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The Highland Council has appointed Markon to carry out road marking works as part of a project to revert Academy Street in Inverness to pre-Covid traffic management. Work is due to start on Monday 4 November 2024 and will take between 4 and 5 days to complete. If the weather forecast is poor, the wo

Operators, contractors, training providers and industry partners came together at OEUK’s Aberdeen office last night to formally toast the achievement and growth of the industry-led Connected Competence programme. The event follows the win by the Engineering Construction Industry Training Board

Considerate Constructors Scheme (CCS), the independent champion for change in construction, has completed the acquisition of the Building a Safer Future (BSF) programme. 

Chancellor Rachel Reeves's announcement of a rise in employer National Insurance from 13.8% to 15%, alongside a lowered threshold for NI payments, has drawn strong criticism from the UK's plumbing and heating industry.

Surveyors anticipate that commercial property market conditions in Scotland will improve, with rents and capital values expected to pick up after a lacklustre third quarter, according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Commercial Property Monitor. A net balance of 1% of su

A major project to create a new visitor hub on the island of Canna in Lochaber has secured a £20,000 contribution from Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE). Canna is the most westerly of the Small Isles archipelago in the Inner Hebrides. It has a resident population of 19 and welcomes 10,000

Two Scots who are believed to own the biggest brick collection in the UK are looking for a museum to house all 6,000 of them.

Plans for a mixed-use development that includes a 60-bed care home in the Corstorphine area of Edinburgh have now been approved by council planners.

Cruden Group has announced plans to deliver 184 new homes across three new sites in Glasgow and the Scottish Borders. The ambitious plans, which include 128 affordable homes and 56 homes for private sale, come hot on the heels of Cruden starting work on a further 218 new affordable homes across

Homes for Scotland (HFS) has expressed grave concern after new statistics revealed that planning appeals for more than 3,000 new homes have been dismissed by the Scottish Government. Statistics from the government's Planning and Environmental Appeals Division revealed that 16 out of 18 planning appe

West Lothian Council have given a cautious welcome to plans for 332 new homes on the edge of Bents and Stoneyburn, which councillors previously rejected.

The former Free Church of Scotland site on Ayr’s Kirkholm Avenue could make way for a new housing project.

Balfour Beatty has invested over £5 million in new overhead line strategic assets to support the substantial growth in its Power Transmission & Distribution business. The company has the UK’s largest overhead line equipment fleet and over the last 18 months, has acquired eight new Pu

Bellway Homes has welcomed two new apprentices and a graduate to its Scotland West Division based in Hamilton. Junior Boyd-McKee, from Carluke, joins as an apprentice civil engineer alongside Alexandra Healy, from Hamilton who has been appointed an apprentice quantity surveyor. Both will attend univ

Westhill-based construction firm CHAP Group (Aberdeen) Ltd is expanding its civil engineering operations with the agreement to acquire A&A Civils Limited. The acquisition is expected to help boost CHAP’s annual revenues to over £80 million.