There has been a significant rise in the number of workers furloughed in the construction sector this year, with 244,100 people on furlough at the end of January.
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Proposals for a major new housing and commercial development at a disused site near Edinburgh Airport will be considered by the Scottish Government after council planners failed to make a decision in time.
Work has started on a new Aberdeen City Council housing development which will provide 92 homes including a mixture of flats and wheelchair-designed flats being constructed to the Gold Standard for construction.
A plan to create a well-connected, healthy, green and carbon-conscious Elgin City Centre has been published by Moray Council. The draft Elgin City Centre Masterplan, produced in partnership with the local community, seeks feedback from locals across Moray. A similar process will be rolled out for to
A lawyer is facing a bill of more than £50,000 after having lost a court battle in a row over a "lovely thick" laurel hedge, The Times reports.
Owners of a Scottish consultancy firm are urging employers to nurture the next generation of planners to avoid a crisis in the profession. Directors of Aurora Planning Ltd in Aberdeen, Maggie Bochel and Pippa Robertson, insist action must be taken now to prevent a skills shortage in the sector.
The opening of a new £50 million Scottish Government fund to help transform thousands of hectares of vacant and derelict land across Scotland signals a commitment to tackling the legacy blighting communities, according to the Scottish Land Commission. Scotland has almost 11,000 hectares of vac
A first of a kind collaboration has been agreed between Scottish Canals and Historic Environment Scotland (HES) that will pave the way for a streamlined consent process for routine repairs to historic assets. Under the monumental Section 17 heritage agreement, a significant amount of works
The great granddaughter of a man who helped build the Katrine Aqueduct has welcomed the completion of the latest upgrade work. After the discovery of amazing old photographs of the construction of the aqueduct were publicised on BBC Scotland’s Landward programme and Channel 5’s Secret Sc
Plans for a new business park in Aberdeen on the site of Trafalgar House in Altens have been lodged with the council.
Owners of a Scottish building firm defied the odds when they took on a project just as covid struck but completed it with weeks to spare. Scorgie Construction Ltd was awarded the contract to renovate a former hostel and day care centre in Banff by Aberdeenshire Council last spring but the project wa
The reconstruction of a 17th-century creel house using traditional methods is now underway at Glencoe. Led by the National Trust for Scotland, a team of heritage building craftspeople has broken ground and raised the house’s 6m-high timber cruck frame.
Kier has held a UK-first trial of a technology to support its strategy delivering net zero carbon emissions. Through its work with procurement partner, Sunbelt Rentals, it is using PUNCH Flybrid flywheel technology on its Shakespeare North site, to assess if the innovation could reduce the energy re
Despite the challenges of a year in lockdown, Rutherglen and Cambuslang Housing Association has successfully completed the development of 18 new homes on the site of an old filling station on Hamilton Road, Halfway in Cambuslang.
The foundations for a successful year are being laid by construction and fit-out company Pacific Building which has secured more than £6 million worth of business in contract wins across the UK.


