Scottish News
Scottish steel strike continues
Thursday, 09 October 2008
Unite members based at Burntisland Steel Fabricators in Fife will continue all out strike action over the company’s failure to match the industry standard rate set out in the NAECI agreement.
Scottish Government pledges £9m for house builders
Wednesday, 08 October 2008
A £9m funding package has been announced by the Scottish Government to help house builders fight the credit crunch.
National fire centre for Scotland
Tuesday, 07 October 2008
South Lanarkshire has been chosen as the site of a £30m state-of-the art fire fighting training centre.
Balfour Beatty wins Scottish contracts
Friday, 26 September 2008
Balfour Beatty Rail Projects (BBRP) has been awarded a £60m contract to undertake construction and engineering jobs in central Scotland.
Robertson axes jobs
Friday, 26 September 2008
Scottish building firm Robertson Group has axed 44 staff as a result of the housing downturn – and says it cannot rule out further redundancies.
Turner & Townsend lead Glasgow development
Thursday, 25 September 2008
Turner & Townsend has been appointed by New Campus Glasgow to become a technical advisor, for the new city centre £300m campus.
Scottish Features
Black Gold
Landpac Ground Engineering Limited is working on the Trailblazer Project at the former Polkemmet Colliery, proving that where there's muck, there is indeed brass.
Compost helps to unlock green potential of Scottish central belt
The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) Scotland is at the forefront of turning contaminated, industrialised groundscapes into usable green and urban spaces.
Wasting away
According to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), the construction and demolition industry in Scotland creates more than 10 million tonnes of waste each yea, and reducing this figure is a key aspect of government targets for greater sustainability.
Imagining new possiblities for play
'The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless' - Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Think global - act local
The City of Edinburgh has adopted the Edinburgh Standards for sustainable building.
Piling on the pressure
Stent, part of Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering, has started work on the foundations for a brand new eight-storey office block at One Waterloo Street, in Glasgow's city centre for the main contractor Miller Construction.
Caledonia Play
Aberdeenshire Council taking learning outdoors
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Cumbria County Council has given planning consent for the construction of a nuclear decontamination centre at Workington in the west of the county. The controversial £6 million project is being planned by the Swedish group Studsvik which says the plant will clean metals with low levels of contamination so they can be recycled rather than buried in radioactive waste dumps. The plant will employ 30 staff when it opens next summer. Sixty per cent of the metal treated will come from Sellafield and the rest from nuclear sites across the UK, traveling by road, rail or sea to the port of Workington. |
