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With government help, the construction industry can do a lot more to prevent tonnes of waste from going to landfill, argues Brewster Bros MD Scott Brewster. With COP26 into its second week, sustainability and net zero remain high on everyone’s agenda. However, long before the UN’s climat

Barry McNicholas, the group managing director of Kier Utilities, has decided to leave the group at the end of December 2021. Mr McNicholas joined Kier in 2017 when the group took over his family utilities contracting business McNicholas Construction.

Employees of Glasgow construction firm City Building swapped work boots for walking boots as they took on the UK’s highest mountains for Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity, raising more than £11,700 in the process.

Vital clues about Babylon's famed Tower of Babel may have been discovered by archaeologists after bitumen and mortar was found on a brick commissioned by the ancient Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II.

Construction Scotland Innovation Centre innovation manager Sarah Buchanan writes in our COP26SCN feature that retrofit activity is going to ramp up significantly over the next 10-15 years as we head towards the government’s net-zero goals, with the affordable housing sector

New self-build properties could be delivered in Blairlogie under proposals lodged with Stirling Council planners. Calley Ltd wants to create eight houses at Gogar Mains, off Gogar Road.

McGill has been awarded a contract from Paisley Housing Association to replace kitchens and bathrooms in more than 400 homes across the town. The contract, which is valued at around £1.1 million, was awarded through the i-Flair framework, which McGill was appointed to at the end of 2020.

North Lanarkshire Council's ambitious plans to regenerate its town centres continues to go from strength to strength, according to a recent report. Members of the council's Enterprise and Growth Committee approved the latest town centre initiatives, including major projects such as new housebuilding

Tillicoultry Quarries has finalised the purchase of four new site locations from CEMEX following a period of negotiation.

A new plant is to be developed in North Ayrshire that will facilitate the large-scale production of a methane-reducing feed additive for cattle.

A five-year plan backed by more than £100 million of funding to help build Scotland’s hydrogen economy has been published by the Scottish Government. The draft Hydrogen Action Plan sets out the strategic approach the Scottish Government will take with industry to help make Scotland becom

Construction consultancy HD Property Consultants (HD) has made a strategic appointment to start an ambitious UK growth period for the Glasgow-based firm.

Low-carbon collaboration between Scotland and Japan is to be strengthened further after Scottish Enterprise signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Marubeni Corporation. The MoU between Scotland’s national economic development agency and the Japanese conglomerate will see both part

Following Balfour Beatty’s 2021 Employee Engagement Survey results, Paul Raby, human resources sirector, shares his thoughts on how, together, the company is building a better future.

A planning application has been submitted to East Ayrshire Council for an environmentally sensitive Eco-Therapy Wellness Park.