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(from left) SPF vice chair Andrew Sutherland, Michael Portillo and SPF chair Paul Curran More than 200 delegates gathered at the EICC yesterday as broadcaster and former cabinet minister Michael Portillo, Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson MSP and Scottish cabinet secretary for the economy,

Let’s just get this out there shall we? Contractors and subcontractors are “bad” people. Boffins* have told us this, therefore it must be true. Contractors are out to screw you over, every single last one of them. Even their name contains the word “con” which is conclusive evidence of thei

(from left) Stephanie Hyams, Mark Saunders, Mitchell Clarke, Gillian Pettigrew and David MacDonald at the Robertson Collegelands site Pupils at Uddingston Grammar School have been laying the foundations for a career in construction thanks to a new initiative carried out in partnership with Robertson

Graham Simpson MSP with joinery apprentices at New College Lanarkshire Graham Simpson MSP has visited the New College Lanarkshire campus in Motherwell to meet Modern Apprentices who are earning while they learn to coincide with Scottish Apprenticeship Week (March 6–10).

Sophie Martin as Odette and Christopher Harrison as Siegfried in David Dawson's Swan Lake. Photo credit Andy Ross Scottish construction, property and energy businesses give £1.2m boost to culture projects

A feast for all LEGO lovers, featuring over fifty LEGO models including the impressive 2x4m St Pancras Station, has opened at Perth Museum and Art Gallery. The exhibition aims to appeal to all ages inspiring creativity and an appreciation of architecture and the iconic scenes that make up our cities

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: Thames Water Pension Scheme PIF

The number of building apprentices registered in Scotland rose by 6% to 1,778 last year according to new figures from the Scottish Building Apprenticeship and Training Council (SBATC), the body responsible for registering construction apprentices throughout Scotland. Published to coincide with this

(from left) Bethany Greig, apprentice administrator; Keith Brown, cabinet secretary for economy, jobs and fair work; Andy Mallice, managing director, Robertson Construction Scotland and Jack Goodfellow, apprentice business support administrator Robertson Group welcomed the cabinet secretary for econ

Pupils, staff and presenters at the Women in Construction 2017 presentation at Borders College Almost 90 girls aged 14-15 from secondary schools throughout the Borders attended a Women into Construction presentation at Borders College recently by a team from construction and residential development

Funding boost means green light for £5m High Street library Work to build a new £5 million library in an empty unit on Paisley’s High Street will start this year – in the latest stage of the push to use culture to breathe new life into Paisley’s High Street.

Model railway enthusiasts and volunteers are being sought for an ambitious plan to lay a model railway track along Scotland's Great Glen. The bid, to be filmed for a TV show, involves laying 74 miles (119km) of track from Fort William to Inverness.

Planners in Aberdeen have approved plans for a 374-bed student accommodation development on John Street. The scheme, prepared by Fletcher Joseph Associates, is a high-quality development of an empty brownfield site, left derelict following the demise of an originally approved hotel scheme set out by

ScotRail Alliance has appointed a design team to work on a new look for Inverness Station prior to tenders for the construction work being invited in autumn 2017. Mott Macdonald will produce detailed designs around how the station’s frontage, forecourt and concourse will look when the £6 million

Finance director Ian Murdoch (left) and chief executive Chris Endsor Miller Homes is aiming to grow annual sales volumes in Scotland by at least one-third by 2020 with a focus on the Central Belt.