Jacobs Engineering Group has received a two-year contract from Canaport LNG for the provision of maintenance and related services at the company's LNG Terminal in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.

The Building Group, a subsidiary of KBR, has bagged a $94m contract from Piedmont Healthcare to provide pre-construction and construction services for a replacement facility for Piedmont Newnan Hospital in  Newnan, Georgia.

Shepherd Construction has bagged a £14.7m contract to build a new design centre at Loughborough University. This will be the third project at the university for the company, having previously completed work on the swimming pool and the national cricket academy.

Essex Property Trust, a fully integrated real estate investment trust, has entered into a venture to acquire Essex Skyline at MacArthur Place, a 349-unit high rise condominium project in California for $128m.

Construction and regeneration group Morgan Ashurst has won two contracts worth £71m. A £38m project to build Winifred Holtby and Tweendykes, a new secondary and special education needs school in Midmere Avenue, Hull, and a £33m scheme to build Archbishop Sentamu Academy, a new academy school in Preston Road, Hull.

CB Richard Ellis Group, a commercial real estate services firm, has promoted Gil Borok to the position of CFO. Mr Borok takes over the CFO responsibilities from Bob Sulentic, who will continue as the company’s president.

Balfour Beatty has agreed the sale of a 23.9 percent interest in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary public private partnership (PPP) concession and of its entire 50 percent interest in the Aberdeen Waste Water PPP concession, both to funds managed by AMP Capital Investors, the Australian wealth management company, for an aggregate consideration of £24.3m. The transactions will generate a profit of c£21m.

Lanesborough Real Estate Investment Trust (LREIT) has completed the sale of a 65,283 square foot shopping centre property in Winnipeg, Manitoba, known as McIvor Mall, for 11.2m. LREIT will use the $6.36m of net cash from the sales to repay debt and for general working capital purposes.

Fluor Corporation has bagged an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract from Debswana Diamond Company, a joint venture of the Government of Botswana and De Beers, to execute the Jwaneng Cut 8 mining project in Botswana.

Johnson Controls, a provider of energy efficient and sustainable products, has acquired National Energy Services (NES), a lighting services company. Specific terms of the agreement were not disclosed.