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Andy McLinden ISG has promoted Scotland managing director, Andy McLinden, to the newly created post of managing director for Scotland and Northern England – expanding his remit to head up the contractor’s Manchester, Liverpool and Bradford offices.

MGM Timber has bought smaller rival Robert Reid & Sons of Hamilton for an undisclosed sum.

Plans have been submitted for the conversion of the listed BHS store at 64 Princes Street, Edinburgh, into a hotel, revamped retail space and restaurants.

Carolyn Fairbairn Almost half of firms (44 per cent) believe the UK’s infrastructure has improved over the past five years, but only a quarter (27 per cent) think it will pick up in the next five years, and two thirds (64 per cent) suspect it will hamper the country’s international competitivene

Despite take-up in Edinburgh and Glasgow city centres in Q3 2016 being well down on the five-year quarterly average, leading real estate advisory firm Bilfinger GVA is optimistic that the market will recover from the post-Brexit downturn.

Aberdeen Bypass beams set for delivery

  A pair of Australian construction bosses have managed to dupe authorities in one of the most authoritarian nations on earth into letting them compete in a international professional golf tournament.

ESH Border Construction has been appointed contractor on the prestigious project to transform the historic City Observatory site on Edinburgh’s Calton Hill, with work commencing this week.

Almost 36,000 new homes were registered in the UK by NHBC in the third quarter of 2016, according to the body's own latest new home registration statistics.

Glasgow's Saunders Centre (RIBA/Andrew Lee) The Saunders Centre, Glasgow, by Page\Park Architects, has been awarded the RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award for 2016.

Glasgow-based engineering giant Weir Group has said its profits are expected to fall below market expectations due to weakness in its oil and gas markets, particularly in the Middle East.

The Pilkington Trust and Stewart Milne Group have said they are pleased after the Scottish Government Reporter upheld their appeal in the case of their residential development at Almond Valley in Perth. The ruling has cleared the way for work to begin on the site where up to 1,300 new homes, a new p

Ross Brown Independent Scottish law firm BTO Solicitors LLP has urged the Scottish building industry to take business succession seriously and to start considering options at an earlier stage.

Paisley-vased CGC has completed the task of giving an iconic West Yorkshire building a new lease of life.