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BAM’s UK & Ireland businesses have set an ambitious carbon target to become net zero in their direct operations by 2026 and is ruling out counting electricity from green energy tariffs towards its net zero emissions. The target, which places BAM at the forefront of the UK and Ireland&rsquo

Nicklaus Companies and developer FM Group have today launched the first Jack Nicklaus-branded residential golf community in Europe at Stonehaven. A development of homes at the historic Ury Estate, built around an 18-hole Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course, currently under construction, including th

Mactaggart & Mickel Group has appointed Paul McAninch as its new CEO as it unveils plans for significant growth across the business. Mr McAninch steps into the role after seven years as group finance director, replacing Ed Monaghan who retires after a career at Mactaggart & Mickel spanning m

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 &