Scotland is becoming increasingly important across global construction, infrastructure and industrial technology, influencing how projects are visualised, coordinated, delivered and managed over time.
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CASE Construction Equipment has confirmed a major expansion of its UK dealer network with the appointment of HRN as its official dealer for Scotland. The announcement ref...
Red Stag Materials has chalked up a significant milestone in public procurement, securing a place across all four Lots in the highly competitive Scotland Excel Framework...
Three firms have been shortlisted for a Β£3 billion project that promises to transform Scotland’s road infrastructure, specifically focusing on the long-awaited A9 D...
The first ProPress high-performance filter press to be commissioned by wet processing experts CDE has exceeded processing targets and significantly reduced reliance on co...
Yanmar Compact Equipment EMEA has announced the appointment of Field and Forest as its dealer for central Scotland. This partnership, effective since January, promises to...
The Scottish Government revealed its draft Scottish Budget for 2024/25 in late December 2023, which will have significant impacts on the Scottish construction industry. T...
Founded in 1980, Nicol of Skene is one of the leading civil engineering firms in the North East of Scotland.Β From bases in Aberdeen and Inverness, the company manages a v...
The first Stage V JCB 150X tracked excavator with triple-articulated boom sold anywhere in the UK has been bought by a Scottish plant hirer. Purchased by Ayrshire-based T...
Mabey Bridge, an Acrow Group company specialising in modular steel bridging, is pleased to note it has reached a framework agreement with Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS)...
Hitachi Construction Machinery UK (HCMUK), a leading name in the construction, quarrying and demolition equipment market, areΒ relocating their Scottish depot to support i...
Rhinowash has today announced the extension of its relationship with the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS), who are based on the frontline of the NHS and despatch immediat...
A major bridge upgrade project on Scotlandβs busiest motorway has been completed ensuring maximum protection for all road users.Β New permanent concrete road safety barrie...
Scotlandβs iconic Forth Road Bridge is set for a new lease of life β carrying ultrafast internet traffic for the historic town which lies in its shadow. Openreach Scotlan...
Hanover Scotland has received planning approval from Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park for its first social housing development to be built to Passivhaus stan...
Following the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, the UK Government has been reviewing and taking steps to reform our building and fire safety regimes. However, one thing that i...
Mecalac Construction Equipment UK has appointed Gordons Construction Equipment to its national dealer network. The Castle Douglas-headquartered firm will retail Mecalacβs...
In recent years the development of flood warning systems has benefited from advances in sensor, datalogger and communications technology. The expansion of mobile telecomm...
Bridgend Aggregates of King Edward, Northern Scotland, has taken delivery of its first VolvoCE excavator in the form of a thirty tonne EC300E. The machine will be deploye...
Two years since Peter Aldous MP brought his private members bill to Westminster, some 26 years since the recommendations in the Latham report and still no solution to the...
Housebuilding and ground working contractors M M Miller Ltd of Wick, Caithness, is one of the first to take delivery of the all-new Volvo EC60E compact excavator, launche...
Hugh King & Co has taken delivery of a new Volvo L150H loading shovel for its Hullerhill sand and gravel quarry located at Kilwinning, Ayrshire and has been put in ch...
Following a successful six-months as part of the Yanmar Compact Equipment Europe (CEE) UK and Ireland dealer network, MTS Plant has expanded its territory across southern...
This yearβs Black Isle Show proved an unprecedented success for Highland-based Chris Knight Plant Sales. Exhibiting a number of models from Yanmarβs compact equipment ran...
Skene Group Construction Services Ltd of Glenrothes Fife has added three more Volvo L220H loading shovels to its fleet, with two going to work at its Soutra Mains quarry...
Schools near Glasgow have been monitoring air quality as part of a project aiming to reduce the levels of pollution emitted by vehicles as they drop off and collect child...
Construction has begun on 91 homes at Mackie Village on Ury Estate in Stonehaven, Scotland, by FMR Construction for Hillcrest Housing Association. Local stakeholders incl...
Breaking with its traditional brand of loading shovel, Thompson Quarries, a division of William Thompson & Son (Dumbarton) Ltd has opted for a brace of Volvo L180H wh...
Hyundai has announced that Agritrac Exports has been appointed as the new Hyundai Construction Equipment dealer for Scotland as of January 2019. Hyundaiβs Regional Sales...
The enthusiastic application and effort of the Institute of Quarryingβs (IQ) Scottish Branch in its promotion of quarrying has at last been recognised, winning the covete...
Technology company, Yotta has won a seven-year contract with CGI, a leading independent IT and business process service firm, to deliver asset management services and sol...
Ceannacroc Estates, located to the north west of Fort Augustus in the Highlands of Scotland, has just taken delivery of a new Volvo ECR88D reduced-swing compact excavator...
Fatalities in Scotland reduced by 24 percent in 2017, according to last month’s Reported Road Casualties in Great Britain. This was the biggest improvement in Great...
βSnowtonomous drivingβ is the new buzz-phrase in the world of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV) according to the Finnish Transport Agency, which has developed a 10k...
Thurso-based Gow Groundworks has taken delivery of the first reduced swing radius Volvo EWR170E wheeled excavator to arrive in Great Britain which has recently successful...
Central Demolition Ltd of Bonnybridge has invested in another package of Volvo excavators and loading shovels, including their largest shovel yet in the guise of an L150H...
Taking delivery of his new fourteen-tonne charge reunites Gavin Milven with the Volvo brand. βIt was back in 2006 when I decided to venture forth on my own and was lucky...
Scotland’s William Hamilton and Sons kick-off with a Volvo loading shovel William Hamilton & Sons Ltd of Larkhall, South Lanarkshire, has taken delivery of a Vo...
Blantyre based Advance Construction Scotland Ltd has purchased another package of Volvo excavators which are all incremental to the companyβs already massive fleet of equ...
Euro Mechanical Handling Ltd (EMH), based at Bellshill in North Lanarkshire,Β Scotland, is an independent Scottish Material Handling company, that specialises in Forklift...
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