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A talk show host has come unstuck after appearing to find out, in real time, that timber is a sustainable building product. Mike Graham from talkRADIO conducted a short but sweet interview with Cameron Ford, a carpenter and spokesperson for the campaign group Insulate Britain.

McLaughlin & Harvey's Stonehaven Flood Protection Scheme site has won a Scottish Silver Green Apple Award for enhancing environment and protecting the otter and other wildlife and their habitat.

New 3D laser scanner technology and software from Trimble have been integrated with Boston Dynamics' 'Spot' robot to produce a fully automated robotic scanning solution for construction sites. Trimble said its exclusive turnkey solution facilitates autonomous operation on construction

The Scottish Government has fallen short of its target that 11% of non-electrical heat demand should be met from renewable sources by 2020. Newly published figures have shown that the figure is just 6.4%.

FM service provider Atalian Servest has been appointed by the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) to provide hard facilities management services across its property portfolio from December.  The new appointment will see Atalian Servest deliver a full range of hard FM services across 450 buildings a

The way that companies bid for South Lanarkshire Council contracts has been improved to help local firms. Under new arrangements for the simplified procurement process, more quotes will be sought from South Lanarkshire-based firms, and the size of the contracts that are available could be as much as

Leiths (Scotland) Ltd has been fined £130,000 for health and safety failings uncovered after a worker died while working at a quarry in the Highlands in 2017. Pawel Kocik, 34, was suffered fatal injuries to the chest at the firm's Kishorn Quarry in Wester Ross.

A Nigerian actress who took to social media to call out a construction company for allegedly doing a ‘shabby’ job is now facing legal action for defamation of character. An aggrieved Bridget Moo flooded her Instagram page with several call-out posts as she accused Lagos-based c

Renfrewshire councillors this week approved plans for almost 80 new homes in Linwood but more information is sought before a decision is made on a 39-home development in Bridge of Weir. Merchant Homes Partnership Ltd had submitted proposals to build a development in place of vacant manufacturing bui

A new care facility for the North Coast of Scotland can be built in Tongue after a detailed appraisal of options was considered by Highland Council members this week. Having previously committed to take forward a new care facility to replace the existing Melvich and Caladh Sona care h

A proposed development of 400 homes in the south east of Ayr will be the subject of an upcoming public consultation. Maybole-based Lynch Homes plans to apply for permission in principle to build the homes on land between Ayr Hospital and Kincaidston.

Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) will become the largest supplier of green hydrogen (GH2) to the United Kingdom after signing a multi-billion pound deal with JCB and Ryze Hydrogen.  Under a memorandum of understanding signed prior to the COP26 climate conference, JCB and Ryze will purchas

Arup has teamed up with IHG and Schneider Electric to outline a routemap for further decarbonisation of two hotels in Scotland.

Accountancy firm Grant Thornton has been slapped with a financial sanction of nearly £720,000 in connection with failings in its audits of Interserve. Interserve, a major outsourcing company, went into administration in 2019 after financial restructuring plans drawn up by the company’s l

Richard Hepburn, MD, Millar & Bryce, takes a look at the latest residential property data. The property market has clearly ebbed and flowed throughout 2020 and 2021; there was a low when the property market was forced to temporarily close amid Covid lockdowns before the highs emerged following t