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A developer has launched an appeal to the Scottish Government in a bid overturn Aberdeenshire Council’s decision to reject its plans for almost 250 new homes. Barratt North Scotland had proposed to deliver 247 homes on Fordoun Road in Laurencekirk.
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Interserve has a £10m, five year contract to assemble and dissemble the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo grandstand Interserve has begun a formal redundancy consultation after confirming plans to shut down its specialist power contracting business.
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Morgan Sindall Group chief executive John Morgan Morgan Sindall has reported a 48% increase in profits following an “excellent” performance from its Fit Out division and notable contributions from its Construction & Infrastructure and Partnership Housing arms.
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Niel Bethell AA Access Ltd – part of the BGF-backed High Access Maintenance Group – has acquired Outreach Access to expand its reach into Scotland.
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Costain’s ongoing transformation into a “smart infrastructure solutions company” is continuing to pay dividends after the firm reported another strong performance with an 18% increase in underlying operating profit to £49 million. Revenue, including share of joint ventures and associates, inc
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Having worked on projects for some of the world’s largest companies, negotiated a management buyout and played a part in delivering a multi award-winning building, Jeanette MacIntyre shares her story with SCN. Give us an overview of your career so far
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Steel beams secured into position at the Perth Transport Futures project Balfour Beatty’s ‘Build to Last’ transformation programme has finally generated an operating profit for the firm’s UK construction business, though issues still remain within some of its problem contracts.
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Redpath wins East Kilbride shopping centre project Redpath Construction has been appointed to deliver a landlord strip out and retail unit sub-division at East Kilbride shopping centre for EK Devco Ltd.
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A family is being ordered out of their three-bedroom property near Blairgowrie after it emerged the previous owner built it without planning permission. Peter Brown is battling a Perth and Kinross Council enforcement order that demands he stops using the property as a house within 180 days or face p
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Richard Harral The Chartered Association of Building Engineers (CABE) has announced the appointment of Richard Harral as technical director.
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The Glasgow Recycling and Renewable Energy Centre at Polmadie The UK financial markets watchdog has opened an investigation into Interserve regarding market disclosures connected to the outsourcing and construction company’s energy from waste business.
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Willmott Dixon has been selected as the sole contractor for a new Major Projects Framework that is potentially worth £2.5 billion over the next four years. The Procurement Hub programme covers all public-sector projects such as the construction of new and existing buildings as well as retrofit, ref
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Despite important progress made in recent years, there is still a massive job to do in creating a more inclusive and diverse workforce in the construction industry – one which requires a brand new mind-set, the Contracting Division of building materials supplier Aggregate Industries has stated. Ac
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Tenants of Govanhill Housing Association are set to benefit from the latest phase of a housing improvement programme with the installation of new, high-quality windows. Works are set to cover up to 89 properties and will be undertaken by specialist construction firm CCG (Scotland) Ltd.
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Private and affordable housebuilder Springfield Properties has announced the appointment of Nicholas Ian Cooper as a non-executive director with immediate effect. Mr Cooper, aged 54, is a qualified solicitor with over 20 years’ board experience as an executive and non-executive director, general c
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