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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

Wick Community Campus (pic from Ryder Architecture) A much-delayed £48.5 million school campus in the Highlands has finally been handed over to the local authority.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon presents the ICE People’s Choice Award to the winning team behind the Forth Road Bridge repair The reopening of the Forth Road Bridge has been voted by the public as the greatest civil engineering achievement of 2016.

The winner of the ‘Ladder Losers’ competition, formerly the 'Idiots on Ladders' contest, has been announced by the Ladder Association. The Association said the winning submission by former Ladder Council member, John Bungay, displays incredibly dangerous ladder use.

Property, residential, construction and services firm Kier Group’s underlying trading performance in the first half of its financial year has met its management's expectations, the firm said today. A trading update for the business revealed that Kier’s construction and services order book had be

Kirkwood Homes managing director Colin Crombie (left) and Graham Fiddes BOS relationship manager in front of a Kirkwood site Aberdeen-based housebuilder Kirkwood Homes has announced plans to acquire six new sites in 2017 as it expands its operations to Inverness and Dundee.