Mick Schou Rasmussen has been appointed as new managing director to lead Velux Company Ltd’s roof window business from its UK headquarters in Fife. Work on a £7 million expansion at the company’s UK and Ireland head office building at Woodside Way in Glenrothes got under way last m
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Three new galleries at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh will open to the public tomorrow, completing a 15-year £80 million redevelopment. The transformation returns one of the finest Victorian buildings in Britain to its former glory, creating vibrant new public spaces and revealin
Plans to create modern homes in Girvan for the local travelling community are now under way. Seven chalet style bungalows are being built, with the project due to be completed later this year.
GRAHAM has teamed up with training provider TIGERS to help deliver an event encouraging young women to consider careers in construction. The event, which was held at the TIGERS Skills Training Academy, encompassed live demonstrations of work tasks and opportunities for students from schools across G
Family-run business Hard Rock Scaffolding has taken a five year lease on Unit 4D Barham Road at Forties Commercial Campus in Rosyth. The 3,163 sq ft property comprises a mid-terrace steel portal frame warehouse.
An English multi-millionaire is seeking to buy a mountain in Scotland for £12 million in order to carve faces into it in the style of Amercian landmark Mount Rushmore. But the proposed cliff face design would not feature the faces of a monarch or statesman, and instead the faces of his own fam
A long-established Dundee-based construction company has been placed in administration after falling victim to the loss of McGill & Co. Land & Building Services Limited has ceased trading with immediate effect, and all 27 staff have been made redundant.
A former architecture employee has admitted carrying out an armed robbery on a Dundee bookmakers six weeks after losing his job, a court has heard. Nathan Ritchie had been working for a practice in Dundee – but was made redundant last summer without a severance package.
Interserve has agreed principles of a debt for equity rescue deal with its lenders, the firm announced this morning. The deleveraging plan involves the issuing of £480 million worth of new shares and transferring £350m of existing debt to Interserve’s RMD Kwikform business, wh
Design and fit-out specialist Havelock International is to bring in reduced hours and four-day working weeks as part of a new ‘sustainable manufacturing’ plan aimed to boost growth. The firm, which was rescued after Havelock Europa was bought out of administration by Rcapital in July, em
A contract for an extension and partial refurbishment at Invergarry Primary School has been awarded to Morrison Construction. The £800,000 project will see the replacement of a double classroom unit that is in poor condition with an extension to the school comprising two classrooms, toilets an
Plans to build a state-of-the-art athletics facility in Renfrewshire have taken a step forward after councillors backed a community asset transfer to Kilbarchan Amateur Athletics Club (AAC). More than 4000sqm of land will be transferred to the local club to progress plans for a £1.3 million in
Unite’s craft membership in local authorities have voted to accept the revised pay offer from the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA), the union confirmed today. The craft agreement, which is a separate proposal from the wider local authority offer, was accepted by 84% of those vo
Housebuilder Barratt Developments has reported a rise in half-year sales and profits as it continues to benefit from operating efficiencies. The country’s largest housebuilder posted a 7.2% rise in revenues to £2.1 billion in the six months to December 31, while pre-tax profits jumped 19
A model agreement between the Scottish Government, West Lothian Council and a newly-created joint venture could help tackle Scotland’s housing crisis if replicated in other regions, writes Russell Munro. Mary Queen of Scots is said to have stopped off at Niddry Castle near the village of Winch