More than 1000 low cost rental homes could be built on derelict ground at Edinburgh’s Western Harbour if developer Forth Ports secures a £76 million loan from the Scottish Government, according to the Edinburgh Evening News. An initiative launched in April last year invited housebuilders to bid f
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Troubled infrastructure firm Carillion has been selected to deliver facilities management services at hundreds of military sites across the north of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. With a core revenue value of £158 million over the initial contract period of five years, but with the opportu
Interserve has secured a framework contract extension valued at £10 million to erect the 8,800-seater grandstands over the next five years for The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. The international support services and construction group has been responsible for building, dismantling and storing th
A proposed hotel next to Edinburgh Airport is to be expanded by a further 65 rooms under newly submitted plans. Acting on behalf of Ability Hotel Group, Leach Rhodes Walker and Lichfields have prepared plans for an expanded 240 bed hotel on Almond Avenue.
Half year results for Morgan Sindall are expected to show a 45% increase in pre-tax profit, the firm has revealed. In a trading update issued this morning the group said that first-half trading has been substantially ahead of the corresponding period last year, driven by improvements in margins and
Scottish firm NWH Group has invested £50,000 in preserving ‘bat caves’ at its Middleton Quarry site on the outskirts of Edinburgh. The business acquired Middleton Quarry in 2013 with plans to reinstate the site to grass and woodland by firstly in-filling the excavated area with inert material f
Work on a £2 billion wind farm off the Fife coast will begin next year after the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) lost a long-running legal battle against the development. The Inner House of the Court of Session yesterday refused RSPB Scotland’s application to appeal the Court’s
Plans to build a Regional Performance Centre for Sport in Dundee have been resubmitted after the Scottish Government changed its mind regarding the need for an environmental impact assessment. An application to Dundee City Council to build the centre in Caird Park was submitted in July last year wit
Two serviced plots with planning permission at Kilfinan Community Forest have been released for sale to self-builders with the aim of addressing the local affordable housing shortage. Released by Kilfinan Community Forest Company (KCFC), the sites in Tighnabruaich, Argyll, have a sale price of £30k
A City Deal has been agreed which will deliver inclusive economic growth across Edinburgh and South East Scotland through housing, innovation, transport, skills and culture. A UK government investment of £300 million is being matched by the Scottish Government with contributions from councils and u
Workloads have slowed across most sectors of the construction industry in Scotland amid concerns over Brexit and domestic political instability, surveyors have reported. According to the Q2 2017 UK Construction and Infrastructure Market Survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
The integration of Hope Construction Materials has resulted in Breedon Group doubling its revenues, leading to a 50% rise in half-year profits. A trading update for the UK’s largest independent construction materials group revealed that income in the six months to the end of June jumped 100% to £
Kier has awarded Spie UK an £8 million contract to carry out mechanical and electrical (M&E) works on a new secondary school campus in Kilmarnock. The new £45.3m William McIlvanney Campus is being built by Kier to accommodate the merger of Kilmarnock Academy, James Hamilton Academy, New Farm P
Plans to transform a B-listed former nursing home into flats have been approved. Kirkton House, near Kirkton of Skene, is to be turned into 17 flats, under the plans from developer Kirk Harrison, the Evening Express has reported.
The comeback story of Liberty Steel’s Scottish plants at Dalzell and Clydebridge turned another page this week with a decision to restart production of heavy-duty products used in structures such as bridges and public art sculptures. Known as ‘weathering’ steel, the environmentally tough grade

