A former shipyard worker is warning young tradespeople of the dangers of asbestos after losing around a third of his body weight since being diagnosed with mesothelioma. James Queen, 74, worked as a shipwright in Liverpool and Glasgow where he was exposed to asbestos. Last year he was diagnosed with
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Commercial real estate firm Ryden has appointed Stuart Low as the new investment partner for its Glasgow operations. With over two decades of proficiency in the Scottish commercial property market, Mr Low previously led the capital markets team at Graham + Sibbald and served as an associate director
Piling specialist Will Payne has been appointed by Akela Ground Engineering as its general manager. Will joins from Roger Bullivant where he managed piling works in Gibraltar, the Midlands and East Anglia and has been appointed to help Akela expand and grow its reputation in England.
SSE has stepped up its collaboration with return-to-work experts STEM Returners to help more engineers in Scotland re-enter the renewables sector after a career break. The partnership has launched a third returners programme across SSE’s Transmission and Renewables Teams in Scotland and the re
Transforming Timber - a knowledge library designed to promote the use of homegrown timber in the UK built environment - launched earlier this month.
Karen Boswell OBE, managing director of Baxi UK and Ireland, has been appointed the new chair of the Heating and Hotwater Industry Council (HHIC). Succeeding the outgoing chair Steve Keeton, director of external affairs and future portfolio at Vaillant, Karen Boswell is the first female chair of the
Peel Ports Clydeport director James McSporran considers the opportunities the energy transition presents to both the construction and logistics sectors in Scotland, and how the two sectors can work more closely together to reap the benefits and to accelerate their own decarbonisation goals. The
Homebuilders Tulloch Homes, part of the Springfield Group, has welcomed an additional seven apprentices to the team from across Ross-shire and Inverness.
Local authorities were overruled on more than half of all planning appeals in the last year, the Scottish Conservatives have revealed.
A team of students from Edinburgh Napier University have returned home after completing a world-first construction project in China – based around sustainable bamboo building material. The first bamboo-timber composite grid shell structure of its kind has been built in Guangxi, with the help o
Architect and past Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) president Jack Pringle has been re-elected as chair of the RIBA board of trustees. The RIBA board oversees the RIBA’s operations, working closely with members elected representative body RIBA Council.
A Stirling-based building firm that nearly closed during the pandemic has increased its turnover by 35% after its managing director enrolled on a Help to Grow: Management Course. Kevin Wilson Master Builders was founded 16 years ago by husband and wife, Kevin and Pam Wilson. The couple employs a tea
Grampian Housing Association has delivered 25 new affordable homes in Elgin to meet the growing demand for properties. Tenants are enjoying settling into their new energy efficient homes which have been developed in partnership with Moray Council and Barratt & David Wilson Homes North Scotl
Harley Haddow has strengthened its sustainability offering with the appointment of a new associate director. Stephen Gallacher has relocated from London to Edinburgh to join the multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy, which he previously worked for earlier on in his career.
A man has been ordered to demolish a five-bedroom home that was built without planning permission after failing to convince planners that refusing his application breached his human rights.


