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Ashley Howieson has joined Deeside Timberframe as its new business development manager, following her successful tenure at the Muir Group. With 17 years of experience in the construction industry, including 14 in timber frame, Ashley brings a wealth of knowledge, energy, and enthusiasm to the team.
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Addleshaw Goddard has recruited Martin Devine, a property development and investment specialist, as a partner in its real estate team in Scotland. Mr Devine, who joins the firm from Pinsent Masons, is a prominent figure in the Scottish real estate market with wide ranging development experience span
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Real estate firm Avison Young has appointed Chris Wright as its new head of sustainability and decarbonisation. Wright joins from Tesco, where he led the Energy and Engineering teams across the UK, Ireland and Central Europe.
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Housebuilder Avant Homes Scotland has appointed an experienced head of customer care. Billy Green joins from Stewart Milne Group where he held various positions during 21 years at the business and has over 25 years of customer care experience within the housebuilding sector.
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Scotland’s Towns Partnership (STP) has welcomed three new members to its governing board as part of its determination to "place localism at the heart of the nation’s economy and future". Regeneration expert Chris Bateman, tech firm chief executive Marcus Chidgey and management consultant
Construction Leaders
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Thomas & Adamson's Zander Muego speaks to Colin Cardwell about his journey to Egis Group via the Middle East. Scalability is a perennial problem for many companies in Scotland. How to exploit new markets, grow more efficiently and expand market presence? For property and construction consultancy
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Senior associate Sammi Johnstone speaks to Colin Cardwell about her unusual route into construction, the influence of her father and the successful multi-disciplinary approach taken by Jones Hargreaves. Overseeing the tagging and microchipping of turtles in Tobago is an undeniably intrigui
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This month's SCN Construction Leader, Gordon Megahy tells Colin Cardwell about his journey to Clancy Consulting, his love of timber and the firm's work on high profile sporting projects. Clancy Consulting, it seems, knows how to keep ahead of the game. The multi-disciplinary engineering co
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Tim Metcalfe, Keepmoat’s regional managing director in Scotland, tells Colin Cardwell why his company's model to balance the needs of investors and provide affordable homes makes moral and business sense. The optics of today’s housebuilding industry are not unmitigatedly positive. After
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Architects' Showcase
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Dundee Football Club has released a video created by architect Holmes Miller that brings to life its proposed new stadium at Camperdown.
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Block Nine Architects is set to progress its technical designs for a new high-end contemporary two-storey dwelling near Edinburgh's A-listed historic Gogar Castle.
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Michelin Scotland Innovation Parc (MSIP) is an ambitious joint venture between Scottish Enterprise, Dundee City Council and Michelin, created in response to the closure of Michelin’s Dundee tyre factory in 2020. It aims to drive innovation in the Scottish economy and address the global climate
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Brunton Design has finalised the design for this new build house in Leuchars, Fife.
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Addleshaw Goddard has recruited Martin Devine, a property development and investment specialist, as a partner in its real estate team in Scotland. Mr Devine, who joins the firm from Pinsent Masons, is a prominent figure in the Scottish real estate market with wide ranging development experience span
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Following the tragedy at Grenfell Tower on 14 June 2017, the Grenfell Inquiry’s Final Report (also called the Phase 2 Report), was published in September. It paints a bleak picture of years of failures by government and others in the construction industry and calls for far-reaching reform
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Kate Ross, a trainee solicitor at BTO, considers the implications of a case where a main contractor and subcontractor were invited to notify the adjudicator of any "clerical or typographical errors". McLaughlin and Harvey Ltd v LJJ Ltd [2024] EWHC 1032 (TCC) concerned the enforcement of a decis
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The Highland Council's decision to redesign part of Inverness city centre has been overturned by a senior judge after the plans were challenged by the owners of the region's biggest shopping centre.
In Pictures
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Line marking and road safety specialist WJ Group has shared a series of images taken by its employees in celebration of the hidden perks of working in construction.
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Plans to transform the derelict ABC building on Glasgow’s Sauchiehall Street into a vibrant destination food hall concept ‘House of Social’ are forming as urban regeneration specialist Vita Group kicks off the second round of public consultation.
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These images provide a first look inside a new development just south of the River Clyde.
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Experiential design agency Mather & Co is working on the design of the highly anticipated Inverness Castle Experience. The company, renowned for designing leading visitor attractions across the world, from immersive castle experiences and whisky distilleries to sports museums and heritage destin
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Akela Ground Engineering has taken a bold move as part of their growth ambitions to make a significant investment in a new fleet of plant equipment.
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Advance Construction took the keys to a new DAF 65-tonne showpiece truck at Truckfest Scotland 2024 and raised over £2,500 at the event for the Beatson Cancer Charity.
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The Construction Plant-hire Association (CPA) has confirmed the panel speakers and topics for the CPA Conference taking place on Thursday 7th November 2024 at the Heart of England Conference and Events Centre in Meriden near Coventry.
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Bobcat has appointed Inverness-based MacGregor Industrial Supplies as the company’s new authorised dealer for the Highlands and Islands, Aberdeenshire and Perthshire regions of Scotland.
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Switzerland and Italy have redrawn their international borders as a result of melting glaciers in the Alps. Part of the border between the two Alpine countries has historically been marked by the watershed of the Theodul glacier.
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A worrying trend with new builds in Australia has been exposed by a building inspector as he slams a half-finished home as a 'complete shemozzle'. Victorian construction worker Jim Zacharias shared a clip of two homes in Sunbury, in Melbourne's northwest, with just centimetres between the gara
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Dr Who is rumoured to be among the bidders for a police box on Pleasance, Edinburgh which is set to go under the hammer later this month.
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A 53-year-old construction worker went head-to-head with teenage darts sensation Luke Littler at the Swiss Darts Trophy over the weekend.
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A thief has apologised for stealing a 20kg statue of a gorilla and then texting his friend: "LOL I stole a gorilla, so what?" Australian man Matthew Newbould, 33, said he spontaneously made the "very silly" decision to steal the beloved ornament — named Garry — from the garden of a retir
