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The Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE) is calling on practising engineers and construction professionals to help former colleagues make their way back into engineering. ICE is working across the civil engineering sector as part of its Civils Comeback scheme to encourage more companies to get involve

Hundreds of homes in Cumbria will be heated using biogas produced from the cheese-making process from next month. A government-backed green energy plant in the area will start producing gas from cheddar manufacturing waste, The Telegraph reports.

Plans by Edinburgh Printmakers to create a new creative hub in Fountainbridge have edged closer following a £1.9 million grant from the Scottish Government. The cash takes the art charity to 90 per cent of its target £11m funding total, prompting it to appeal to the public to help raise the remain

Bowmer and Kirkland has been fined after a worker was seriously injured when he fell through a void. Edinburgh Sheriff Court heard how a worker employed by a sub-contractor working for the Derbyshire firm was contracted to pour concrete onto the first floor of a building that was under construction

Doubt has arisen over the £850 million redevelopment of the St James Centre in Edinburgh following a legal challenge over ownership of the site. Work is due to start on the project next month to create a new St James Quarter with shops, hotels, leisure complex and apartments.

A £4 million redevelopment of Dalkeith Country Park is set to create around 50 jobs. A new retail, food, drink and wellbeing space, named the Restoration Yard, will take pride of place in the park’s previous stableyard area alongside the magical new Fort Douglas playground.

Proposals for 100 new homes in Leven have been approved by Fife councillors. Campion Homes wants to extend the town’s north-eastern boundary with the development planned for land off Cupar Road.

Proposals for up to 200 new homes to go on show in Craigmillar Craigmillar residents are being invited to find out more about The EDI Group’s plans to build up to 200 new homes as part of its emerging masterplan for Greendykes South.

Northern Ireland-based architectural and structural steelwork contractor McGrath Bros (Engineering) Group has gone into liquidation with the loss of 171 jobs. Founded in 1981, the firm operated from a head office in Lisburn, with a London office in Tottenham handling a large order book in England an

Plans have been lodged with Aberdeen City Council to demolish a church hall to make way for 20 new apartments. The existing building at 116 Rosemount Place, which consists of a dental surgery on the ground floor, an office on the first floor and a health spa to the rear, is to be altered and extende

SES Engineering Services has landed a substantial mechanical and electrical (M&E) role on the new Edinburgh Gateway railway station and interchange. Working alongside main contractor Balfour Beatty, SES will provide full M&E services to the new station, including lighting, heating, ventilati

Breedon Aggregates and the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) appear to be closing in on an agreement over Breedon's acquisition of Hope Construction. The firm has come up with a plan to offload 14 sites, including some in Scotland, to avoid a full investigation by the competition watchdog.

The first land packages for the new community of Countesswells are set to go on the market following the appointment of selling agents. Countesswells Development Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Stewart Milne Group, has appointed Shepherd Chartered Surveyors and Savills to sell the first parcels of

Knight Property Group and M&G Real Estate have celebrated the completion of The Capitol office development in Aberdeen. At the grand opening of the building last week, guests were greeted to one last cinematic experience before the building begins operating as an office.

Glasgow pub to make way for flats Developer Scotia House and CRGP architects have tabled plans to build 24 flats in a second phase of development off Glasgow’s Paisley Road West.