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Industrial developer Saltire Business Parks has started construction work on sixteen units of flexible industrial space in Dundee. Due for completion this summer, the units will deliver a total of 16,000 sq ft of good quality industrial space offering versatility to deliver a range of units from 1,0

Offering promotions to staff to prevent them from leaving is a growing trend in construction and could harm your business, write Mactaggart & Mickel Homes director, Marion Forbes. Most of us have heard about imposter syndrome – where an individual doubts their accomplishments and has a fea

Energy regulator Ofgem has today approved a subsea electricity cable linking Shetland to the mainland but said it is minded to turn down a similar application for the Western Isles. Scottish and Southern Energy Networks (SSEN) proposes to build a 600MW subsea electricity transmission link from

Crucial road safety training is to be delivered to 120 apprentices and staff in the construction industry to help protect them from dangerous road accidents on their daily commute to work on Highland roads. ‘Safe Driving in the North’ is a health and safety focused-event in Inverness, or

Six West Dunbartonshire school pupils are gaining on-site work experience at Queens Quay as part of their Foundation Apprenticeships. Available to senior school pupils, Skills Development Scotland developed Foundation Apprenticeships in partnership with education and industry, with support from the

A handsome bronze war memorial commemorating employees of Carrongrove Paper Company who fought in The Great War has been unveiled in its new home at Carronbank House in Denny - with the support of Mactaggart & Mickel. The memorial, which dates from 1920, was originally erected in the entranceway

Lucky pupils at East Milton Primary School in South Lanarkshire are set to benefit from a donation made by construction and manufacturing company CCG (Scotland) Ltd. The building firm is working with South Lanarkshire Council to deliver 30 affordable homes on a site adjacent to the primary school.

Aggregate Industries has helped to bring the ‘world’s first skyscraper’ – the grade 1 listed Main Mill at Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings in Shropshire – back to its former glory, after it lay derelict for decades. Working with partners SMC Minimix Concrete, Aggregate Indu

Interserve has been bought out of administration by a consortium of its lenders. The contractor filed for administration on Friday after shareholders voted down a deleveraging plan put forward by the Board to rescue the firm.

Interserve was handed £660 million worth of public contracts in the months before facing collapse, the GMB Union has claimed. The construction group was forced through a pre-pack administration at the weekend after its largest shareholder, the US hedge fund Coltrane, opposed restructuring

Housebuilder and timber systems manufacturer Stewart Milne Group has unveiled two key non-executive additions to its Board. Clive Fenton and Martyn Everett have been appointed as non-executive directors, following the retirement of Tim Redburn and Hugh Mackay.

Luddon Construction has been appointed to progress the redevelopment of the Jackson's Quarry Roads Depot in Oban. Argyll & Bute Council said the work will ensure that all essential operational services for Oban, Lorn and the Isles can be delivered from a single main site. It will also free up th

Taylor Wimpey West Scotland has secured planning permission from Glasgow City Council for the provision of 204 new homes in Broomhouse on the outskirts of Glasgow. The next phase of development will comprise a range of two, three and four bedroom styles of homes across two parcels of land off Muirhe

Albyn Housing Society has partnered with national housebuilder Barratt Homes to bring 95 quality homes to the people of Inverness. The partnership will run until March 2020 and will concentrate on the Culloden West site in Stratton, Inverness.

State of the art survey techniques have revealed the severity of water damage to Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s iconic property, The Hill House in greater detail than ever before. The surveys, carried out in partnership between owners the National Trust for Scotland and Historic Environment Scotl