A podcast for the construction industry has been launched this week by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Supporting the Work Right Construction: Your Health. Your Future campaign, this new episode discusses the impact and the prevention of the serious aches, pains and strains that can affect ev
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Falkirk-based equipment hire company Your Equipment Solutions (Y.E.S) has made the move to employee ownership and handed its hard-working team control of the business. The firm has secured the future of 29 jobs by placing the majority of the shares into an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT).
Recent visitors to FORE Partnership’s Cadworks in Glasgow City Centre will have seen the building’s latest addition – a bright green telephone box in the entrance foyer. The telephone box, entitled ‘Call Your Mother’, is an installation by Force of Nature that was creat
North East Fife MSP Willie Rennie and local councillor Jonny Tepp joined representatives from the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) in a visit to Kingdom Housing Association’s largest green housing development to date. The £6.9 million development at Balgove Road in Gaul
A set of key design principles should be considered by housing providers so residents feel safe in their developments’ shared spaces after dark, according to a new white paper. Released in line with the clocks going back on Sunday 30th October, the paper revealed that four out of five people f
The transformative experience of the Glasgow housing stock transfer of the 2000s can provide a template for a future 'Place Stock Transfer' and the development of Place Associations in the city, a new independent report has concluded. The Place Commission for Glasgow, an expert group led by Gla
Councillors have approved plans for a 15-home social housing development on a vacant brownfield plot in Finnieston on behalf of Glasgow West Housing Association. The 0.068-hectare site adjacent to 6 Corunna Street, situated located south of Argyll Street and north of St Vincent Cresce
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The residential restoration of Custom House in Dundee will begin in earnest shortly with contractors preparing to arrive on site. The A-listed Georgian mansion house on Dock Street has lain empty for 14 years. Alicydon Limited bought the 1840s structure from Apex Hotels after hotel proposa
Property developer Summix Capital has revealed new proposals to deliver a mixed-use development on a brownfield site at Central Quay, Glasgow. The development site currently includes a high-quality office building at 2 Central Quay, extending to just under 80,000 square feet, and a neighbouring 4.43
The UK’s first live trial to test the effectiveness of exoskeleton suits in a working factory environment is being run by Kenoteq – the company behind a cutting-edge sustainable brick made from recycled construction waste. Two types of exoskeleton suits are being trialled by employees of
Plans by architects Holmes Miller for an integrated educational and community facility for the east end of Dundee were this week approved by Dundee City Council. The East End Community Campus, which will cater for almost 1900 pupils of Braeview Academy and Craigie High School and their teachers, sta
With a proven track record of delivering high quality aluminium fenestration systems for use in the student accommodation sector, Senior Architectural Systems has supplied the full glazing package for use on the new True Glasgow scheme. At 13 storeys high and with a central location that puts the de
Since opening its doors at Edinburgh’s Peffermill Industrial Estate in 2007, Trades Training School has trained over 3,000 students and helped launch over 1,000 businesses, as well as providing work placements for people aged 15-70 years old. The school offers training courses and qualificatio
Cala Homes (West) has unveiled another Breathing Space bench at one of its developments in Larbert. The housebuilder has installed the new bench at Kinnaird Wynd to help boost mental health awareness amongst residents who live in the Larbert development.