Construction Scotland and Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC) are to host their second joint conference on Tuesday 13 September 2016 at the Hilton Hotel in Glasgow, bringing together hundreds of the industry’s key influencers and decision makers from construction businesses of all sizes
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A group of young people from North Lanarkshire have completed a Get Into Construction training scheme operated by the Prince’s Trust and New College Lanarkshire. They completed four weeks of practical and theory work at the College’s Motherwell Campus before going out on work placement in the co
Revised plans for the expansion of Carnoustie’s multi-million pound golf centre have been given the green light. The ground floor of the extension will have a new entrance and accommodate a golf simulator, member’s golf bag storage area, temporary bag drop area, caddies area and the caddymaster
Prestwick firm Ashleigh (Scotland) has today began work on a significant new extension at Troon Primary School. South Ayrshire Council said the project to replace the old dining hall with a new multi-use wing will dramatically improve facilities for the local community.
The Caithness Broch Project is planning to recreate Iron Age roundhouses in Lego to loan to museums, encouraging people to find out how they were built and used thousands of years ago. Kenneth McElroy, chairman of the Caithness Broch Project, believes that constructing a replica building from Lego w
Work on the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh is ongoing The Scottish Government has said it will invest £1.1 billion in the country's NHS estate over the next four years after a new report found more than two-fifths of building repairs are deemed “high-risk” or “significant”.
Robertson Tayside is reaching the final stages of the £8 million construction of the new Sidlaw View Primary School in Dundee. Up to 400 pupils would be able to attend the new two-stream primary school, which will be part of a campus including Jessie Porter Nursery and the replacement for Baldragon
Vaughan Hart The new economic stimulus package unveiled by the Scottish Government should prioritise housing as well as commercial and industrial projects, the Scottish Building Federation has said.
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Plans to transform Edinburgh’s former Royal High School into a new music school and concert venue have been recommended for approval. Formally submitted by the Royal High School Preservation Trust (RHSPT) in December last year, officials said the plans to bring the A-listed building back
Nicola Barclay Channelling accelerated capital funding into the delivery of more desperately needed homes would boost both jobs and the economy, according to Homes for Scotland.
Ed Monaghan Construction Scotland has welcomed this week’s announcement by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon that capital spending on infrastructure projects will be accelerated to support and create employment.
The re-opening of one of two former Tata Steel plants in Lanarkshire that were mothballed last year has moved a step closer with the first delivery of steel slab to the site for nearly a year. Around 1,500 tonnes of slab from the British Steel plant at Scunthorpe arrived by train at the Dalzell plat
Developers have purchased the former Sunnyside Royal Hospital site in Angus from NHS Tayside, paving the way for a new housing, retail and commercial development. The hospital, in Hillside near Montrose, has been acquired by Montrose based Pert Bruce Construction Ltd and Edinburgh based FM Group in
A £10.5 million project to create a whisky distillery and visitor centre on the banks of the Clyde in Glasgow city centre is now underway. Building and civil engineering company McLaughlin & Harvey was awarded the contract with several hundred jobs expected to be created during the construction


