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The Construction Plant-hire Association (CPA) has confirmed the panel speakers and topics for the CPA Conference taking place on Thursday 7th November 2024 at the Heart of England Conference and Events Centre in Meriden near Coventry.

Infrastructure supplier FOR EV has officially launched a major EV charging hub in Edinburgh. Located in Seafield Retail and Trade Park, just a five-minute drive from Leith, the new hub provides a prime charging destination for EV drivers and shoppers travelling to and from the north of the city.

A builder has been given a suspended prison sentence after he put the lives of workers at risk on a construction site in London David Beadle, trading as Beadle the Builders, failed to comply with a prohibition notice issued by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in relation to unsafe working at he

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) Scotland has presented a cheque for £362 to the cancer charity Maggie’s.

Passengers can now benefit from step-free access to both platforms at Dumfries station following the completion of a £3.6m project to improve accessibility.

Professor Saul Humphrey has been announced as the Chartered Institute of Building’s vice president for the 2024/25 term. The sustainability champion, who teaches sustainable construction management at Anglia Ruskin University and picked up the Sustainability Award at the CIOB Awards

Profits and turnover at Balfour Beatty are on the rise, according to the firm's latest set of interim figures.

Renewable energy company RES received planning consent from Angus Council for its 49.9MW Dunmill Energy Storage System located on land adjacent to Bridge of Dun Substation near Montrose.

Scottish house prices saw a 4.3% year-on-year increase in June 2024, reaching an average of £192,000, and outpacing the UK average growth, according to Registers of Scotland.

Bellway’s plan to buy smaller housebuilder Crest Nicholson for around £720 million is now off despite months of negotiations.

A proposed new subsea and underground 500km cable between Scotland and Yorkshire which could power up to two million homes has been awarded a £3.4 billion funding package.

The largest modular low-rise, affordable housing development in Scotland has been completed within budget and 18 weeks ahead of schedule.

Tenants have moved into the final 53 homes of North Lanarkshire's largest council housing development at Dykehead Road, Airdrie, which has seen towers demolished and replaced with new, modern, affordable homes.

Moray Council has agreed its new Local Heat and Energy Efficiency Strategy (LHEES) following public consultation.

The former Xcite Livingston leisure pool site in Livingston is set to go back on the market. A report to West Lothian Council's executive yesterday explained that the previously approved sale is no longer going ahead, as it does not represent best value for the council.