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Three generations of carpentry & joinery apprentices are playing a key role in the construction of Forth Valley College’s new Falkirk Campus. Harry Bedborough (66, Stirling), Steven Dunn (51, Denny), Andrew Dunn (19, Denny) and Steven Wilson (20, Denny) are all either former, or curre

Lidl GB has confirmed that its new warehouse at Eurocentral, near Motherwell, will be fully operational by November, as it welcomed local politicians and councillors for an exclusive visit to the site. Guests including Neil Gray, MP for Airdrie and Shotts, Graham Simpson, MSP for Central Scotland Re

Green MSP Ross Greer has pledged to set the record for any planning application in Scottish history by pledging to deliver at least 50,000 objections to the relaunch of plans for a development on the banks of Loch Lomond. The £30 million development, named Lomond Banks, aims to transform an ar

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: Drum Buchanan Wharf 5 Ltd

Edinburgh property group Sigma has launched a new Scottish Government-backed fund to invest in Scotland’s private rented sector. The Sigma Scottish PRS Fund will have initial resources of £43 million, with £30m provided by the Scottish Government’s Building Scotland Fund in t

The Scottish Government has paved the way for the development of 121 homes in a coastal Aberdeenshire village. Barratt North Scotland had planned to deliver 109 houses and 12 flats on a site near Park Place in Newtonhill. A quarter of the properties are for affordable housing.

With HMRC currently consulting on changes to the reduced 5% VAT rate that has been available for the installation of energy saving materials (ESMs) in residential accommodation, in order to bring the UK into line with EU law, experts at accountancy firm Saffery Champness have stressed that any

A housing investment fund set up last year by the Scottish Government and Places for People Group’s fund management arm has acquired its first two developments. Housing minister Kevin Stewart launched the multi-million pound investment last year to deliver mid-market rent homes across the coun

At Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC) we have developed a free Building Information Modelling (BIM) e-learning platform with support from Scottish Enterprise and in conjunction with a range of industry partners. This free to access platform will allow people who can’t get alon

Plans to develop a Glasgow-wide Metro system and a new underground station linking Central and Queen Street stations are part of a radical new blueprint being proposed for the city. The Glasgow Connectivity Commission wants about £10 billion to be spent over the next 20 years on a range of mea

Significant progress has been made in the construction of a new mixed-use building at the Royal Highland Centre in Ingliston. Robertson is building the new event space for the Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland (RHASS), a membership organisation and organisers of the Royal Highland

An Aberdeen electrical company contracted to rewire and install new heating systems in Aberdeenshire Council properties has been fined for failing to put in place adequate barriers and physical warning signs around open floor hatches in a residential property. As a consequence of this failure the re

Cold store, firewall, cladding and single envelope specialist ISD Solutions has started work on a major project creating a distribution centre in Scotland for Farmfoods. The frozen foods supermarket chain is creating the new cold store warehouse near its headquarters in Cumbernauld and has enlisted

A former pub landlord who converted his premises into a home for his family must now return the property to a drinking establishment, the local authority has said. Robert Easton-Park ran the Tally Ho pub for 25 years but gave up the licence two years ago due to increased costs and a significant

Scotland’s construction firms are once again on the front line as one of the sectors worst affected by growing advanced or ‘critical’ distress, according to Begbies Traynor. Latest data from the insolvency specialist found a dramatic rise in the number of businesses that have had w