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It was back to work on a building site for the new Perth High School this week for Liam Wilkie. The Kilmac construction director admits he was in more familiar territory after overseeing an amazing charity challenge for the little-known Bardet-Biedl syndrome.
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Construction has started on a new housing development in Burntisland after it was halted when the original company undertaking the work fell into administration.
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Livingston-based high performance timber windows and doors manufacturer NorDan UK has announced a record 34% increase in turnover for a single year in 2022. This has included significant growth in the UK social housing market, with social landlords increasing their purchase of NorDan products by 11%
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Pupils in Gourock celebrated the official opening of their new-look school following a £3.5 million extension.
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The preferred design for a proposed new primary school with exemplar net zero and green credentials which would be built in the Newhills area of Aberdeen was unanimously agreed at committee this week.
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Sutherland Members of the Highland Council have agreed to ring-fence £101.7k of remaining allocated Community Regeneration Funding towards a potential transport project. Sutherland chair, Councillor Richard Gale, said: “We are aware of the ongoing transport issues across Sutherland and t
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In a significant boost to Scotland's green energy sector, Sumitomo Electric Industries, a Japanese multinational corporation, has announced a £200 million investment in a new high-voltage subsea cable manufacturing plant. The project, expected to be located in Nigg, in the Highlands, is antici
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The UK Supreme Court has unanimously dismissed an appeal by HM Revenue and Customs against a decision that items constructed for the collection and transmission of water through a hydroelectric power station in Fort Augustus were not tunnels or aqueducts for the purposes of the Capital Allowance Ac
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Scottish property consultancy firm Galbraith has merged its Elgin and Inverness teams into a newly invested Highland Hub office at Fairways Business Park in Inverness. The modernised office space is designed to support Galbraith's growing team and its adoption of hybrid working models, contributing
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Edinburgh-based construction firm Orocco has expanded into a new headquarters to prepare for significant growth. Increasing demand has seen the firm take over West Church, the premises which formerly housed the city’s well-known bespoke furniture maker Charles Taylor Woodwork.
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A Perthshire firm with a reputation for energy efficient and sustainable homes is to embark on a new project that blends cutting-edge, eco-friendly design with buildings dating back 2,500 years. Two years on from the devastating blaze which destroyed the award-winning Scottish Crannog Centre on the
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There is no doubt that launching a Passivhaus equivalent for Scotland will drive up the operational efficiency of homes, but as Mike Stevenson, senior manager strategic markets at NorDan UK argues, we also can’t be passive about embodied carbon. There is no doubt that a proposed Scottish equiv
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Work will begin this week on a £334,000 project to preserve the heritage of another historic building in Lochgilphead. The building at 3-17 Colchester Square is the second major project to benefit from funding from the Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme (CARS). The funding package also incl
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Two Springfield Properties apprentice bricklayers have been invited to compete in a UK-wide SkillBuild Competition, delivered by the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB). Andrew Carr aged 20, is a first year apprentice bricklayer and works at Springfield’s South Glassgreen development i
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