Contract Scotland Live Series: Constructing Success

Join us on this episode to find out exactly what is happening with salaries & employment in the Scottish construction, engineering and property sectors. Alan is joined by ⁠Jamie Porter⁠ (one of our Divisional Heads) and Jade Mitchell (Senior Consultant). Our salary guide is the most comprehensive of its kind, focused solely on the market in Scotland. It’s by far and away the most demanded docu...

1 year on from our launch, and in anticipation of PD Project Delivery’s trip to Scotland/the UK at the end of October, we invited their Director & Owner, Paul Doherty , to come back and give us an update on what’s happening in Australia right now & into 2025. Paul told his story back in our first episode, but in short, he was a successful & progressive civil engineer in Scotland (our w...

In anticipation of the release of our latest salary guide , we invited both Jamie Porter (one of our Divisional Heads) and Kirstin Marshall (Senior Consultant) to tell us exactly what is happening with salaries & employment in the Scottish construction, engineering and property sector. 📈📊 Contract Scotland's salary guide is the most comprehensive of its kind, focused solely on the market...

This one’s a little different and something of a 2 for 1! We were joined by both Jocelyne Fleming, Policy and Public Affairs Officer for Scotland at the CIOB (Chartered Institute of Building), and John-Paul Toner, Director at Contract Scotland and one of the judges for the CIOB Scotland awards. We discussed the CIOB in Scotland and the CIOB Scotland Awards 2024, including; • The current state of p...

Here’s an easy one – would you like to win more profitable & sustainable contracts? Obviously. 👍🏼 In this episode, we were joined by Paul Johnstone to focus on “The Bid Journey: A Work Winning Culture”. Many construction, engineering and property businesses fall into the trap of seeing bidding/tendering as a transactional and reactive exercise. The reality is that winning work requires a muc...

Paying attention to workplace mental health has never been more important. Construction can be a rewarding and varied industry to work in. But it’s also one where pressures can be high, and people are more likely than average to experience work-related stress and other mental health issues. 😓 Factors include working away from home; heavy workloads; long working hours; late payments and job insecu...

Let’s start with this; The construction industry is fundamentally broken. 👀 How’s that for a headline? It was broken pre-pandemic and it’s definitely broken post-pandemic. What makes us say that? • Construction firms accounted for 16.9% of all insolvencies in September 2023, according to the Insolvency Service. • The number of UK construction insolvencies is up 10% on 2022 and 35% on 2019. In Sco...

Paul Doherty joined us on Constructing Success, the Contract Scotland Live Series, to discuss his own move to Australia in 2012. We’ll let Paul tell his own story, but he was a successful & progressive civil engineer in Scotland, before deciding to head down under. What started as a plan to do a bit of work and have a holiday, turned into a new life…! Several years later, after working on majo...