Day: January 3, 2023

Ouch!In its January 2023 supplier update to customers, Jewson says that prices of building products are going up yet again due to the continuing rising costs of fuel, gas and energy impacting on both raw materials and manufacturers. Bricks are going up by ‘up to’...

Graham Prothero After 47 years as a director and 28 years as chairman, Dermot Gleeson retired from the board of house-builder MJ Gleeson on 31st December 2022. MJ Gleeson chief executive James Thomson replaced his as chairman on 1st January 2023 and on the same...

Freyssinet jacked the bridge a distance of 163 metres at four metres per hourAccording to HS2 Ltd, installation of the Marston Box bridge represents the world’s longest box slide. Around 450 people from Balfour Beatty Vinci (BBV) – HS2’s construction contractor in the Midlands –...

The new stadium is taking shapeThe Bramley-Moore Dock stadium is set to be a new home for Everton Football Club. The enabling works were completed in December 2021. In the year since then, the stadium bowl has begun to take shape.  All of the steelwork...

Robin Williamson, an asbestos surveyor employed by Glasgow City Council’s property operation, suffered severe injuries after he fell while carrying out a survey on the roof of Netherton Community Centre in the city on 5th April 2018. Mr Williamson suffered multiple skull fractures as well...

HMP Glasgow is set to be built on the site of the former Provan Gas WorksHMP Glasgow is set to replace the Victorian-era HMP Barlinnie when it opens in 2026.    The masterplan for the 54-acre site, at the former Provan Gas Works on Royston Road...

Sir Bill RobertsonWilliam George Robertson, founder and executive chairman of Robertson Group, is to be knighted “for services to the construction industry and to charity in Scotland”. Bill Robertson left school at 16 and founded Robertson in Elgin in 1966 when he was 21. He...