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UK and Ireland specialist paving and building products company AG has welcomed three new recruits to its growing workforce including a new head of sales for Scotland. James Jack brings with him over 25 years’ experience in the construction industry, working across both the manufacturing a

The team from Whiteburn’s The Grange development in Burntisland were special guests at Burntisland Primary School recently where they took the opportunity to give a safety presentation and remind pupils about the potential dangers of construction sites as work continues to progress well at th

The house where Adolf Hitler was born is to be repurposed as a human rights training centre for Austrian police officers. The redevelopment of the 17th century house in Braunau am Inn at a cost of €20 million will begin later this year after an expert committee rejected alternative proposals to

Following National Grid's announcement of the largest grid overhaul in generations, Forster Group chair John Forster shares his own commentary on the news. Last week, the International Energy Agency (IEA) reported strong headwinds in favour of investment in renewable energy technologies across the g

Moray Council has published a long-term expansion plan for Mosstodloch which includes proposals for up to 500 houses.

The Deputy First Minister yesterday switched on an innovative new District Heating Network in the east end of Glasgow. The system is part of a multi-million-pound investment by Clyde Gateway which is reducing energy costs and helping the transition to net zero.

The Edinburgh Boiler Company (EBC) is encouraging people to transition more quickly into renewables by installing hybrid heat pumps for free. Grants of up to £7,500 are available from the Home Energy Scotland Scheme for eligible homeowners looking to replace their natural gas boilers with heat

Mechanical & Electrical (M&E) services are supporting modernisation works at Merchiston Castle School, a boy’s Boarding School located in Colinton, south-east Edinburgh. Arc-Tech (Scotland), a specialist for M&E service installations, is supporting Linear Design and Construct to up

The commercial real estate market in Scotland started 2023 on a sluggish note, with only £250 million worth of transactions, a sharp drop from the five-year quarterly average of £550m, according to a recent report by Colliers.

A council has been criticised for chopping down a number of "stunning" palm trees to discourage people from having sex underneath them. Plymouth City Council left a row of stumps along the famous Hoe because council officials were "regularly having to clean up sex and drug paraphernalia" in the area

McLaughlin & Harvey's trainee engineer Christy Dickson has picked up the coveted CECA Scotland’s Most Promising Apprentice 2023 award. Developing the engineering stars of tomorrow is part of the ethos at McLaughlin & Harvey, with the company committed to ensuring 5% of the workforce is

Andy Steel, the operations director at rail contractor QTS Group, has joined the Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA) Scotland’s board of directors. The move follows Andy’s 11-year career at QTS. He joined the firm in 2012 as design manager before progressing through the rank

Balfour Beatty has unveiled Jacobs as the new partner for its Strategic Design Partnership.

Scottish chartered surveying firm DM Hall has ventured beyond Scotland for the first time by acquiring Hyde Harrington, a respected chartered surveying practice based in the north-west England region of Cumbria. The move, which comes on the heels of DM Hall’s 125th anniversary last year,

The ongoing project to transform Ardrossan Harbour has reached an important stage.