Civil engineers have said they knew “for many years” that the Scottish Government’s aim to dual the A9 by 2025 would not be met and that the “glacial” progress on the project could well be deliberate.
Plans to knock down an abandoned Edinburgh industrial estate in the north east of the city and replace it with ninety-eight flats have been approved by the local authority.
Scottish Enterprise and Clyde Gateway have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at leveraging up to £16 million of support towards a planned £60m construction programme over the next five years to create low carbon energy efficient business space for high value manufacturing occupiers.
Morham + Brotchie Ltd (M+B), a historic Edinburgh-based quantity surveying and cost consultancy firm, has been acquired by Cumbria-based quantity surveying and commercial consultancy A. Lamb Associates (ALA).
While the days of construction careers being portrayed as low paid, low skilled, low prospect jobs for academic underachievers should have been confined to history, new research shows the sector remains tainted by these outdated misconceptions.
Turner & Townsend is calling for stronger project controls and upfront programme planning to combat a sector-wide capacity crunch, as cooling demand, high insolvencies, risk-averse contractors, and loss of market confidence could create further pressures for the industry.
Glasgow City Council has approved the beginning of negotiations on the off-market disposal of two sites, one of which could be acquired by Maryhill Housing Association.