Search:

Cosmos Projects has expanded its roofing division with the appointment of Alistair Timms as roofing contracts manager. Alistair is a certified advanced roof slater and tiler with more than 11 years of experience of all types of slating, tiling, liquid systems and lead work including accreditation fr

The Trump Organisation’s plans to build 500 new homes as part of a £150 million second phase of development at its golf resort in Aberdeenshire have been described as a "weak substitute" for the original proposals put forward 10 years ago. Plans were lodged with Aberdeenshire Council for

JML Contracts has spoken of its joy after one of its projects was named House of the Year 2018 by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). Lochside House in the Scottish Highlands was revealed as the winner in the final episode of a special Channel 4 series Grand Designs: House of the Year,

Moves by the UK Cabinet Office to exclude late payers from government contracts have been applauded by the Specialist Engineering Contractors’ Group (SEC Group). The contractor representative body said that such measures were “long overdue” and urged the government to act upon it.

Shepherd Chartered Surveyors has promoted two residential surveyors who rose through the ranks of its graduate recruitment programme to office management roles. Luke Doyle takes over the management of the firm’s Kilmarnock branch while Michael McDade assumes the same position in its Greenock o

A landscape construction contractor which puts 100% of its profits into its charitable arm has received a financial boost from CITB funding. Lanark-based CCI Scotland provides a foot in the door to people who want to work in construction, but aren’t quite ready for mainstream employment.

More landlords who rent out their homes on ‘Airbnb-style’ websites spend their takings on holidays than reinvest their earnings in home improvement projects, according to new research. A study by the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) into the spending patterns of landlords who use shor

A former Citizens Advice Bureaux office in Inverness has been converted into four 1 bedroom flats for rent from the Highland Council.  The project at 103 Academy Street was developed by ARK Estates while WGC Scotland was the main contractor.  

A modest Glasgow flat struggled to find a buyer after property website Rightmove accidentally listed it with a price tag of nearly £8 million.

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: S Harrison Developments Ltd.

Two consecutive sections of the A9 to be dualled are included in the latest ground investigation contract for the A9 dualling programme awarded today. Fugro GeoServices Ltd will undertake the £3.6 million contract for the Glen Garry to Dalwhinnie and Dalwhinnie to Crubenmore schemes totalling

Balfour Beatty has paid down half of its debt following the completion of a £252.7 million convertible bond repayment.

GVA has appointed two new regional senior directors to lead the business in Scotland. Alison Taylor and Stuart Agnew will assume their new posts as regional senior directors for Glasgow and Edinburgh respectively from 1 January 2019.

Plans have been submitted for a block of flats at Dundee’s City Quay. Victoria Dock (Dundee) Ltd (VDDL), which is headed up by various individual developers, wants to build 122 apartments in two separate blocks, including car parking and a ground floor convenience store, on what is curren

An application for planning permission in principle for new private and affordable homes in Kilmacolm has been submitted by Taylor Wimpey West Scotland. The site is adjacent to an established residential area, bounded to the east by Finlaystone Road and to the south by Quarry Road. The housebuilder