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A group of 58 former employees of a leading independent Scottish construction company that went spectacularly bust have won their two year battle for redundancy payments.

The avoidable loss of 137 lives in work-related accidents in the UK last year demonstrates the need for a continued focus on safeguarding working people, according to the country’s leading professional body in health and safety.

Construction and engineering company BAM Nuttall is rolling out a range of work clothing nationwide, specifically designed for women, following trials on a number of its sites in Scotland, London, Leeds and Newcastle.

Balfour Beatty has today announced the formation of a collaborative UK Strategic Design Consultant Partnership with Atkins, Mott MacDonald and WSP. The firm said the mutually beneficial partnership will foster a new level of openness, collaboration and innovation never before seen within the constru

BRE has launched a ground-breaking office refurbishment project that will provide quantified evidence on the benefits of biophilic design on health, well-being and productivity of office occupants. The Biophilic Office project centres on a 650m2 1980s office building on the BRE campus in Watford, wh

An artist's impression of what the revamped Clyde Waterfront would look like Plans for two new bridges are to form the centrepiece of infrastructure projects to regenerate part of the Clyde waterfront and improve the area around Glasgow Airport.

Sarah Beale Sarah Beale on her appointment as CEO of CITB on a permanent basis.

A Danish construction worker escaped a building fire last week by climbing on a crane. The man was seen hanging on a winch as he was moved to safety.

Work has begun work on Inverclyde Council's new £9.2 million St Ninian's Primary School in Gourock. The CCG project is the latest to benefit from the council's £270m investment that will see every child in the region in a new or refurbished school by 2020.

Work on a new Dunoon Primary School is about to get under way after Argyll and Bute Council signed a contract with project partners hub North Scotland Ltd and Morrison Construction. The project will see a major refurbishment of the historic Victorian building as well as the building of a brand new w

A legal agreement which had delayed the construction of over 400 homes in Glenrothes has now been resolved, the Evening Telegraph has reported. Fife Council’s central area planning committee agreed in principle three years ago to allow construction of 420 homes and several industrial units at West

Newell McGuiness The campaigning trade body for Scotland's electrical sector has thrown its weight behind increased pressure from MPs over the vexed issue of cash retentions within the construction industry.

More than 1000 low cost rental homes could be built on derelict ground at Edinburgh’s Western Harbour if developer Forth Ports secures a £76 million loan from the Scottish Government, according to the Edinburgh Evening News. An initiative launched in April last year invited housebuilders to bid f

Troubled infrastructure firm Carillion has been selected to deliver facilities management services at hundreds of military sites across the north of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. With a core revenue value of £158 million over the initial contract period of five years, but with the opportu

Work on a £2 billion wind farm off the Fife coast will begin next year after the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) lost a long-running legal battle against the development. The Inner House of the Court of Session yesterday refused RSPB Scotland’s application to appeal the Court’s