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DM Hall goes for gender balance in recruiting nine new graduate surveyors Independent chartered surveyors firm DM Hall has recruited nine new graduate surveyors for nine of its offices throughout Scotland.

A man has filed an $800,000 lawsuit against a construction firm which he claims fired him because he did not want to attend weekly Bible study meetings. Ryan Coleman from Oregon was hired as a painter at Albany-based Dahled Up Construction in October 2017 and discovered on the job that he was requir

Further work to improve the A737 moved a step closer this week with the decision by Transport Scotland to award the construction contract to Interserve as part of a £9 million project to realign a stretch of the key route. The A737 The Den Realignment will see the firm construct a one kilometre sec

Bryan Wilson A new £15 million housing development on part of Peel Park on the outskirts of East Kilbride has been given planning consent by South Lanarkshire Council.

Nicola Sturgeon First Minister Nicola Sturgeon confirmed £4.8 million funding for Spirit AeroSytems’ new open access Aerospace Innovation Centre at its manufacturing site in Prestwick.

(from left) Robertson CEO Derek Shewan, Deputy First Minister John Swinney and Provost of Aberdeenshire, Cllr Bill Howatson Deputy First Minister John Swinney was in Aberdeenshire yesterday to see for himself the progress being made on the £55 million Inverurie Community Campus project.

ibis Styles Glasgow Centre West A new hotel has opened in Glasgow’s International Financial Services District (IFSD) following an £11.25 million investment led by the UK-based private equity and property manager Maven Capital Partners.

Balfour Beatty has completed the £6.5 million Dundee flood protection scheme on behalf of Dundee City Council. The project, which was awarded under the Scape National Civil Engineering and Infrastructure framework, will reduce the risk of flooding to the new £1 billion Dundee Waterfront area, and

Morgan Stanway Morgan Stanway is enjoying the first month of his working career secured during a recent work placement on Morrison Construction’s £37 million Cumbernauld Academy and Cumbernauld Theatre project.

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