Members of the Scottish and Northern Ireland Plumbing Employers’ Federation (SNIPEF) can now look forward to greater support thanks to the arrival of a dedicated technical advisor. With steadily increasing technical and employment advice and extra member support to boost apprenticeships and in
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SGN Commercial Services has been selected to provide gas measurement entry unit, pipelines and utilities installation and project management services at brewery firm BrewDog’s site at Ellon in Aberdeenshire.
Trade body Homes for Scotland (HFS) has bolstered its executive team with five new appointments. Reflecting the wide-ranging challenges facing its members, the new recruits comprise Liz Hamilton as head of local & regional planning, Richard Lewington as senior planning adviser and 
Aberdeen’s The Archie Foundation Neonatal Unit and Befriend a Child have each received £1,000 as part of Barratt Developments North Scotland’s latest Community Fund giveaway. Each year Barratt Developments, which includes both Barratt Homes and David Wilson Homes, works with a wide
An updated masterplan for a £100 million golf resort, hotel and spa in the Angus countryside has been submitted to the local authority for planning consent. Developers behind 'The Angus' have said the project represents one of the biggest hospitality investments in Scotland in recent years and
hub South West is leading a Christmas appeal support package to help tackle the disturbing rise in suicides in Scotland.
Sandra Cassels, partner in the commercial litigation team at Morton Fraser, continues our four-part Construction Delay Series, which takes a closer look at legal issues surrounding construction delays. The contract should set out the particular factors which should be taken into account in cons
Network Rail will shortly demolish the existing bridge under the Highland Mainline railway at Lynebeg, near Inverness, and replace it with a new structure. It is part of the advance works for the A9 Dualling: Tomatin to Moy project. Continuous 24-hour working from 23.20 Friday 26 until 05.40 Tuesday
Funding of £7 million will improve GP surgeries, expanding the level of care to patients across Scotland, health secretary Humza Yousaf has announced. Vacant high street units will be taken over by Integration Authorities to expand the primary care estate, with the funding also used to support
An English judge has dismissed an appeal by a construction company that was ordered to pay over £220,000 to an aggregate supplier in exchange for supposedly defective aggregate it sold to them for the construction of a warehouse that liquefied in heavy rainfall.
A £13 million investment from the Scottish National Investment Bank (SNIB) is to accelerate the delivery of the Iona onshore wind pipeline in Scotland. The Iona wind partnership, managed by Asper Investment Management, is focused on building 800MW of onshore wind capacity by 2026.
Glasgow-based built environment climate tech firm, Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES) has experienced considerable growth over the past 12 months as it sees its technology implemented in over a million buildings.
Work-related stress and poor mental health risk becoming a health and safety crisis for Great Britain’s workplaces, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned today. While the full impact of the Covid-19 pandemic is yet to be fully understood, mental health issues are the number one reas
Glasgow City Council has approved plans to convert empty offices in a B-listed building in Buchanan Street into flats. TCS Freehold Investments Ltd, the owner of 101 to 107 Buchanan Street, has obtained permission to transform the upper floors of the properties into six flats.
A developer will be given the opportunity to convince Glasgow City Council of the positives of its plan to demolish the majority of the historic Wright and Greig Ltd distillers and deliver 182 build-to-rent apartments at 64-72 Waterloo Street.