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Due to the ongoing growth of framework contracts, City Building Engineering Services (CBES) is looking for subcontractors to join its supply chain in the Western Scottish Highlands. Subcontractors are particularly sought from the following trades:

Scottish housebuilder Barratt Developments has pledged to recruit sixteen new apprentices in Scotland this year as part of its ongoing commitment to bridge the construction industry skills gap. The 16 new trade apprentice roles, focused on bricklaying, joinery and plumbing, will work across Barratt&

Young People from Merkland School have been gaining valuable employability and vocational skills for their future careers thanks to Advance Construction Scotland. The pupils from the East Dunbartonshire school are currently progressing on their vocational training programme at the firm’s Train

Students from the University of Edinburgh are helping Robertson Group embrace change within the construction industry. Nine students are responding to a data-led challenge set by the infrastructure group which looks at ways to reduce waste in the construction industry – identified as a priorit

Architectural technology students from New College Lanarkshire have designs on a brighter future after completing work placements at companies across the central belt of Scotland. Twenty-four students of HNC and HND Computer Aided Architectural Design and Technology (CAADT) at the Motherwell Campus

A plan to name a new street after one of the most ruthless figures in Scottish history have been met with opposition from Highland councillors. According to The Scotsman, housebuilders Barratt Homes proposed that one of 12 new streets in a development near the Culloden battlefield be named after Wil

KPMG, administrators for Dundee-based building services firm McGill & Co, have found a buyer for the business. A company led by Dundee-based businessman Graeme Carling is now in exclusive talks about a deal, KPMG announced this morning.

Springfield Properties, which delivers private and affordable housing throughout Scotland, has announced interim results for the six-month period ended 30 November 2018 showing revenue in its private housing and affordable divisions has increased, with profit before tax across it operations soaring

Offsite timber frame manufacturer Stewart Milne Timber Systems has entered into a ground-breaking partnership to deliver timber frames for more than 1,500 homes for major UK housing association L&Q.  The company, which has three manufacturing centres in the UK, will also support L

Persimmon has today released results showing profits exceeding £1bn for the first time. Annual profits jumped 13 per cent to £1.091bn at the housebuilder which was caught in a pay row last year and is under scrutiny over its continued involvement in the Help to Buy scheme.

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

Cala Homes (North) has submitted a planning application to Aberdeen City Council for the second phase of the homebuilder’s Craibstone Estate development.

Murray Estates Ltd, along with its development partners Taylor Wimpey West Scotland and Barratt Homes West Scotland, has confirmed that plans for the second phase of its multi-million pound development at Torrance Park in Holytown, have taken a significant step forward with the submission of a detai

More than half of housebuilders south of the border increased the rate at which they built new homes over the last year and predict a further rise over the next 12 months, according to a new survey published this week.

Kier Construction Scotland has completed the stunning multi-million-pound transformation of two historic buildings within the University of Edinburgh’s campus. Kier completed the £14m refurbishment of the Grade A Listed Edinburgh College of Art.