News

Planning permission has been granted for a care home and hotel in North Berwick.

Trident Building Consultancy has handed promotions to nine of its staff, including two in Scotland. Claire Wightman and Mark Sweeney from the firm’s Glasgow office have both been promoted to senior building surveyor.

Bellway is celebrating the completion of the final roof at Eastfields in Carntyne, where it has been building since 2007. The housebuilder has constructed 537 houses and 152 apartments at the development, which have played a major role in regenerating this part of Glasgow’s East End.

Balfour Beatty was commended at the Scottish Union of Supported Employment (SUSE) awards ceremony this week as it secured the 2019 ‘Inclusive Workplace’ employer award. The award, presented by Scottish minister for business, fair work and skills, Jamie Hepburn, recognises Balfour Beatty&

Construction is now under way on 31 new council houses in Seamill following a ground-breaking ceremony last week.

Morrison Construction has begun work on a new housing development for the Highland Council and Highland Housing Alliance in the heart of Inverness.

East Ayrshire Council has increased its roads budget for 2019/20 from £3.505 million to £7m, and the improvement programme that will target the bridge and road network.

An 18-strong team led by industry body Homes for Scotland (HFS) have returned from building a home for a vulnerable 84-year old widow and her orphaned grandchildren in Kenya, raising £40,000 in the process to support the work of charity Habitat for Humanity.

Moray Council is spending £2.2 million on new heating systems, electrical upgrades and other essential work to five schools, and has appointed Morrison Construction as main contractor.

A beloved style of home that is now part of the fabric of the Scottish capital has been given a modern twist at a new development at Leith’s waterfront.

State-of-the-art kitchens at a new CALA development have been put to the test by one of Britain’s best loved bakers.

Kier Group has today announced that its finance director Bev Dew is to step down. Mr Dew will leave the firm by September 30 shortly after the announcement of its results for the financial year, after over four years in the role.

Plans to build more than 600 new homes in one of Glasgow’s key regeneration areas have moved a step closer to becoming reality. A masterplan for the site in Hamiltonhill received planning permission in principle in December. And now, developers behind the £90 million mixed-tenure project

Main contractor Multiplex Construction Europe Ltd has appointed engineering specialist SES Engineering Services (SES) to work on its £90 million learning space for the University of Glasgow. Designed by architects HLM, the seven-storey 16,640sqm new build James McCune Smith Learning Hub is the

Decisions on funding infrastructure in Scotland should be based on long-term factors beyond the economy, the Royal Town Planning Institute Scotland has said. In its written response to a call for evidence from the Infrastructure Commission for Scotland (ICS), RTPI Scotland pressed the ICS to be more