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The completion of work on the £745 million Aberdeen city bypass road is not in any danger despite turmoil at one of the project’s consortium partners, Transport Scotland has insisted. Last week construction and infrastructure firm Carillion continued a troubled spell after it issued a profit warn

More than 1000 low cost rental homes could be built on derelict ground at Edinburgh’s Western Harbour if developer Forth Ports secures a £76 million loan from the Scottish Government, according to the Edinburgh Evening News. An initiative launched in April last year invited housebuilders to bid f

Troubled infrastructure firm Carillion has been selected to deliver facilities management services at hundreds of military sites across the north of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. With a core revenue value of £158 million over the initial contract period of five years, but with the opportu

Interserve has secured a framework contract extension valued at £10 million to erect the 8,800-seater grandstands over the next five years for The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. The international support services and construction group has been responsible for building, dismantling and storing th

A proposed hotel next to Edinburgh Airport is to be expanded by a further 65 rooms under newly submitted plans. Acting on behalf of Ability Hotel Group, Leach Rhodes Walker and Lichfields have prepared plans for an expanded 240 bed hotel on Almond Avenue.

RESIDENTIAL – TEN UNITS OR MORE Applicant: Persimmon Homes East

Half year results for Morgan Sindall are expected to show a 45% increase in pre-tax profit, the firm has revealed. In a trading update issued this morning the group said that first-half trading has been substantially ahead of the corresponding period last year, driven by improvements in margins and

Josh Littlejohn outside one of the proposed new homes The houses for Social Bite’s new village are now under construction with members of Edinburgh’s homeless community expected to be onsite before Christmas this year, Social Bite co-founder, Josh Littlejohn MBE, confirmed today.

Martyn Brocklesby Concerned over possible complacency, the British Drilling Association (BDA) is issuing a reminder to the drilling sector of the need to address Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome and is supporting the initiative with a number of recommendations.

(from left) Tom Fitzpatrick – Editor of CN, Alasdair Reisner - from CECA, David Cooper, academy manager, Clark Contracts and Stephen Mangan – actor Clark Contracts has won the Training Excellence Award at the UK wide 2017 Construction News Awards.

Gavin Burt AWE awards five-year managed services contract to BakerHicks

Scottish firm NWH Group has invested £50,000 in preserving ‘bat caves’ at its Middleton Quarry site on the outskirts of Edinburgh. The business acquired Middleton Quarry in 2013 with plans to reinstate the site to grass and woodland by firstly in-filling the excavated area with inert material f

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: Beatsons Building Supplies Ltd

Work on a £2 billion wind farm off the Fife coast will begin next year after the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) lost a long-running legal battle against the development. The Inner House of the Court of Session yesterday refused RSPB Scotland’s application to appeal the Court’s

Plans to build a Regional Performance Centre for Sport in Dundee have been resubmitted after the Scottish Government changed its mind regarding the need for an environmental impact assessment. An application to Dundee City Council to build the centre in Caird Park was submitted in July last year wit