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MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: NHS Lothian 

In the six months up to 31st December 2018, Clark Contracts secured over £50 million of new orders from both new and existing customers. Orders from new customers include the refurbishment of office space within Whyte and MacKay’s Grangemouth bottling facility, the construction of two in

Multidisciplinary design and engineering company BakerHicks has been awarded a contract to deliver design services for the new Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre (MMIC) in Renfrewshire. BakerHicks was appointed by CPI to provide multi-disciplinary design services, including pharmaceutical con

A £300 million initiative to create new jobs and transform the Ayrshire region is poised to be officially signed off. The three leaders of East, North and South Ayrshire councils were in London last week to meet politicians and partners from the public and private sector involved in delivering

Representatives from Link, Argyll and Bute Council and West Highland Housing Association welcomed the minister for local government and housing for Scotland, Kevin Stewart, to a sod cutting event at Link’s Dunbeg development in Oban this week. The event marked the start of construction on Phas

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: Kippax Ltd. (Dandara Group)

Health secretary Jeane Freeman has ordered a review into the construction, design and maintenance of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow following the death of patients who contracted a pigeon dropping infection. It emerged at the weekend that two patients who had died at the hospital

Housing minister Kevin Stewart has visited the first homes to be delivered as part of a new housing partnership between the City of Edinburgh Council and the Scottish Futures Trust. Around 1,500 new affordable homes will be delivered through the Edinburgh Living initiative over the next five years w

Building materials supplier Travis Perkins has appointed Kieran Griffin as new managing director for its builders’ merchant business following the retirement of Paul Tallentire. Kieran first joined Travis Perkins 24 years ago as a management apprentice, after which he quickly rose through the

A public consultation is to be held into plans for 500 new homes and a primary school in an Aberdeenshire village. At least 25% of the properties would be classed as affordable, amounting to 125 homes, with shops, businesses, playing fields and other leisure facilities also proposed on land previous

Swarms of tiny, pipe-inspecting robots could soon be able to monitor and fix pipes, radically changing the UK's buried infrastructure system which currently costs more than £5 billion per year to maintain. In a world’s first, researchers are testing the viability of miniature robots that

Morrison Construction is to deliver a new primary school in Haddington that is being fully funded through developers’ contributions. Letham Primary School is being developed at Letham Mains on the west side of the town. The site was zoned for housing in East Lothian Council’s Local Devel

Dr Alan Belfield is to take over as chairman of consulting engineer Arup Group from April 1. Currently the firm’s chief operating officer, Dr Belfield will lead Arup’s 15,000-strong team and oversee a global business with turnover in excess of £1.6 billion.

Support for the long-running campaign by electrotechnical trade association SELECT for recognition of electricians as a profession is literally building brick by brick across the construction industry and beyond. SELECT, whose campaign is also backed by the Scottish Joint Industry Board (SJIB) and U

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: Arnold Clark Automobiles