The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has appointed Simon Lunt as its first head of business development as part of a wider strategic review. Lunt brings extensive and varied experience to this new role having started his career in the chemical industry in Scandinavia with Forchem Oy
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Residents and interested parties are being invited to view and discuss the proposals for the latest North Ayrshire Council housing developments in Ardrossan and Irvine. A total of 19 new homes are planned for the site of the former James McFarlane School on Dalry Road, as well as a total of 31 units
Built Environment – Smarter Transformation (BE-ST) has appointed former Homes for Scotland chief executive Nicola Barclay as outgoing board chair Andy Outram comes to the end of a successful three-year term. Guided by over 30 years' experience in construction and housing development
Allied Surveyors Scotland has announced the immediate appointment of Carla Walker as a building surveyor and director to their Inverness office. Carla has over 20 years’ experience as a building surveyor having worked for several national firms, with the last 4 years being based in Inverness.
A refurbishment project at Northern Meeting Park in Inverness gets underway this week. The work is going ahead as one of three projects along the River Ness in Inverness being supported with almost £20 million from the UK Government’s Levelling Up Fund.
Edinburgh-based fire and flood restoration specialist INSUREPAIR is expanding into Glasgow in a move set to create over a dozen jobs. The all-trades reinstatement company has been successfully servicing Scotland’s largest city from its headquarters in the capital.
Councillors have been recommended to approve plans by Miller Homes to redevelop the former Playdrome leisure centre site in Clydebank. The housebuilder was chosen as the preferred bidder for the 8.5-acre site in 2022, beating five other housing developers to the £5.675 million sale.
A company that’s already recycled more than a million tonnes of construction waste from landfill has opened a second plant. Brewster Brothers’ wash plants transform 100% of the excavated soils and rubble they process from the construction industry into high-value aggregates for reuse.
In the first Construction Leaders feature of 2024, David Crawford talks to Margaret Taylor about his introduction to timber, the long-term sustainability benefits of the material and Deeside Timberframe's expansion into England. David Crawford is a timber evangelist. Having joined manufact
Architectural practice Studio LBA has made four senior level promotions within its team. Claire Metivier, who joined the practice in 2023, has been promoted to associate director. As an examiner for the architectural charterships, Claire places huge importance on investing in the wider profession, a
The company behind plans to build 140 homes on a city centre site in Aberdeen has requested an extension to an affordable housing waiver in order to progress with the development. Site owner Telereal Trillium was granted planning permission in principle to deliver dozens of apartments at t
The proposed esports arena at Dundee's Waterfront has now been reimagined as a multi-use facility with a massively reduced capacity. Original plans for the site neighbouring Slessor Gardens, first unveiled in 2020, were for a 4,000-capacity facility centred on the burgeoning esports market.
BAM has confirmed that James Wimpenny, the executive director, construction, UK and Ireland Division, has decided to retire at the end of the month. Following a 38-year career with BAM, James is retiring to spend more time with his family and pursue opportunities in the charitable sector. He jo
Peter Reekie, chief executive at Scottish Futures Trust, looks ahead to what 2024 has in store for construction and infrastructure in Scotland, and sets out one area that all organisations should make a priority over the next 12 months. “The pace of change has never been this fast, yet it
Scotland's commercial property market witnessed £1.5 billion worth of assets changing hands during 2023, as the market adjusted to the sharp rise in interest rates seen since December 2021, according to research from Knight Frank. The independent commercial property consultancy’s analysi

