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The importance of strong leadership and partnership working are among the key messages being delivered to over 900 senior home building sector representatives and guests attending the Annual Lunch and Awards of representative body Homes for Scotland (HFS) in Edinburgh later today. At what is the lar

St Andrews Timber & Building Supplies is launching its revamped Edinburgh headquarters with a family fun day on Monday. The firm’s flagship Prestonfield branch has been upgraded to improve the customer experience across the site.

A new multi-million-pound project led by Heriot-Watt University’s global research institute for net zero is using AI to slash the time and cost involved in modelling carbon capture and storage (CCS) methods. Called ECO-AI, the research team is developing specialist AI techniques for scientific

In a bid to tackle "systemic" gender disparity within the architecture sector, Glasgow-based practice Threesixty Architecture has introduced six months full pay maternity and adoption leave. With recent research revealing four out of five key roles in the industry are occupied by men, and only a thi

Engineering and modular solutions provider Pier Solutions (Pier) has acquired electrical engineering businesses V-TES and V-TES Renewables in a seven-figure deal. Acquired from Valor Energy Group (Valor), the Aberdeen-based consortium of energy enterprises, the transaction marks a significant strate

Legislation giving Scottish Ministers powers to assess and remediate buildings which have unsafe cladding, where consent of the owners cannot be provided, has been unanimously approved in the Scottish Parliament. The Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Bill will allow the creation of

Nine new projects which will improve timber transport in Scotland are to be funded by Scottish Forestry. £800,000 has been allocated to the projects which include upgrades to existing fragile rural roads, creating passing places or building short routes to take timber traffic away from people&

This year marks Dandara Aberdeen’s twelfth year sponsoring an annual 10K hosted by an Aberdeenshire sports and community centre. The race is part of Run Garioch, a yearly running festival and major fundraiser for Inverurie’s Garioch Sports Centre.

Shepherd Chartered Surveyors has opened a new residential office in Bearsden as its strategic growth plan continues apace. Headed up by Bearsden local, Shepherd residential partner Alan Fleming, the new office is situated at 4 Canniesburn Toll and is the first to present its brand-new signage and sh

SSEN Transmission has selected Sumitomo Electric Industries and its subsea cable installation partner, Van Oord Offshore Wind UK, (the Sumitomo Electric Van Oord Consortium) as the preferred bidder for the proposed Shetland 2 High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) link subsea cable. The need for a

Rob Bewick, senior construction safety consultant at Thomas & Adamson, highlights why mental health needs to be treated with the same degree of importance as physical health on construction sites. In the construction industry, health and safety is most often thought about in terms of physical we

Residents, businesses and community groups are being reminded to take part in an online survey on the new design guide for the Forthside area in Stirling. This key visual document sets out a list of principles to ensure future developments at Forthside are undertaken in line with the updated masterp

A new public artwork has been revealed at Taylor Wimpey East Scotland’s development of new homes at Hawthorn Gardens in South Queensferry, providing the housebuilder’s ‘Percent for Art' commitment to the town as part of planning consent for the development. To mark the official ins

Head of housing at Hardies Property & Construction Consultants, Michael Creech, has warned that Scotland’s affordable housing sector is facing its most challenging period in 40 years. The affordable housing sector has always had challenges to overcome, but this is the most difficult p

The new owners of the B-listed former snooker hall premises in Dennistoun have submitted a new planning application that will see the number of properties provided at the property reduced from earlier plans. Proposals now call for the late 19th-century building in Craigpark — previou