SUBSCRIBE
Reading time: 2 minutes
Eildon Housing has secured permission from Scottish Borders Council’s executive committee to build a new development of 57 high quality homes in Chirnside.
Reading time: 2 minutes
Latest Articles
Latest Events
Follow Us On LinkedIn!
Stay up to date with all the latest news, leads, jobs and tenders on LinkedIn!
Visit Our Page
Appointments
See all articles
Reading time: 2 minutes
Kevin Crawford PCIAT, the managing director and founder of Glasgow-based Crawford Architecture has been inaugurated as the 30th president of the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists (CIAT). Kevin is Managing Director and founder of Crawford Architectural, a CIAT Chartered practice base
2 minutes
Galliford Try has created the new role of low carbon construction lead as it develops its capabilities in helping clients to lower whole-life carbon from its projects. Poppy Parsons moves from the role of senior design manager at Galliford Try, building on the appointment of Phil Tompkins as directo
4 minutes
Engineering firm Mott MacDonald has appointed Norrie Westbrook as managing director of buildings and cities in Northern Ireland, Ireland and Scotland as the firm secured a contract for piers upgrades in Islay. Norrie takes over from Andrew Oldfield who has become commercial director for the con
2 minutes
David Broomer is to retire from the role of group chairman at Currie & Brown at the end of December, marking the end of a 51-year career – his entire working life - with the firm. David became a partner in 1980, the youngest partner in the company’s history, and in 1999 moved in
1 minute
Will Smith has been appointed as the new managing director by mechanical and electrical engineering provider Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick. Will has over 20 years of experience in the building services, property and construction sectors, encompassing a variety of commercial and senior leadership ro
Law
See all articles
Reading time: 4 minutes
Greater standardisation, collaboration and incentivisation are required to make Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) work at scale, according to a group of industry experts.
2 minutes
In the final article in SCN's exclusive four-part Construction Delay Series, Sandra Cassels, partner in the commercial litigation team at Morton Fraser who specialises in construction and engineering disputes, explores whether a contractor is entitled to some additional time in a case wher
6 minutes
A judge in the Outer House of the Court of Session hearing a commercial action by a contractor relating to the Aberdeen Harbour Expansion Project has rejected from proof averments by a supplier of stone that there was agreement that a lower class of material would be supplied than that specified in
4 minutes
Two companies have been fined after a security guard died of hypothermia when he and his colleague were snowed in on a construction site. Ronnie Alexander was on duty at Afton Windfarm construction site near New Cumnock, East Ayrshire on 21 January 2018 during bad weather. The 74-year-old was found
Interviews
See all articles
Reading time: 8 minutes
Rugby union legend Gavin Hastings OBE talks to SCN about his playing career, being a qualified surveyor and his new role as a business consultant for The Shore Group in Scotland. For the uninitiated, and possibly SCN’s younger readers, Gavin Hastings is recognised as one of the outstanding rug
6 minutes
A background in nursing may not be the obvious precursor to a career in construction site security, but when an opportunity arose to work for community interest company GTS Solutions, Tracey Smith saw an organisation with an ethos closely aligned to her own values of helping those in need. The only
Kieran Findlay
13 minutes
After last month’s publication of a landmark report which outlined the diversity performance at City Building, Kieran Findlay and Darren Robertson visited the company’s Queenslie Training Centre in Glasgow to ask executive director Dr Graham Paterson about what drives its promotion
Kieran Findlay
8 minutes
SCN speaks to five female members of the architectural team at Mactaggart & Mickel Homes about their roles, balancing home and work priorities, and why designing houses is not ‘plain vanilla’. Contributors:
Plant
See all articles
Reading time: 4 minutes
Bobcat’s new MaxControl system and the company’s new R-Series range of telehandlers made their first appearance at the Smopyc international fair in Zaragosa, Spain last month.
3 minutes
Doosan Portable Power has launched a new range of small portable compressors for the European market, offering four new models with free air deliveries from 2.5 to 5.0 m³/min (90-180 cfm) and designed with a focus on simplicity, durability, reliability and transportability.
6 minutes
Located at an altitude of 2300 m at the heart of the French Alps, Val Thorens is the highest ski and winter sports resort in Europe.
3 minutes
Doosan has launched the company’s first 21-tonne crawler excavators - the new DX210-7, DX210NLC-7 and DX210LC-7 models, offering a choice of short, long and narrow or long and wide track configurations, respectively.
And Finally
See all articles
Reading time: 2 minutes
Images of Scotland’s first double-decker restaurant seating have been revealed ahead of the launch of a Thai food brand’s newest venture.
3 minutes
Network Rail Scotland has put hedgehog-friendly solutions in place at Lanark station to allow the little creatures to move freely in and around railway property.
3 minutes
Young Newarthill boxer Martin Crossan has made his professional debut at St Andrew’s Sporting Club’s Friday Fight Night in the Radisson Blu in Glasgow, with support from Advance Construction Scotland. The super lightweight defeated Georgiou Andreou 40 to 36 in a fourth-round decision, af
1 minute
Police have busted a Lego trafficker who allegedly tried to resell up to $10,000 worth of merchandise shoplifted from a rival store.
1 minute
A huge, 12-pointed star has been installed on top of one of the towers of Antoni Gaudí's famous Sagrada Familia cathedral in Barcelona.
