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Scottish Water has reappointed the Atkins and RPS Group joint venture onto its latest Technical Consultancy framework to provide a range of specialist technical services in a contract worth £30 million.

A water and wastewater sectors service provider has promoted from within to fill the position leading Scottish Water’s DV2 contract. Steven McCulloch steps into the role of supporting the delivery of one of Scotland’s biggest capital investment non-infrastructure programmes.

The Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity has unveiled new initiatives to coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week and to remind everyone in construction about all of the freely available resources it offers.

Gillespie Macandrew has announced the appointment of experienced planning lawyer Sandy Telfer to the partnership. He joins from law firm DLA Piper as the second partner in the firm’s planning team alongside Colin Hamilton, and brings over 20 years’ experience advising developers, landown

Glasgow-headquartered Spectrum Properties is set to expand an existing business park on a brownfield site in south east Glasgow with a range of different sized industrial and commercial units on a 1.8-acre site in Broad Street. Since 1861, the site has had various incarnations including use as a cot

Builders’ merchant MKM has further expanded its branch network in Scotland with the purchase of Woodrow Timber & Supplies.

A £30 million transformation programme has been unveiled by Bruntwood SciTech after it acquired the ‘People Make Glasgow’ building from Osborne+Co for £16.2m. Bruntwood SciTech, a joint venture between investor and developer Bruntwood and Legal & General, is a property an

Cumbernauld-based developer McKernan Homes has broken ground on a new sustainable development in Airdrie facilitated by a £2.8 million loan from Bank of Scotland.

Scotland Excel has scooped the award for 'Best Procurement Delivery' at the recent Scottish GO awards for its New Build Residential Framework. The organisation's PPE team was also recognised, receiving highly commended in the ‘Team of the Year’ category.

The A-listed Laurieston in Glasgow is set to be converted into 11 luxury apartments. A major restoration project of the Georgian townhouse is set to get underway, safeguarding the building that has been on the “at risk” register since the late 1990s.

South Lanarkshire Council’s Montrose House offices in Hamilton are now up for sale.

The finalists in a national competition which recognises excellence in the Scottish new build housing sector have been announced in advance of the annual industry celebration and dinner to be held in Glasgow next month.

RESIDENTIAL – TEN UNITS OR MORE Applicant: Thenue Housing Association

Planners have given the green light for a second phase of flats and houses on a triangle of railway land at Kelvindale. A total of 43 new homes for private sale, including 32 apartments and 17 terraced homes, will be built at Dalsholm Road, near Kelvindale train station.

A home renovation has unearthed a bag of food from McDonald's that had apparently been sitting inside a wall for more than 60 years.