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Civil engineers have reported a steep fall in activity for the second quarter of 2020 reflecting the COVID-19 lockdown as well as continuing long term challenges for the sector in Scotland. Headline results from the latest CECA Workload Trends Survey found that 35% of Scottish firms, on balance, rep

Groundwork to prepare the historic IBM Greenock site for a potential £100 million residential and commercial transformation has begun in earnest. The site at Spango Valley, which is owned by Sandy & James Easdale and Advance Construction, is currently subject to a planning application for

Firms in Shetland are being encouraged to register their services on an online portal used by large developers to publicise opportunities to tender for contracts in sectors such as energy and construction.

Gilberts Architects and CM Roofing and Building have submitted plans to turn a former petrol station on Biggar Road in Midlothian into an apartment block. 

Researchers at the University of Strathclyde have received funding to develop an online platform for remote building inspection.

Rose Street Foundry in Inverness, the former home to AI Welders, has reopened as a bar following significant public and private investment. Originally opened in March, just days before the implementation of lockdown restrictions, the team is now cautiously welcoming the first customers.

The City of Edinburgh Council and its contractor CCG (Scotland) Ltd have completed the first new affordable homes in Edinburgh since lockdown. The first new neighbours moving into Harewood Road have been visited by the council's housing, homelessness and fair work convener Kate Campbell and depute c

Taylor Wimpey West Scotland and Barrhead Housing Association have confirmed that construction work on 12 new affordable homes for social rent, which are located off Neilston Road in Neilston, are now almost complete and just over half the new tenants have now moved into their new home.

Plans to build 42 flats and two shops have been submitted a Calton site currently occupied by a shop, a takeaway, the Wee Mans Bar and an old engineering workshop of butcher equipment suppliers MacNaughton & Watson.

Glasgow-based Saltire Facilities Management has commenced work on a 15-year servicing, maintenance, and installations contract for Stonewater, a social housing provider who manage over 32,000 properties across England.

Construction work is under way as Dundee Science Centre embarks on an ambitious refurbishment programme.

National property, construction and infrastructure consultancy Pick Everard has been shortlisted for three awards in the 2020 New Civil Engineering Awards.  Director of HR, Elizabeth Hardwick-Smith, has been shortlisted for this year’s ‘Leading in Talent Management’

President Trump has denied claims that a White House official enquired about the possibility of carving his face into Mount Rushmore, before adding that it “sounds like a good idea”.

Aberdeen City Council has appointed Robertson Construction to build a new £16 million school in the west of the city.

The City of Edinburgh Council has been given the keys to the newly completed Queensferry High School in time for pupils to start the 2020/21 school term in their new learning space.