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Kier chief executive Andrew Davies is to retire amid a strong full year performance for the group. Set to step down from the board on October 31, Andrew will be succeeded by Stuart Togwell, currently Kier's executive director and group managing director of construction on 1 November 2025.
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Full turnkey retrofit specialists Procast Group has raised more than £7,000 for three deserving Scottish charities following the huge success of its annual charity golf event.
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Residents, community groups, landowners, businesses and organisations are being invited to help guide how land in East Dunbartonshire is used.
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Lynda Armstrong OBE will stay on as the chair of Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB)’s board for a further two years following the extension of her term. Her tenure was due to come to an end on 31 December 2025, but the Secretary of State for Education has confirmed this w
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The global professional body for structural engineers, the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE), has joined with the Commonwealth Engineers’ Council (CEC) to share and co-create engineering expertise towards a sustainable built environment. IStructE’s new Pan-African Structural
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Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Fiona Hyslop, has announced her intention to award Wills Bros Civil Engineering Ltd the construction contract for the fourth section of the A9 Dualling Programme between Tay Crossing and Ballinluig.
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As the programme director of the inaugural Scottish Construction Summit, Paul McDevitt sets out five reasons why he's really looking forward to this event and why hopefully you will be too. The current model isn’t working and is jeopardising the viability of the whole sector. The UK econo
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The best construction trainees and apprentices from across the UK have been announced following this year’s SkillBuild Regional Qualifiers. The Regional Qualifier finalists all now progress to the SkillBuild 2025 National Final in November later this year. SkillBuild, delivered by the Construc
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Aberdeen Science Centre has formed two new partnerships that will support it in delivering fun and engaging science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) experiences, both within its centre and in the local community.
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Scotland’s residential property market has long defied simple categorisation. Unlike other parts of the UK, it is best understood not as a single entity but as a collection of distinct micro-markets, each shaped by its own local dynamics, economic undercurrents, and buyer sentiment, says John
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Barratt Redrow, the UK’s largest housebuilder, saw its shares plunge nearly 10% despite delivering what it described as a “solid performance” for the year to 29 June 2025. The sharp market reaction came as the company revealed a £98 million hit from legacy building safety cos
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Plans to build more than 40 new homes on the site of the former Forfar Academy have been pushed back to “later years” by Angus Council.
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Kier has promoted Rebecca Boundy to the role of managing director, Clients and Markets, seeing her join the Construction division’s senior leadership team. Formerly public sector director for the Tier One contractor, Rebecca will lead a team of expert sector directors, including education, hea
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Parts of Scotland have recently experienced record high temperatures, and given dry and hot spells across the whole of the UK happened so early in 2025’s year’s weather cycle, the Institution of Structral Engineers (IStructE) has warned that this could make for an increase in subsidence,
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Following a record-breaking number of nominations for the Construction Plant-hire Association’s (CPA) Stars of the Future Awards 2025, the winners of the apprentice and trainee awards were announced at a jam-packed awards ceremony hosted at the Heart of England Conference and Events Centre nea
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