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Fife Council has approved plans to demolish the Glenwood Centre building in Glenrothes and make sure current occupiers will be found new homes.  The local authority took control of the dilapidated shopping centre when compulsory purchase orders (CPOs) were issued for the privately-owned fl

Energy, services and regeneration specialist ENGIE held a groundbreaking ceremony last week to mark the commencement of a £2.5 million construction project in Bellshill. The development, in partnership with the Clyde Valley Housing Association (CVHA), will see derelict land on Hamilton Road tr

The new government must do everything it can to solve the late payment problems that continue to undermine construction supply chains, according to the chief executive officer of the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA). David Frise told the Association’s National Conference that W

Roddy Cormack, construction law specialist and legal director at Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP, examines P-DfMA (Platform for Design for Manufacture and Assembly) and the general increase in off-site construction, and wonders whether SBCC is keeping up with the curve. P-DfMA is a relatively n

City Building is celebrating after being honoured in four categories at the recent Hr NETWORK National Awards, where its contribution to communities was also recognised with the first ever accolade of its kind. City Building staff receiving the Diversity and Inclusion Award of the Year

Taylor Wimpey West Scotland has donated 10 pallets of bricks and block to help young bricklayers at its new Apprenticeship Academy with Ayrshire College learn their trade. Bricklaying apprentices Lewis Owens and David Waite with Ayrshire College lecturer Billy Hutchison (front)

Build-to-rent (BTR) developer and operator Moda Living has secured planning permission for the final phase of its £215 million Springside development in Edinburgh.

For the second year running, Redpath Construction has supported the Jimmy Dunnachie Family Learning Centre in Darnley with a Christmas toy donation.

The largest gold nugget in the UK has been found in a Scottish river.

Courts can, in appropriate cases, devise a remedy to protect the good faith purchaser in a gratuitous alienation, the Supreme Court has concluded in a case that turned on the meaning of “adequate consideration” in the Insolvency Act 1986 and which has been remitted to the Inner House of

An office building in Glasgow’s South Side is to be converted into flats under new plans lodged by Yeoman McAllister Architects.

Plans have been submitted to convert a former nursing home in Loanhead into 20 new homes. Covell Matthews Architects submitted an updated planning application to Midlothian Council with calls for 'conservative surgery' to later extensions at outbuildings at Mayburn House.

Gary Logan, chair of the Building Contractor Training Group (BCTG), explains how the training group is addressing the skills shortage, thanks to CITB funding. It’s well understood that the construction industry faces a shortage of skilled workers. To get round this, all industry stakeholders n

Working on behalf of the City of Edinburgh Council, Glasgow-based contractor CCG has successfully installed a range of brand new, high-performance timber fire doors to two towers in the centre of Leith.

An architect has stopped producing computer renderings while her projects are still in the design phase, instead favouring models, sketches and collages to encourage collaboration and develop more exciting buildings.