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Brian Berry The Federation of Master Builders (FMB) has called on the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) to better recognise Scotland’s “high-quality” construction apprenticeships as it backed the continuation of the training body.

An alliance of ten organisations from the planning and placemaking sector in Scotland has launched a new campaign to help influence new planning guidelines ahead of the upcoming Planning Bill. The Scottish Alliance for People and Places, which includes RTPI Scotland and RICS Scotland, has come toget

Henry McLeish Former First Minister and town planner Rt Hon Henry McLeish on the launch of the Scottish Alliance for People and Places.

Tax professionals have welcomed another strong performance from the body charged with administering and collecting Scotland’s devolved taxes but cautioned that the numbers are likely to fuel further concerns over the Scottish Government’s flagship Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT). Reven

Gill Henry, head of business development at The Cruden Group and project director of the Social Bite Village In February of this year, Gill Henry, head of business development at The Cruden Group, agreed to take on the role of project director for the Social Bite Village in Edinburgh.

A Moray engineering firm has fallen into liquidation with the loss of over 30 jobs. Blair Nimmo and Geoff Jacobs of KPMG in Scotland have been appointed as joint provisional liquidators of Brown Engineering (Fochabers) Limited.

The £200 million regeneration scheme currently transforming the heart of Edinburgh’s Old Town has won another of the Scottish property industry’s most prestigious accolades. The New Waverley development scooped the top award for the Commercial Project of the Year at the 2017 Herald Property Awa

Andrew McFarlane Andrew McFarlane makes the case for UK-wide regulation to make sprinklers mandatory in all new build houses.

City Building apprentices build volunteering skills at Glasgow hospice City Building apprentices have contributed to a major refurbishment project at the Marie Curie Hospice in Glasgow which aims to provide patients with a more modern and comfortable environment.

A London council has ordered the owners of three conservation area houses that were illegally demolished during the night to build them exactly as they stood before. The owners, suspected to have caused or permitted the demolition of the buildings in Coldharbour Conservation Area in June 2016, repea

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: Archyield, Millennium Copthorne

Angus set for 600 new affordable homes as councillors agree strategic plans More than 600 new homes will be built by Angus Council and local housing associations in the county over the next five years, with the support of a £25 million Scottish Government funding package.

The owner of a construction business is among the candidates seeking to win investment from Lord Sugar in the next series of The Apprentice. The 13th series of the show starts on BBC1 next week with 33-year-old Michaela Wain, director and co-owner of Bolton-based Optimise Build Ltd, among the contes

Cruden Group managing director Kevin Reid Construction and residential development firm Cruden Group has exceeded the £200 million turnover mark for the first time as the business recorded an eighteenth consecutive year of profitable trading.

John Cole CBE Housing minister Kevin Stewart has announced two leading experts as the chairs of the groups that will take forward a review of Scottish building standards in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy.