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While construction might be the only sector of the economy that is growing, Lesley McLeod, chief executive of the Association for Project Safety (APS), has warned that its recovery is far from over with many members of the association still concerned about sourcing specialist materials and

Balfour Beatty has teamed up with higher education institutions to create a carbon calculation tool for the construction and infrastructure industry - offering a consistent, practical solution for the measurement of embodied carbon. 

Police have been left stumped following the theft of hundreds of trees from the French countryside. Around 400 fine 100-year-old oaks and 50-year-old spruces were cut down in a couple of nights and removed from an area around a village in the Pyrenees.

A property development firm has failed to establish that it was entitled to a reconveyance of a tram line route sold to its predecessors in title that was subsequently re-acquired by the local authority that originally sold it under a compulsory purchase order.

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: Mr John Neill

The opening of a new £50 million Scottish Government fund to help transform thousands of hectares of vacant and derelict land across Scotland signals a commitment to tackling the legacy blighting communities, according to the Scottish Land Commission. Scotland has almost 11,000 hectares of vac

Bancon Homes has been accredited with a ‘Gold Award’ and ‘Outstanding Award’ for customer satisfaction. The awards, run by specialist market research company In-house Research Ltd, are based purely on customer feedback.

Housebuilder Barratt Homes Scotland has received the maximum 5-star rating in the new Home Builders Federation (HBF) annual New Homes Customer Satisfaction Survey.

A new car-free residential development of 34 flats could be delivered on an industrial site off Leith Walk in Edinburgh's Pilrig Conservation Area under new plans submitted by Morgan McDonnell Architecture.

Planning consent for an affordable housing and care village development with up to 200 properties at Bilbohall has been granted by Moray Council. The approval signals a key milestone in the Bilbohall Masterplan, which was revised in 2018 and was identified in the Moray Local Development Plan as havi

Southside Housing Association has received planning approval for its plans to deliver a 120-flat development in Pollokshields.

The impact of lockdown on social sector housebuilding has been laid bare in new statistics with a 67% drop in starts (407 homes) recorded between April to June 2020 on the same quarter in 2019, a 98% fall in completions (20 homes).

Keys have been handed over this week to community benefit society Common Ground Against Homelessness (CGAH) for a property in Peffermill, which will become a second homes-for-life development in the capital. (from left) Francis Barkey, board member, CGAH; Helen Carlin, founder, CGAH; Tom M

Construction and infrastructure-focused partnership hub South West held two virtual Meet the Buyer events focussed on upcoming North Lanarkshire projects. With these events, hub South West’s Tier 1 contractors engaged with local businesses, suppliers, and tradespeople with the aim of connectin

West Lothian Council will invest over £16 million on planned improvements within local schools over the next seven years. This is in addition to the significant investment in the creation of new schools and Early Learning Centres. The funding is part of the council's overall capital programme