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Block Nine Architects has been awarded planning approval for a tricky industrial site based in Westfield Industrial Estate in Cumbernauld. The proposal includes eight warehouses for storage and distribution varying in size from 940sqm to 1620sqm totalling approx. 11,065 sqm with associated hardstand

Maxi Caledonian Ltd has posted a rise in pre-tax profits from £4 million to more than £4.3m and an increase in turnover from £80m to over £89m, in its 2022 financial results, showing resilience in a challenging business environment.

Engineering and construction firm Burns & McDonnell has launched an Environmental Services (ENS) Group in the UK as it widens the range of services available in the country.

Increased commercial building and civil engineering activity have driven the strongest rise in new UK construction orders since April 2022 but housebuilding fell at its steepest rate in three years, according to new figures.

Edinburgh-based Carbogenics, which has developed proprietary technology that boosts green energy production, has raised more than £1 million in investment to build its first production and R&D facility in Scotland. The company turns difficult-to-recycle food, farm and paper waste which wou

Sir Robert McAlpine has welcomed back two former managers to its buildings senior leadership team. Grant Findlay joins the company’s board as executive managing director, buildings and Mike O’Donnell, has been appointed managing director, commercial sector.

Brockwell Energy has announced financial close on its North Kyle wind energy project, which will see a total investment of £300 million to deliver 220.5MW of renewable energy capacity.

Edinburgh-based developer Whiteburn Projects has been unanimously granted planning permission for a residential development on land accessed from Stow Road in the north of Lauder.

Final plans to redevelop the former Marks & Spencer store in Glasgow’s Sauchiehall Street to provide student accommodation for 634 residents have now been submitted. Student housing developer Fusion Students has lodged £76m proposals with Glasgow City Council for the prominent c

Landmark Glasgow buildings such as the Kelvin Hall, Emirates Arena and Royal Concert Hall have been earmarked for inclusion in a solar panel scheme that could save an estimated £750,000 in energy costs per year. A total of fifteen schools, daycare centres, leisure centres and other council fac

Since 2017, Clark Contracts has offered all their employees the opportunity to spend one paid working day per year volunteering for a charity of their choice. This initiative means that over 2,000 hours can be spent supporting charities across Scotland, and over recent months, a number of the contra

Cullen Eco-Friendly Packaging Ltd has secured a £475,000 grant from Scottish Enterprise to enable the firm to extend its Glasgow premises to bring in new machinery to make them even more energy efficient and sustainable. The company takes the offcuts from the cardboard boxes it produces for su

Orion, the developer of Lucent – a 90,000 sq.ft. 'Grade A' smart enabled office development in Glasgow city centre – has launched an appeal for essential items for the charity Glasgow’s Number 1 Baby & Family Support Service (GNO1B). The appeal has the support of STV prese

Falkirk councillors will be asked to approve the appointment of a contractor to undertake the major Westfield A9/A904 improvement works. If the green light is given at the executive on Tuesday, 13 June, then Balfour Beatty will begin work over the summer to widen carriageways, build major crossing p

Many woodworking businesses are endangering workers’ lives by failing to implement the measures required to prevent or control exposure to wood dust, according to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).