The Home Office has awarded asylum accommodation contracts worth up to £1 billion to Mears Group. The new Asylum Accommodation and Support Services Contracts (AASCs) are replacing the current COMPASS contracts, which were awarded back in 2012.
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Planning permission for a new Madras College to be built at North Haugh in St Andrews has been granted today by Fife Council. Members of the North East Fife area committee agreed to approve the recommendation put forward that a new, three-storey, high school be built to replace the current Madras bu
Critical repairs on the Caledonian and Union Canals will commence next week. Scottish Government funding, including an additional allocation of £5.35 million, was made available to Scottish Canals in November 2018.
North Ayrshire Council is set to launch a multi-million pound generation of its council housing estates. If approved, the ambitious programme will see improvement works carried out across the region.
Views are being sought from the housing sector as a Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) consultation nears its conclusion. As part of “transformational changes needed to tackle today’s problems”, the environmental body is shifting its approach to regulation by moving focu
Edinburgh building services specialist M-Pact has further accelerated its growth trajectory with the appointment of a dedicated HR manager who will oversee all the complex and varied aspects of staff relations. The Loanhead-based firm said its appointment of Yvonne Jack to what is a newly-created ro
Building materials supplier Travis Perkins has appointed Kieran Griffin as new managing director for its builders’ merchant business following the retirement of Paul Tallentire. Kieran first joined Travis Perkins 24 years ago as a management apprentice, after which he quickly rose through the
Glasgow City Council has appointed Professor Brian Evans as its first City Urbanist to enhance the city’s approach to place-making and connectivity. A professor in urbanism and landscape at The Glasgow School of Art's Mackintosh School of Architecture, and one of the UK's leading urbanists, th
A total of 1,688 new student bed spaces were created in Glasgow and Edinburgh in 2018 taking the number of purpose-built spaces in the two cities to 34,821, according to new research from Cushman & Wakefield. Cushman & Wakefield’s UK Student Accommodation Report 2018/19 showed that whi
A topping out ceremony has been held to mark a key milestone in the construction of the new £40 million Queensferry High School. Deputy First Minister and cabinet secretary for education and skills, John Swinney, yesterday visited and poured a final piece of concrete on the top floor, marking
A new initiative which will see the City of Edinburgh Council buy tenement flats from owners and rent them back to ensure essential repairs are carried out are to be progressed. Under the proposals, the local authority would offer to purchase the former council properties, with their owners’ c
Clyde Gateway has welcomed ten new tenant companies to the area, as they move into their modern new premises at the newly-opened Grade A Red Tree Magenta office building. The £9 million, 40,000 sq ft Red Tree Magenta building has been delivered by Clyde Gateway Development Limited at Magenta,
Newly-formed Linear Design & Construct (LDC) has announced significant appointments to its core team as it looks to establish a foothold in the principal contracting marketplace. John Gilchrist MCIOB brings 13 years of construction industry experience, the past nine of which were with Kier Scotl
Dundee City Council lodged a planning application to build its first social housing development for several years. Submitted to planning officers by the council’s own architects, the proposal outlines plans to build 35 homes on land at Murrayfield Place, Murrayfield Drive, Whitfield Avenue and
Real estate company Savills has made two new senior appointments at the top of its Scottish business. Cameron Ewer has been promoted from head of Glasgow residential to lead the Scottish residential division and Hugo Struthers has moved up from head of rural professional services to lead Savills Sco


