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The Hunterston ILW and SILWE site Balfour Beatty has been appointed by Magnox to deliver the £34m Solid Intermediate Level Waste Encapsulation (SILWE) contract at the Hunterston A former power station in North Ayrshire.

Margaret Burgess More than 1,600 households in the social rented sector will be fitted with measures to make them warmer and cheaper to heat, with the announcement of a £4.5 million fuel poverty fund from the Scottish Government.

VINCI Construction Grands Projects, working in a 50-50 joint venture with Costain, will build the Shieldhall tunnel in Glasgow for Scottish Water. The structure, the largest wastewater storage tunnel in Scotland, is designed to improve water quality and help cope with the risk of flooding in the cit

Sharp rises in housing, commercial and civil engineering activity ensured that output growth across the UK construction sector remained strong in September. However, while the overall performance of the construction sector was close to its strongest since the summer of 2007, latest data indicated th

The Laing O’Rourke name is synonymous with some of the world’s most iconic construction projects – The London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Park, Canary Wharf, Heathrow Terminals 2A and 5, Port Botany Terminal, Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, and Hong Kong Metro to name just a few

Scottish private construction company CCG has recently taken on twenty one new apprentices, taking the total to 61 apprentices working in the company. The firm believes that developing the next generation of skilled trades is critical to the long term sustainability of the construction sector.

The projected finish date for a £42 million new high school in Shetland has been pushed back to April 2017 due to the complexity of the design discussions. Shetland Islands Council (SIC) confirmed this week that its flagship project for a new Anderson High School and halls of residence at Lerwick's

Christa Reekie Housing developers are being invited to submit bids to deliver up to a further 500 new affordable homes for rent in Edinburgh after the Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) launched an additional phase of the National Housing Trust (NHT) programme.

Plans for a new £21.8 million secondary school for Kelso have been approved by councillors.

A major construction industry report has called for development and implementation of a wider and more inclusive competence framework to ensure that the workforce is safe, skilled and efficient. Aimed at addressing the Industrial Strategy for Construction objectives for driving up standards of compe

An average of twenty tradespeople die every week from asbestos related diseases, according to a new survey commissioned by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Tradespeople, including construction workers, carpenters and painters and decorators, could come into contact with deadly asbestos on aver

The BRE Trust, the largest UK charity dedicated specifically to research and education in the built environment, announces it is set to continue its investment in Centres of Excellence at four UK-based universities as well as one in Brazil. Today’s announcement secures the future of crucial resear

Mark Clare The Scottish Government needs to put more money into the Help to Buy scheme or risk dampening the housing market, the chief executive of Barratt Developments has said.

Artist's impression of the new homes at Polofields in Edinburgh Miller Homes has announced plans to create 750 new homes in Scotland as the company prepares to start build on a further five sites across the country before the end of 2014.

Ted Ayres The UK’s fourth-largest housebuilder Bellway is considering splitting its Scottish operations into two divisions after “an exceptional year of progress”.