Merit Holdings has made three key appointments to its Glasgow team as part of a plan to develop the company’s specialist turnkey design and build business in Scotland. Charlie McKenzie joins the Glasgow office as regional managing director along with Rob Beattie as project consultant and Steve
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Springfield Properties, which made its initial public offering on AIM just over a year ago, has been successful at the prestigious ProShare Awards. The builder picked up the award for Best New Share Plan, which recognises newly-launched employee share plans that are designed to link clearly with bus
Two drainage product manufacturers have admitted to breaking competition law by taking part in a cartel, with a third currently under investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). The competition watchdog said it has provisionally found that the three firms broke competition law by c
Plans to transform a disused city centre office block in Aberdeen into a 105-bedroom hotel have been given the green light. Councillors unanimously approved the plans by Mandale Construction North for the six-storey Custom House, on the corner of Guild Street and Stirling Street.
Hadden Group has been re-appointment on the Perth and Kinross Council Minor Works Framework for the next four years. The framework covers the whole range of public buildings including schools, residential and day-care homes, libraries, museums, community centres and offices.
New research has revealed that three-quarters of Scottish adults believe there is a shortage of homes for social rent, with modern construction methods tipped to offer solutions to the challenges. A study by Scape Procure Scotland has also suggested that it will take 33 years until everyone on the c
Uncertainty caused by Brexit is leading buyers and sellers in Scotland to sit tight in increasing numbers, according to the November 2018 RICS UK Residential Market Survey. The results from the latest survey show a weaker trend in sales than previous months with the headline indicators for
Children and families in need across Scotland will receive donations of money, food and gifts courtesy of building contractor McDermott Group this Christmas. A fleet of McDermott Group vans driven by staff dressed as Christmas elves will deliver donations to foodbanks in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Greenock
Services are being held again at Aberdeen Crematorium after a major refurbishment.
Sniffer dogs are being used to help find leaking water mains for the first time in Scotland and have scored a big success with two discoveries in the past few days. Scottish Water is deploying a team of specially trained dogs to help locate leaks in pipes in rural areas where the water does not alwa
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A Dundee development firm has unveiled its vision for what would be the tallest building in Scotland on the city’s waterfront. Invertay Homes said its 39-storey Discovery Heights concept would create the ‘Sydney Opera House of Scotland’.
Clark Contracts has been appointed to Registers of Scotland’s small to medium works framework, which will operate over the next three years. The framework will see approximately £10 million of projects delivered within RoS’s Meadowbank House office in Edinburgh.
North of Scotland housebuilder Tulloch Homes has initiated a major push south with two major new developments in the Central Belt. The firm said it is expanding with more than £60 million investment in a number of new locations, including concluding the acquisition of its most southerly ventur
Network Rail has appointed Amco as the main contractor for the planned £13 million enhancement of Dunbar station.


