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Housing minister Kevin Stewart has visited the first homes to be delivered as part of a new housing partnership between the City of Edinburgh Council and the Scottish Futures Trust. Around 1,500 new affordable homes will be delivered through the Edinburgh Living initiative over the next five years w

Building materials supplier Travis Perkins has appointed Kieran Griffin as new managing director for its builders’ merchant business following the retirement of Paul Tallentire. Kieran first joined Travis Perkins 24 years ago as a management apprentice, after which he quickly rose through the

A public consultation is to be held into plans for 500 new homes and a primary school in an Aberdeenshire village. At least 25% of the properties would be classed as affordable, amounting to 125 homes, with shops, businesses, playing fields and other leisure facilities also proposed on land previous

CALA Homes has commenced work on a new development to the south of the River Don in Aberdeen. The Persley Den development – which comprises a mix of 401 two, three, four and five-bedroom homes – will include apartments, townhouses, semi-detached, terraced and detached properties.

Work is progressing well on the realignment of the B9090 at the White Bridge scheme and new crossing. Construction of the abutments for the new crossing beams is complete and the beams were successfully placed this week. There are four beams in total which were placed in pairs, requiring two crane l

Swarms of tiny, pipe-inspecting robots could soon be able to monitor and fix pipes, radically changing the UK's buried infrastructure system which currently costs more than £5 billion per year to maintain. In a world’s first, researchers are testing the viability of miniature robots that

Haydn Mursell has resigned as Kier Group chief executive with immediate effect just weeks after the firm launched an unsuccessful £264 million rights issue to help accelerate its debt reduction programme. The company announced today that Mursell will also stand down from the board of directors

Building group CCG has announced David Wylie as the new managing director in charge of its construction division CCG (Scotland) Ltd. David has been with CCG for almost 20 years since leaving university with a degree in business studies. He joined the company as a trainee quantity surveyor befor

In the six months up to 31st December 2018, Clark Contracts secured over £50 million of new orders from both new and existing customers. Orders from new customers include the refurbishment of office space within Whyte and MacKay’s Grangemouth bottling facility, the construction of two in

Physical work on the remaining four-and-a-half miles of the Aberdeen bypass has been completed although final safety checks still have to be carried out before the project can fully open, the transport minister has said. Aberdeen Roads Limited (ARL) will undertake further examinations on the Don Cro

Multidisciplinary design and engineering company BakerHicks has been awarded a contract to deliver design services for the new Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre (MMIC) in Renfrewshire. BakerHicks was appointed by CPI to provide multi-disciplinary design services, including pharmaceutical con

Chartered surveying firm DM Hall has appointed Gavin Anderson as an associate in its West of Scotland commercial property team. Gavin will be based in the firm’s Glasgow city centre offices in St Vincent Street.

Dunfermline-based construction consultancy Riddell PM has appointed Mark Grant to the position of business development director. Now in its 30th year, Riddell PM provides professional support services to construction and other industry sectors, now specialising in Building O&M Manual documentati

A plan to boost economic growth within Scotland’s cities through an increase in city-living is benefitting from a surge in build-to-rent led developments, with Glasgow now in the top five cities outside London for the number of homes in planning, under construction and complete. Research publi

A £300 million initiative to create new jobs and transform the Ayrshire region is poised to be officially signed off. The three leaders of East, North and South Ayrshire councils were in London last week to meet politicians and partners from the public and private sector involved in delivering