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Law firm Macdonald Henderson has appointed Stacy Campbell as commercial property director. Ms Campbell joins the firm from Lindsays, where she held a similar role.

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

An Aberdeenshire contractor has died following an accident involving a tractor – just five years after his brother was killed by a combine harvester at the same farm. Neil Ironside, director of construction company KW Contractors, died on his family farm on Saturday, November 10.

The expansion of the Golden Jubilee National Hospital in Clydebank has reached an important milestone after the Scottish Government’s Capital Investment Group approved the outline business case for an integrated ophthalmology unit. Principal supply chain partner Kier Construction Scotland will

Shares at construction and outsourcing firm Interserve have fallen by more than 10% to their lowest level since over 30 years as concerns mounted over its finances. The company’s shares closed from 45.18p to a low of 39.03p last night, completing a decline of more than 90% in the past fiv

Councillors in Dundee are being asked to approve funding towards the replacement of cladding at a city school as part of new measures to further improve fire safety in council buildings following the Grenfell Tower tragedy. Members of the council’s policy and resources committee will hear that

A new hotel in the heart of Glasgow’s Merchant City will official open this week after construction work was completed by Robertson Group. The 181-bed Moxy Hotel has been under construction since 2016, with Robertson serving as main contractor for developer Vastint Hospitality.

Morrison Construction has been appointed as the main contractor for a new University of Edinburgh facility dedicated to promoting health and wellbeing for students. Work to extend and renovate the existing building at 7 Bristo Square and create a new accessible entrance, began at the end of October

Work has completed at the site of a new £1.1million transport hub at the University of Stirling. The civil engineering work was carried out by Robertson – which has its headquarters nearby – and consisted of the formation of the new transport hub together with associated roads, foo

Grampian Housing Association has won an appeal to build affordable houses on the site of a Victorian school in a Royal Deeside community. The application to build 26 affordable houses at the C-listed Old School site in Ballater was initially rejected amid concerns over a lack of amenities and road s

A £500,000 investment programme in next generation machinery and personnel has more than doubled CMS Window Systems’ production capacity for aluminium windows, doors and curtain walling, and boosted its site installation workforce. At the heart of this capacity-boosting investment is the

A windows manufacturer is to invest £1 million next year in its Inverclyde facility and create up to 20 new jobs in the process. Blairs Windows is to introduce a new PVCu window production line which will improve the company’s competitiveness and supplement the existing range of timber w

Highbridge Properties director Guy Marsden on the rise of flexible offices. By now, almost everyone will be familiar with the benefits of flexible working, where the traditional 9-5 is shunned in favour of work patterns that better suit an employee’s life circumstances. But the rise of flexibl

An area of land in south Edinburgh has been brought back into use by construction company CCG (Scotland) Ltd. CCG has invested £47,000 to create a brand new car park for the local community in Niddrie Mill. Located at Moffat Drive, the new facility adds capacity to an area where limited car pa

LPG provider Calor has strengthened its offering to the rural housing development market with the appointment of two key new specifier consultants. Ivan Griffiths will help manage the Eastern and Southern regions, while Rachel Heyes is responsible for the North, Scotland and Wales.