{"id":35280,"date":"2023-01-06T16:46:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T16:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=35280"},"modified":"2023-01-06T16:46:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T16:46:42","slug":"the-most-read-stories-on-scottish-construction-now-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=35280","title":{"rendered":"The most read stories on Scottish Construction Now in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-35281\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/news2022.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"134\" \/>The demise of Dundee construction firm McGill was the most read story on <em>Scottish Construction Now<\/em>, but conservation-related matters also featured high on the list.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image: for illustration<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">.. more than \u00a3300m has been invested in the renovation of Taymouth Castle in Perthshire\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><em>Scottish Construction Now writes:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2026 Administrators were also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishconstructionnow.com\/articles\/livingston-contractor-nrs-falls-into-administration-with-loss-of-45-jobs\">appointed<\/a> at Livingston-based contractor NRS UK (Noel Regan &amp; Sons) after the firm succumbed to spiralling supply chain costs and fixed-price contract issues.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2010, Scottish projects for the firm included the St Andrews Cross substation in Glasgow, Seagreen Offshore wind farm off the Angus coast, Hunterston substation, Sauchiehall Street civil engineering works and electricity substations in Wishaw and Glenlee\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, more than \u00a3300m has been invested in the renovation of Taymouth Castle in Perthshire, with work getting underway in July and further proposals pending before planning officials.<\/p>\n<p>Restoration work at the castle, which was bought by US-headquartered Discovery Land Company in 2018, will continue for three to four years.<\/p>\n<p>The worlds of construction and sport always seem inextricably linked and it was no different for <em>SCN<\/em> readers during the last 12 months\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Queen\u2019s Park Football Club\u2019s revised plans to demolish the \u2018oldest football building in the world\u2019 to make way for a new stadium at Lesser Hampden were granted planning permission in February\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 In April, Stewart Milne Group put its housebuilding business up for sale\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 Rounding up the most read articles was the death of a man after an incident at a Glasgow building site in May. The 44-year-old sustained injuries on a building site on Stepford Road.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishconstructionnow.com\/articles\/a-year-in-review-the-most-read-stories-on-scottish-construction-now-in-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The demise of Dundee construction firm McGill was the most read story on Scottish Construction Now, but conservation-related matters also featured high on the list. image: for illustration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35282,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35280\/revisions\/35282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}