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Four firms have been invited to participate in the next stage of the competition for the A737 Den Realignment project. The shortlisted bidders for the key improvement project are I & H Brown Ltd, Interserve Construction Ltd, R J McLeod (Contractors) Ltd and Roadbridge Civil Engineering & Bui

The architect of V&A Museum of Design Dundee said he is “delighted and satisfied” as he saw his vision inspired by Scotland’s cliffs revealed for the first time. Kengo Kuma visited the £80.1 million project shortly after the removal of a temporary cofferdam which allowed the museum to be

Geeta Nathan Geeta Nathan blogs about CITB’s approach to targeted funding, productivity, technology, innovation and recruitment.

The office manager of a Stirling fire and flood business has admitted to paying herself £30,000 of unauthorised overtime over the course of a six year period. Falkirk Sheriff Court was told that Wendy Shaw, 46, boosted her earnings by falsifying spreadsheets at Total Reinstatement Services.

Fife Council has secured over £3.1 million from the Royal and Sun Alliance Insurance PLC to restore the former Blair House opencast coal site near Oakley, having settled its lengthy legal battle in the Court of Session with the company, out of court. The site had been left in a derelict state when

Jock Simpson (left) and Neil MacEachern from Schneider Electric One of the outstanding figures in British industry has been given a Lifetime Achievement Award by SELECT, the campaigning trade body for the electrotechnical industry in Scotland.

City of Glasgow College is helping to address a technical skills supply shortage faced by the country’s construction industry. A partnership with Building Contractors Training Group (BCTG) and Learn, Direct & Build (LDB) aims to transform how supervisor construction training programmes are del

Elgin High School reaches practical completion After 18 months on site, the brand-new £28.8m Elgin High School has been completed and the building handed over.

Santa Claus and Andy Murray Stirling-based manufacturer Superglass has gone straight on to Santa’s nice list after gifting him insulation to make his grotto toastier than ever.

New plans have been revealed to transform the Hamilton campus of the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) into an ‘urban village’ complete with 365 homes and a five-storey hotel.

The Scottish construction operation of Lendlease has blamed the delay or cancelling of projects after the Brexit vote for a 62% drop in revenue. Glasgow-based Lendlease Construction (Scotland), part of Australian-listed Lendlease Corporation, reported pre-tax losses of £5.9 million in the year to J

David Mace The developer behind Belfast’s iconic Titanic Quarter is in advanced talks to take a major role in an ambitious £450 million leisure, tourism and residential development planned for south west Scotland which will potentially create over 1,000 new jobs in the region.

The world's first floating wind farm was formally opened by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon today. Situated about 15 miles from Peterhead, Statoil's Hywind project has seen five giant turbines installed using a floating approach which allows turbines to be installed in much deeper waters than convent

A tenement building in Glasgow partially collapsed overnight as Storm Ophelia battered the UK and Ireland yesterday. Firefighters were called to the unoccupied Albert Road tenement in Crosshill at about 4 am on Tuesday morning after reports of debris falling into the street. Brickwork and windows on

To mark Anti-Slavery Day in the UK today, the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) and Stronger Together will be joined be industry leaders in spearheading a pioneering collaborative initiative to tackle modern slavery in the construction sector. Recent figures released by the International Labour