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Glasgow-based construction company CCG has hailed its performance as “creditable” amid restructuring and efficiency challenges at the firm. New accounts at Companies House show that profits for 2016 dropped to £1.8 million from £10.5m a year earlier as turnover at the company slid by 3.8 per c

The Specialist Engineering Contractors’ Group in Scotland has set four key procurement and project management priorities for 2017 to ensure the Scottish construction small firms remain productive, sustainable and efficient. PROJECT BANK ACCOUNTS (PBAS)

A new substance using the wonder material graphene has been developed which is 10 times stronger than steel but has just five per cent of its density, The Herald has reported. Graphene discovered by Nobel prize winning scientists at the University of Manchester is just an atom thick and is a two-dim

Construction output in Great Britain fell by 0.2 per cent in November 2016 compared with October 2016, largely due to a contraction in non-housing repair and maintenance, official statistics have shown. In the latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) construction output report, the three months S

A Scottish timber firm has warned that uncertainty triggered by the Brexit vote for the UK to leave the European Union may weigh on its business. James Walker (Leith), whose interests include supplying timber to housebuilders and property development, said it remains well positioned but cautious for

A pothole detector fitted beneath bin lorries is being trialled in Thurrock and York. The technology aims to monitor road surfaces and detect problems before they become potholes.

Carillion Powerlines has secured a £49 million contract to deliver railway electrification works in Scotland. The contractor will electrify 74km of the Shotts line railway from Holytown Junction to Midcalder Junction between Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Proposals have been submitted to demolish the Old College Bar in Glasgow for a 12-storey student flat development. Under the plans from developer Structured House, the High Street establishment will be removed and replaced with a 426-bed complex for university students in the area.

Heron Bros has won over £110 million of new construction work in Scotland and Northern Ireland. In Scotland, the company has been appointed as the main contractor of the £14m Bargarran Primary School, St John's Bosco Joint Faith Primary School & Nursery in Renfrewshire.

Outsourcing firm Mitie has issued its third profit warning in four months following a two-day Board meeting. In a trading update to the City today the company said that its Property Management and Technical FM divisions have been “impacted by client deferrals and investment plan delays”, which a

A health and safety awareness course aimed at small and medium-sized construction companies (SMEs) working on refurbishment projects will take place in North Lanarkshire next month. Organised by Site Safe, Scotland’s Working Well Together campaign and North Lanarkshire Council, the free half-day e

Work is underway on a new £3.5 million redevelopment within St John’s Hospital in Livingston which will see a new theatre constructed for eye and hand surgery patients. The theatre will be built within the existing Ward 20 and will support pre and post operative care for patients.

Neil Cooper Barratt Developments chief financial officer Neil Cooper suddenly left the company yesterday in a move said to be “by mutual agreement”.

Glasgow Together, a social enterprise dedicated to creating full-time jobs for ex-offenders by building new affordable homes and bringing empty properties back into use, has started work on its latest, and biggest, residential property conversion in the city. With funding from Social Investment Scot

Construction and engineering recruitment specialists Contract Scotland scooped a major construction industry award last month at the inaugural UK Construction Investing in Talent Awards. Recognising that ‘construction is all about people’, a panel of HR and talent experts from inside and outside