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Moves by the UK Cabinet Office to exclude late payers from government contracts have been applauded by the Specialist Engineering Contractors’ Group (SEC Group). The contractor representative body said that such measures were “long overdue” and urged the government to act upon it.

Shepherd Chartered Surveyors has promoted two residential surveyors who rose through the ranks of its graduate recruitment programme to office management roles. Luke Doyle takes over the management of the firm’s Kilmarnock branch while Michael McDade assumes the same position in its Greenock o

A landscape construction contractor which puts 100% of its profits into its charitable arm has received a financial boost from CITB funding. Lanark-based CCI Scotland provides a foot in the door to people who want to work in construction, but aren’t quite ready for mainstream employment.

More landlords who rent out their homes on ‘Airbnb-style’ websites spend their takings on holidays than reinvest their earnings in home improvement projects, according to new research. A study by the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) into the spending patterns of landlords who use shor

A former Citizens Advice Bureaux office in Inverness has been converted into four 1 bedroom flats for rent from the Highland Council.  The project at 103 Academy Street was developed by ARK Estates while WGC Scotland was the main contractor.  

A modest Glasgow flat struggled to find a buyer after property website Rightmove accidentally listed it with a price tag of nearly £8 million.

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: S Harrison Developments Ltd.

Two consecutive sections of the A9 to be dualled are included in the latest ground investigation contract for the A9 dualling programme awarded today. Fugro GeoServices Ltd will undertake the £3.6 million contract for the Glen Garry to Dalwhinnie and Dalwhinnie to Crubenmore schemes totalling

Balfour Beatty has paid down half of its debt following the completion of a £252.7 million convertible bond repayment.

GVA has appointed two new regional senior directors to lead the business in Scotland. Alison Taylor and Stuart Agnew will assume their new posts as regional senior directors for Glasgow and Edinburgh respectively from 1 January 2019.

Plans have been submitted for a block of flats at Dundee’s City Quay. Victoria Dock (Dundee) Ltd (VDDL), which is headed up by various individual developers, wants to build 122 apartments in two separate blocks, including car parking and a ground floor convenience store, on what is curren

An application for planning permission in principle for new private and affordable homes in Kilmacolm has been submitted by Taylor Wimpey West Scotland. The site is adjacent to an established residential area, bounded to the east by Finlaystone Road and to the south by Quarry Road. The housebuilder

Stewart Milne Timber Systems is continuing to share specialist knowledge and industry expertise through a strategic and collaborative partnership with housebuilder Barratt Developments. The two companies have partnered to help address the UK housing crisis by adopting offsite manufacturing (OSM) met

Ryden has appointed Greg Limb to join forces with existing partner David Fraser for the launch of the firm’s new residential investment & development department. Previously responsible for establishing and jointly heading the Scottish operations at Gladman Developments Ltd, Greg has 30 yea

Craig McLaren outlines how RTPI Scotland is influencing the Planning Bill. In July I blogged on the ambitions that RTPI Scotland had on the Planning (Scotland) Bill. At that time the Bill was about to be considered in the Scottish Parliament with its Local Government and Communities Committee scruti