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South Lanarkshire Council has received plans to convert an old furniture store into three flats and a small retail unit. The application concerns the former Brown and Co Furnishings shop on Bannatyne Street.

Fife plumber Rab Fletcher has been elected as president of the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) for 2022/23. Mr Fletcher, manager of the mechanical services team in Fife Council Building Services, succeeds Neil Brackenridge, who steered BESA through the pandemic during his two-year t

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the longlist for its House of the Year 2022 Award. Following the announcement, The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) has congratulated and recognised the Scottish projects featured in the list, which include The Den, T

CCG Asset Management, the planned maintenance division of the CCG Group, has commenced a major kitchen replacement contract on behalf of East Lothian Council. A total of 300 households located in Trannent, Musselburgh, and Haddington are to benefit from new kitchens and associated decorative works t

Civil, structural and transport engineering practice Civic Engineers, which has a studio in Glasgow, has announced a reorganisation of the business and broadened expertise on the board with the appointment of a new non-executive director. Operating across the UK, Civic Engineers has studios in Manch

Labourers were put to work as cricket players in an elaborate scam that duped Russian gamblers into betting on a fake tournament advertised as the real Indian Premier League. An enterprising gang of scammers leased a farm in the western Indian state of Gujarat and installed a rudimentary cricket pit

Kilmac has been awarded the groundworks package for the new Eden Campus external yard in St Andrews. Working with Robertson Construction Tayside, Kilmac will undertake works including kerbing, main slab works, surface and foul water drainage, combined water drainage and an interceptor tank.

Edinburgh accounted for almost a quarter of new build starts in the private sector in Scotland last year, according to DJ Alexander Ltd. DJ Alexander Ltd, part of the Lomond Group, examined the latest statistics and found that 23.3% of new build starts (3,166) in the financial year 2020-2021, the la

7N Architects has submitted a formal planning application to the City of Edinburgh Council on behalf of Cruden Homes, seeking to build 99 flats as part of a new residential development at Salamander Yards in Edinburgh. The project will deliver a mix of one, two and three-bed homes with 35% of the un

A 38-year-old-man has been sentenced for health and safety failings which led to an employee being thrown to his death. Kevin Bowie, sole director of Denny-based Precision Decorating Services (Scotland) Ltd, was yesterday given a community payback order requiring him to be under supervision for 18 m

Balfour Beatty has become the first construction company in the UK to roll out automated cone laying machines. The new pioneering technology aims to reduce the risks associated with cone laying activities across the company's highways operations.

Peter Reekie, CEO of the Scottish Futures Trust and chair of the executive group of the Scottish Construction Leadership Forum (CLF), calls on the construction sector to embrace transformation. The construction industry is a vital, and sometimes overlooked part of Scotland’s economy.

Campion Homes has been granted planning permission for 78 new homes in Crieff. The builder has proposed to build 10 two-bedroom terraced houses, 25 three-bedroom terraced/semi-detached/detached houses, 34 four-bedroom detached houses, and nine five-bedroomed detached houses on a site 90 metres east

The Scottish Plant Owners Association's (SPOA) presidents' summer barbecue will return to Edinburgh this August. Everyone from industry stalwarts to new apprentices, whether they are SPOA members or not, are invited to attend the event at the prestigious Glasshouse Hotel in Edinburgh on 19th August

The number of disputes between commercial occupiers and landlords in Scotland being referred to third-party resolution is on track to be the lowest in a decade, according to new analysis from Knight Frank.