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Chapelhall firm secures £1m contract for Renfrewshire cycle route

JH Civil Engineering Limited has been awarded a contract worth almost £1 million by Renfrewshire Council for the build of a new walking and...
Farrans employees

Sisk completes acquisition of Farrans

JOHN Sisk & Son (Sisk) has completed the acquisition of Farrans Construction, in a move it says will unlock new opportunities for delivering major...
Kieran Smith (left) and Mark Brown

New inspection service heralded as ‘game-changer’ for for the water sector

MACKENZIE Construction, in partnership with UAV365, has launched AquaVis 3D, which is described as a 'first-to-market' inspection service for live treated water environments. The partnership...

‘Complex’ Maltings Building work completes in Haddington

WILL Rudd (Glasgow) has handed over the latest project in a long-term collaboration with PureMalt Haddington. Delivering over 30 projects on the site since 2014,...

Civils sector needs visible pipeline of work to ensure a prosperous future

By Grahame Barn, chief executive of CECA Scotland THERE is much to be positive about in the civil engineering sector, encapsulated recently in our CECA...

New software aims to optimise management of heavy civils projects

TOPCON Positioning Systems has launched its new Aptix integration platform to optimise how heavy civil construction projects are managed. The firm explained that Aptix...

Akela Group secures £4.5m contract for Renfrew housing site

AKELA Group has been awarded a £4.5 million contract to provide civil engineering, infrastructure and surfacing works at a new residential site built by...
Robert Ogg, MD Akela Construction

Scotland’s green skills shift: central belt’s workforce conundrum amidst energy boom

By Robert Ogg, MD of Akela Construction, part of the Akela Group AS we look towards 2030 and beyond, Scotland's energy infrastructure is poised for...

Contract for £1.6m Aberdeen harbour completion works awarded

A £1.6 million contract for completion works at the Aberdeen Harbour expansion project has been awarded to Ashleigh Contracts. The firm had previously worked on...

Inch Cape Offshore Wind Farm build progresses

Careys is to start work on the next phase of the Inch Cape Offshore Wind Farm build on the East Lothian coast. Contracted by Siemens...

Recent storms reinforce ‘urgent’ need for Scottish infrastructure audit

STORMS Arwen and Barra have once again highlighted why a review of Scotland’s infrastructure must be made a priority, the country’s leading source of...
Wills Bros

Major milestone reached on Highland bridge build

WILLS Bros has welcomed local school pupils to see the progress being made on the build of the new Naver Bridge on the A836...

Goodson Associates marks milestone year with award win

SCOTTISH engineering firm Goodson Associates is celebrating after picking up a prestigious accolade at the Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE) Awards 2023 in...
Ben Hamish

University of Strathclyde student wins Emerging Engineer award

A final-year civil and environmental engineering PhD student at the University of Strathclyde has been named as the Institute of Civil Engineering (ICE) Scotland’s Emerging...

Five options under consideration for Rest and Be Thankful design work

SCOTLAND'S transport minister Jenny Gilruth has met the A83 Task Force to discuss the work to identify a solution to the challenges at the...
CECA graduates

Highland CECA Scotland Academy graduates step straight into job interviews

THE latest cohort of UHI Inverness students to graduate from the CECA Scotland Academy have stepped into immediate job interviews to enter the civil...

Scottish Civil Engineering Awards deadline extended

  THE deadline for the Scottish Civil Engineering Awards 2020 has been extended for six weeks in response to the Covid-19 situation. Teams now have until...

Aviemore civils contractor completes milestone wind farm cabling work

MCGOWAN Environmental Engineering has delivered the largest project in the firm's history at Moy Wind Farm, south of Inverness. The Aviemore-based civil and environmental engineering...

Aviemore contractor shows commitment to revitalising natural habitats

AVIEMORE-based contractor McGowan Environmental Engineering has shown its commitment to revitalising natural habitats via a new financial support package agreed with the rewilding and...

Managing excess water during road construction

Drake Meikle, regional technical sales engineer at Siltbuster, the water treatment specialist, explores road construction, the excess water it generates, and how the environmental...