Five in frame for £90m 12,000-seat Bristol Arena

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Bam, Bouygues, Sir Robert McAlpine, Laing O'Rourke and Buckingham Group have been shortlisted in the contest to build the £90m Populous-designed Bristol Arena, writes Iain Withers. Bids will be submitted by 18 December with a decision about the winning contractor expected in February 2016. Populous and partner Feilden Clegg Bradley won the RIBA competition to design the arena (visualised right) for Bristol in March. The arena's capacity will be 12,000 and it is expected to open in 2018. Aecom is cost consultant and employer's agent on the project. Bristol mayor George Ferguson said: "This is the next key milestone in the arena programme and takes us one step closer to delivery.