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Plans to develop 256 homes and a park on the banks of the River Dee in Torry have been submitted by the Aberdeen Harbour Board. A proposal of application notice has been lodged with Aberdeen City Council for the development on a strip of land between the river and South Esplanade West ahead of the p

The highly successful partnership between BESA Scotland and Glasgow Kelvin College is providing excellent benefits for young Scottish engineering apprentices. Four key engineering employers – FES, James Frew, MAQ Air Conditioning and City Refrigeration – have shown their commitment to developing

Expert panel appointed to promote commercial property opportunities at Countesswells FG Burnett, Savills and Shepherds have been appointed to advise on and market the diverse commercial property opportunities at Aberdeen’s newest community.

Architects and designers have imagined ways to transform the central reservation along New York's Park Avenue for an ideas competition, including an underground rock-climbing wall, a huge cascading waterfall and a route for kayaking commuters, Dezeen has reported. An aquarium, elevated walkways and

SCN speaks to five female members of the architectural team at Mactaggart & Mickel Homes about their roles, balancing home and work priorities, and why designing houses is not ‘plain vanilla’. Contributors:

Having worked on projects for some of the world’s largest companies, negotiated a management buyout and played a part in delivering a multi award-winning building, Jeanette MacIntyre shares her story with SCN. Give us an overview of your career so far

After studying architecture, Anna Chambers saw a different route into construction with Perceptive Communicators, a firm with extensive experience of raising the profile of clients in the industry. Tell me a bit about your career, and how you got to be where you are today?

BAM Construction and hub West Scotland have launched a new skills programme with pupils from Lourdes Secondary in Glasgow’s south-side. With support from the Developing Young Workforce Glasgow Opportunity Fund, staff from BAM will deliver a ten week programme encouraging S3 female pupils to consid

Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering looks set to be awarded the contract to deliver Dundee’s £32 million Regional Performance Centre for Sport. Councillors are being asked to accept a tender from the firm which could allow work to start on the facility in May, with a construction completion date of

A visualisation of the tram at Elm Row The remains of around 200 bodies dating back hundreds of years may have to be exhumed if current plans to extend Edinburgh’s tram network down to Newhaven are given the final go-ahead.

(from left) Douglas Thomson, joint managing director; Shona Gee, finance director and Hugh Craigie, joint managing director Aberdeenshire construction group CHAP (Holdings) Limited has reported a marked improvement in trading performance despite ongoing challenging market conditions.

A new office development at New Waverley in Edinburgh The Scottish real estate industry contributes almost £4.8 billion to the Scottish economy and supports more than 92,000 jobs, according to a new report.

A year of “solid progress” and acquisitions has helped Breedon to record its biggest year to date with improved performances from all three divisions. Audited annual results for the year ended 31 December 2017 for the construction materials group revealed a pre-tax profit of £71.2 million (2016

Ian Hughes Recruitment of Scottish construction apprentices has grown for the seventh consecutive year, new figures from the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) reveal.

Donald Borland Interior solutions provider Havelock Europa has commenced a search process for a new finance head after it announced that Donald Borland will resign as chief financial officer and company secretary in April.