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Kilmac has reached the Gold Status with the Supply Chain Sustainability School, demonstrating the company's unwavering commitment to sustainability and responsible practices. Achieving Gold Status signifies the Dundee-based company's dedication to fostering sustainability within its supply chain.

John Forster, chair and founder of Forster Group, Scotland's largest integrated solar roofing business, discusses the affordability challenge of the emerging era of electrification. Eighty per cent of homes in 2045 will be the homes we live in today and therein lies a dilemma: How do we achieve net

A national shortage of skilled tradespeople, such as plumbers and electricians, is set to cost the UK £98 billion in missed economic growth by 2030, according to new research by Kingfisher, owner of Screwfix, B&Q and TradePoint, in partnership with economics consultancy Cebr. The UK is cur

The City of Edinburgh has claimed the top spot of councils in Scotland on climate action, according to Climate Emergency UK. The Council Climate Action Scorecards cover seven sections, ask 91 questions, and were created in consultation with over 90 different organisations and key individuals.

Cruden Homes has lodged a planning application with Scottish Borders Council for the construction of 70 new homes in Jedburgh, specifically for social rent. These homes are set to occupy the previous location of Howdenburn Primary School on Lothian Road, a site left vacant since the school's closure

East Lothian Council has launched a new grant fund, the Regeneration Project Capital Fund, to support community groups and organisations with capital funding for regeneration projects. The fund has been developed and funded through the Scottish Government’s Place-based Investment Programme (PB

Residents of Russian villages with embarrassing names that mean the likes of slut, boozy and farty are to be granted a reprieve. New legislation proposed in Russia's State Duma would allow local authorities to unilaterally change the names of settlements that are "degrading to the dignity of residen

A homeowner is mulling the next step after a company mistakenly demolished a home she owned in Atlanta. Susan Hodgson said in an interview Saturday with The Associated Press that she found a pile of rubble in place of what used to be her longtime family property when she returned from vacation last

An Edinburgh-based agricultural company has been fined £60,000 for health and safety failings which led to the death of a man when he fell through an industrial shed roof. WNL Investments Limited, formerly known as WN Lindsay Limited, pled guilty to health and safety breaches at Dundee Sheriff

An environmental campaigner who was protesting against the construction of a new religious centre was tackled on the site by a nun. Members of the eco-group Les Amis de la Bourges, which means friends of the village in English, were protesting the building in Saint-Pierre-de-Colombier because t

Affordable, scalable retrofit can be achieved in a way that gives financial power to communities and transforms them for the better according to Rufus Grantham, co-founder at not-for-profit community interest corporation Living Places. Writing ahead of BE-ST Fest, a two-day industry summit taking pl

Aberdeenshire Council has announced it intends to develop an active travel route between Montgarrie and Alford. A feasibility study has been developed and identified a preferred route which would allow for walking, running, cycling and wheeling.

Karen Boswell OBE is to leave Baxi Heating UK & Ireland at the end of November, after three years as the company’s managing director. Ms Boswell has led Baxi through considerable UK & Ireland reorganisation and consolidation, the pandemic and major supply chain challenges in 2022, and

Members of the Highland Council's Sutherland Committee have agreed the investment priorities in the Sutherland Housing Revenue Account (HRA) Capital Programme with £5.2 million spent on projects to improve Sutherland Council homes for 2023-27. The HRA Capital Programme 2023-27 has been de

Consultants are ready to start design work for a multi-million-pound replacement of the Den Burn Bridge in Cardenden after Fife Council confirmed that funding is now in place for the project. In January, the local authority missed out on levelling up cash to tackle flooding in Cardenden bu