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Rail contractor QTS Group has made several key promotions within its board of directors and a 25% growth in recruitment to support its growth and operational excellence. Gary Burnett has been promoted to regional director for England & Wales whilst Barry McLeish steps into the role of regional d

Balfour Beatty has been awarded a contract to construct three new substations in Argyll, on behalf of SSEN Transmission. The contract has been awarded through the GIS2 RIIO T2 framework, to which the company was appointed in 2022.

A construction industry-wide survey seeking views on the issue of Contractor Design Portions (CDP) has been flooded with responses reflecting how important it is as a topic across the sector. The survey, issued by the Construction Quality Improvement Collaborative (CQIC) which was established in ear

Windows and doors manufacturer NorDan UK has unveiled a £50,000 refurbishment of the showroom at its Livingston headquarters.

Glasgow-based construction and manufacturing group CCG is supporting Harbour Homes across the district of Leith with a large-scale window replacement programme for over 479 households.

The masterplan for a proposed development of homes at Conglass, Inverurie, by Cala Homes has been approved by Aberdeenshire Council.

The Scottish Government risks presiding over a collapse in housebuilding and needs to take urgent action to tackle the housing emergency, the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) has said in response to "dire" new statistics which show the number of homes completed by housing

Avant Homes Scotland has acquired a 2.42-acre site in Glenboig, North Lanarkshire, to deliver a £9 million new development of 31 homes.

A three-bedroom house in San Francisco's affluent Russian Hill neighbourhood has been listed for an astonishingly low price of $488,000 (around £385,000).

Maxi Caledonian, the Irvine-based haulage and construction group, has exceeded £100 million in turnover for the first time.

Saudi Arabia is set to "scale down" many of its hugely ambitious construction projects, including the $500 billion NEOM linear city, according to reports.

Hamish Dow, 25, a final-year civil and environmental engineering PhD student at the University of Strathclyde, has been named as the Institution of Civil Engineers, Scotland’s Emerging Engineer 2024. Mr Dow's paper – Lights, Camera, Action: AI-Powered Concrete Inspections – fo

The Construction Plant-hire Association (CPA) has appointed Steven Mulholland to the position of chief executive. Mr Mulholland will commence his new role as CPA chief executive on 12 August 2024. He is currently the CPA chair and has been a CPA council member for 10 years. He has a great deal of ex

Phase three of Riverside Dalmarnock, a partnership project between Link and McTaggart Construction, won Age Exclusive Development of the Year at the Scottish Home Awards 2024.

Nine site managers from Barratt Developments Scotland have won a top national award for the quality of the homes they are building. Known as the ‘Oscars’ of the housebuilding industry, the Pride in the Job Award from the National House Building Council (NHBC) recognises the finest employ