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Stuart Gillespie, a site manager with family-owned housebuilder Mactaggart & Mickel, has won his fifth national award at the National House Building Council (NHBC) awards. The honour, given in connection with his work at Mactaggart & Mickel’s Greenan Views development in Doonfoot, Ayrs

Argyll Community Housing Association (ACHA) and the North West Mull Community Woodland Company are currently exploring building affordable housing for rent on the Island of Ulva, located off the North West coast of the Isle of Mull. ACHA’s board has already agreed to work with the North West M

Barrhead Housing Association has welcomed the first tenants to its new affordable homes built by Bellway at Rosemont Park.

Burnhouse Engineering has expanded its team to manage new contracts following its relocation into new premises in Beith last year. Thomas McGraith has joined the company as an estimator and will focus on pricing and customer liaison for new projects.

Workplace design and management consultancy Space Solutions has announced Cancer Support Scotland as its new charity partner to mark the business’ 25th anniversary. After members of staff from across the business voted for their chosen charity, Cancer Support Scotland was selected as the compa

Unions have submitted a pay claim to the Construction Industry Joint Council (CIJC) seeking a 10% pay increase in a bid to redress pay cuts and the rise in the cost of living faced by its members.

Scottish specialist geo-environmental consultancy Mason Evans has been acquired by Leicester-based Construction Testing Solutions (CTS).

The Resource Management Association Scotland (RMAS), the organisation representing Scotland’s SME resource and waste management sector, has warned that plans to end the Red Diesel exemption for several industry sectors will further impact the UK’s cost of living crisis. RMAS said the ine

In celebration of National Apprenticeship Week (Monday 7 – Sunday 13 February), Miller Homes is shining a light on two of their brilliant trainees in West Scotland. Emily McNeice (20) and Brogan Dawson (20), both from Glasgow, have been working hard and are now over halfway through their appre

Work has kicked off on a new sporting facility in Kirkintilloch. East Dunbartonshire Council is captaining a team of partners to create Kirkintilloch Community Sports Complex on a derelict brownfield site to the west of Park Burn, in the Southbank area of the town.

Following last week's Holyrood discussions on improving ventilation in classrooms, air conditioning expert Gregor Stewart highlights the downsides of the Scottish Government’s ventilation fund. There is no doubt we should applaud the fact that, in the wake of major societal disruptions such as

Cruden has started work on a new housing development in East Lothian, its fourth active site in the region.

Surveyors in Scotland reported more prospective home buyers in January, a sign that soon-to-be buyers aren’t suffering from the winter blues, however, this came before the most recent rise in interest rates, according to the latest residential market survey from the Royal Institution of Charte

Former Dumbarton Academy pupil Caiden Fisher has secured his dream job with AC Land Regeneration, a division of groundworks and civil engineering firm Advance Construction Scotland. The 16-year-old has just started work as an apprentice civil engineer based in the Bellshill headquarters of the compa

Through its work with North Lanarkshire Council, Mears Group is focussing on the progression of its local workforce as it supports its apprentices to continue their careers. Mears said it is committed to supporting the development of skills across the local workforce and in 2021 hired 23 new apprent