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Oregon chairman Rod Lawson An increase in timber prices and the depreciation of the pound in the wake of the Brexit vote have affected profits at Selkirk-based Oregon Timber Frame Limited.

Daniel Wilson Offsite timber frame specialist Scotframe has appointed Daniel Wilson as business development manager at its new office within the National Self Build and Renovation Centre (NSBRC) in Swindon.

The Glasgow Recycling and Renewable Energy Centre at Polmadie GMB Scotland has welcomed a commitment from Ineos to adhere to a national agreement for engineering and construction workers as part of a £60 million expansion of its Grangemouth site.

The structured finance team at Rettie & Co has delivered its second mid market rent (MMR) development at Edinburgh’s Western Harbour with more than 3,000 people applying for the 138 homes on offer. Forth Ports’ Harbour Gateway MMR project, part of the Western Harbour in Edinburgh, offers an

Arc-Tech apprentices Glasgow building services company Arc-Tech (Scotland) Ltd has taken on six new trade apprentices this month, increasing the total number of apprentices employed by the company to eleven.

Connor Bray and Billy Noble Structural steel fabrication contractor J & D Pierce was recognised with two winners at the North Ayrshire Apprentice of the Year 2018 Awards last week.

Joinery team celebrating their win at Barratt Homes’ annual charity golf day Barratt Homes East Scotland has held its fourth annual corporate golf day, raising £20,000 for its charity of the year HopScotch.

Knight create new opportunities in Westhill Commercial property developer Knight Property Group has diversified from its current industrial and office builds with their new speculative development at Kingshill Commercial Park.

The achievements and life of pioneering Scottish explorer and surveyor Dr John Rae are to be celebrated by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) today. Fronted by RICS President John Hughes, RICS has appointed John Rae an honorary chartered surveyor and will present the John Rae societ

Galliford Try has taken a further £20 million hit on the Aberdeen bypass, taking the total provision on the overrun project to £123m. The construction group said today that the £20m write-off meant it had lost £45m on the project for the full financial year due to bad weather and the impact of t

The £60 million learning and teaching hub has been designed by BDP The University of Strathclyde has selected Balfour Beatty to deliver its new £60 million learning and teaching building.

V&A Dundee’s light-filled interiors designed by acclaimed Japanese architect Kengo Kuma have been revealed for the first time today. The construction and fit-out of Scotland’s first design museum took three and a half years to complete and it stands at the centre of the £1 billion transform

Energy giant Ineos is to invest £60 million to expand its Grangemouth site with the addition of a new furnace on its ethylene plant. The firm has awarded a contract to build the furnace to Germany-based Selas-Linde GmbH.

The team behind the proposed EuroPark development, located on the M8 corridor in North Lanarkshire, have unwrapped their vision for the brand new green at heart community in the form of a new website and video. EuroPark’s online launch comes as the initial planning submission is considered by Nort

Paragon’s Norman Benn (left) and Gary Butcher head up the consultancy’s new dispute resolution support offering Edinburgh-based building and project consultancy Paragon has launched a standalone dispute resolution support (DRS) service, making it one of the only UK building consultancies not to