Berratt Wong, a graduate quantity surveyor at Kier, explains how the company’s graduate programme has helped his career in construction flourish. I was born in Malaysia and growing up, there was a brilliant TV programme about life working on airlines, so I instantly decided that I wanted to be
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Commercial property consultant Ryden has named Dr Mark Robertson as the firm’s new managing partner. Dr Robertson will take over from Bill Duguid who is moving to the role of chairman after six years as leader of the firm.
CMS Window Systems has welcomed twelve young people to its new CMS Apprenticeship Programme. The initiative will provide credible career opportunities for local people every year and help to ensure that homegrown talent forms the nucleus of its manufacturing and installation workforce for future yea
Fife Council’s planners were celebrating after the local authority’s development plan team scooped an award in the Scottish Government’s Scottish Awards for Quality in Planning 2018 (SAQP 2018). The Scottish Awards for Quality in Planning, now in their nineteenth year, are one of t
The City of Glasgow College has formally entered into a research and development project agreement for the utilisation of drone inspections and surveys to include buildings of architecture and historical interest.
The issue of a potential bridge linking Northern Ireland to Scotland has reared its head once more after the idea was highlighted by Boris Johnson and other UK politicians. The idea of constructing a bridge across the Irish Sea was proposed by architect Professor Alan Dunlop earlier this year.
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Housebuilder and timber systems manufacturer Stewart Milne Group has today reported strong results which have seen the business deliver a second successive year of turnover and profit growth. The group posted a £40 million increase in turnover, from £240.5m to £279.2m for the year
The architects behind the transformation of Perth City Hall have submitted their planning application for the development. Dutch practice Mecanoo plans to revamp the B-listed hall to form a flexible museum, exhibition space and café to help meet the city’s cultural aspirations.
Morrison Construction has celebrated surpassing a major milestone for the £37 million Cumbernauld Academy and Cumbernauld Theatre project. The project, which is being undertaken with development partner hub South West and North Lanarkshire Council, has progressed to the weathertight stage.
The Specialist Engineering Contractors’ Group (SEC Group) has issued a call for a statutory authority to be introduced to regulate construction industry practice. The trade body proposed setting up a Construction and Infrastructure Authority which would replicate some of the powers associated
Legal & General has agreed to fund the development of new high-quality student accommodation block to a top Scottish university. Lincam Pentland Ltd, a subsidiary of Edinburgh housebuilder S1 Developments Limited, has completed the sale of the proposed new 315 room (359 bed) student residence, f
RICS Scotland will hold a parliamentary reception early next year as a working group formed to tackle the quality of Scotland’s tenement buildings prepares to publish its first report. Over the last year, the issue of tenement repair and maintenance has been rising up the Scottish parliamentar
Work to deliver a new distillery in Leith is set to begin next year after a group of private investors committed £10 million to the project. The Port of Leith Distillery will be the first purpose-built single malt facility constructed in the capital for more than a century. With its distinctiv
An engineering student from Heriot Watt University took home third place in the grand final of the Institution of Civil Engineering’s Pitch 200 competition. Catriona Salvini’s Great ICE Bake-off presentation used the analogy of baking Rocky Road squares to explain how concrete is made an


