Federation Of Master Builders

Brian Berry The Federation of Master Builders (FMB) has warned of a ticking construction skills time bomb with skills shortages on the increase across a number of trades and professions.

Nicola Sturgeon opens the scheme in Leven A £30 million scheme to spread the benefits of new house sales to small and medium sized developers has been launched by the Scottish Government.

Building companies in the UK have hired Portuguese bricklayers on £1,000-a-week wages because of a shortage of skilled Britons, a recruitment firm has said. The finding was revealed by Manpower, whose research is said to have confirmed industry fears of a lack of suitably-trained workers.

A survey by the National Specialist Contractors Council (NSCC) has revealed that late payments are still a problem for around half of all subcontractors. The industry survey, also conducted by the Federation of Master Builders (FMB), found that tier 2 and 3 contractors are effectively bankrolling th

Gordon Nelson Small and medium construction businesses in Scotland suffered in the run-up to the independence referendum vote, research from the Federation of Master Builders has shown.

Public sector procurement specialist LHC is hosting a series of free seminars for kitchen and bathroom installers looking for work on public sector contracts. The seminars will introduce LHC’s new kitchen and bathroom installation framework, due in 2015, and will help kitchen and bathroom firms un

New official output figures from the Office of National Statistics have shown that Scotland had seen the greatest improvement in construction activity output in the UK as a whole. The vast majority of the 12 per cent overall increase north of the border in the year to June was from infrastructure pr

A revival in the construction industry north of the Border remains “fragile”, the Federation of Master Builders Scotland (FMB) has warned. The group’s new services director Gordon Nelson said it was encouraging to see official UK-wide output showing a 1.5 per cent uplift in construction output