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Aug 1, 2024 · Miller Homes has appointed former Redrow PLC chair Richard Akers as its new chair. Mr Akers brings a wealth of leadership experience and sector insight to the role, having spent his career in the property and land acquisition industry, including twenty years with Land Securities, and another nearly
JLL: Slow Edinburgh construction pipeline signals opportunity for ...
1 day ago · Developers willing to tackle Edinburgh’s dearth of prime office space in 2025 will be best placed to capitalise on an impending surge in demand, according to property services firm JLL. Over 700,000 sq ft of office space was transacted in the city in …
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Jan 7, 2025 · Still trading and independent after more than 80 years in business, Cruden Group has bucked a trend for many SMEs. Fraser Lynes, managing director of Cruden Homes, speaks to Colin Cardwell about how the company is still adapting to meet today's challenges.
Survey highlights skills gap crisis in Scotland’s engineering sector ...
4 days ago · The wide-ranging survey aimed to enable industry and government to work in partnership to maximise the opportunities for the Scottish economy and society, using objective evidence to shape the priorities that would support this.. According to the results of the survey, Scotland’s existing industry needs an additional 58% new engineers by the end of 2027 across thirty-one key engineering ...
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4 days ago · Scotland is facing an "economic disaster" caused by a damaging skills shortage in the engineering sector, a new study has revealed. Scottish Engineering has engaged with key stakeholders for skills in Scotland over the past two years regarding their increasing concern for the widening skills gap exp
Call for construction sector to commit to Quality Charter
4 days ago · The Construction Quality Improvement Collaborative (CQIC) is calling for more businesses and organisations in the sector to commit to its Quality Charter, as it marks its second anniversary in early February. CQIC is a Scottish campaign between the public sector and construction industry working und
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Plans have been submitted for 360 new homes on an area of farmland in Rosyth. The Alfred Stewart Property Foundation (ASPF), a charity named after the late West Fife businessman, wants to develop just over 25 hectares at Castlandhill.
Shona Frame: Challenges facing construction sector in 2025
Jan 6, 2025 · The UK Government is also expected to endorse the first two UK Sustainability Reporting Standards in early 2025. This will be based on the sustainability and climate-related disclosure standards, published by the International Sustainability Standards Board, which are designed to give funders greater transparency over borrowers’ climate and sustainability risks and provide opportunities to ...
Euan Clark: Daunting outlook for Scottish building industry
Oct 28, 2024 · Euan Clark, president of the Scottish Building Federation, warns that the construction industry in Scotland is facing a daunting combination of challenges. Within the Scottish construction industry, we are growing increasingly concerned about the constrictions facing the sector.
Scotland enjoys new construction boom while ‘rest of Britain slows …
Sep 17, 2024 · While Scotland saw contracts awarded leap 32% to £6.8 billion in 2023, both the South East and London recorded double digit falls. Outside Scotland, only the East of England (7.9%) and Yorkshire (0.8%) saw rises - and the average overall, nationwide, was down 0.8%.