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Lynsey Lennon By Lynsey Lennon, performance team leader - alliance management, Scottish Water

UCATT members during the protest at a Dumfries hospital The proposed merger between UCATT and Britain’s largest union Unite has been confirmed after 85.5 per cent of the construction union’s members voted in favour of the move last week.

A competition has been launched by the Dundee Institute of Architects (DIA) for the public to submit ideas on how a site within the city’s Seabraes Yards could be used for children and young people. Renowned for its expertise in digital media and creative industries, the former railway goods yard

Andrea Gunner Malcolm Hollis appoints architectural technologist in Glasgow

Bob Watt An architect who made a key contribution to the regeneration of Levenmouth is to be commemorated with a street named after him in Kingdom Housing Association’s latest development at Methil Brae, which Kingdom is developing for Glen Housing Association.

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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.