL and London Stansted operating and refuelling Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engine Revolve Technologies Ford Transit vehicles with hydrogen produced on site at the point of use, at sites operated by the two companies and in the Gateway to London development area.

Powerminister Gleeson Services has been awarded a 14-month contract to provide planned and reactive maintenance to 24 sites, including four main transport interchanges throughout the South Yorkshire region, in partnership with South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive. The contract includes a 24/7 response to call-outs for essential maintenance works, as well as scheduled planned maintenance programmes for high-mast lighting maintenance, legionella compliance and refrigeration gas regulations. As part of the contract, Powerminster has appointed five maintenance engineers and three other staff have transferred under TUPE from the existing contractor.

Barnsley & Rotherham Chamber of Commerce will host a breakfast event in association with the South Yorkshire Manufacturing Forum on 15 June to explore opportunities for the manufacturing sector. Chamber chief executive John Lewis said the event, which takes place at AESSEAL’s office at Bradmarsh Business Park, will allow companies to network and learn about the business opportunities provided by international trade in the predicted export-led recovery.

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Plans for Doncaster’s new civic office, a key element of the £300m Civic and Cultural Quarter (CCQ) project, have been approved by the Planning Authority. Designed by Cartwright Pickard Architects, the five-storey, 157,500 sq ft, energy-efficient building will serve as a one-stop shop for Doncaster residents and accommodate approximately 1,400 council staff. Construction of the new civic office, part of the first phase of the CCQ project, is expected to start at the end of the year and complete in 2013.

The deadline for Insider’s South Yorkshire Property Personality of the Year nominations closes this Friday, with the winner of the Lambert Smith Hampton-sponsored award due to be announced at the South Yorkshire Property Gala Dinner on 8 July. Previous recipients include Rob Firth of St James’ Securities, Mel Burrell of St Paul’s Developments and Philip Ryan of JF Finnegan. If you would like to nominate someone for the award, please click here. If you have not yet reserved your seat at this year’s dinner, there is still time to do so, click here, and come and join some of the area’s most influential property companies.

Sheffield developer JF Finnegan has let its final unit on its Ecclesall Road Retail Park to Aga, the maker of specialist cookers. The cooker brand will open a 1,430 sq ft showroom on the park this summer. The unit is the last of six retail spaces to be let and sold on the development, which was completed by Finnegans in March 2009. DLA Piper’s Sheffield office acted for Finnegans on the disposal of all their units on Ecclesall Road.

Voice Technologies, the supplier of digital dictation and speech recognition solutions headquartered in Glasgow, has opened a new office in Sheffield Technology Park. The new office will support VT’s expansion in England and Wales predominantly targeting the NHS, legal firms and the public sector. Alistair Graham, sales and technical director at VT, said: “Sheffield was an obvious choice for us, as it is situated right by the motorway, allows easy access to England and Wales and is only a three-hour drive from our head office in Paisley.”

Restaurant The Bar and Grill has become the latest tenant at Ask Developments’ Leopold Square in Sheffield’s West End. The restaurant will occupy a 4,000 sq ft unit at the Grade II listed building and will undergo a £1m fit-out. West Yorkshire leisure entrepreneur Richard Downey is behind the new restaurant which is expected to open in the autumn.