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A new downloadable game which demonstrates the benefits of a career in construction through games-based learning has been launched at the Skills Scotland show at Glasgow’s SEC. The £200,000 free-to-download ‘Construction Manager’ game was commissioned by the Construction Indu

Scottish Greens have welcomed changes to the Scottish Government’s planning bill which they say will help tackle Scotland’s housing crisis by making land for housebuilding more affordable, however housebuilders have called the measures “premature”. Housing spokesperson Andy W

The remains of a woolly mammoth from the ice age are among the latest remarkable finds on the £1.5 billion A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon project. Highways England experts, working alongside archaeologists from MOLA Headland Infrastructure, have discovered the partial remains of a woolly mammoth

CALA Homes (West) has revealed a number of “significant” community benefits from its development at North Bar, Erskine, including a proposed new bus service. The homebuilder’s proposals represent a major investment in the long-term future of the area with the creation of 195 new te

Delays associated with historic turbulence in the construction sector have held back the announcement of accounts by Laing O’Rourke, the contractor has said. Laing O’Rourke said its accounts for the year to 31st March 2018, which have been overdue since September 30, will now not be file

Blue Box Design’s new state-of-the-art design and manufacturing facility has been officially opened by Karen Betts, chief executive, Scottish Whisky Association.

The Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) will not open in late autumn as planned with contractors tentatively targeting a December launch, Scotland’s transport secretary has admitted. In a project update presented to the Scottish Parliament yesterday, Michael Matheson MSP said the full ope

The Highland Council and partners HITRANS and NHS Highland have welcomed £1.6 million awarded from Transport Scotland’s Low Carbon Travel and Transport (LCTT) Challenge Fund. The funding has been warmly received by partner agencies for their Low Carbon and Active Travel Hub project in In

Scottish parents want their children to have a future that makes a positive difference to society, according to new research released to mark Tomorrow’s Engineers Week (5-9 November). Nearly seven in ten (69%) of Scottish parents want their children to have a job that is something they can be

A Deeside charity which provides training for young adults with learning disabilities is to build a new office using straw bales. The management team at Beannachar Camphill Community, located on a farm set near Banchory-Devenick, currently works out of a garage building on the site which is no longe

Kinross entrepreneur Daniel Webster has released CGI images of what his new head office development will look like when completed. To be situated at Bridgend Industrial Estate in Kinross, the new complex for construction, storage and leisure firm webster group will bring all of the company’s d

Story Contracting has welcomed a number of Scottish graduate engineers and trainees as part of its future talent intake. As part of its ongoing commitment to the continued development of its graduates, the infrastructure company held its first quarterly graduate development day in Glasgow this week.

Scottish Water’s Shieldhall Tunnel in Glasgow, which is helping to improve water quality in the River Clyde and tackle sewer flooding, has won an urban drainage industry award, its second accolade in as many months.

Persimmon Homes West Scotland has lodged plans to build 196 new homes on the site of a former hospital. The developer is hoping to secure permission to transform the 17-acre Stonehouse Hospital site with a £25 million development featuring a range of two, three, four and five-bedroom homes.

Groundbreaking cyborgs which work like a silkworm swaddling itself in a cocoon will change construction forever, according to experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The ‘Fibrebots’ are a swarm of robots designed to wind fiberglass filament around themselves to create