Hub South West Scotland

(from left) Iain Hughes from programme funder CITB; programme graduate Rian Smith from Grange Academy; and Michael McBrearty, CEO of hub South West For the second year in a row, hub South West is providing life-changing opportunities for Ayrshire school leavers to progress in the construction indust

Two schools in Motherwell are to receive a facelift this year following the award of a £5 million contract to Kier Construction Scotland. Kier will start work this summer on Taylor High School, a comprehensive secondary in New Stevenston, and Braidhurst High School, a 600-pupil secondary in the For

Dumfries and Galloway Council leader Councillor Ronnie Nicholson (in cab), with (from left) Alison Wilson, hub South West construction manager; Councillor Jeff Leaver, chairman of the council’s children, young people and lifelong learning committee and Craig Bridges, framework director, Graham Con

East Lothian Community Hospital The value of community-based facilities under construction across the Scotland-wide hub programme has reached £1.16 billion and is supporting over 9,000 jobs, figures published today by the Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) have revealed.

Construction and infrastructure-focused partnership hub South West hosted a Building Information Modelling (BIM) conference today to bring all parties involved in its construction projects up to speed on the new regulations. The event at the Fenwick Hotel near Kilmarnock covered the impending legisl

hub South West has handed over a purpose built community leisure centre to South Carrick Community Leisure (SCCL) in Girvan. The Quay Zone, a £5.4 million sports and leisure facility looking out over the much-loved Girvan seafront, was completed ahead of schedule, and is to be operated by SCCL on b

Michael McBrearty Construction and infrastructure partnership hub South West is set to help companies in Lanarkshire, Ayrshire and Dumfries and Galloway to get clued-up on how to win profitable new business from some of Scotland’s biggest building contractors.

Generations of people in and around Tarbolton now have access to first-class facilities as the latest project by construction and infrastructure-focused partnership hub South West Scotland opened its doors. The first classes were held last week at the £3.8 million Tarbolton Community Campus, a flag

Ian Hughes, strategic partnerships director, CITB Scotland and Michael McBrearty, chief executive, hub South West Scotland present student Matthew Laverie, 16, with the folio of certificates he achieved during his time on the programme The lives of 11 young men from the south west of Scotland have b

The new block at Marr College is a seamless blend of old and new Capital projects worth more than £94 million will be completed in the next 18 months as South Ayrshire Council invests in new and improved facilities across education, sport and residential care.

The new £36 million Garnock Community Campus in Glengarnock has been successfully delivered on time and on budget to North Ayrshire Council. hub South West Scotland were joined by representatives from development partner Kier Construction and North Ayrshire Council for the formal handover last mont

Proposals to kick-start the regeneration of an historic part of Ayr town centre are now moving forward after plans were approved to develop new office accommodation at the Riverside Block. Ayr Renaissance recently submitted a masterplan for a mixed development between High Street and the River Ayr w

Three construction work experience and pre-employment programmes in Scotland have been successful in receiving financial assistance from the latest round of CITB funding. Eleven other projects, based in England and Scotland, shared over £800,000 from CITB in this latest round of Flexible and Struct

Private sector development company hub South West Scotland has announced that Morgan Sindall is to join its supply chain as a Tier 1 contractor. The contractor joins Kier, Galliford Try and Graham Construction as supply chain members.

St Joseph's College Graham Construction has been selected as principal contractor to deliver the three Phase 1 projects in the Dumfries Learning Town (DLT) programme.