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UK construction companies reported another downturn in business activity during January, largely reflecting weaker client demand and fewer new projects starts in recent months.

Construction firm CHAP Group has reported a like-for-like annual turnover increase of 21% to £45.7 million for the financial year to 30 September 2022. The Westhill-based firm recorded a pre-tax profit of £152,000 versus a loss in the preceding period of £705,000.

Engineering construction workers at the GSK plant in Irvine will resume strike action today in a dispute over bonus payments. Around 40 workers employed by contractor Kaefer Limited will take strike action from 07:30 a.m. on 6 February up to 07:29 a.m. on 13 February. A previous round of strike acti

A £3.16 million extension to Clyde Gateway’s largest parkland, Cuningar Loop Woodland Park, along with its new facilities, has been opened by Deputy First Minister, John Swinney MSP. The Cuningar Loop Woodland Park, which is managed by Forestry and Land Scotland, sits south of the Emirat

In celebration of National Apprenticeship Week, Miller Homes Scotland West trainee Emily McNeice, who is nearing the end of her four-year apprenticeship as a trainee surveyor, reflects on her time and experience as an apprentice and looks forward to an exciting career in the construction sector. Emi

The largest and longest-running construction skills competition in the UK returns, with registration now open for SkillBuild 2023.

Clark Contracts held a Tea and Talk event in its offices and across its sites to support Time to Talk Day on Thursday 2nd February 2023.

Enabling works for the new Galashiels Community Campus are set to commence today and are anticipated to last for 13 weeks. The preparatory works will prepare the site for the forthcoming main works which are expected to commence later in the year.

Two-way traffic will return to Leith Walk this month, as preparations for tram testing begin. North- and southbound traffic along the length of Leith Walk will be reintroduced during the week commencing 13 February, followed by the electrification of the full line.

Property management and lettings business PMC Property Management & Lettings has been bought by two of its directors, Neale Bisset (managing director) and Annette Hudson (finance director), for an undisclosed sum. The management buyout of the Oldmeldrum-headquartered firm follows the death of th

New homes near Carnoustie’s famous Championship links have been given the go-ahead by Angus planners. The 14-house development will be built on a former lorry park in Victoria Street by DJ Laing.

Plans to build new homes on the site of former flats in Beith and Kilbirnie are moving forward.

Fife housebuilder Lomond Homes has been granted planning consent to build 20 new homes, as well as commercial premises, on the former police station site on Napier Road, Glenrothes. Marking a significant element of Fife Council’s ongoing regeneration plans for Glenrothes town centre, the propo

Rosehill Housing Co-operative is to build 44 new homes in Pollok after Glasgow City Council approved the disposal of the site of the former Gowanbank Primary School. The co-operative will build a mixture of flats and houses for social rent on the 2.14 hectares site which is close to Silverburn

A council has mistakenly knocked down a sculpture honouring a local potter during roadworks. The Josiah Wedgwood art installation was created by sculptor Vincent Woropay for the National Garden Festival in 1986 and later moved to Stoke-on-Trent's Festival Park area in 2009.