News

Yanmar is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the YFW500D, the world’s first tracked carrier equipped with a Yanmar diesel engine. The original carrier used the undercarriage of a Yanmar rubber crawler combine harvester, adding a cargo box to enable it to transport materials on soft ground.

Property and construction consultancy Summers-Inman has been appointed to work as trust cost advisor for an NHS Trust on its £30 million new build hospital in Berwick.  Working for Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, the appointment will see Summers-Inman acting in a cost advisor

Letterbox florist Bloom and Wild has worked with architects and graphic designers to reimagine some of the world's most famous landmarks using biophilic design.

Jim Ward has been appointed director of BAM Construction for Scotland with immediate effect. Jim has enjoyed a 40-year career with BAM to date, joining BAM in 1980. His career spans project and construction management roles and he has led many high-profile projects including the V&A Dundee and B

Output in the UK construction sector has recorded the highest monthly growth in all work since September 2020, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Craighead Properties has lodged revised plans for a residential development on an old industrial site between the Gorbals and Govanhill which it said will provide "a new model of housing" for Glasgow and Scotland.

Craft beer brewer and pub chain BrewDog has shared its plans for a beer-themed hotel in Edinburgh's Old Town.

Laing O’Rourke today announced far-reaching new global sustainability targets, including a commitment to decarbonise its own operations by 2030, and achieve equal numbers of men and women among its 5,500 global staff. The decarbonisation target, which will also see the company develop a plan t

Architecture and planning practice Halliday Fraser Munro has become the first Scottish firm to invest in a pioneering peatland restoration project in Wester Ross in the north of Scotland. This investment in carbon offsetting units at the restoration project is in partnership with Highland Carbon, a

ScottishPower has submitted plans to build Britain’s largest 'green' hydrogen production facility on the outskirts of Glasgow.

Scotia Homes has submitted plans to build almost 150 new homes, a quarter of which will be affordable homes, on the land at Crudie Farm on the north-western edge of Arbroath. A proposal of application (PAN) notice submitted to Angus Council details plans for the open farmland site which ha

Craigdale Housing Association has reached a significant milestone on its way to delivering its first new-build development project since 2007.

Clyde Gateway's project manager Amy Wimpenny details the introduction of a 20-minute neighbourhood scheme in the area. The last twelve months have seen a dramatic change to the way we live and work. Never have we all spent so much time in and around our local area. The concept of 20-minute neighbour

The Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE) has announced that its current chief executive Hannah Vickers is stepping down to join consultancy and construction firm Mace. The infrastructure and built environment association has already started the process of finding a replacement.

The University of Edinburgh's Old College Quad is one of three locations that will host live performances in temporary outdoor pavilions during the 2021 Edinburgh International Festival. The reimagined festival takes place from 7 to 29 August using bespoke outdoor venues to safely reunite artists an