Julie Scott-Gilroy, a legal director in MFMac's Infrastructure & Capital Projects team, outlines the key considerations for fire-safety-related claims in Scotland. The discovery of a fire-safety defect can leave a difficult question: who, if anyone, is liable?
Scottish Construction Summit
Ahead of ScaffEx26 this week and its sponsorship of October's Scottish Construction Summit, the National Access & Scaffolding Confederation (NASC) says it is seeing a marked shift in how Scotland's construction industry engages with the scaffolding and access sector, with Tier 1 contractors and
Axiom Advocates, the joint legal sponsor of this year's Scottish Construction Summit, has unveiled its line-up of speakers for the event. Garry Borland KC and David Thomson KC will be taking part on the day, with the current plan built around a series of short, topic-led sessions – likely arou
Professor Bill Minnis, recently Dean of the Business School at Stockton University in New Jersey, and a speaker at the upcoming Scottish Construction Summit, shares his thoughts on the value of longer term strategic planning. Longer term planning is relatively common in some cultures. These plans ar
Two of Scotland’s best-known legal names are coming together for this year’s Scottish Construction Summit, with Morton Fraser MacRoberts (MFMac) and Axiom Advocates confirmed as joint legal sponsors of the event, which moves this year to the SEC Campus in Glasgow. The decision to co-spon
The Scottish Housing Summit will bring together housing associations, local authorities, developers and industry bodies for a day dedicated to the issues shaping housing delivery in Scotland. Running alongside the Scottish Construction Summit, the co-located format also opens up valuable crossover w
The Scottish Housing Summit will bring together housing associations, local authorities, developers and industry bodies for a day dedicated to the issues shaping housing delivery in Scotland. Running alongside the Scottish Construction Summit, the co-located format also opens up valuable crossover w
The Scottish Housing Summit will bring together housing associations, local authorities, developers and industry bodies for a day dedicated to the issues shaping housing delivery in Scotland. Running alongside the Scottish Construction Summit, the co-located format also opens up valuable crossover w
The Scottish Housing Summit will bring together housing associations, local authorities, developers and industry bodies for a day dedicated to the issues shaping housing delivery in Scotland. Running alongside the Scottish Construction Summit, the co-located format also opens up valuable crossover w
The Scottish Housing Summit will bring together housing associations, local authorities, developers and industry bodies for a day dedicated to the issues shaping housing delivery in Scotland. Running alongside the Scottish Construction Summit, the co-located format also opens up valuable crossover w
The Scottish Housing Summit will bring together housing associations, local authorities, developers and industry bodies for a day dedicated to the issues shaping housing delivery in Scotland. Running alongside the Scottish Construction Summit, the co-located format also opens up valuable crosso
The Scottish Housing Summit will bring together housing associations, local authorities, developers and industry bodies for a day dedicated to the issues shaping housing delivery in Scotland. Running alongside the Scottish Construction Summit, the co-located format also opens up valuable crosso
The organisers of the Scottish Construction Summit are delighted to announce that Steven Boyd MBE, CEng, FIMechE, FICE will deliver the keynote address at this year's event. Steven brings a wealth of experience from a distinguished executive career spanning major projects and the management of large
Professor Steve Petrie is the new head of strategy and corporate development for Nexos Group, where he is leading the company’s expansion and growth into new and diversified markets and offerings. An engineer by training, he has spent his career delivering complex projects and guiding te
The expansion of the Scottish Construction Summit into the SEC Campus in Glasgow this October signals a maturing, confident industry ready to shape its own future, according to Alan Smith, managing director of SPI Piling, as the firm confirmed its return as event Headline Sponsor. Held in September

