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Persimmon Homes' first-ever female apprentice has encouraged more young women to consider a career in construction. The housebuilder is celebrating the achievements of its female apprentices to mark Scottish Apprenticeship Week, which coincides with Women in Construction Week.
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Specialist rural surveyor and land agent firm FBR Seed has promoted Stewart Seed to managing director as founder David Seed transitions to the role of chair. Stewart will assume the day-to-day management of the business, becoming the second generation of the Seed family to lead the company.
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Engineering consulting group COWI has appointed Glasgow-based Eva MacInnes as senior vice president for UK and Ireland and managing director of its UK business. In the role, MacInnes will lead COWI’s UK operations and oversee growth and performance across the UK and Ireland, working closely wi
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Property services partner Bellrock has appointed Anthony McGoldrick as managing director of Consulting in Scotland. In this newly-created role, McGoldrick will lead the growth of Bellrock’s Scottish consulting capability, strengthen its client base and develop new service offerings tailored to
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Sir Bill Robertson is to step back from daily involvement of Robertson Group, with John Watson appointed to the role of chairman. Welcoming John to the role, Sir Bill said: “Robertson Group celebrates 60 years of trading this year and over that time has evolved into an established portfolio of
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BTO has welcomed Donna Strong as a new partner in the law firm’s real estate team, based in its Glasgow office. This senior hire follows the appointment of partner John Dunlop in the firm’s Edinburgh office last year, further strengthening BTO’s growing real estate capability.
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Seasoned construction and business transformation leader Steve Petrie talks to SCN editor Kieran Findlay about his career, from an encounter with the British Gas chairman that 'changed his life' to his experience at Harvard University. On his very first day as an apprentice gas engineer at Brit
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With only 30 days to go until the Scottish Construction Summit, keynote speaker Mark Farmer tells Colin Cardwell about his introduction to construction, his efforts to effect strategic change and his call to arms for the audience in Glasgow. Mark Farmer is eagerly anticipating his next visit to Glas
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From rising construction costs to global geopolitical risks, Scotland’s real estate market faces no shortage of challenges. But for Chris Dougray, head of development at CBRE Scotland, adversity also brings opportunity. Chris Dougray is both generous with his time and eclectic in his interests
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During a visit to Aberdeen, James Butler from AtkinsRéalis catches up with Colin Cardwell to outline the encouraging future in store for the company in Scotland. You can’t be an effective leader from behind a computer screen. That’s one of the maxims that informs James Butler&rsqu
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The first phase of a new housing development at the former Victoria Infirmary Hospital site in Glasgow has now been completed.
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O’DonnellBrown has completed work on its latest project: the ambitious, environmentally progressive retrofit of New Farm Loch Community Centre in Kilmarnock, creating a future-proofed facility for Take A Bow, a charitable organisation specialising in performing arts, community and youth develo
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Pend has completed a comprehensive renovation and integration of two former flats into a single family home in the Trinity suburb of Edinburgh for long-term clients and collaborators, Dixie and Ralf, owners of independent multi-brand design store, Catalog Interiors in Stockbridge.
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Pend has completed a sensitive renovation and expansion of Whitberry, a Grade B listed Georgian farmhouse in East Lothian. Working alongside the clients-turned-project-managers, the Leith-based architects unified the home’s fragmented rear elevation and introduced light-touch interventions to
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BTO has welcomed Donna Strong as a new partner in the law firm’s real estate team, based in its Glasgow office. This senior hire follows the appointment of partner John Dunlop in the firm’s Edinburgh office last year, further strengthening BTO’s growing real estate capability.
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A construction company that specialises in utility and infrastructure services has been fined £183,000 after one of its employees died after falling through a fragile roof.
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A major wind farm proposal in the Scottish Borders is heading back for reconsideration after Scotland’s highest civil court ruled that the planning reporter failed to properly assess whether the turbines and their future grid connection should have been treated as a single project.
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A legal challenge against Argyll and Bute Council’s decision to select a site in Tobermory for a new Mull education campus has been dismissed, clearing the way for the authority to continue developing plans for the long‑awaited project. Mull Campus Working Group Ltd – a company formed
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Construction work on the Paisley Museum has been completed ahead of an extensive fit-out period.
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Royal Dornoch members have enjoyed the first look inside their spectacular new £13.9 million clubhouse.
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How Loch Lomond Group and a team of local craftspeople transformed a historic smokehouse site into Scotland’s newest spirit destination.
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BDP has completed the interior design of PwC’s new Glasgow office, creating a flexible, sustainable and locally inspired workplace that it said will set a new standard for professional environments in the city.
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Luss Distillery, a new multi-million-pound distillery and visitor experience centre by Loch Lomond Group, is officially open.
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Sarah Stuart, construction law partner at Thorntons, highlights the risks of project overruns and shares how to structure contracts in order to deal with this. As attention turns once again to Holyrood with Scottish Parliamentary elections approaching, it's worth remembering that there was a time wh
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The Construction Plant-hire Association (CPA) proudly won the Environmental/Sustainability Initiative of the Year Award at the UK Trade Association Awards 2026, hosted by the Trade Association Forum (TAF) at the London Marriott Grosvenor House Hotel in London last week.
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Kate Macleod and Sam Griffin have been recognised as Apprentices of the Year 2025/2026 by the Scottish Plant Owners Association (SPOA). Kate MacLeod, who works for Calmax Construction in Newmarket near Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis, was awarded SPOA Plant Operator Apprentice of the Year, and Sam Gr
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Pre-tax profits at Perthshire plant hire giant Morris Leslie Holdings more than doubled to £5.7 million for the year ending 30 April 2025, up from £2.6m the previous year, though directors cautioned that much of this increase was driven by property revaluations. The West Kinfauns-based g
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The Construction Plant-hire Association (CPA) has launched its search for this year’s most promising apprentices and trainees in the construction plant industry. Entries are now open for the CPA Stars of the Future Awards 2026, and nominating has never been easier. Nominations can be made onli
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Businesses will be expressly banned from microchipping their employees under legislation proposed in a US state. Legislators in the state of Washington are currently considering House Bill 2303, which provides that an employer "may not request, require, or coerce any employee to have a microchip imp
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An English pub which was told selling pints for 25p would be illegal decided to give them away for free instead. Whitelocks, in Leeds, had intended to offer pints of a popular 1970s beer, which had been recently relaunched, at 1970s prices.
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Building performance software from global climate-tech firm IES was used by MES Building Solutions to support the rapid delivery of a new two-storey extension for North West childhood cancer charity The Joshua Tree.
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Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has launched a public consultation on its proposal to designate the archaeological remains of the pavilion at the site of the first Hampden as a scheduled monument. Hampden was the first purpose-built football ground in Scotland and one of the earliest to be built
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High school students gathered at Okanagan College in Kelowna, Canada, this month for the institution’s long‑running spaghetti bridge‑building competition — a yearly test of engineering ingenuity using nothing more than pasta and glue.
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