A cohort of CALA construction site management professionals, drawn from all corners of Scotland, have turned pandemic-driven disruption to personal advantage by tackling one of two advanced Scottish Vocational Qualifications (SVQs) in site supervision and site management, with the majority completin
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Build Lanarkshire, the instructional programme which guides local construction businesses on how to win new work from both the public sector and Scotland’s Tier One building contractors, is under way once more. Run in partnership with North and South Lanarkshire Councils, the Build Lanarkshire
SNIPEF reappointed to run Approved Certifier of Construction scheme for drainage, heating & plumbing
With certification becoming increasingly important in the construction industry, the Scottish and Northern Ireland Plumbing Employers’ Federation (SNIPEF) has been re-appointed by the Scottish Government to run the Approved Certifier of Construction scheme for a further six years.
Housebuilder Mactaggart & Mickel has hailed its long-serving Ayrshire-based site manager Stuart Gillespie as a “model of consistency” after he scooped a prestigious industry award. Stuart, the senior site manager at Mactaggart & Mickel’s Greenan Views development in D
Campaigning trade association SELECT has told a parliamentary consultation that regulating the electrical industry in Scotland would help reduce death and injury, bring significant economic benefits and encourage more women and minorities to take up the tools. The body has used the consultation to p
The Scottish Government’s pledge to create thousands of renewables jobs is "in tatters" after the collapse of a deal between BiFab and EDF over the manufacture of jackets for the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm.
Scottish commercial interior design company Bell & Swift is to lead a large-scale refurbishment of Glasgow's Hilton hotel.
Daniel Billinge has been appointed as BAM Construct UK’s head of procurement, a new role which will support closer working between BAM companies and accelerating the uptake of modern methods of construction. Mr Billinge is responsible for developing a ‘best in class' procurement function
A Strategic Development Framework (SDF) that will guide the development of Glasgow city centre over the next 30 years has been approved today by the local authority.
A Dunbar brewery company has been fined £10,000 after admitting discharging caustic effluent into a sewer which caused damage to a waste water treatment works.
Plans have been approved for a four-unit retail development in Dundee.
Forty years after its release, the famous PAC-MAN video game is being brought back to centre stage by Caterpillar on an epic scale.
A key milestone in Aberdeen’s Baird Family Hospital and ANCHOR Centre project has been achieved with the signing of the £161 million construction contract by NHS Grampian and GRAHAM, with the contractor preparing to go on-site next month. The project is the largest to be procu
Plans are being drawn up for the creation of 180 new homes and luxury log cabins at Prestonhill quarry in Inverkeithing. The plans are being led by developers DDR (UK) Ltd. There are few details about the plans, other than it is likely to comprise of 135 newbuild homes and 45 housing association pro
Glasgow City Council was yesterday given an update on the progress of the Sighthill Transformational Regeneration Area (TRA) which noted the achievement of key milestones and looked forward to future projects within the TRA.


