Burness Paull's Kathleen McAnea looks at the implications of the current shortage in construction materials and offers suggestions for companies who may be impacted. In March there was much industry chatter about the materials shortage in construction and the impact on housebuilders.
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MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: Vengada Estates Ltd. C/o Motcomb Estates Ltd.
Balfour Beatty restarted its investment asset disposals with the sale of its 70% interest in a hospital redevelopment project in Canada. The disposal of the BC Children’s & BC Women’s Hospital Redevelopment Project Phase 2 – Teck Acute Care Centre, located in Vancouve
Construction and fit-out specialist Morris & Spottiswood has delivered two vital regional laboratories for Health Facilities Scotland in order to ramp up testing facilities for COVID-19 in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Three regional testing hubs have been delivered in total across North, West and East
Tulloch Homes Group has highlighted a return to work to all of its sites and strong buyer interest as reasons to be cheerful after attributing a 50% year-on-year drop in profits to the effects on the industry of the coronavirus pandemic. The private housebuilder saw a “substantial&rd
A £60 million regeneration programme has transformed Campbeltown town centre into a more vibrant, attractive place to live, work and visit, a new report has found.
Responding to the changing working patterns of a post-Covid Scotland, Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC) has revealed new plans to help retrofit public spaces into out-of-town alternatives to city centre offices.
The president of SELECT has praised the “spirit of collaboration and co-operation” shown by the campaigning trade association and its members during the pandemic. Donald W Orr said Scotland’s largest construction trade body had “played a vital role” as it helped contrac
Councillors have approved plans for the £50 million transformation of the former Debenhams store on Edinburgh's Princes Street into a hotel and leisure development.
Mactaggart & Mickel is helping people find their feet, and their green fingers as the popularity of gardening and growing vegetables has exploded, thanks to a partnership with Goody Foody Gardens. The idea of owning a thriving veg patch and just nipping out the back door to pick some lettuce, ma
Wolverhampton-based Thermal Recycling has opened the world’s first plant of its type providing a socially and environmentally responsible alternative for asbestos disposal. The company diverts asbestos away from landfill, converts it into a new material that does not contain asbestos, and prod
Plans have been approved for a new block of 35 flats on the site of a vacant warehouse in Partick.
A steep decline in resourcing for Scottish planning authorities over the last decade has left the profession in a precarious position, new research by Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) Scotland has concluded.
A total of 24 energy-efficient new homes are to be built on a vacant site previously occupied by a gym and social work offices in Leven. Kingdom Housing Association has started work on the £3.1 million development that will see a mixture of common access apartments and cottage flats built on S
Glasgow City Council has approved up to £1.4 million in funding to help develop a community hub in Possilpark.


