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A publicly owned energy company must be positioned at the heart of policy making, long-term in its thinking and flexible enough to react to change as it happens, according to a Holyrood committee. The economy, energy and fair work committee has written to the Scottish Government with its findings on

As the electric vehicle revolution gathers pace, SELECT, the trade body for the electrotechnical industry in Scotland, is leading by example by ramping up the installation of EV charging points at its headquarters. The campaigning organisation has added another four fast charge spaces at the Walled

Mactaggart & Mickel’s Building Communities Fund contributed £1,000 to Symington Community Council to stage a charity concert last month to raise funds for a commemorative bench in the village marking the sacrifice of those who did not return from the trenches in 1918. The concert was

Regeneration firm ENGIE has handed over new homes and festive hampers for Glasgow Housing Association’s (GHA) newest customers in Cathay Street, Milton. ENGIE secured a £6.1 million contract to build 54 terraced houses and cottage flats on the former brownfield site on behalf of GHA, par

The boss of a sustainable building materials company who won an auction for the right to name a newly discovered species of amphibian has named the blind creature after Donald Trump in recognition of the US president’s climate change denial. Paying $25,000 (£19,800) in the auction, Envir

Some of Scotland largest contractors figure prominently in our first segment of the 30 most read stories of 2018. Here are numbers 30-16.

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Bank underwriters have been forced to buy shares in Kier Group after just over a third of the firm’s £250 million rights issue was taken up by investors. Kier had hoped the rights issue would help accelerate its programme to reduce its £650m debt mountain.

Interserve has merged its Citizens Services division with its Support Services division in a move which will see a managing director depart at the end of the month. Citizens Services, which embraces justice, Interserve Learning and Employment and Interserve Healthcare, has merged with Support Servic

Construction of a new care home in Ayrshire is to begin in late January 2019 after a contract was awarded to Mactaggart & Mickel. Following a competitive tender, the firm’s contracts division signed a contract with care home provider Meallmore Ltd to build a 52-bed, two storey care home se

South Ayrshire Council is working with partners to deliver approximately 1,000 new affordable homes across the region by 2021. The Strategic Housing Investment Plan (SHIP) outlines that Scottish Government funding of around £62.5 million for 2019-2023, will be used along with council and priva

A&J Stephen has submitted plans for the first phase of a housing development on the edge of Scone. The developer wants to build the first 42 homes on the west side of the Scone North site, which will eventually be home to 700 new properties.

Inveruie-based agriculture cooperative ANM Group is expanding the Thainstone Business Park with the support of a £5 million funding package from Royal Bank of Scotland. One of the largest producer-owned farming, food and finance business in Scotland, ANM Group was established in 1872 and has m

The Edinburgh Architectural Association (EAA) has issued a call for submissions to its EAA Awards 2019. The annual awards showcase and celebrate the very best architecture in the chapter area and beyond, which enhances the built environment and people's lives, regardless of size, form or budget.

A brand new social housing development has been completed in Kilwinning by Cunninghame Housing Association (CHA) and CCG (Scotland) Ltd. The site was previously owned by North Ayrshire Council and CHA acquired the site from the council in March 2016.