Highland Council and its multi-agency partners are highlighting the importance of progressing the plans for dualling of the A9 by 2025 and A96 by 2030. The local authority said the economic recovery, prosperity and green future of the region is heavily dependent on connectivity. The Highlands has be
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Construction work on one of the UK’s first onshore wind farm with 200m-tall turbines has started after Banks Renewables secured new funding agreements with Greencoat UK Wind at the start of the year. The 15-turbine extension to the Kype Muir wind farm is located in South Lanarkshire, around fi
hub South West is inviting ambitious construction industry-related businesses in Lanarkshire, Ayrshire and Dumfries & Galloway to participate in its twelfth Building for Growth programme, run in partnership with its Tier 1 contractor partners. The online programme, which will run over eight week
The Association for Project Safety president Jonathan Moulam has welcomed the establishment of a new building safety regulator but warned that the UK Government’s Building Safety Bill doesn’t go far enough to make the construction industry completely safe. No one can take excep
Scotland could advance its ambitions to achieve net zero by 2045 by establishing a net zero hub on the Firth of Forth, research from global natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie has found.
Fife-based housebuilder Muir Homes has achieved a successful off-plan sales by selling out until next Spring across Scotland. Housing revenues for Muir Homes reached £26.5 million despite the lockdown period affecting the ability to complete and hand over new homes.
A total of 27 new homes for social rent developed by Kingdom Housing Association have been handed over to Ore Valley Housing Association at Hugh Place in Lochgelly. For many years now Kingdom Housing Association has been working with partner housing associations to deliver an ‘Alliance’
Glasgow-based construction and manufacturing group CCG (Scotland) Ltd has officially welcomed thirteen new trade apprentices to their business taking their official number employed to forty-four.
An agreement has been signed by renewable energy company RES to support a four-year engineering apprenticeship with Brora-based Edward Mackay Contractor.
Deliveroo has been given permission to open a commercial kitchen facility in Glasgow, to bring its Editions concept to the city.
The Scottish Coal Carrying Championships makes a welcome return to Kelty, in the Kingdom of Fife, on August 28 thanks to sponsorship from National Pride UK Community Interest Company (CIC).
Scotsman Developments Ltd is giving the public a chance to have its say on proposals for a new mixed-use development at the former Madras College campus on Kilrymont Road in St Andrews.
Commercial Maintenance Services UK Limited (CMS) has appointed Kevin Ridley as a technical manager to lead its team operating throughout Scotland. Mr Ridley joins the company having spent 18 years at South Tyneside Homes, where he progressed from heating engineer to team leader and later manager, re
The roofing and cladding industry continued to be blighted by material and skill shortages as well as spirally cost increases in the second quarter of the year, according to a new survey.
Multi-discipline business Eco will today open its new state-of-the-art company HQ in Annan which was built by the company during the pandemic. For company founder Eddie Black, the statement building, which includes a world-class multi-million-pound processing plant also assembled by his own tea