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(from left) Michael Cooke, ex MP for Leicester and previously chief executive of the Chartered Institute for Environmental Health, with CMS operations director Gerald McSkimming (holding the Green Apple Award) and PVC contracts director Craig Reid (holding the Green Apple certificate) CMS Window Sys

Dave Forrester The campaigning body for Scotland’s electrotechnical trade has called on the Scottish Government to seize the chance of a new review into building standards to make sure that its own approved certifier schemes become mandatory across the construction industry.

£3.4m funding package to revitalise Gorebridge Major funding packages totalling £3.4 million have been secured to revitalise the centre of Gorebridge and turn a disused building at Newtongrange railway station into a community space and bistro.

The richest man in the world has announced his intent to create his very own “smart city” in the United States. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates plans invest $80 million (£61m) to buy 40 square miles of land just 45 minutes west of Phoenix to build around 80,000 residential units and thousands o

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Sarah Beale The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) is to end the delivery of direct training and step back from operating its National Construction College site in Inchinnan as part of a “bold new strategy” for its future offer.

Workloads in the UK construction and infrastructure sectors continued to rise moderately in the third quarter of 2017 but skills shortages are once again impacting the industry, according to the Royal Institute for Chartered Surveyors (RICS). Around 22% more respondents to the latest RICS UK Constru

Minister for employability and training Jamie Hepburn MSP (centre) with Stewart Shearer, managing director of Robertson Partnership Homes and apprentice Laura Docherty Robertson Group’s commitment to addressing the skills shortage in the construction industry has been praised by the Scottish Gover

The new apprentices with City Building (Glasgow) chair Gordon Sloan and Councillor Greg Hepburn City Building has welcomed a flurry of new recruits, as more than 60 modern apprentices join the construction firm.

Meldrum House CALA Homes has submitted a planning application for a proposed residential development within the grounds of Meldrum House Hotel & Golf Club, Oldmeldrum.

With ambitious Scotland-wide targets for house building and energy efficiency high on the national agenda, Melville Housing Association has taken a step towards a greener housing future by becoming the first Registered Social Landlord (RSL) to deliver a Zero Waste Scotland workshop for construction

Image courtesy of Netco A charity has unveiled plan to build a £10 million mountain bike park in Aberdeenshire.

Portakabin supports Carnoustie in preparation for 2018 Open Portakabin has stepped in to help Carnoustie Golf Links after plans to rebuild its current premises ahead of hosting the Open Championship in July 2018 meant that the club would be short of facilities.

People living in Scottish areas with street names commemorating Britain, such as “Queen”, “Royal”, “Regent”, or “London” are less likely to define themselves as Scottish only, new research from the University of St Andrews has revealed. The finding, by Dr Daniel Oto-Peralías, is par

A recruitment campaign designed to facilitate 50 Glasgow-based businesses to prepare for the future has been launched today by Circular Glasgow. Hosted by Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, Circular Glasgow will connect with companies across a number of sectors, including construction, helping them to ope