A new Ayr Academy secondary school is set to open later this month after being delivered by Kier Construction and hub South West Scotland on behalf of South Ayrshire Council. Ayr Academy, whose origins can be traced back to 1233 but did not come to be known by its present name until 1796, has moved
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Kier has awarded Spie UK an £8 million contract to carry out mechanical and electrical (M&E) works on a new secondary school campus in Kilmarnock. The new £45.3m William McIlvanney Campus is being built by Kier to accommodate the merger of Kilmarnock Academy, James Hamilton Academy, New Farm P
Pauline McCabe Pauline McCabe of Kier Construction gives her account of being a woman in construction, the path she took to getting there and her views on getting more women to consider a career in this sector.
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
Output in the UK construction sector fell in February with a 7.3% decrease in infrastructure providing one of the main downward pressures, the latest figures reveal. Sharp falls in infrastructure and as well as new private housing saw UK construction output dip 1.7 per cent in February, its biggest
Kier Construction Scotland and North East has scooped eight awards, six of which were for projects based in Scotland, at the Considerate Constructors Scheme National Awards at ceremonies in Edinburgh and Manchester.
Ashley Dunsmore Assistant quantity surveyor Ashley Dunsmore on being a woman in construction and being on Kier’s graduate trainee programme.
Restoration work on the fire damaged Mackintosh building for Glasgow School of Art The continued growth of Kier Construction Scotland has helped its parent company announce a “solid” set of financial results.
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.
Edinburgh College of Art Kier Group is opening a record seven sites to the public for Open Doors Week 2017 (half of the total Scottish sites open for the event) as it reaffirms its commitment to recruiting the next generation of talented workers to the industry.
The Scottish Government has awarded a £1 million loan to the Clyde Gateway regeneration project towards the construction of a new manufacturing unit. To be built by Kier Construction, procured through the Scape National Minor Works Framework, the £3m unit will be targeted at key growth sectors ide
Latest Office for National Statistics data on output in the construction industry have shown a return to growth in output for the industry, in particular from housebuilding.
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
Visualisation of the reconstructed library based on meticulous research by the design team Image: Page \ Park A full-size prototype of a library bay is to be constructed for the Mackintosh Library at the Glasgow School of Art (GSA) to help test materials and techniques as part of ongoing restoration
Property, residential, construction and services firm Kier Group’s underlying trading performance in the first half of its financial year has met its management's expectations, the firm said today. A trading update for the business revealed that Kier’s construction and services order book had be