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The first of three new bridges to be built in the Netherlands using flax has been completed. Flax is a material that has been with us for thousands of years in the form of clothing, sacks, and ropes for ships. Nowadays, this old material has been ‘rediscovered’, and could become the buil

A long-awaited review into industrial training boards (ITBs) has called for greater collaboration between industry and ITBs to develop industry-relevant training initiatives and address critical skills shortages within construction and engineering.

A construction and building materials group from Northern Ireland has set up a base in Aberdeen to manage a nearby roads contract. Northstone (NI) Limited has moved into Units 14 and 16 at the James Gregory Centre in Aberdeen Innovation Park.

Edinburgh building services specialist M-Pact Group Ltd is further enhancing its reputation for undertaking challenging and sensitive projects with the ongoing restoration of St Andrew’s House in the heart of the capital.

A design system to ensure all new developments at Queens Quay meet the same high standard has been introduced by West Dunbartonshire Council.

Work has started on building Scotland’s first ‘fifth generation’ heating network at the country’s manufacturing innovation district in Renfrewshire. Cabinet secretary for finance and the economy Kate Forbes was at the Advanced Manufacturing Innovation District Scotland (AMIDS

Home building body Homes for Scotland (HFS) has announced the shortlist for its 2022 awards programme as it plans for a return of the annual gathering where winners will be announced.

A property maintenance and building services company has developed its own app that will increase productivity by 70%. Prater Contracts Ltd, a family business that was founded in 2007, has undergone significant growth in the last few years including moving into a larger, purpose built office two yea

Intrepid competitors from Scottish building services specialist MPACT Group have raised much-needed cash for two charities after pushing themselves to the limit at one of the country’s most challenging extreme course races.

The director of a building company has been jailed for ten months after an excavator bucket he was operating killed an employee in Blantyre. Robert Harvey, sole director and employee of Front Row Builders Ltd, was sentenced after Nicholas Hall was crushed to death by an excavator bucket which Harvey

The transformation of the Aberdeen Market building and the surrounding area has been conditionally approved by councillors.

GL Roofing Architectural and Cladding Systems has been awarded the roof and wall cladding contract for Phase 5a & 5b of the affordable housing development project, delivered by Albyn Housing Society, in Alness, Ross-Shire.

A Passivhaus-standard building which will combine a nursery and accessible council homes designed for older people is the subject of a new planning application submitted to the City of Edinburgh Council. Taken forward by Collective Architecture on behalf of the local authority, the proposal will see

The next government must reform the planning system so that more new homes are built by SME house builders, according to the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) Scotland following the launch of its Programme for Government today.

Motorway service areas and key trunk road locations across the UK set to get the cabling required to install 1,800 new ultra-rapid charge points, tripling the current network, thanks to a £300 million investment from Ofgem. A further 1,750 charge points will be supported in towns and cities to