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Mackenzie Construction supported Scotland’s inaugural Youth Urban Games hosted by Scottish Canals as principal sponsor. The ambitious project, hosted on Glasgow’s Forth and Clyde canal on August 25, showcased the UK’s brightest up and coming talents in BMX, Parkour and Skateboarding. The games

Gheila Galbraith, sales consultant for Mactaggart & Mickel Homes, with Kirsty Aitken, service manager for Children 1st Ayrshire, and members of her team The Ayrshire Family Support team of Scotland’s national children’s charity Children 1st has received a donation of £1,000 from housebuilde

RICS, as part of its Pledge 150 campaign, has joined forces with Social Bite’s Sleep in the Park to help reduce homelessness among young people in Scotland. Corporate teams and RICS members can now take part in any of the Sleep in the Park events, across Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen wit

Hugh Gaffney MP visits Kier's HQ in Stepps Hugh Gaffney MP visited Construction Scotland’s newly refurbished headquarters in Stepps yesterday.

A garden centre and a local boxer are going head-to-head in a clash over the right to develop on the site of a former school in Aberdeen. The Parkhill Garden Centre and champion fighter Lee McAllister are locked in a battle over who will take over the site. The former school building was set on fire

Safety netting has been installed around the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow to prevent glass panels falling from the building. A pane of glass fell ten floors from the £842 million hospital earlier this month. It is understood the pane shattered near the front entrance of the buildi

Transport Scotland has announced its intention to award the construction contract for the next major section of the £3 billion A9 Dualling Programme to Balfour Beatty. Forms part of the £96 million project to dual the 9.5km of the A9 between Luncarty and Pass of Birnam, the deal is the second cons

Proposals for a mixed used development at Govan’s Graving Docks have been refused by council planners. ZM Architecture and developer New City Vision, which owns the site, unveiled plans in March last year to bring the site back into use after 40 years of dereliction with the creation of 750 homes

Artist’s impression of the Dunbeg Development Corridor Masterplan A major development of 300 affordable homes in Dunbeg has been approved by Argyll and Bute Council’s planning committee.

A global hotel group has announced plans to invest £32 million the redevelopment and expansion of its Edinburgh city centre hotel. UK and Ireland hotel group Jurys Inn and its owner Fattal Hotels aim to invest the sum in the redevelopment and expansion of the existing Jurys Inn Edinburgh hotel and

Eilidh Henderson The RIAS/Saint-Gobain Emerging Architect Award recognises the crucial role architects play in delivering a better world and encourages the great architects of the future at the outset of their careers. This year, the award went to Eilidh Henderson of Page\Park Architects for her ins

Planning and design consultancy Barton Willmore is are urging planners and developers to have their say and complete a survey to help influence the Planning (Scotland) Bill. Barton Willmore, who recently expanded its operation in Scotland with the opening of an office in the centre of Glasgow, have

Jon Stinson and Julio Bros Williamson, research fellows in the Institute for Sustainable Construction at Edinburgh Napier University, believe that smarter, better, faster – homes built in a factory benefit everyone. The methods we use to build homes in the UK are constantly evolving.

Young people with charity Action for Children have visited Morrison Construction’s £18.9 million Wallyford Primary School project as part of a four-week employability programme. Action for Children works with youth to help them overcome disadvantage, including providing employability support in p

CBRE establishes Alternative Property team in Scotland Global real estate advisor CBRE has established its Hotels and Alternative Operational Real Estate offering in Scotland, with the hire of hotel specialist Jonathan Mitchell who joins the Hotels team as an associate director alongside experienced