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Galliford Try enters the New Year with a “high-quality” order book of £3.2 billion and a new-look which makes the firm “strongly positioned for future growth”, the company’s new chief executive said today.

Health and safety expert Bruce Craig warns that while prosecutions for breaching health and safety laws are at record low levels, businesses have a duty to maintain the highest standards. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted just under 400 cases in the UK in 2018/19, the lowest number fo

Network Rail has announced the award of 82 framework contracts to deliver design services across the country.

Livingston-based Window Supply Company (WSC) is aiming to treble its manufacturing capacity after it secured a £2 million equity investment from BGF. WSC manufactures PVCu and aluminium windows, doors and conservatories from its manufacturing facility in Livingston, supplying builders, joiners

The first residents have moved into a new development of 42 homes at College Mains, Dumfries following a £6.3 million investment programme by Loreburn Housing Association (LHA). The investment was jointly funded by the Scottish Government via the Affordable Housing Supply Programme (£3.1

Swan Group has submitted plans to build 151 flats beside Newhall Street in Glasgow's East End.

As the dust settles on a momentous decade, Queensberry Properties’ director, Steven Simpson, considers how the Scottish property market reacted and responded to economic and political uncertainty. The start of a new decade always provides a good opportunity to reflect on the last ten years, an

The Scottish Government has overruled Fife Council and granted permission for 200 homes to be built between Crossford and Cairneyhill.

Kingdom Housing Association’s plans to develop 25 much-needed homes for social rent at Park Road in Kirkcaldy received a welcome boost today with news that the Association has received a donation of £2.01 million from the Scottish Government through the Scottish Charitable Bond programme

Dunfermline-based contract furniture specialist Deanestor has completed a £1.5 million contract to manufacture bespoke furniture and fit out over 200 rooms for Bertha Park High School in Perth.

A workshop will explore how the construction sector in Skye can design and produce sustainable buildings and infrastructure.

Aberdeenshire Council has appointed Paul Macari as its new head of planning and environment. Mr Macari previously served for three years as the council’s principal developer obligations officer.

CMS Window Systems has been named as a finalist in the prestigious Construction News Specialists Awards 2020. The company is shortlisted in the Specialist Contractor of the Year (turnover over £25m) category in what is the only national awards programme recognising the best specialist contract

A new UK Government Town of the Year competition has backfired spectacularly after officials failed to realise that it was being launched in a place that has been a city for 19 years.

McGill owner Graeme Carling has announced the appointment of a new managing director for the building services company and the re-launch of his investment company United Capital as the parent firm of the business. More than 440 jobs were lost when Dundee-based McGill entered administration in Februa