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Clark Contracts has welcomed its appointment to the Scottish Procurement Alliance’s Public Building and Infrastructure Framework (PB3).

Ryder Architecture has been named Architectural Practice of the Year at the Building awards this week.

The commercial arm of the Scottish home improvements company CR Smith has returned to profit as the manufacturer bounced back from factory closures due to Covid in its previous financial year.

A multi-storey housing development in Clydebank will be declared as surplus and demolished following consultation with tenants. Future options for the Brunswick, Montreal and Quebec House developments were discussed with tenants after they were identified for review by West Dunbartonshire Council&rs

International real estate advisor Savills has advised Burger King on a new drive-thru at Pittsburgh Retail Park in Dunfermline.

The entire haulage fleet of Advance Construction Scotland is now powered by green biofuel as part of its commitment towards a net zero future.

Detailed plans have been lodged for an arrivals hall and cycle/walkway tunnel improvements at the Scottish Event Campus in Glasgow.

Morgan Sindall has successfully managed supply chain inflation and the reduced availability of materials and labour to raise its end of year profit forecasts, the firm told shareholders today. In a trading update issued this morning, the group said that based on the performance to date and with good

Construction consultancy Doig+Smith is to expand its Aberdeen office as it welcomed two new senior recruits. New technical director Scott Ramsay will be tasked with growing and developing the consultancy’s project management offering in the North East of Scotland. Scott has a wealth of ex

Cushman & Wakefield has appointed former AECOM director Trevor Stone to lead its UK project & development services (PDS) team’s activity with public sector clients. Mr Stone spent more than 14 years at global infrastructure consulting firm AECOM where he was a director and Scotlan

The R&A has submitted a revised planning application to Glasgow City Council which proposes enhancements for the design and construction of a new community golf facility at Lethamhill. Having secured planning approval for the Holmes Miller-designed plans in August, the sporting body said its upd

The National Federation of Roofing Contractors (NFRC) is warning of a ticking roofing and cladding skills time bomb as research from Glenigan shows that over three-quarters of roofing and cladding contractors (77%) reported difficulties recruiting suitable labour in the third quarter of the year.

The scale of the challenge facing the UK’s real estate sector in achieving net zero, with particular difficulties facing the residential sector due to its scale and the need to incentivise owner-occupiers to make improvements, has been highlighted in new research by Savills.

Scott Restrick, Link Group energy and sustainability officer, is next up in Scottish Construction Now's #COP26SCN showcase of the social housing sector's efforts to help tackle the climate crisis with his take on how the housing sector urgently needs access to a more sophisticated toolkit to respond

The Inner House of the Court of Session has refused a reclaiming motion by a development company ordered to pay over £200,000 to a project management firm it contracted to manage a development in Aberdeen after being found in breach of contract.