Martin Smith, aged 38 from Strathdee Properties in Craigellachie, has been crowned Scottish Plant Operator Challenge Champion 2024 after emerging victorious at the national competition over the weekend. The event, sponsored by the CITB, took place on July 27th at Errol Airfield in Perthshire, where
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The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) is to start Consensus engagement with the construction industry on Levy proposals for 2026-29 in September 2024. Consensus is a process that CITB usually undertakes every three years to ask construction employers for their views on its plans for genera
A new UK tour is showcasing PAS 2080 guidance and best practice for carbon management with a date set for Glasgow in August. The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) said its members are learning about the world’s first specification for managing whole-life carbon in infrastructure at a series
New traffic-calming measures are to be installed along several Seattle streets to prevent the area from becoming a Mecca for street racers.
Lifting, pulling and deploying solutions provider ACE Winches has appointed sustainable technology firm Recycl8 to renew and repair their workshop facilities yard in Turriff. This involved a 30m³ pour of a floor slab at the busy state-of-the-art facilities, which are powered by onshore wind.
Utility diversion works as part of the project constructing a new beach playpark and events park in Aberdeen with supporting blue badge parking are to start on Links Road beside its junction with Cotton Street.
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Scotland’s four largest cities are on course to fight it out to be the home of Labour’s flagship public energy company.
Balfour Beatty has become the first Tier One contractor to mandate human recognition cameras on certain items of plant and machinery across all its UK operations.
A significant milestone on the project to enhance the East Kilbride to Glasgow railway line was achieved last week.
Baroness Judith Jolly, president of The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, has stood down from her position after five years of loyal service. The peer joined the health and safety charity in 2019, and has since played a pivotal role in furthering RoSPA’s mission of preventing acci
As extensive work on the Tay Road Bridge draws to a close, drivers are being warned of closures and diversions as activity on the connecting ramps gets underway.
A big-hearted team of East Kilbride-based engineers have walked, ran and cycled their way to raise as much as they possibly could for one of Scotland’s worthiest causes.
The John Lewis Partnership has received the green light to transform its Waitrose site in Bromley into a new residential community of 353 energy efficient, rental homes and a modernised store.
The Scottish Government’s flagship home energy scheme to help homeowners install heat pumps is “hardly helping” people shift towards green energy, ministers have been warned.



