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The construction industry is being plagued by thieves with more than half of builders in the UK having had their tools stolen, according to new research. The Federation of Master Builders (FMB) found that 51% of UK builders have had tools stolen with around half of those (46%) having had their van s

A Canadian businessman and his wife have gifted almost £8 million to the University of St Andrews, believed to be one of the biggest pledges ever made to a Scottish university, in an effort to help it lead international marine research. This major commitment to Scotland’s oldest uni

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Miller Mathieson, managing director of CBRE in Scotland & Northern Ireland, has been appointed as the new chairman of the Scottish Property Federation (SPF). Succeeding outgoing chairman Andrew Sutherland (joint managing director of Miller Developments), Miller Mathieson’s new appointment

LPG provider Calor has strengthened its offering to the rural housing development market with the appointment of two key new specifier consultants. Ivan Griffiths will help manage the Eastern and Southern regions, while Rachel Heyes is responsible for the North, Scotland and Wales.

South Ayrshire Council has appointed Portakabin to build a proposed new state-of-the-art early years centre in Ayr. If approved, a proposed early years centre would be built in the grounds of the Dalmilling Primary Campus.

The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) has agreed to sell its Construction Plant Competence Scheme (CPCS) and has also struck a deal to outsource a range of functions to Shared Services Connected Ltd (SSCL). The training body will sell its CPCS to awarding organisation NOCN Group, retaining

Balfour Beatty has forecasted that its performance for the year will be above previous expectations as a result of an additional infrastructure investments sale in December. The construction group, which has been delivering the Aberdeen bypass in a joint venture with Galliford Try, said today that t

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Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC) and partners are running a free event to help construction companies take advantage of opportunities offered by the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund’s Transforming Construction programme. Transforming Construction is part of the U

A collaborative innovation project, which aims to help tackle the UK housing crisis by using industrialised offsite solutions to deliver high quality homes faster, more reliably and at the same cost of masonry-built homes, has been awarded funding under the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, which

Industry giant Balfour Beatty has been slapped with a £600,000 fine for health and failing failings that resulted in the death of an employee who was struck by a wheeled excavator on Aberdeen’s the Third Don Crossing project. On 13th January 2016, 58-year-old Ian Walker, a Balfour Beatty

Proposals to create new council housing on sites at Summerhill, Kincorth, Torry, Dyce and Greenferns are among those to have moved forward as part of ambitious plans to significantly increase the supply of social housing in Aberdeen. The plans were at the heart of the Housing Revenue Account budget

Scottish businesses involved in the construction sector could face substantial cash flow issues under new VAT rules due to be introduced this year. HMRC has updated the draft legislation for its new VAT domestic reverse charge regime for the construction industry, which requires the recipient rather

Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC) and the Structural Timber Association (STA) have joined forces to support structural timber businesses across the UK to innovate and grow. The STA is a UK-wide trade body that represents over 600 timber businesses, from manufacturers and suppliers to de