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The Wates Group has reported its highest ever operating profit of £40 million after a record year for orders. The business secured £2.3 billion of new work during 2021 and ended the year with a record forward order book of £7.1bn, up 7% from its previous record in 2020.

A principal contractor has been sentenced after he was found to have supervised unsafe excavation work in Greater Manchester and allowed some workers to carry out their jobs barefoot.

Civil engineering heavyweight Simon Wright OBE has taken a role with energy storage business Gravitricity as an independent advisor to the board as the company advances its commercialisation plans. Gravitricity specialises in gravity energy storage and last summer successfully commissioned and teste

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Collective Architecture director Jude Barber has been named by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) in its 2022 intake of Fellows, joining other names from the arts, business, public service, and civil society as well as academia from Scotland and beyond. The 80 new appointments will be joining the

A traditional building skills demonstration has been delivered for young people at Jedburgh Grammar Campus, one of the final elements of the five-year Jedburgh Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme (CARS) programme.

Network Rail has submitted a planning application to Fife Council for the diversion route and river crossing required during the work on the Leven (Bawbee) bridge.

Scottish developer Kelvin Properties has made its first move into Edinburgh with plans for new homes. The urban regeneration specialist has completed the purchase of a site in Canonmills that was formerly home to a charity’s furniture warehouse, where it plans to build 48 new apartments includ

Contractor A.C. Whyte & Co. Ltd welcomed MSP Gordon MacDonald and Councillor Neil Gardiner, ward councillor for Pentland Hills to the City of Edinburgh Council site in Murrayburn, Edinburgh last week where it is undertaking a programme of regeneration works to 29 blocks of four-storey flats.

Taylor Wimpey East Scotland has acquired land to allow the delivery of 132 new homes at its Lauder Grove development on land off Hillwood Gardens towards the eastern boundary of Ratho Station.

Cala Homes (West) has outlined its continuing commitment to investing in Glasgow’s city after welcoming Glasgow MSP and leader of the Scottish Labour Party Anas Sarwar to its Princes Quay site yesterday. Cala is delivering 203 high specification homes, including one-, two- and three-bedroom ap

A new family housing development in Angus - built as part of an affordable housing scheme pioneered by rural landowners - has been officially unveiled by cabinet secretary for social justice, housing and local government, Shona Robison MSP. With the assistance of the Scottish Government’s Rura

A block of 14 flats is being proposed within the grounds of Kingsmeadows House in Peebles.

Glasgow City Council has rejected plans to demolish a former social work base in Cranhill to build affordable flats.

A construction worker made a once-in-a-lifetime discovery earlier this month when he found a woolly mammoth tooth while on site.