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Highland construction company Capstone Construction has made a key senior appointment with the installation of Michael Cameron as operations director. Coming as the company experiences a period of strong growth in both the residential and commercial sectors, Cameron will play a key role in supportin

Moda Group has been certified as a GRESB Four-Star organisation for the first time, and has also retained its GRESB Green Star status for the second consecutive year. This recognition highlights Moda’s ongoing leadership in environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance and reaffirms i

Scotland’s national hub programme is nearing a significant milestone in delivering new learning estate infrastructure, with almost £5 billion of projects completed, under construction or being developed. The five regional hub companies, collectively known as Hub Scotland, are also adding

Newport-on-Tay’s much-loved Christmas lights will once again illuminate the town this festive season thanks to a £3,000 donation from Persimmon Homes North Scotland. The funding, provided through the homebuilder’s Community Champions initiative, will help ensure the town’s da

Highland housebuilder Tulloch Homes has marked its 100-year milestone with a special centenary celebration that brought together employees past and present, partners, and community representatives – raising £38,471 for Highland mental health charity Mikeysline. The event, held to celebra

Highland councillors have approved a comprehensive report outlining the condition of its road bridge stock, the inspection regime, and the works required to maintain vital road structures across the region. The report to the local authority's Economy and Infrastructure Committee highlighted the scal

A time capsule buried for more than a century in a former Perth school destroyed by fire has been rescued from the ruins. The time capsule was placed in the wall of Balhousie Primary School, then known as Northern District Primary School, during the laying of the foundation stone when the school was

Plans to demolish Argyle House, the Castle Terrace office block often branded “Edinburgh’s ugliest building,” have sparked fierce opposition from one of Scotland’s leading architects. Malcolm Fraser, whose portfolio includes the Scottish Poetry Library, Scottish Storytelling

A new wave of AI data centres across central Scotland, including a flagship project at Ravenscraig, could receive electricity discounts under measures announced yesterday by the UK Government’s AI Growth Zone team within the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. DSIT highlighted S

The owners of Strathmore Golf Centre at Alyth are to reinstate previously approved plans for hotel, holiday and leisure facilities as they look to sell the 79.32ha site. Operated by business partners David Norman, together with Peter and Simon Howell, for the past 20 years, the centre has previously

Hebridean Housing Partnership (HHP) has confirmed the successful completion of the final phase at its Leverburgh site on the Isle of Harris by Alex Murray Construction. The second stage added six additional homes, resulting in a total of twelve residences at Lèana an t-Sruith.

Abronhill Housing Association is sounding the alarm over a growing crisis in Scotland’s mixed tenure housing blocks, where fragmented ownership is undermining efforts to maintain safe, compliant homes. Speaking on the Scottish Housing News Podcast, interim director Audrey Murphy and housing ex

Two site managers working at Bellway’s East developments have been highly commended at UK Health & Safety Awards. Shaun Hassel, from Kirkcaldy, a site manager based at Dalmore Gardens in Auchendinny and Peter Lawrie, from Dunfermline, who manages Earl’s Way development in Glenrothes,

Scotland’s first dedicated district heating education centre has been established at the Energy Training Academy (ETA) in Edinburgh. A purpose-built conference and events facility, the Heat Network Suite is a dedicated area which will be used to help educate people on the benefits of district

Engineering consultancy Dougall Baillie Associates is continuing its development of graduate apprenticeships (GAs) with a further intake for the coming academic year. Based in East Kilbride and operating across the UK, the firm has taken on two more civil engineering graduate apprentices, who will a