Plans to replace the Gables Care Home in Forfar with a modern purpose-built supported housing complex for adults with learning disabilities have taken a significant step forward. Angus Council’s policy and resources committee yesterday approved a two-year project for the replacement of the old car
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BCTG Construct is a consortium of educators, industrialists, and designers who aim to transform the way that construction-based training programmes are delivered in the UK. BCTG Construct, in association with Circular Glasgow and the Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC), would like to invi
Heat winners MacTaggart & Mickel Business Fives’ winter season continued with the Glasgow construction, housing and property heat on Tuesday where 12 companies across the sector met in the city.
Skypark 5 in Glasgow’s Finnieston by Alan Robertson Photography NORR announces move to Skypark in Glasgow
The Falkirk Wheel is set to be drained of water as annual maintenance works get underway to ensure the world’s only rotating boat lift keeps on turning in 2018. The works, which will run from February 5 until March 7, will see Scottish Canals’ engineering team carry out a programme of inspection
Highland councillors have approved plans for an alloy wheel manufacturing facility at Fort William in Lochaber. The facility, which involves an investment in excess of £130 million and will sustain and create around 570 jobs, was unveiled by industrial group GFG Alliance in September.
VolkerStevin is to host a supplier engagement day as it looks for subcontractors and suppliers to work on the £500 million HM Naval Base Clyde development. The contractor is one of several bidders for work to prepare the base for the next generation of Dreadnought ballistic missile submarines..
Plans for the new Ladyloan Primary School in Arbroath A proposed 30-year programme to improve and replace schools across Angus has been approved councillors.
Five hundred and fifty-three former Carillion apprentices across Great Britain have received job offers, following intervention by the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB). A fortnight ago, 1400 apprentices across Great Britain were affected when the construction firm Carillion ceased trading
The owners of the former Paton’s Mill site in Johnstone have announced the appointment of Bell Building Projects Limited as the main contractor to develop a retail park on the site. 4th Developments, owners of the former shoelace mill site, confirm that Phase 1 of the development masterplan works
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Nick Hampson, Malcolm Hughes MD Ogilvie Group has restructured its surveying businesses to operate under the Malcolm Hughes brand, creating one of the largest companies in the sector.
A rise in house-building drove an overall marginal increase in construction activity in Scotland during the final quarter of 2017, according to new figures. Both public and private sector house building activity was higher in the quarter, according to the balance of respondents to the quarterly Cons
Glenn Allison Stewart Milne Homes is targeting further growth in the North West of England as its moves to reduce the impact of the downturn in its core market in the North East of Scotland.
Construction trade federations across the UK are continuing their push for action on cash retentions. The National Federation of Builders (NFB) and other trade federations with members most likely to be affected by the collapse of Carillion believe this is an opportunity for the industry to move swi


