Industry collaboration body the Scottish Construction Leadership Forum (CLF) has worked to develop a new suite of free-to-use continuing professional development (CPD) modules focused on digital construction, net zero and retrofitting. Working with Built Environment – Smarter Transformation (B
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A farmer was ordered to demolish a castle he spent two years and £1 million to build.
A total of 360 housebuilders went bust last year, reaching record new highs, as smaller firms struggled to cope with rising costs and backlogs in the planning system.
A consultation report into wide-ranging plans to upgrade the landside facilities at Ardrossan Harbour has now been published. North Ayrshire Council is working with project partners - Transport Scotland, CMAL, Peel Ports Group, CalMac and the Arran Ferry Committee - to complete a comprehensive upgra
A new modular demonstrator unit has been unveiled by Built Environment – Smarter Transformation (BE-ST), designed to show Scottish businesses that a timber kit-of-parts approach to retrofit could be the key to future sustainable offices. Following the development of a blueprint design last yea
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A national public energy agency – Heat & Energy Efficiency Scotland – has been launched to scale up delivery of climate-friendly heating and improve energy efficiency across Scotland’s homes and buildings. The initial focus of the virtual Agency will be to build public understa
Dunnet Bay Distillers Ltd is set to expand after having secured funding up to £180,200 from Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) for the project. The Caithness distillery, owned by local husband and wife team, Claire and Martin Murray, started trading in 2014 after building a small gin
Continuing the regular Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) column in Scottish Construction Now, Jocelyne Fleming outlines the organisation's support for the Scottish Government's reuse and repair culture. Sustainability continues to be at the forefront of CIOB’s policy work. In order t
To mark the run-up to the 2022 RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award winner being announced this week, SCN will preview all the shortlisted entries continuing with Lockerbie Sawmill designed by Konishi Gaffney.
New grant funding has been made available to households in Scotland for the installation of heat pumps and energy efficiency measures in their homes. As of today, homeowners can now apply for a standalone grant of £7,500 from the Home Energy Scotland Scheme to install heat pumps. Previously, a
Cruden Homes has revealed proposals to deliver 76 homes for social rent, on the site of the former Howdenburn Primary School on Lothian Road in Jedburgh. The school, which was built in 1970, was closed in 2020, with pupils transferring to Jedburgh Grammar Campus at Hartrigge Park.
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A Glasgow scaffolding & building contractor has swapped hard hats for bottle caps by launching an ultra-premium vodka and flavoured vodka brand. Blur 69 was already snapped up by MTV as the official MTV Europe Music Awards Green Room sponsor in Düsseldorf in November last year.


