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Ahead of Homes for Scotland's Annual Lunch 2023 this week, chief executive Jane Wood discusses the need to build more homes. Everyone should have a place to call home and as I mark my first year as chief executive at Homes for Scotland, I have been pondering what ‘home’ means.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) must be given the power to investigate all suicides where work is a factor in someone taking their own life, according to the Unite union.

A pioneering project that is the first of its kind in the UK will see Scottish Water harness hydropower from waste water.

As part of its commitment to local authorities across Scotland to do what it can to tackle the litter emergency that faces every community every day, volunteers from Taylor Wimpey rolled up their sleeves to support Fife Council to litter-pick recently in two areas – Pilgrims Way in Cairneyhill

The Scottish Prison Service has opened the doors for the first time to the new £85.7 million HMP & YOI Stirling, a replacement facility for HMP Cornton Vale.

A new development in Bathgate can deliver millions of pounds of investment in the local community and create more than 200 new jobs if approved by West Lothian Council later this year, according to the developer behind the plans.

Work got underway at Irvine’s Seagate Castle this week to help protect the remaining structure at the historic site. The castle is near the River Irvine and overlooks Irvine’s oldest street, Seagate, and is an important part of the town’s heritage.

Scottish Water has taken another step in reducing its carbon emissions through a £700,000 investment to triple the solar energy production at Kirkcaldy Waste Water Treatment Works in Fife.

A new active travel route has opened in Burntisland linking Glebe Place, Kerr Court and Cowdenbeath Road (A909).

The Wee House Group observed a huge milestone in its calendar this week by celebrating 10 years in business and marked the occasion with a family-friendly birthday bash at its head office in Cumnock with staff, sub-contractors and their extended families.

Lanarkshire-based Jettison Waste Management was announced as the winner of hub South West Scotland’s Build Lanarkshire Programme last week, marking the sixth year of the successful development programme which offers valuable industry knowledge and support to local companies in the construction

Another landmark has been achieved at Scotland’s largest offshore wind farm as the 114th and final wind turbine was installed.

Shields Road on the south side of Glasgow will close to traffic for a year to enable the demolition and rebuilding of the bridge over the railway. The bridge has been subject to weight restrictions for more than 20 years, and the work will be undertaken by Network Rail and Glasgow City Council.

Construction trade association SELECT has welcomed Schneider Electric, Robus LED Group and CompEx to its growing associate membership scheme. The three major enterprises join 25 existing associates who have built mutually beneficial relationships with SELECT’s member businesses over the past 1

Glasgow-based Akela Group has secured a £4.5 million contract to provide civil engineering, infrastructure and surfacing works at a new residential site built by Ashberry Homes in Renfrew.