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BakerHicks, the multi-disciplinary design, engineering and project delivery company, along with Network Rail Design Delivery and Wardell Armstrong LLP, took away the Team of the Year award at the recent Ground Engineering Awards for their work helping to decarbonise Scotland’s railways. Networ

Built Environment – Smarter Transformation (BE-ST), the innovation centre designed to accelerate the built environment’s transition to zero carbon, supported industry partners to create and safeguard more than 900 jobs during the last 12 months (August 2021 – July 2022), the organi

ICW Group has begun a UK-wide search to identify and reward excellence in the construction sector with the launch of the ICW Showcase Awards. Open to all registered ICW builders and developers, the awards recognise those projects which are managed and run to exceptional standards and demonstrate hig

Hardies Property & Construction Consultants has acquired long-established Aberdeen-based quantity surveying practice BDG Thomson Gray for an undisclosed sum. A strategic move, the acquisition bolsters Hardies’ service offering in the northeast, where it did not have a QS department.

The CITB has awarded a total of £1.3 million to two projects that will directly help address the construction industry’s skills gap and increase employment retention across the Highlands and Islands. Providing vital support to new starters at the beginning of their construction care

Drum Property Group’s £500 million regeneration of Buchanan Wharf on Glasgow’s Clydeside has reached another significant development milestone with the completion of structural work for its final building phase. Construction of the new six-storey office headquarters for the Student

Aberdeen City Council has approved plans submitted by Gordon Investment Corporation to build 44 new homes at Peterculter. Gordon Investment Corporation had applied for permission to build a mix of private, affordable and retirement housing on land off Cornyhaugh Road. The plan went before Aberdeen C

Kirkwood Homes and Angus Estates have lost an appeal to build 60 new homes on the greenfield site at the north east edge of Carnoustie. In June this year, Kirkwood Homes submitted an appeal to Angus Council after the local authority refused its planning application in March.

Delighted new tenants are moving into 22 redeveloped homes in Greenock – after Blackwood transformed a failing care home. The revamped MacLehose Court building on Eldon Road includes much-needed new accessible properties which will enable people with a range of mobility issues to live more ind

Loreburn Housing Association marked the completion of 75 new homes at Heathhall, Dumfries with a small-scale open event last week. The new homes, a mix of one, two, three and four-bedroom properties, provide a range of wheelchair-accessible bungalows, amenity bungalows and general needs housing and

An image of Stockingfield Junction and Bridge in Glasgow, reflected on the Forth and Clyde Canal, has won the 2022 Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Photo Competition. The photo, taken by George McBurnie, a senior project manager for Scottish Canals and ICE Scotland member, was submitted in line

Plans have now been submitted for a £100 million redevelopment of the former Scottish Widows headquarters in Edinburgh. Schroders Capital Real Estate hopes to open up the site to allow the development of a new residential quarter. A total of 194 flats – 35% of them affordable &

A milestone has been reached on the new primary school at Montgomerie Park in Irvine after North Ayrshire Council granted planning approval for the Passivhaus building. The new primary school will comprise 12 classrooms, early learning facilities, a gymnasium incorporating flexible performance areas

Following the unveiling of its £2 million upgraded utility plant at its 11-acre site in Halleaths, roof tile manufacturer Russell Roof Tiles (RRT) has invested a further £250,000 in equipment. The firm has just taken delivery of new state-of-the-art heavy duty vehicles to help improve ef

City Building has pledged to provide every pupil moving into their first year in two secondary schools with a stationary pack to support their education. Springburn Academy and St Roch’s Secondary School are the schools to benefit from the initiative.