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(from left) Kier health and safety employees, Dan Gallagher, Pauline McCabe and Neil Grindlay Kier Construction Scotland has received a top industry gold award for its health and safety credentials by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA).

Construction is underway on the new Robroyston railway station. Located between Stepps and Springburn on the Glasgow to Cumbernauld line, the new station will serve the development of 1,600 homes in the area around the site.

Leo Quinn Balfour Beatty chief executive Leo Quinn has urged the UK Government and business leaders to address a lack of social mobility in the country.

Glasgow’s new £21 million Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice will include a moving tribute to the woman who played a key role in designing the building. Clare Macallister, an interior designer with Glasgow firm Burns Design, was design director of the new hospice and created the innovative pl

Ceremony marks North Ayrshire Council’s latest housing development Work is now under way on a £3.6 million project to build new homes for North Ayrshire Council in Irvine.

The cost of redeveloping Hampden along similar lines to the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Stuttgart could cost up to £90 million according to the architect behind the project for the German side. Eberhard Becker of Stuttgart-based firm ASP was responsible for the redesign of the stadium, which saw the sta

Plans have been submitted to develop the former Presentation Products site in Arbroath into a major retail development. Property consultants Graham + Sibbald said that a “significant number” of full and part-time jobs could be created as demand for new, purpose-built retail units in the Arbroath

Canonmills Gardens Around 350 flats are to be delivered across two sites in Edinburgh after developers secured more than £40 million in loans.

Homes in the pipeline at Johnstone Castle Homes, schools and public buildings across Renfrewshire will soon benefit from major refurbishment and maintenance works after energy, services and regeneration specialist ENGIE won multiple contracts across the area.

Oregon chairman Rod Lawson An increase in timber prices and the depreciation of the pound in the wake of the Brexit vote have affected profits at Selkirk-based Oregon Timber Frame Limited.

Daniel Wilson Offsite timber frame specialist Scotframe has appointed Daniel Wilson as business development manager at its new office within the National Self Build and Renovation Centre (NSBRC) in Swindon.

The Glasgow Recycling and Renewable Energy Centre at Polmadie GMB Scotland has welcomed a commitment from Ineos to adhere to a national agreement for engineering and construction workers as part of a £60 million expansion of its Grangemouth site.

The structured finance team at Rettie & Co has delivered its second mid market rent (MMR) development at Edinburgh’s Western Harbour with more than 3,000 people applying for the 138 homes on offer. Forth Ports’ Harbour Gateway MMR project, part of the Western Harbour in Edinburgh, offers an

Arc-Tech apprentices Glasgow building services company Arc-Tech (Scotland) Ltd has taken on six new trade apprentices this month, increasing the total number of apprentices employed by the company to eleven.

Connor Bray and Billy Noble Structural steel fabrication contractor J & D Pierce was recognised with two winners at the North Ayrshire Apprentice of the Year 2018 Awards last week.