Day: March 7, 2022

​The new community hub at Macmillan Square is part of Edinburgh City Council’s multi-million pound regeneration programme in the north of the city. The project is being built in partnership with North Edinburgh Arts (NEA). City councillors agreed the project will now enter the construction...

The team behind Dunard Centre is now progressing the final design details and preparing to begin work on site. A fundraising campaign to secure the remaining £15m of the project’s £75m budget is well under way.  A meeting of the Edinburgh & South East Scotland...

HSE inspectors weren't happy with the roof trussesEssex builder Rytis Tamasauskas also has to pay costs of £5,000 as well as working nearly two months with no pay. Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court heard how the sole trader had failed to plan, manage and monitor construction work...

Hayaatun SillemHayaatun Sillem will attend her first Laing O’Rourke group board meeting as a director later this month. Dr Sillem has a degree in biochemistry from the University of Oxford and a PhD from Cancer Research UK/UCL. She was appointed CEO of the Royal Academy...

RLB’s annual Getting Closer to your Supply Chain*procurement trends survey provides a snapshot of market sentiment on procurement issues. The 2022 report found that the use of frameworks continues to grow in importance – 75% of respondents are seeing fixed price durations decreasing, following the...

Katherine KitchenerKatherine Kitchener has joined Willmott Dixon as regional head of land and development from Trafford Housing Trust, where she was head of delivery. Her new role involves helping councils assemble urban regeneration deals, getting funding and putting land parcels together. Richard Sterling, Willmott Dixon’s...