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A joint venture owned by property entrepreneurs Bruce Linton and David Cameron has acquired north-east housebuilder Scotia Homes for an undisclosed sum. The Ellon firm said it had been acquired by Camlin Group, with the size of the majority stake also undisclosed.

New plans have been lodged with Glasgow City Council for a residential development and a new public garden in the city’s Finnieston area.

The Scottish Procurement Alliance (SPA) is building on the success of its framework offering and re-procuring four of is most successful frameworks. These are Schools and Community Buildings, Modular Buildings, Roofing and Doors. In the last financial year, 2019/20, SPA’s partners registered o

Provisional analysis of clean infrastructure projects by the Scottish Trade Union Congress (STUC) has outlined the massive benefits of a government-funded green stimulus for Scotland, with a £13 billion investment creating almost 150,000 jobs and re-absorbing workers w

Scottish Construction Now has seen a dramatic rise in readers over lockdown with users on the website in May reaching 147,198 and subscribers to Scotland's only free daily construction media increasing to 9,580. SCN’s social media accounts also saw an increase with another 524 readers followin

Engineering services bodies BESA and ECA have released a joint sector guide on work-related travel and updated their guides on working in close proximity and in areas of increased risk of transfer of COVID-19, such as healthcare settings. The three sector guides are based on the latest government &l

Edinburgh-based Bernard Hunter Mobile Cranes has added three new cranes to its fleet.

Businesses across the country have now been awarded more than £100 million through the Scottish Government Business Support Fund. The scheme, announced by cabinet secretary Fiona Hyslop at the end of April, has to date helped more than 2,500 businesses and 4,160 self-employed people.

The Scottish Joint Industry Board (SJIB) has launched a new digital service to allow the Electrotechnical Certification Scheme (ECS) health, safety and environmental assessment to be taken and completed online. The new web-based format has been introduced by the SJIB following the suspension of asse

The annual SURF Awards for best practice in community regeneration were launched online yesterday for 2020. The SURF Awards are delivered each year by SURF, a regeneration forum with over 300 cross-sector member organisations across Scotland, in partnership with the Scottish Government. The purpose

AS Homes (Scotland) has returned with revised plans for a residential transformation of a former bus depot in Glasgow’s East End.

Barclays has confirmed that it will drop the 'Buchanan' name from its major River Clyde development in Glasgow over concerns with its connection to the slave trade. A district on the south bank of the River Clyde, where Barclays' new northern European hub and more than 300 flats are being constructe

A company that was formed to complete a development of 55 residential apartments at a site near the Portobello Kilns in Edinburgh, has had its petition to amend a Deed of Conditions.

SELECT president Kevin Griffin has praised the remarkable way in which construction trade and professional associations have stepped up to the plate to protect members’ interests during the coronavirus crisis. The head of the influential electrotechnical association said the bodies have made e

The UK Government has written to elected mayors and local business leaders in England to call for "shovel-ready" project ideas to enable short-term job creation and kick-start the economy.