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A “strategic focus on bid selection, early client engagement and certainty in delivery” has helped Laing O’Rourke to increase EBIT by £26 million compared to the year before. Group profit before tax of £45.5m signalled the fourth consecutive year of improvement for the

Scotland’s largest bid and tender specialists, AM Bid, is celebrating a prestigious double for managing director David Gray. The Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP) UK has recognised David as one of the profession’s top leaders with the 2020 APMP UK Outstanding Leader

As the Financial Conduct Authority investigation into the 2018 Carillion case concludes with the watchdog intending to take further action against its directors, Ramsay Hall argues that the lessons for the industry as a whole is that sending out misleading messages to the market about a company

CALA Homes (North) has submitted a planning application to Aberdeen City Council for a further phase of its Craibstone Estate development. The application comprises plans for 123 homes, 36 of which would be apartments. This phase also includes upgrading and enhancing the existing walled garden and a

Clark Contracts has completed the refurbishment of cladding on Jamaica Street and Argyle Street in Glasgow city centre.

Glasgow City Council has given the go-ahead for a project to restore Tollcross Winter Gardens in the city's East End. The B-listed conservatory, which is on the Buildings at Risk register, is currently in a “dilapidated condition”.

The preferred option for the section of the A96 to be dualled between East of Huntly and Aberdeen has been unveiled to the public at a virtual exhibition.

Bob Renton, consultant to Local Authority Building Standards Scotland, on the development of the Competency Assessment System and plans for implementation next year. The Competency Assessment System, or CAS for short, has been developed over the last couple of years by Local Authority Building Stand

Trust Housing Association has been granted planning permission to build 42 flats in Wishaw’s Main Street.

Taylor Wimpey West Scotland and Clyde Valley Housing Association have confirmed that construction work is completed on 10 new affordable mid-Market rented homes which are located off Prospect Hill Road in Ravenscraig.

In an exclusive feature for Scottish Housing News, Stephen Tucker, Glasgow-based partner at planning and design consultancy Barton Willmore, outlines his strong opposition to the Scottish Government’s consultation on removing the presumption in favour of sustainable development. Over

hub West Scotland (hWS) has said it has been overwhelmed by the incredible response to its 2020 Winter Warmer Appeal on behalf of its charity partner PEEK (Possibilities for Each and EveryKid).

Taylor Wimpey West Scotland has donated a public access defibrillator (PAD) to the Dumbarton and Vale of Leven Community First Responders part of the Helensburgh and Lomond group to benefit the community in the local area. As part of a joint initiative with the British Heart Foundation (BHF), the ho

A homeowner disgusted with the actions of the tradesman at her house took to Facebook to share a note she left them after she saw that they'd used her brand new toilet. Nadia from Sutherland Shire in Australia had hired a group of construction workers to do a bit of work on her home, but while

Sandy and James Easdale have acquired an extensive waterfront site at Cardross, with the planned development bringing their total construction projects to well over £400 million.