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A new study jointly commissioned by the Morris Leslie Group and Perth & Kinross Council’s investment arm Invest in Perth has set out a range of positive alternative futures for Perth Airport. Consultants Ekos prepared the 40-page report in anticipation of the forthcoming £1.84 billio

Scottish construction industry bodies are surveying their memberships for views on the future of the Construction Levy administered UK-wide by the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB). Members of the Scottish Building Federation (SBF) and the Scottish Decorators’ Federation (SDF) have u

Plans to create a new housing and employment development at Perth Airport could be subject to a construction embargo, according to reports. The Morris Leslie Group has lodged proposals for the development on the edge of the Scone aerodrome.

Administrators of collapsed plant hirer Hewden are to auction off the firm’s large crane fleet after failing to find a buyer for the equipment. Joint administrator Ernst & Young has appointed Euro Auctions to dispose of the assets of HS Realisations, the new name for what remains of H

A mini excavator worth more than £15,000 is to be auctioned off to raise funds for a charity which provides welfare and financial support for the construction industry. The Lighthouse Club will be celebrating its 60th anniversary at the famous Construction Industry Charity Christmas Lunch

Administrators have completed a deal to sell three divisions of crane hire specialist Hewden to UK rental business A-Plant but over 250 employees have been made redundant. The restructuring team of EY was today appointed administrators of the Manchester-based plant hire firm after it was unable to r

Over 1,000 jobs across 32 depots are at risk at crane hire specialist Hewden after negotiations with potential new investors are understood to have stalled. Sky News has reported that the firm called in EY to act as the company’s administrators.

Construction equipment manufacturer JCB has resigned as a member of the CBI amid reports that the firm was unhappy with the lobby group's anti-Brexit stance. A spokesperson for JCB, which employs close to 6,500 people in the UK and sells to 150 countries, confirmed that the company ha

A Broxburn-based diamond drilling specialist has completed key infrastructural work on Glasgow’s Queen Street Station tunnel upgrade, doing so on budget and ahead of schedule. Corecut was singled out by Story Contracting – which was awarded the track-slab replacement contract for the Edi

Construction machinery manufacturer JCB said it remains optimistic about the future despite reporting a fall in annual sales and profits. The company said that in 2015 it achieved a profit of £214 million, which is 27 per cent down on 2014 when it made £294m. Sales for 2015 sto